# Forter

> Forter is a business-to-business identity intelligence and fraud prevention company whose software makes real-time decisions across the digital commerce journey, from account creation and login to checkout, returns, and disputes. Its differentiator is a shared identity network: signals learned across nearly one million businesses and more than two billion shoppers can help a merchant recognize a legitimate customer it has never seen before, reducing both fraud and the costly rejection of good orders.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Reitblat (Co-founder and CEO), Liron Damri (Co-founder and President), Alon Shemesh (Co-founder and former Chief Analyst)
- **Team size:** 501-1,000 employees; LinkedIn listed about 711 employees in August 2026.
- **Products:** Fraud Management, Payment Optimization, Account Protection, Abuse Prevention, Dispute Management
- **Notable:** Reached a $3 billion private valuation in May 2021., Raised $525 million across its disclosed Series A through Series F rounds., Reported a network of more than two billion shoppers and nearly one million businesses in June 2026.

## Products & services

- **Fraud Management** — Real-time payment fraud decisions designed to increase approvals, reduce chargebacks and cut false declines.
- **Payment Optimization** — Tools for Smart 3DS, issuer optimization, tokenization and PSD2-compliant authentication intended to improve authorization and conversion.
- **Account Protection** — Detection of account takeover and fake-account activity across sign-up, login and account changes.
- **Abuse Prevention** — Policy controls for returns, item-not-received claims, promotions, coupons, resellers and reshippers.
- **Dispute Management** — Chargeback recommendations, evidence enhancement, automated representment and order-and-claim consolidation.
- **Forter Element** — An identity and fraud offering built for payment service providers to extend to their merchant customers.
- **Forter Prism and Forter Agents** — An AI-assisted suite that surfaces commerce insights; five agents launched in 2026 for analytics, disputes, abuse, payments and integration workflows.
- **Trusted Agentic Commerce** — Capabilities intended to identify the human behind an AI shopping agent and support secure agent-led commerce.

## Achievements

- Reached a $3 billion private valuation in May 2021.
- Raised $525 million across its disclosed Series A through Series F rounds.
- Reported a network of more than two billion shoppers and nearly one million businesses in June 2026.
- Says 99% of platform decisions are delivered in under 400 milliseconds.
- Named a Shopify Enterprise Technology Premier Partner in 2025.
- Expanded from checkout fraud into account protection, payment optimization, abuse prevention, disputes and agentic commerce.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Launched five Forter Agents for analytics, disputes, abuse, payments and integrations, plus early access to Forter MCP.
- **2025-12** — Introduced Forter Prism, an AI copilot for commerce insights, decisions and fraud operations.
- **2025-07** — Launched Trusted Agentic Commerce in the AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools category.
- **2025-04** — Released enhanced fraud models, role-based portal access, expanded Salesforce visibility and payment insights; announced Shopify Premier Partner status.

## Links

- Website: https://www.forter.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/forter
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ForterGlobal
- GitHub: https://github.com/forter
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxAPyPoyVWu0yJbZ0gAvCqA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forter_life/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForterGlobal

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Last updated: 2026-08-14