Category
Cybersecurity
Country HQ
US
Darwinium is the AI Fraud Prevention Company built to protect and grow revenue at every touchpoint across the customer journey. Its edge-based risk decisioning platform distinguishes trusted from risky human and AI behavior, resulting in 50% less fraud and 40% greater operational efficiency. 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.
FOUNDERS
ALISDAIR FAULKNER, Co-Founder & CEO
Alisdair has a passion for social equitability and is living out his vision to make the digital world safe, fair and accessible to everyone in society with the creation of Darwinium; a next-generation AI fraud prevention platform.
Prior to Darwinium, Alisdair co-founded, built and scaled ThreatMetrix, the world's leading Digital Identity company. As ThreatMetrix grew, it was protecting 1 in 3 ecommerce transactions in the US, and over 1 billion global accounts across 4 billion devices for the world's largest global banks and brands. Alisdair created the Digital Identity category, grew recurring revenues from $0-100M USD resulting in a $830M USD acquisition by LexisNexis, a FTSE 100 company. Alisdair then went on to manage the global fraud and identity organisation for the US, Canada, LATAM, APAC, UK and EMEA.
BEN DAVEY, Co-Founder & VP - Product
Ben has a passion for making a genuine difference in the world of fraud and cybersecurity, and has invested his career building solutions that do exactly that. Co-founding Darwinium gave him the opportunity to build a company that could get ahead of what fraudsters were doing — with the resilience to adapt to evolving threats and create products that businesses actually want to use.
Prior to Darwinium, Ben served as Director of End User Products at ThreatMetrix, where he developed a reputation for identifying the loopholes adversaries exploit and translating that insight into forward-thinking product innovation. Colleagues value his unique blend of technical expertise, product vision and creativity — equally at home presenting a vision of the future to an audience of fellow fraud fighters as he is wrangling with product bugs or inspiring his team day to day.
CALEB MOORE, Co-Founder & CTO
Caleb is driven by a belief that great technology should move seamlessly from idea to implementation — creating products that make a real-world impact and that others can genuinely value. As CTO at Darwinium, he leads the technical strategy and delivery of the company's AI fraud prevention platform, helping businesses detect risk and protect customers without adding friction.
Prior to Darwinium, Caleb served as Principal Software Engineer at ThreatMetrix, bringing international experience spanning Australia and China across hands-on programming, consulting and engineering management. His specialties include bridging technical excellence with creative problem-solving, building strong engineering workflows, and fostering mentoring-focused collaboration within high-performing teams.
COLIN GOLDIE, Co-Founder & VP - Engineering
Colin brings pragmatic engineering leadership to Darwinium, with a talent for translating complex fraud, risk and identity problems into reliable, high-performance systems and developer-friendly implementations. As VP Engineering, he leads the team responsible for building and scaling the Darwinium platform from a technical perspective.
Prior to Darwinium, Colin held the roles of Principal Engineer and Director of Product Management at ThreatMetrix, where he developed deep expertise in delivering enterprise-grade fraud and identity systems at scale. His experience spans the full spectrum of engineering leadership — from hands-on technical delivery to overseeing product direction — making him a cornerstone of Darwinium's technical foundation.
ANANTH GUNDABATTULA, Co-Founder & Head of Data / Architecture
Ananth is a seasoned technology leader with a passion for building privacy-aware, high-performance data systems that power real-time decisions at scale. At Darwinium, he is building the data foundations that underpin the platform's fraud and trust decision-making, bringing deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and fraud prevention architecture.
Prior to Darwinium, Ananth held senior architecture roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ThreatMetrix, focusing on feature engineering, stream processing and low-latency backends. His accomplishments include architecting resilient data planes, processing thousands of events per second and delivering a 12x storage cost reduction through cost-optimised design. He holds multiple patents from IBM Labs, contributes actively to open source, and speaks regularly at industry conferences.