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About Us

The Darwinium story

Vision

Darwinium was born out of a belief that there was a better way to protect digital businesses - and the customers they serve - from the harmful effects of fraud and abuse. Despite years of advances in fraud controls, adversaries still have the upper hand, adapting quicker, executing better and arming networks with the latest AI tooling to increase success.

Darwinium was architected to be deployed simply, putting all the tools needed to analyse, decision and act on user behavior in the hands of business users, fraud analysts and data scientists. The platform removes the heavy lifting required from IT and engineering teams so that businesses are empowered to act on intelligence in real time.

Values

We have a collective passion for social equitability and are living out our vision to make the digital world safe, fair and accessible to everyone in society. We are focused on protecting all users - particularly new-to-digital and vulnerable customers - from the risk of fraud, scams and online abuse.

Our core values as a team are to be hungry, hard-working and humble, knowing that the best ideas come from a collective passion and vision to instigate change.

Unlike Charles Darwin’s legacy, Darwinium’s motto is ‘Survival of the Unfittest’; protecting those least able to protect themselves and ensuring everyone has access to a safe, accessible online world.

Darwinium is a Cyberfraud Platform Using AI to Defeat the Toughest Adversarial AI Threats

Darwinium’s pioneering approach to cyberfraud defense identifies legitimate customers, fraudsters, and AI agents in real time, without disrupting trusted user experiences. Deployed at the edge via global CDNs, Darwinium analyzes behavior and intent across every touchpoint, bringing decisioning closer to the customer journey. Its flexible engine combines proprietary behavioral and device intelligence with seamless orchestration of external tools and data, enabling tailored defenses without re-architecting platforms.

Darwinium is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Sydney and London. Prior to building Darwinium, the founding team, led by Alisdair Faulkner, co-founded, built and scaled ThreatMetrix, the world’s leading Digital Identity company. Alisdair created the Digital Identity category, grew recurring revenues from $0-100M USD, resulting in a billion dollar acquisition by a FTSE 100 company.

The Darwinium team has a combined experience of over 200 years managing fraud and risk for some of the world's largest banks, ecommerce platforms and fintech providers. It comprises industry-leading engineers, product innovators and go-to-market specialists, bringing a passion, enthusiasm and drive to change the world of fraud and risk.

The Darwinium Executive Team

Alisdair Faulkner

Alisdair Faulkner

Co-founder, CEO

Co-founder and CPO ThreatMetrix

Ananth Gundabattula

Ananth Gundabattula

Co-founder, Head of Data / Architecture

Senior Architect Commonwealth Bank

Ben Davey

Ben Davey

Co-founder, VP Products

Director of Products, ThreatMetrix

Caleb Moore

Caleb Moore

Co-founder, CTO

Principal Engineer, ThreatMetrix

Colin Goldie

Colin Goldie

Co-founder, VP Engineering

Director of Products, ThreatMetrix

Rebekah Moody

Rebekah Moody

VP Marketing

Director Market Planning, LexisNexis / ThreatMetrix

Peng Leong

Peng Leong

CFO

CFO, Rev

Paul Cloutier

Paul Cloutier

VP Sales, Americas

Enterprise Sales, Arkestro, ThreatMetrix

Ed Whitehead

Ed Whitehead

VP Sales, EMEA and APAC

Managing Director, EMEA, Signifyd

Reed Taussig

Reed Taussig

Board Chairman

CEO AuthenticID, Outseer / RSA, ThreatMetrix

Niki Scevak

Niki Scevak

Board of Directors

Partner at Blackbird

Rick Lewis

Rick Lewis

Board of Directors

General Partner at US Venture Partners

Elias Bizannes

Elias Bizannes

Chief of Staff

CEO of ZoomSystems (acquired by Swyft)

Executive Advisory Council

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