Kinzen
Kinzen is a company dedicated to protecting public conversations from information risk by combating harmful content such as dangerous misinformation, hate speech, and violent extremism. They achieve this through a combination of a global network of local experts and advanced machine learning technology. Their platform analyzes audio, video, and text content in 28 languages, providing insights into nuanced threats across different markets. Kinzen helps trust and safety professionals, content moderators, and policymakers make quicker and more precise decisions, enabling them to prepare for, identify, and respond to emerging threats and crises.
Kinzen
Kinzen is a company dedicated to protecting public conversations from information risk by combating harmful content such as dangerous misinformation, hate speech, and violent extremism. They achieve this through a combination of a global network of local experts and advanced machine learning technology. Their platform analyzes audio, video, and text content in 28 languages, providing insights into nuanced threats across different markets. Kinzen helps trust and safety professionals, content moderators, and policymakers make quicker and more precise decisions, enabling them to prepare for, identify, and respond to emerging threats and crises.
TL;DR
Mission: Protect public conversations from information risk (misinformation, hate, violent extremism)
Product: Human-in-the-loop platform combining local experts, a Database of Harms, and ML to analyze text, audio, and video in 28 languages
Founded / HQ: 2017, Dublin
Outcome: Acquired by Spotify (announced October 2022)
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Online information risk: misinformation, hate speech, violent extremism and related harmful content
Founded
2017
Industry
Trust & safety / content moderation
Funding Track Record
Most recent disclosed round reported as a seed round in November 2020; overall funding reported ~€2.3M across two rounds.
Investor Signal
“Business Venture Partners; Enterprise Ireland (among seven investors reported)”