ecommerce-fraud
(3)
The Fraud Fighter That Learned to Say Yes
Ravelin began with a taxi app’s fraud problem and built a business around a counterintuitive promise: stop the thieves without turning good customers away. Worldpay bought the company in 2025 - but the more revealing story is how five engineers made restraint into a product.
The Checkout Knows More Than Your Card Number
Forter built a business around the split second between clicking Buy and seeing confirmation. Its wager is that a shared map of online identity can stop fraud without making good customers prove themselves over and over.
Zumigo
Zumigo is a San Jose-based digital identity company that turns real-time mobile signals into fraud-fighting intelligence. By tapping data from 800+ mobile network operators, credit bureaus, and financial institutions, its Assure platform verifies who is on the other end of a transaction - catching synthetic identities, SIM swaps, and account takeovers while enabling passwordless sign-in. It counts top-10 global banks, fintechs, and e-commerce platforms among 250+ enterprise clients.