Pendulum provides an AI and NLP-powered platform that uncovers and tracks harmful narratives in text, video, and audio across social platforms and the wider web. The service today supports YouTube, BitChute, Rumble and podcasts, and the team plans to expand coverage to all major social platforms over the coming months. Its engine dissects and categorizes narratives to surface threats and opportunities in the earliest days of their formation and to follow how they spread online. Pendulum was incubated inside Madrona Venture Labs and is positioned as a commercial-first product while acknowledging clear government use cases. Co-founders Sam Clark and Mark Listes bring backgrounds in data mining, Transparency Tube, election policy, and national security venture engagement. The company emphasizes that it does not perform truth adjudication, does not track personally identifiable information, and is building values to avoid empowering malicious actors. Pendulum announced a $5.9M seed financing; no revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jan 2022