FinovateEurope 2026 / Darwinium
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Darwinium is the AI Fraud Prevention Company, built to outpace AI-driven fraud in the agentic era. Born in the age of AI, it delivers edge-based risk decisioning that distinguishes trusted from risky human and AI agent behavior with 30-40% greater visibility than siloed tools. From first interaction through high-risk actions and payments, Darwinium protects the moments that matter most-so digital leaders can confidently grow and protect revenue.
How they describe their product/innovation: Darwinium’s AI fraud prevention platform can be deployed in minutes at the perimeter edge via your CDN, protecting every interaction across the full customer journey. As adversarial AI agents pivot instantly between touchpoints, Darwinium lets teams secure new URLs and flows without long engineering release cycles. It’s AI-native, using Beagle to probe for unknown vulnerabilities and Copilot to help analysts build rules, models, and remediations. Darwinium detects modern fraud patterns like scams, money mules, and app cloning through journey context and behavioral signals.
Credit Union/Community Bank Fit: Credit unions and community banks
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Ed Whitehead (VP Sales, EMEA & APAC), [email protected], +447813133397
Press: Rebekah Moody (VP Marketing), [email protected], +447779255550
Website: darwinium.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/darwinium
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded: May 2021
Product Demoed: Darwinium’s AI fraud prevention platform
Metrics: We have raised $28M in total equity investments from leading cybersecurity and fintech investors who share our vision of frictionless yet secure digital engagement. This backing has allowed us to accelerate innovation and expand across key verticals, including airlines, banking, and telecommunications. With $3M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and strong year-on-year growth, we are demonstrating clear market traction. Our solutions are trusted by multiple tier-one enterprises globally and are integrated with major fraud orchestration and identity verification platforms.
Presenters: Stephen Purvis, Solution Engineer, Darwinium | Ed Whitehead, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC, Darwinium
- Key Executives
Alisdair Faulkner (Co-Founder & CEO), Ananth Gundabattula (Co-Founder, Head of Data/Architecture), Ben Davey (Co-Founder, VP Products), Caleb Moore (Co-Founder, CTO), Colin Goldie (Co-Founder, VP Engineering), Rebekah Moody (VP Marketing), Peng Leong (CFO), Paul Cloutier (VP Sales, Americas|), Ed Whitehead (VP Sales, EMEA & APAC0, Elias Bizannes (Chief of Staff)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
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)
- Key Partners
Key partnerships include leading data providers, device intelligence networks, and orchestration platforms, enabling us to deliver adaptive risk assessment across the customer journey. These collaborations ensure our technology scales easily within existing enterprise workflows and delivers measurable reductions in fraud loss and false positives.