Feedzai

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Feedzai
TypePrivate
IndustryFinancial technology, enterprise software
Founded2011
Headquarters,
Portugal
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Nuno Sebastião, CEO
ProductsFeedzai Enterprise, Feedzai Solutions
ServicesArtificial intelligence, machine learning, SaaS, big data analytics
Number of employees
500+ [1]
Subsidiaries
  • Feedzai Lda (Portugal)
  • Feedzai Inc. (USA)
  • Feedzai PLC (UK)
Website feedzai.com

Feedzai is a data science company that develops real-time machine learning tools to identify fraudulent payment transactions and minimize risk in the financial services, retail, and e-commerce industries. [2] [3] [4] [5] The company has been classified as a unicorn startup since March 2021, after a Series D funding round pushed its value above $1 billion. [2] [6] [1] [7]

Feedzai is headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal. [8] [9] The company's U.S. headquarters is in San Mateo, California, in the Silicon Valley. [2] [10]

The company was founded in 2011 [11] by Nuno Sebastião, Pedro Bizarro and Paulo Marques. [12] The company first began selling its solutions for fraud detection and operational intelligence in Europe and later expanded to the United States in 2014. [2] [13]

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