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Sift: Business Overview, Financials & Competitive Analysis

Sift is an AI-powered platform for fraud detection and prevention that offers solutions for account takeover, payment fraud, chargeback fraud, and policy abuse. The company's deep investments in machine learning and d...

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Strong market leader in digital fraud detection with broad enterprise adoption and continuous innovation driving customer...

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Industry AI-powered fraud detection and prevention
4 named competitors
3 recent developments
11 analyst dimensions
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Cyborg Score recalibrated: June 22, 2026
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Sift Overview

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Sift is an AI-powered platform for fraud detection and prevention that offers solutions for account takeover, payment fraud, chargeback fraud, and policy abuse. The company's deep investments in machine learning and data network scoring 1 trillion events per year empower more than 700 customers to grow fearlessly with Sift.

Strategic Profile

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Sift is the leading fraud prevention platform delivering digital trust to 700+ global brands, with customers including Hertz, Yelp, and Poshmark. Marc Friend is the current CEO of Sift.

Competitive Landscape

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Key competitors include Featurespace, Castle, MaxMind, Human Security, and DataDome. Sift differentiates through scale of its global data network and depth of machine learning expertise serving large enterprise customers in fintech, ecommerce, and travel sectors.

Industry Context

Sift operates in AI-powered fraud detection and prevention.

Key facts

Founded: 2011 · Headquarters: San Francisco, US · Employees: 265 · Revenue: $250M–$500M (estimated)

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FeaturespaceFraud detection and behavioral analytics platform→Human SecurityBot management and fraud prevention platform→DataDomeFraud and abuse prevention platform→MaxMindGeolocation and fraud prevention intelligence→

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What does Sift do?+
Sift is an AI-powered platform for fraud detection and prevention that offers solutions for account takeover, payment fraud, chargeback fraud, and policy abuse. The company's deep investments in machine learning and d...
What is Sift's Cyborg Score?+
Sift has a Cyborg Score of 8/10 (Strong). The score synthesizes business model, financials, leadership, competitive position, technology, marketing, and ESG dimensions across hundreds of data points.
Who are Sift's main competitors?+
Named competitors include Featurespace, Human Security, DataDome, MaxMind. The full competitive landscape is in the AskCyborg report.
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