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March 7, 2023

AI startup Unitary raises $8m from Plural to automate content moderation

The content moderation market could be worth $32bn by 2031

Steph Bailey

3 min read

UK-based Unitary, which uses AI to assess the level of risk and harm in user-generated content uploaded to social media, has raised $8m in additional seed funding in a round led by SongKick’s Ian Hogarth at his VC fund Plural, which he set up with Wise cofounder Taavet Hinrikus.

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