# Feedzai

> Feedzai is an AI-native platform that helps banks and financial institutions detect and prevent fraud and financial crime in real time. Founded in Portugal in 2011, its RiskOps platform unifies fraud detection, anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, identity verification and scam prevention across the customer lifecycle. Feedzai screens transactions for institutions such as Citi and Lloyds Banking Group, and in 2025 was selected by the European Central Bank to help safeguard the forthcoming digital euro. The company reached a $2 billion valuation in October 2025.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** Coimbra, Portugal (US HQ: San Mateo, California)
- **Founders:** Nuno Sebastião (Co-founder & CEO), Pedro Bizarro (Co-founder & Chief Science Officer), Paulo Marques (Co-founder & former CTO)
- **Team size:** ~840 employees (2025)
- **Products:** RiskOps Platform, Transaction Fraud & Monitoring, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), ScamAlert, RiskFM Foundation Model
- **Notable:** Reached $2 billion valuation in October 2025 after a $75M round., Became a unicorn (>$1B) with its 2021 Series D., Selected by the European Central Bank as first-ranked provider to help safeguard the digital euro.

## Products & services

- **RiskOps Platform** — A unified, AI-based platform for managing fraud and financial crime risk across the entire customer lifecycle - onboarding, transactions and beyond.
- **Transaction Fraud & Monitoring** — Real-time machine learning scoring of payments and transactions to detect and block fraud across channels.
- **Anti-Money Laundering (AML)** — Transaction monitoring, risk scoring, watchlist screening and regulatory reporting to support AML compliance.
- **ScamAlert** — Generative-AI-powered tool that helps customers recognize and avoid scams in real time.
- **RiskFM Foundation Model** — A tabular foundation model purpose-built for financial risk decisioning across fraud, AML and the wider financial crime lifecycle.
- **Identity Verification & Digital Trust** — Behavioral biometrics and identity checks to secure onboarding and reduce account-opening fraud.

## Achievements

- Reached $2 billion valuation in October 2025 after a $75M round.
- Became a unicorn (>$1B) with its 2021 Series D.
- Selected by the European Central Bank as first-ranked provider to help safeguard the digital euro.
- Named a Leader by industry analysts in enterprise fraud and financial crime prevention.
- Won (with Lloyds Banking Group) the Aite-Novarica 2022 Fraud Impact Award.
- Unveiled RiskFM, described as the industry's first tabular foundation model for financial risk.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Unveiled RiskFM, a tabular foundation model purpose-built for financial risk decisioning across fraud and AML.
- **2025-10** — Raised ~$75M at a $2B valuation and was named first-ranked provider for digital euro fraud and risk management by the ECB.
- **2025-04** — Acquired Australian data-access company Demyst to unify data orchestration with risk decisioning.

## Links

- Website: https://feedzai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/feedzai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/feedzai
- GitHub: https://github.com/feedzai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Feedzai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feedzai/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Feedzai

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Last updated: 2026-07-15