Feedzai

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Feedzai
Company typePrivate
IndustryFinancial technology, enterprise software
Founded2011
Headquarters
Coimbra
,
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]

The company has been selected by the ECB to provide the Fraud & Risk Management solution for the Digital Euro (together with Capgemini Germany). [14]

References

  1. 1 2 Pimentel, Ana. "Feedzai is worth over a billion dollars and is the fourth unicorn founded by the Portuguese". Observador (in European Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lunden, Ingrid (2021-03-24). "Feedzai raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for AI tools to fight financial fraud". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  3. ↑ "Feedzai Raises $17.5M for Fraud Detection, Prevention". Wall Street Journal. 2015-05-18. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  4. ↑ Ferreira, Victor (2021-06-28). "Feedzai e Universidade de Coimbra juntam-se para transformar o ensino". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  5. ↑ Batista, Alexandre (2019-02-14). "Guardião do cofre". Forbes Portugal (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  6. ↑ Irrera, Anna (2021-03-24). "Fintech startup Feedzai valued at $1 billion in KKR-led funding round". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  7. ↑ Ferreira, Victor (2021-03-24). "Feedzai angaria 170 milhões e torna-se o quarto "unicórnio" português". Publico (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  8. ↑ Santos, Juliana Nogueira (2021-03-29). "Feedzai é a primeira empresa portuguesa ao nível "startup unicórnio" com sede em Portugal?". Polígrafo Sapo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  9. ↑ Ferreira, Victor (2021-03-29). ""Para mim, é estratégico: a criação de conhecimento primário é em Portugal"". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  10. ↑ D'Onfro, Jillian (2019-09-17). "AI 50: America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  11. ↑ Bandeira, Mariana (2021-08-04). "Feedzai compra tecnologia biométrica para prevenir fraudes através de mudanças de comportamento (com áudio)". O Jornal Económico (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  12. ↑ "Detecting data changes in data streams by Joao Camacho, Nova University Lisbon" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  13. ↑ Leibel, Michael (2014-01-29). "Feedzai launches fraud detection software in U.S. to help retailers stop data theft". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  14. ↑ "ECB selects digital euro service providers". ECB. 2025-10-05. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
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