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SHIELD
SHIELD is a device-first fraud intelligence platform that helps online businesses stop fraud, build trust, and drive growth. Founded in 2008 by Justin Lie and originally known as CashShield, the company combines proprietary device fingerprinting with its Global Intelligence Network and AI to detect account takeovers, fake accounts, bot attacks, payment fraud, and incentive abuse in real time. SHIELD protects global platforms like inDrive, Alibaba, Swiggy, Meesho, and TrueMoney across ride-hailing, e-commerce, fintech, and gaming.
imper.ai
imper.ai is a New York-based cybersecurity company that builds an identity verification platform purpose-built for the workforce. It prevents impersonation and account takeover across the employee lifecycle - from hiring to help desk account recovery - by pairing an Impersonation Detection Engine that reads hundreds of network, device, and behavioral signals with an AI-driven contextual verification layer that confirms the real person behind a session using role-specific questions that cannot be sourced from breached data. Founded in 2024 by veterans of Israel's Unit 8200, the company launched publicly in December 2025 with $28M in total funding backed by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures.
Trustmi
Trustmi is a behavioral AI platform for payment security that helps enterprises stop socially engineered fraud and costly payment errors before money moves. Founded in 2021 by Shai Gabay and Eli Ben Nun, the company correlates signals across email, vendors, financial documents and payment workflows to build vendor 'digital fingerprints' and deliver a real-time safe/unsafe decision across the entire payment lifecycle. Trustmi says it protects over $240 billion in payments annually and has helped prevent more than $1 billion in fraud.
Johan Brissmyr
Johan Brissmyr is the CEO and co-founder of Castle, a security company that helps online businesses detect fraud, bots, and account takeover in real time. A computer scientist from Lund University, he started building web products in Malmo, Sweden before moving to Silicon Valley through Y Combinator and relocating the company to New York. Castle grew out of a password-storage side project that revealed a bigger opportunity in behavioral risk scoring, and today combines device fingerprinting, behavioral signals, and analytics into APIs used by companies of many sizes.
Permiso Security
Permiso Security is a Palo Alto-based cybersecurity company that discovers, protects, and defends identities across cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by former FireEye/Mandiant executives, its identity security platform stitches human, non-human, and AI-agent identities into a single Universal Identity Graph, using 1,400+ detection rules and behavioral analytics to catch account takeovers, credential compromise, and insider threats. Permiso also runs the P0 Labs threat-research team, which has released ten open-source tools including CloudGrappler and YetiHunter.
Heka Global
Heka Global is a New York and Tel Aviv based fintech that turns scattered public web signals into structured, explainable consumer profiles for financial institutions. Its AI-driven web intelligence engine helps banks, insurers and pension providers detect fraud, verify identities, reconnect dormant accounts and underwrite thin-file customers - using a proprietary database of millions of records plus live open-web data. Heka raised a $14M Series A in July 2025 led by Windare Ventures with participation from Barclays and Corn`er Banca.
Idan Bar-Dov
Idan Bar-Dov is the co-founder and CEO of Heka Global, a New York and Tel Aviv company that turns the public web into real-time, audit-ready digital identities for banks, insurers, and pension funds. A fintech lawyer turned operator, he started Heka during the pandemic to reconnect people with lost financial assets and grew it into a fraud-fighting web-intelligence engine used by institutions like Barclays and Pictet. In July 2025 Heka closed a $14M Series A led by Windare Ventures, with Bar-Dov arguing that the credit bureaus built for a paper era cannot see a world where both consumers and risk now live online.
Trustifi
Trustifi is a cloud-based, AI-driven email security company that protects organizations from phishing, business email compromise, data leaks and compliance failures. Its one-stack platform pairs Inbound Shield threat detection with Outbound Shield one-click encryption and One-Click Compliance, making enterprise-grade email protection simple enough for small businesses and the managed service providers that serve them. Founded by Rom Hendler and Idan Udi Edry, the company raised a $25M Series A in 2025 to scale its channel-first, AI-powered platform.
Incognia
Incognia is a location identity and fraud prevention company that uses device intelligence, location behavioral analytics, and AI to help platform businesses — from food delivery to financial services — detect fraud without compromising the user experience. By processing signals from GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth without capturing PII, Incognia identifies legitimate users from fraudsters across multiple devices with 99.999999% accuracy, a 0.0001% false-positive rate, and no friction for genuine users. Deployed on over 200 million smartphones and protecting nearly 1 billion devices, Incognia has become the go-to fraud layer for platforms like Grubhub, Delivery Hero, and Upwork.
Andre Ferraz
Andre Ferraz is the co-founder and CEO of Incognia, a Palo Alto-based privacy-first location identity company that uses passive behavioral signals - where your phone goes, how it moves, what Wi-Fi networks it trusts - to verify users without passwords or biometric friction. Before Incognia, Ferraz co-founded In Loco Media in 2011 at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, building it into a company that mapped 6 million indoor venues and captured 250 billion location data points monthly, before selling it to Brazilian retail giant Magazine Luiza in 2020. With Incognia, he pivoted that location intelligence from advertising into fraud prevention, raising $46.5M total (including a $31M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in 2024), deploying technology on over 200 million smartphones, and pioneering what he calls zero-factor authentication - security that works without the user doing anything at all.
Nate Kharrl
Nate Kharrl is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spec (specprotected.com), a San Jose-based fraud prevention platform that uses behavioral analytics to detect and block sophisticated fraud, bots, and abuse before they impact customers. With a career spanning Akamai Technologies, ThreatMetrix, and eBay, Kharrl channeled nearly a decade of watching fraud fighters struggle with siloed tools into founding Spec in 2020. The company has raised over $33 million in funding, including a $15 million Series A led by SignalFire in October 2023, and protects Fortune 500 companies transacting billions in online commerce.
Spec
Spec is an AI-resistant fraud prevention platform that monitors the entire customer journey - not just login or checkout - to detect bots, fraud rings, and abusive AI agents in real time. Founded in 2020 in San Jose by ex-eBay and ThreatMetrix operators, Spec protects Fortune 500 consumer brands across e-commerce, ticketing, food delivery, and marketplaces.
Sift
Sift is the AI-powered digital trust and safety platform that helps businesses stop fraud without blocking good customers. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, it analyzes more than a trillion events per year across a global data network covering 34,000+ sites and apps, scoring transactions, logins, and content in real time so companies like DoorDash, Twitter and Yelp can grow revenue while keeping bad actors out.