Musubi, an AI platform transforming Trust & Safety through adaptive AI content moderation, announced it has raised $5 million in an oversubscribed seed round. This funding was led by J2 Ventures with participation from Shakti Ventures, Mozilla Ventures, and existing pre-seed investor J Ventures. Launched by the former CTO of Grindr and OkCupid, Musubi is set to revolutionize the Trust & Safety landscape with its unique approach.
Global online platforms face major threats from sophisticated AI-powered bots, fake content, misinformation, and scams. And human moderation cannot keep pace, and existing solutions are increasingly circumvented by bad actors utilizing AI offensively. With victims of online scams losing tens of billions of dollars globally, new defenses are urgently needed. Musubi’s Trust & Safety AI autonomously learns from and works alongside moderators, delivering better-than-human performance with unlimited scalability.
This technology applies advanced AI and machine learning techniques, including large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, to understand complex behavioral signals and content patterns. And this enables Musubi to proactively identify and mitigate various issues, including spam, scams, fraud, hate speech, harassment, and age-inappropriate content.
Currently protecting 45+ million users, Musubi has secured partnerships with industry leaders in the dating, social media, and marketplace sectors. The company has experienced rapid growth, quintupling its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the last quarter alone. Its underlying multi-modal AI system can be leveraged by any trust and safety or fraud team as a security layer to automatically detect users likely to cause harm.
This new funding will expand Musubi into new verticals and bring the latest AI research to market as Trust & Safety solutions.
KEY QUOTES:
“We’re at a pivotal moment where online safety has never been more essential. While bad actors grow increasingly sophisticated, we now have groundbreaking technology that surpasses what was previously possible. It’s a transformative time for everyone in the industry.”
– Tom Quisel, CEO and co-founder
“I like that Musubi accurately detects fake and scam accounts in moments.”
– Aaron Rodericks, Head of Trust & Safety at BlueSky, one of Musubi’s early adopters
“With ever-increasing threats and harm online, it’s more important than ever for the public and private sector to solve this problem together. We’re excited to partner with the world-class team at Musubi to set new benchmarks for online safety.”
– J2 Managing Partner and Co-founder, Alexander Harstrick
