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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Commerce protection e-commerce |
| Founded | 2011 in Palo Alto, California |
| Founder | Raj Ramanand, Mike Liberty |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California |
| Products | Account Protection
Authorization Rate Optimization Chargeback Recovery Complete Chargeback Protection Guaranteed Fraud Protection Intelligent Returns |
| Website | signifyd.com |
Signifyd is a privately held software as a service (SaaS) company that uses machine learning models and data to provide fraud protection and consumer abuse protection for thousands of ecommerce companies.[1] throughout the world. The artificial intelligence and machine learning approach to ecommerce fraud helps merchants react to rapidly evolving and novel approaches to fraud while reducing the risk of false positives[2].
History
[edit]Signifyd was founded in 2011[3] in Palo Alto, California, by Raj Ramanand and Mike Liberty,[4] both of whom worked in the fraud space at PayPal[5].
The company is now headquartered in San Jose, California and offers a suite of products[6] including fraud and chargeback protection with a 100% financial guarantee[7] on orders approved by Signifyd's machine learning models. Signifyd expanded its research and development work to Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2019, opening a center that hosted 60 employees by the end of the year.[8]
In 2020, Signifyd expanded its presence in Latin America, one of the world's fastest growing regions in terms of ecommerce sales, providing fraud protection to retailers such as Walmart Mexico.[9]
In 2023, Fast Company named Signifyd to its list of the 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence.[10]
In 2025, Signifyd launched Intelligent Returns, a pair of solutions aimed at addressing increasing online return volumes and increasing fraud and abuse related to ecommerce returns.[11].
Funding
[edit]During the year after its founding, Signifyd reported receiving $2.2 million[12] in seed funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz. It raised a $56 million series C round[13] of venture funding in 2017, led by Bain Capital Ventures and including Menlo Ventures and American Express. That was followed by a $100-million D round of funding in 2018 led by Premji Invest.[14]
Signifyd raised its $205-million Series E round of funding in 2021, led by Owl Rock Capital and including Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., known as FIS; the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and Neuberger Berman. The investing round raised the total invested in Signifyd to about $400 million and its market valuation to about $1.34 billion[1].
- ^ a b Castellanos, Sara (April 15, 2021). "E-commerce company Signifyd raises $205 million in investor funding". wsj. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Odfisan, Oluwaseun (January 9, 2025). "Harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning for fraud detection and prevention in Nigeria". Journal of Economic Criminology. 7 100127. doi:10.1016/j.jeconc.2025.100127. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Fu, Edison (16 April 2021). "globalventuring". Global Corporate Venturing. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
- ^ Global Indian Times, staff (April 15, 2021). "Rajesh Ramanand's Signifyd offers fraud protection guarantee to online sellers". Global Indian Times. p. 3. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
- ^ Fintech Global, staff (September 9, 2016). "Signifyd pulls in $19m for e-commerce fraud prevention". fintch.global. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Preimesberger, Chris (January 7, 2020). "Signifyd: Product overview and insight". eweek. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Jones, Hessie (July 26, 2023). "Signifyd's developed an AI-powered response solution to combat retail fraud". forbes. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Leonard, Roanan (November 19, 2019). "Signifyd sees accelerated innovation with expansion of global R&D centre in Northern Ireland". irishtechnews. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Staff, Forbes (December 21, 2020). "Signifyd abre sede en América Latina, busca optimizar comercio electrónico". forbes. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Ufberg, Max (March 2, 2023). "The 10 most innovative companies in artificial intelligence of 2023". fast company. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Nykolle Harme, Jed (September 16, 2025). "Signifyd launches Intelligent Returns to help UK retailers curb costly returns". securitybrief. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ WSJ, PRO (December 20, 2020). "Signifyd builds seed funding to $2.2M for payment validation and fraud prevention". wsj. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Roof, Katie (May 4, 2017). "Signifyd raises $56 million for e-commerce fraud protection". techcrunch. Retrieved October 27, 2025.
- ^ Chapman, Lizette (May 30, 2018). "Signifyd scores $100 million in funding". bloomberg. Retrieved October 27, 2025.