Feedzai
Headquarters
San Mateo, CAFounded
2011CEO / Founder
Nuno SebastiãoEmployees
501-1000Funding
Series D+ — $347MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.9/10Website
feedzai.com/
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About Feedzai
Feedzai develops artificial-intelligence software that financial institutions use to detect and prevent fraud, money laundering, and other financial crime in real time. The company was founded in 2011 in Coimbra, Portugal, by Nuno Sebastião, Pedro Bizarro, and Paulo Marques, and is dual-headquartered in San Mateo, California, and Portugal. Sebastião, a former European Space Agency engineer, serves as chief executive officer.
The platform scores transactions and account activity with machine-learning models, pairing data-science tooling, case management, and behavioral analytics to flag suspicious payments before they clear. Feedzai's customers include large banks, payment processors, and merchants, and the company says its systems screen trillions of dollars in transactions each year. In 2023 the European Central Bank selected Feedzai, alongside Capgemini, to build the fraud and risk-management component of the planned digital euro.
Feedzai has raised roughly $347 million across six rounds. A $200 million Series D led by KKR in March 2021 valued the company at more than $1 billion, granting it unicorn status, with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures and Citi Ventures; earlier backers include Data Collective (DCVC). A later $75 million round in 2025 lifted its valuation to about $2 billion. The privately held firm employs roughly 800 people.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Feedzai competes with, and how they differ.
NICE Actimize is the incumbent enterprise fraud and AML suite sold to large banks, competing directly with Feedzai's RiskOps platform; it is built on NICE's older, more on-premise-heavy enterprise stack and long banking-industry sales cycles versus Feedzai's API-native, cloud-first delivery.
ComplyAdvantage's Mesh platform centers on AML screening against sanctions lists, watchlists, PEP databases, and adverse media, while Feedzai's RiskOps platform leads with real-time transaction and application fraud scoring, treating AML monitoring as one module rather than the core product.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedWorkFusion's AI Agents automate Level 1 and Level 2 AML alert review, sanctions screening, and transaction-monitoring investigations with explainable audit trails, overlapping with Feedzai's AML case-management tools but without Feedzai's real-time payment-fraud scoring engine.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Persona focuses on identity verification and onboarding fraud, using document and biometric checks for KYC, a narrower slice of the fraud lifecycle than Feedzai's end-to-end transaction, application-fraud, AML, and scam-prevention platform.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Feedzai's history, with sources.
- Launch
Opened $9 trillion Fraud Intelligence Network to every bank
Feedzai opened a cross-institution Fraud Intelligence Network spanning $9 trillion in transaction data, powering the new Feedzai IQ Score and claiming a 4x improvement in fraud detection for banks from day one.
newswire.ca - Launch
Launched RiskFM, an AI foundation model for financial crime
Feedzai unveiled RiskFM, a purpose-built AI foundation model trained on financial-crime data to power its fraud and anti-money-laundering detection products.
newswire.ca - Partnership
novobanco selects Feedzai to unify fraud and AML prevention
Portuguese bank novobanco selected Feedzai's AI-native RiskOps platform to modernize and unify its fraud and anti-money-laundering prevention.
menafn.com - Funding
Series E — $75M, valuation surpasses $2 billion
Feedzai raised $75 million from new investors Iberis Capital and Explorer Investments plus returning backers Oxy Capital and Buenavista Equity Partners, taking its valuation above $2 billion.
biometricupdate.com - Partnership
Signed framework agreement with the European Central Bank
Feedzai signed a framework agreement with the European Central Bank to help protect the planned digital euro from fraud, announced alongside its Series E funding round.
biometricupdate.com - Acquisition
Acquired Demyst to unify fraud data orchestration
Feedzai acquired data-management firm Demyst, gaining its Zonic data-workflow orchestration platform and data-integration technology to unify external data access for fraud and risk decisions; deal terms were not disclosed.
biometricupdate.com - Acquisition
Acquired Revelock, adding behavioral-biometrics fraud detection
Feedzai acquired behavioral-biometrics platform Revelock, adding pre-transaction behavioral intelligence to its fraud-prevention stack to form what it called the world's largest Financial Intelligence Network.
generation-nt.com - Funding
Series D — $200M led by KKR, valuation tops $1 billion
Feedzai raised $200 million in a round led by KKR, with existing investors participating, valuing the company at more than $1 billion and making it Portugal's fourth unicorn.
finance.yahoo.com - Founded
Founded in Coimbra, Portugal
Feedzai was founded in Coimbra, Portugal in 2011 by Nuno Sebastiao, Pedro Bizarro, and Paulo Marques to apply machine learning to real-time fraud and financial-crime detection.
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