About
About Fraudhalo.
Founder Story
Built by a risk engineer, for risk engineers.
Nadia El-Sayed spent six years in payments and risk analytics before founding Fraudhalo in Atlanta. As a risk engineer at two payment processors handling consumer card-not-present volume, she saw firsthand how the fraud detection gap works in practice: large banks build sophisticated ML infrastructure internally, while smaller payment processors — those handling $1M to $500M in monthly volume — are left with rules-based systems and manual review queues that can't keep pace with modern attack patterns.
Fraudhalo is her answer to that gap: the same gradient boosting ensemble architecture that powers enterprise fraud teams, delivered as a single API call with sub-80ms latency, usage-based pricing, and full model explainability built in.
The company received $975K in angel funding in early 2026 and is currently in production with a pilot cohort of payment processors and BNPL providers in the Atlanta area and beyond.
Atlanta Context
Built at the center of the payments ecosystem.
Atlanta is one of the most important payments cities in the world. More than 70% of US payment transactions touch Atlanta-based infrastructure in some form. The city is home to NCR, Equifax, Global Payments, Paya, Greenlight, and InComm Payments — a concentration of payments engineering talent and domain expertise unlike almost anywhere else in the US.
Fraudhalo is building at the center of that ecosystem, at 1201 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta — the same neighborhood where Atlanta's fintech community has been growing for the past decade.
Mission
Precision fraud detection for every payment processor.
Fraudhalo's mission is to make precision fraud detection accessible to every payment processor, not just the top ten. The same ML infrastructure that powers enterprise fraud teams should be available via a single API call.
Team
The team behind Fraudhalo.
Join the pilot cohort.
We are working with a small group of payment processors and fintechs in production. If you process more than 50,000 transactions per day, let's talk.
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