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SaaS provider offering AI-powered risk management platforms for financial institutions, focused on fighting financial fraud and money laundering.
Feedzai has raised $348.0M across 6 funding rounds.
Key people at Feedzai.
Feedzai has raised $348.0M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Feedzai is a San Mateo, California-based enterprise software company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered risk management platform to detect complex financial fraud and prevent money laundering. Utilizing big data and machine learning algorithms, the platform monitors digital transactions for major financial institutions, payment processors, and global retailers that collectively serve more than 800 million end customers across 190 countries. The SaaS provider has secured over $282 million in total venture capital funding from a syndicate of prominent institutional investors, including KKR, Sapphire Ventures, and Citi Ventures. Following a $200 million Series D financing round, the organization achieved a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion and subsequently expanded its global workforce to approximately 600 employees. Feedzai was originally established in Europe during 2011 by data scientists and aerospace engineers Nuno Sebastião, Paulo Marques, and Pedro Bizarro.
Feedzai has raised $348.0M across 6 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $75.0M Other Equity in October 2025.
Key people at Feedzai.
Feedzai is an AI-native platform specializing in end-to-end fraud and financial crime prevention for financial institutions, including banks, fintechs, payment service providers, merchant acquirers, and core banking systems.[1][2][7] It solves critical problems like scams, synthetic identity fraud, account takeovers, money laundering, and AML compliance by processing vast data volumes in real-time—securing $8 trillion in payments annually, protecting 1 billion consumers worldwide, and handling 70 billion events per year—while minimizing customer friction and enabling secure innovation in payments.[2][5] Demonstrating strong growth momentum, Feedzai achieved unicorn status in 2021 and reached a $2 billion valuation in 2025 after a $75 million Series E round, alongside preventing over $2 billion in losses and saving 20 million analyst hours in the past year.[3][4][5][7]
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, Feedzai emerged as a data science company focused on real-time machine learning to detect fraudulent payments in financial services, retail, and e-commerce.[3][4][7] CEO Nuno Sebastião has led the company since its inception, driving its evolution into a comprehensive RiskOps platform with AI-native solutions.[5] Early traction included a FinovateEurope debut in 2014, building to global scale protecting 900 million people across 190 countries, recent product launches like Feedzai Orchestration, Feedzai IQ, and the TRUST Framework for responsible AI, plus a pivotal 2025 ECB partnership for digital euro fraud prevention.[4][5][7]
Feedzai rides the surge in AI-driven fintech amid exploding financial crime—fueled by digital payments, new rails like digital euro (launch by 2029), and threats from scams, synthetic fraud, and money laundering—where timing aligns with regulatory demands for real-time compliance and banks' need for frictionless security.[4][5][7] Market forces like $70+ billion annual payment volumes and AI advancements favor its scalable, cloud-based RiskOps, enabling institutions to innovate confidently while reducing losses and analyst burdens.[2][5][7] It influences the ecosystem by setting standards in responsible AI, partnering with giants like ECB and PwC, and powering global trust in payments, positioning it as a leader in a market projected to grow with embedded finance and cross-border expansion.[4][6][7]
Feedzai's $2 billion valuation and ECB deal signal accelerating dominance in AI fraud prevention, with next steps likely expanding Orchestration/IQ globally, deepening GenAI integrations via TRUST, and targeting emerging payments like digital currencies.[4][5][7] Trends like real-time regulations, tokenized assets, and hyper-personalized banking will amplify its role, potentially evolving it into the de facto RiskOps backbone for trillions in transactions—ensuring safe commerce as threats sophisticate, much like its origin mission to protect every customer lifecycle stage.[1][2][5]
Feedzai has raised $348.0M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Feedzai's investors include Vasco Pereira Coutinho, Buenavista Equity Partners, Explorer Investments, Iberis Capital, Oxy Capital, Stephen Shanley, Bessemer Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Founders' Co-op, K9 Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners.
