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Feedzai

Feedzai is a data science company that develops real-time machine learning tools to identify fraudulent payment transactions and minimize risk in the financial services, retail, and e-commerce industries. The company has been classified as a unicorn startup since March 2021, after a Series D funding round pushed its value above $1 billion.

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Feedzai
Company type
Private
IndustryFinancial technology, enterprise software
Founded2011
Headquarters
Coimbra
,
Portugal
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Nuno Sebastião, CEO
ProductsFeedzai Enterprise, Feedzai Solutions
ServicesArtificial intelligence, machine learning, SaaS, big data analytics
Number of employees
500+1
Subsidiaries
  • Feedzai Lda (Portugal)
  • Feedzai Inc. (USA)
  • Feedzai PLC (UK)
Websitefeedzai.com

Feedzai is a data science company that develops real-time machine learning tools to identify fraudulent payment transactions and minimize risk in the financial services, retail, and e-commerce industries.2345 The company has been classified as a unicorn startup since March 2021, after a Series D funding round pushed its value above $1 billion.2617

Feedzai is headquartered in Coimbra, Portugal.89 The company's U.S. headquarters is in San Mateo, California, in the Silicon Valley.210

The company was founded in 201111 by Nuno Sebastião, Pedro Bizarro and Paulo Marques.12 The company first began selling its solutions for fraud detection and operational intelligence in Europe and later expanded to the United States in 2014.213

The company has been selected by the ECB to provide the Fraud & Risk Management solution for the Digital Euro (together with Capgemini Germany). 14

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  2. Lunden, Ingrid (2021-03-24). "Feedzai raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for AI tools to fight financial fraud". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
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  10. D'Onfro, Jillian (2019-09-17). "AI 50: America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  11. Bandeira, Mariana (2021-08-04). "Feedzai compra tecnologia biométrica para prevenir fraudes através de mudanças de comportamento (com áudio)". O Jornal Económico (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  12. "Detecting data changes in data streams by Joao Camacho, Nova University Lisbon" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
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  14. "ECB selects digital euro service providers". ECB. 2025-10-05. Retrieved 2026-01-15.