UK – ActiveFence, a NewYork-based provider of solutions to protect online platforms and their users from malicious behavior and harmful content, acquired Rewire, a London, UK-based startup building AI for online safety.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.Founded in 2021 by Bertie Vidgen and Paul Röttger, Rewire is a startup building socially responsible AI for online safety. It protects online communities by finding, monitoring, and actioning harmful and dangerous content at scale, using data-driven artificial intelligence.Rewire’s performance results from their proprietary development process, which trains better models using less data and can be adapted for a range of different tasks. Rewire is able to use relatively small amounts of labeled data because it deploys adversarial data generation. This works iteratively, generating data that challenges models, which then uses that data to retrain and strengthen models where they are weak. Through this process, Rewire has helped detect sexist content, flagged harmful customer feedback and helped a German nonprofit monitor anti-Semitic messages on German Telegram channels.Led by CEO Noam Schwartz, ActiveFence provides a solution for Trust and Safety intelligence and management, protecting online platforms and their users from malicious behavior and content. Trust and Safety teams of all sizes ruse it to keep their users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety and exploitation, disinformation, hate speech, terror, nudity, fraud, and more. The company offers a full stack of capabilities with its research, AI-driven harmful content detection, and content moderation platform. Backed by Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date, and employs over 300 people worldwide.09/03/2023
