
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
Co-founder, CEO
Co-founder and CPO ThreatMetrix

Ananth Gundabattula
Co-founder, Head of Data / Architecture
Senior Architect Commonwealth Bank

Ben Davey
Co-founder, VP Products
Director of Products, ThreatMetrix

Caleb Moore
Co-founder, CTO
Principal Engineer, ThreatMetrix

Colin Goldie
Co-founder, VP Engineering
Director of Products, ThreatMetrix

Rebekah Moody
VP Marketing
Director Market Planning, LexisNexis / ThreatMetrix

Peng Leong
CFO
CFO, Rev

Paul Cloutier
VP Sales, Americas
Enterprise Sales, Arkestro, ThreatMetrix

Ed Whitehead
VP Sales, EMEA and APAC
Managing Director, EMEA, Signifyd

Reed Taussig
Board Chairman
CEO AuthenticID, Outseer / RSA, ThreatMetrix

Niki Scevak
Board of Directors
Partner at Blackbird

Rick Lewis
Board of Directors
General Partner at US Venture Partners

Elias Bizannes
Chief of Staff
CEO of ZoomSystems (acquired by Swyft)
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