Feedzai
Feedzai sells AI software to banks and payment companies to detect financial crime. Its platform processes 90 billion events annually, securing $8 trillion in payments.
The growth story
Feedzai grew from 634 to 883 employees between 2022 and 2026, raising $352M along the way, most recently a Series E in October 2025.
About
Feedzai provides AI-powered fraud prevention, identity verification, and anti-money laundering tools for financial institutions. Its platform monitors customer interactions across banking and payments to detect risks in real time.
The company has raised $352M, most recently in a Series E round. It employs 883 people, with engineering being the largest function at 136 staff. Feedzai's platform handles payments worth $8 trillion annually, a scale that underscores its adoption by major financial institutions.
Founders and leadership
Engineering is Feedzai's largest function with 136 staff, reflecting its focus on AI and platform development. The company is headquartered in New York but draws heavily on talent from Portugal, where many of its engineers studied.
The Feedzai org chart
Nuno Sebastiao (Chairman & CEO) leads 60 mapped leaders with 7 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Engineering 303 (+6% YoY), Information Technology 71 (-4% YoY), Business Development 54 (-5% YoY), Sales 53 (+51% YoY), Operations 43 (+2% YoY), Finance 40 (+11% YoY).
Talent flow
Feedzai recruits heavily from Portuguese universities, with Instituto Superior Técnico alone supplying 64 alumni. Its workforce also includes significant numbers from FARFETCH, Deloitte, and Celfocus. Alumni frequently move to fraud prevention competitors like Socure and Prove.
Most common previous employers of Feedzai staff: FARFETCH (29), Instituto Superior Técnico (19), Deloitte (17), Celfocus (17), OutSystems (16), INESC-ID (15). Former Feedzai employees most often moved to OLX (7), Salesforce (7), Acoru (6), Socure (6), Prove (5), PagerDuty (5).
Alumni worth knowing
The Feedzai mafia
Feedzai alumni have founded 48 companies, including cybersecurity firm CyberSentriq (204 staff) and cloud platform Vendia (88 staff). Several startups focus on fraud prevention and AI, reflecting their Feedzai experience.
49Myles Bray, was Chief Revenue Officer until 2026Shruthi Rao, was Vice President of Product, Alliances & BD until 2017Becky Flint, was VP, Product Ops and Program Management until 2018Glenn Goldman, was Advisor until 2014Pablo de la Riva Ferrezuelo, was Principal SME Cyber & Digital Trust 💃 until 2023Srividya Sunderamurthy, was Director of Product until 2020
Bernardo Branco, was Senior AI Architect until 2021
Antonio Alegria, was Product Lead - AI, Analytics, Cloud until 2018
Pedro Saleiro, was Head of AI Research until 2024
Janelle S., was Strategic Alliances Director, EMEA & APAC until 2020
Shaker M. Rawan, was VP Product Management until 2017
Sebastean Leoni, was Chief Revenue Officer until 2017
Olga Filipova, was Software Engineer until 2014
Rui Vilão, was Senior Software Engineer until 2014
Richard Scioli, was General Manager - Platform, VP Growth until 2019
Mateusz Chrobok, was Expert Behavioural AI until 2022
Diogo Maia Caetano, was Senior Product Designer until 2022
Monica Pal, was Advisory Board Chair until 2021
João Costa, was Advanced Software Engineer (Tech) until 2025
Carlos Lebre Ribeiro, was PMO Manager until 2020
Jamie Bridel, was Non-Executive Director until 2015
Mike Dwyer, was Global Talent Acquisition Lead until 2022
David Ribeiro Alves, PhD, was Software Engineer/Intern until 2010
Francisco Ferreira, was Data Scientist until 2020
Lucas Bolte, was Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist until 2022
Priya Rajan, was VP of Marketing until 2018
Tynan Daly, was Data Scientist until 2018
Javier Minguella Vargas, was Senior Corporate Development Manager until 2022
Karan Patel, was Data Engineer until 2025
Cesar Fernandes, was Customer Success Manager until 2026
Sunil Daluvoy, was Head of Partnership until 2022
Meagan Birch, was AML SME Solutions until 2021
Elizabeth Mirotshnik Cruz, was Director of Data Science until 2020
Alex Britos, was Senior Inside Sales Manager Global until 2025
Dan V., was Director, Technology Solutions (APAC) until 2021
Brad B., was Vice President - Global AML/CTF, Risk & Compliance Solutions until 2023
Fyodor Minakov, was Software Engineer until 2015
Loc D. Nguyen, was Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) until 2018
Prashant Reddy, was Director, Enterprise Sales and Partnerships until 2024
Ana Sofia Pinho, was Culture and Social Impact Manager until 2018
Senthilnathan K, was Solutions Engineer until 2024
Robbie Dinte, was Head of Client Success, APAC (formerly Demyst) until 2024
Iyin Akinlabi-Oladimeji, was Director, Client Solutions until 2021
Elliott Limb, was Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) until 2023
Fátima Rodrigues, was MBA Consulting Impact Project – AI Strategy & Operating Model until 2026
Ryan Sahadeo, was Director Information Security and Compliance until 2021
Sunshinne T., was Director of Global Recruitment and Talent Operations until 2022
Hetsvi N., was Technical manager, client success until 2024Hiring now
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Feedzai: Java (279), SQL (272), Python (Programming Language) (240), Project Management (213), English (201), JavaScript (197), Microsoft Office (196), Management (190).
Where the team actually sits
Feedzai people are concentrated in Lisbon, Portugal (113), Porto, Portugal (63), Portugal (51), Porto Metropolitan Area (28). 10 offices on record.
Search footprint
Feedzai attracts about 1,663 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $10K a month if bought through ads. It gained 381 ranking keywords and lost 309 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.80 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.50 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.60 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.50 / 5
Frequently asked
Feedzai has 883 employees as of September 2026.
Feedzai has raised $352M in total, most recently a Series E round in October 2025.
Feedzai was founded in 2011 by Mark Hookey.
Nuno Sebastiao (Chairman & CEO) sits at the top of Feedzai's reporting structure, with 7 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Feedzai staff are FARFETCH (29 people), Instituto Superior Técnico (19 people), Deloitte (17 people).
Former Feedzai employees most often move to OLX (7), Salesforce (7), Acoru (6).
At least 48 companies have a founder who previously worked at Feedzai, including CyberSentriq, Vendia, Dragonboat.
Feedzai attracts about 1,663 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $10K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Feedzai staff are Java, SQL, Python (Programming Language), Project Management, English.
Feedzai staff are concentrated in Lisbon, Portugal (113), Porto, Portugal (63), Portugal (51).
Feedzai has about 303 people in Engineering, up 6% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Feedzai has about 71 people in Information Technology, down 4% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 563 current and 869 former Feedzai profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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