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Outseer’s $5 Trillion Question: Is the Customer Being Conned?
A familiar phone. A valid password. A payment the customer really approved. Outseer is building its fraud defenses around the uncomfortable possibility that all three can be true and the money can still be stolen.
Upstream Finds the Sale After the Click
The mobile marketing company turns operator channels, fraud checks and well-timed messages into customer acquisitions. Its most revealing work happens where an ordinary advertising campaign would stop.
Celebrus wants to catch the customer before the click is history
The British software company turns live browsing behavior into marketing decisions and fraud signals. Its bet: the most useful customer data is the data you can act on before somebody leaves.
Shufti wants to make proving you are you less of a production
A frustrating identity check helped inspire Shufti. Now the company is betting that businesses will buy verification, fraud checks and ongoing monitoring from the same place.
Trustonic bets on the phone that can lock itself
A phone that stops working after a missed payment is a powerful incentive. Trustonic is turning that control into a business built around smartphone credit, as its old secure operating system reaches the end of the road.
GBG wants to let the right people in
The British identity specialist grew by buying the machinery of digital trust. Now it must make those pieces work together - while a fresh setback in America tests its recovery.
iProov Wants Your Face to Prove It Was There
A face can be copied. A moment is harder to steal. iProov uses light, biometrics and a watchful security team to check who is really on the other side of the screen.
Callsign Wants Your Bank to Recognize Your Touch
A password can be stolen. The way you swipe tells a different story. Callsign is turning everyday gestures into evidence of identity - and giving banks a way to decide when to ask for more.
Thirdfort’s £25,000 reason to check the paperwork
A friend lost a home deposit despite the anti-fraud checks. Thirdfort’s founders built a business around the gap between collecting documents and understanding what they prove.
Yoti Wants Your Face for One Second - And Almost Nothing Else
The British identity company spent years building a wallet for facts about you. Its breakout product asks for less: a glance at a camera, a yes-or-no answer, then deletion.
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.
Julie O’Brien Makes Complicated Technology Feel Like a Human Conversation
Across Cisco, Box, Nutanix, AttackIQ, Dazz and now Feedzai, Julie O’Brien has practiced the same useful art: turning dense enterprise technology into a story people can carry into the next room.
The $1.2 Billion Company Hiding Under Your Debit Card
Galileo spent nearly two decades becoming the quiet operating system for digital banks. Now, after a $1.2 billion sale, a costly outage and the exit of a giant client, its next trick is turning invisible plumbing into a full financial stack.
Wink Wanted to Kill the Password. Then It Found the Payment Rails.
Wink began with a clever premise: any ordinary camera could become a checkout credential. Its 2025 merger with Phoenix Managed Networks turned that identity layer into a payments business with real rails, real distribution and a much harder question about trust.
GrailPay Built the Trust Layer Only After Its First Payment Idea Failed
GrailPay spent years building a cheaper consumer checkout that merchants did not urgently want. The failed pitch left behind something more valuable: payment infrastructure, failure data and a map of the risk hiding inside bank transfers.
Colton Pond Is Turning Fintech Marketing Into a Contact Sport
He built a fintech conference in a salt desert, another around operator guilds, and now markets the invisible machinery that decides whether a digital identity can be trusted. His method is simple to describe and difficult to imitate: learn obsessively, gather the right people, and make the room useful.
The $400 Million Bet to Give Small Banks a Megabank Brain
Alkami spent years perfecting the banking app. Then it paid $400 million to own the moment before the first login - and turned a useful utility into a growth machine for community finance.
Two Brothers Got Burned by Chargebacks. Now 20,000 Merchants Trust Chargeflow to Fight Back.
Ariel and Avia Chen built the tool they could not buy: software that spots risky orders, intercepts disputes and assembles the paperwork while merchants keep selling. The sharper idea is not the AI - it is charging when the ugly work produces a result.
The Checkout Company Trying to Give Game Makers Their Store Back
Apple, Google and Steam made game distribution easy - and expensive. Xsolla built a 20-year business around the awkward alternative: helping studios sell directly, get paid locally and keep the player relationship.
The $10 Trillion Supplier Ledger: How Apex Analytix Turned Payment Mistakes Into a Risk Platform
A 1988 recovery-audit shop now watches the supplier records behind more than $10 trillion in annual spend. Its real product is not a dashboard - it is the moment a company stops trusting bad data by default.
Liminal Sold the Conference. Now It Wants to Be the Memory of the Identity Market.
A consultancy born around digital identity sold its signature event, turned years of buyer evidence into software, and raised $8.5 million to make market intelligence behave less like a report and more like infrastructure.
The $5.3 Billion Deal That Died - and the API That Got Bigger
Plaid was supposed to disappear into Visa. Instead, the blocked $5.3 billion sale left it free to turn a bank-linking button into a broader financial intelligence network - with a valuation reset, a privacy reckoning and one very copyable startup lesson along the way.
Melissa Spent 40 Years Fixing the Customer Data Everyone Else Ignores
The California company started by mailing ZIP-code databases on floppy disks. Four decades later, its pitch is still disarmingly practical: stop a bad address, dead email or duplicate customer before the mistake gets expensive.
Jonathan Daly Bet on Behavior Before Banking Had a Better Answer
The BioCatch CMO has spent a career naming hard-to-see threats. His latest argument is disarmingly human: the way people type, tap and swipe may tell banks more than another password ever could.
Frank Moreno Is Marketing the Moment Your Bank Decides to Trust You
After two decades marketing enterprise software, Entersekt’s CMO has landed on a wonderfully awkward product: the split-second decision between a smooth payment and a suspicious one.
Ashley Kiolbasa Is Selling the Internet Its Missing Ingredient: Trust
After a career spent translating cybersecurity, ecommerce fraud and frictionless checkout, Prove's CMO has arrived at the question underneath them all: in an AI-shaped internet, how does a business know who - or what - is on the other side?
Tracey Weinberg Wants Telecom to Stop Treating Payments Like Plumbing
After years marketing the machinery behind digital commerce, the Vesta executive has a blunt thesis: approval rates deserve the same attention as customer acquisition. A single percentage point can be worth $300,000 a year to a 100,000-subscriber operator.
Appgate Escaped the VPN Bottleneck - Then Had to Escape Its Own Balance Sheet
Its direct-routed Zero Trust software promised to remove the chokepoints created by legacy VPNs. After a public-market detour ended in Chapter 11, Appgate is testing whether a cleaner balance sheet can do the same for the business.
Chargeback Gurus Turned the Refund Desk Into a Revenue Machine
Most merchants treat chargebacks as expensive paperwork. Chargeback Gurus treats them as a trail of clues - then uses software, data and specialists to stop the next dispute before it lands.
Alloy Took 100 Investor Noes. Now It Helps 900 Banks Say Yes.
The founders started with a failed nightlife app, found a sharper problem inside bank payments, and endured 100 investor rejections. Their reward is a quiet piece of infrastructure that helps more than 900 financial institutions approve good customers without giving fraudsters a free pass.