Respondology Nabs $5M to Tackle Toxic Comments as Meta Scales Back Fact Checkers

Respondology Nabs $5M to Tackle Toxic Comments as Meta Scales Back Fact Checkers

The company works with 450 brands whose collective social media following totals 1 billion

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Social media moderation company Respondology has nabbed $5 million in its Series A extension round led by Iron Gate Capital, with participation from SJF Ventures. The firm sells generative AI tools to brands navigating online conversations. Read the full pitch deck below.

The new funding will support the launch of Respond, the company’s third flagship product, slated to debut later this year. The tool uses AI to help brands automatically engage with social audiences—sending direct messages with offers to users who comment or interact with posts.

“The AI software is so good that human moderators are only feeding intelligence back into the AI,” CEO Erik Swain told ADWEEK.

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