Hive
NativePrivateUpdated November 3, 2026Multimodal content-moderation/AI API platform
- Website
- thehive.ai
- CEO
- Kevin Guo
- Founded
- 2013
- HQ
- San Francisco, United States
- Total Funding
- $261M
- Employees
- 201-500
Products & Offerings
Hive Content Moderation APIs (Visual, Text, Audio)
Pretrained classifiers that flag nudity, violence, hate, drugs, bullying, spam and other policy violations across images, video, livestreams, text in about 30 languages, and audio.
AI-Generated Content and Deepfake Detection
Models that detect AI-generated or manipulated images, video, audio and text and identify the likely source generator, used by platforms and in a Department of Defense prototype.
CSAM Detection
Child sexual abuse material detection that combines hash matching with classifiers, and in text moderation uses Internet Watch Foundation keyword and URL lists.
Moderation Dashboard
No-code interface for setting moderation rules, routing flagged content for human review and managing enforcement actions on top of Hive's models.
Hive Vision Language Model and Content Understanding APIs
Multimodal models for captioning, visual question answering, logo and object detection, and contextual understanding, used in brand protection and ad targeting.
Executive Summary
What they do
- Pretrained AI models that moderate visual, text and audio content via API
- Detects AI-generated images, video, audio and text, including deepfakes
- CSAM detection, a moderation dashboard and content-understanding models such as logo detection
Why it matters
- Chosen for a $2.4M Defense Innovation Unit deepfake-detection prototype contract
- Models trained on very large proprietary datasets from its own labeling workforce
- Usage-based APIs let platforms add moderation without building in-house models
Best fit
- Social, dating, gaming and video platforms with large volumes of user content
- Trust and safety teams needing image, video, text and audio coverage from one vendor
- Media, government and fraud teams that need to detect synthetic media and deepfakes
Watch-outs
- Last disclosed priced round was the 2021 Series D at $2B
- AI-content detection accuracy drops as new generative models appear
- Many similarly named companies make diligence and reference checks harder
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Hive is one of the most established API vendors for multimodal content moderation and AI-generated content detection, and its Defense Department deepfake work adds credibility. Platforms with large volumes of user-generated content should include it in any moderation or synthetic-media detection RFP. Benchmark it on your own content and policy categories, and confirm data handling, human-review options and pricing at your volumes.
Signal Provenance
Latest observation date and source for each signal category
| Signal Category | Last Updated | Source |
|---|---|---|
Funding Signals Last funding round, Funding stage | Oct 31, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Hiring Velocity Headcount, Headcount growth | Nov 3, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Technical Output Research papers, GitHub activity | Oct 30, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
News Sentiment News mentions, News sentiment | Nov 3, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Partnership Signals Enterprise partnerships, Distribution partners | Oct 28, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Revenue Indicators ARR estimate, Revenue growth | Nov 3, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Leadership Signals CEO tenure, Founder-led | Nov 3, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Competitive Position Category rank, Market share | Nov 3, 2026 | Montclare research agents |
Why this Bluescore?
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