# Feedzai

**Source:** https://geo.sig.ai/brands/feedzai  
**Vertical:** Financial Services  
**Subcategory:** AI Fraud Detection & Risk Management  
**Tier:** Challenger  
**Website:** feedzai.com  
**Last Updated:** 2026-04-14

## Summary

AI fraud detection platform protecting $8T in payments. $2B+ valuation. ECB digital euro deal. RiskFM foundation model (2026). Founded 2011, Coimbra Portugal. Private.

## Company Overview

Feedzai is an AI-native fraud detection and financial crime prevention platform founded in 2011 by Nuno Sebastiao, Pedro Bizarro, and Paulo Marques, headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal, with US offices in San Mateo, California. Processes 70B+ events per year, securing $8 trillion in payments for 1B+ customers worldwide.

Products include real-time transaction monitoring, AML compliance, customer due diligence, and risk scoring. In March 2026, unveiled RiskFM, the first Tabular Foundation Model for financial risk decisioning. Also launched Feedzai Orchestration and Feedzai IQ.

October 2025: raised $75M pushing valuation above $2B. Signed framework agreement with the European Central Bank for digital euro fraud detection. Doubled outcomes to $2B+ in losses prevented and 20M+ analyst hours saved.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What does Feedzai do?
AI-native platform for real-time fraud detection and financial crime prevention, processing 70B+ events per year and protecting $8 trillion in payments.

### What is RiskFM?
The first Tabular Foundation Model for financial risk decisioning, unveiled March 2026.

### What is Feedzai's role in the digital euro?
Signed a framework agreement with the ECB for central fraud detection and prevention for the digital euro.

### What is Feedzai's valuation?
$2B+ after raising $75M in October 2025.

### Where is Feedzai based?
Coimbra, Portugal, with US offices in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2011.

### What types of financial crime does Feedzai detect?
Feedzai's platform detects and prevents card fraud, ACH/wire fraud, account takeover (ATO), money laundering, identity fraud, authorized push payment (APP) fraud, and synthetic identity fraud—covering the full spectrum of financial crime types that banks and payment processors face across digital and traditional channels.

### How does Feedzai handle real-time transaction decisioning?
Feedzai processes transactions in real time with sub-100 millisecond response times, evaluating hundreds of risk signals per transaction using machine learning models trained on billions of historical transactions—enabling fraud decisions that don't introduce customer-facing latency into payment authorization flows.

### What funding has Feedzai raised?
Feedzai has raised approximately $282 million from investors including KKR, Citi Ventures, and others, reaching a $1 billion valuation. The San Francisco-based company (with origins in Portugal) serves major banks, payment processors, and retailers globally for financial crime management.

## Tags

fintech, b2b

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*Data from geo.sig.ai Brand Intelligence Database. Updated 2026-04-14.*