Riskified Ltd
Riskified Ltd. is a U.S.-based software company that provides ecommerce fraud and risk intelligence tools to online merchants. Its platform uses identity-based analytics and AI to help merchants approve legitimate orders, reduce chargebacks, and detect policy abuse across digital transactions.
Fiscal year 2025 · change from previous year
Development 2020–2025
Business
Share of revenueTransaction protection service that underwrites approved ecommerce orders and chargebacks.
AI-driven tools that score transactions and help merchants approve or decline orders in real time.
Tools that identify misuse of merchant policies such as returns, refunds, and promotions.
Data and identity insights used to assess the individual behind each ecommerce interaction.
Customers
Riskified sells primarily to ecommerce merchants that need to manage fraud, chargebacks, and policy abuse while keeping checkout friction low. Its customer base includes large brands and publicly traded online sellers across multiple verticals and geographies. The platform is also used in payment methods beyond cards, including ACH-related use cases.
Buy fraud and chargeback protection to reduce losses while preserving checkout conversion.
Use the platform for enterprise-grade risk decisioning and policy abuse prevention.
Adopt the platform when ecommerce risk needs extend beyond a single retail category.
Buy localized risk intelligence and underwriting capabilities for international ecommerce growth.
Use Riskified's risk tools in non-card payment flows where fraud decisioning still matters.
Strategy
Riskified is expanding beyond a single flagship offering by increasing multi-product adoption and extending its platform into more payment methods and merchant categories. The company is also broadening its geographic and vertical reach so it can win more enterprise merchants and enlarge the pool of transactions it protects. These priorities strengthen platform stickiness, raise wallet share, and support a larger addressable market over time.
More products per merchant increase retention and expand revenue per customer.
A broader international merchant base expands the market and reduces concentration.
Serving ACH and other payment methods enlarges the addressable fraud-risk market.
Adding merchants across more industries makes the platform less dependent on any one retail category.
Geography
2025Riskified serves merchants across the United States and internationally, with recent disclosures highlighting wins outside the U.S. across several verticals. The business is geographically diversified because ecommerce fraud and payment risk are tied to merchant locations, end-customer markets, and payment methods rather than a single country. Its operating footprint and customer mix therefore affect product fit, local risk patterns, and expansion opportunities.
Share of the revenue the company reports by geography.
Risks
Riskified depends on merchant adoption of a specialized fraud-prevention platform, so sales execution and customer concentration can affect growth. The business is exposed to fast-changing fraud methods, evolving payment rails, and the need to maintain high decision accuracy without hurting merchant conversion. As a software company with international customers, it also faces foreign exchange volatility, competitive pressure, and the challenge of sustaining trust in its automated risk decisions.
- Fraud model degradationImpact: HighLikelihood: High
Attackers continuously change tactics, requiring constant data science and product updates.
Exposure: Fraud and risk intelligence platform
- Merchant concentrationImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
A small number of large merchants can disproportionately affect revenue growth and retention.
Exposure: Enterprise ecommerce customer base
- Conversion impact from overly strict controlsImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Rejecting legitimate orders can reduce merchant revenue and weaken the value proposition.
Exposure: Real-time decisioning
- Competitive pricing pressureImpact: MediumLikelihood: High
Merchants can choose among fraud, chargeback, and payment-risk vendors.
Exposure: Ecommerce fraud software market
- Foreign exchange volatilityImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
International operations can create translation and transaction gains or losses.
Exposure: Non-U.S. merchant activity
Accounting
Judgemental itemsMerchant contracts may combine protection, decisioning, and platform services with different timing of satisfaction.
Impact: Can shift revenue between periods
Management explicitly notes FX movements are difficult to forecast and can affect future GAAP results.
Impact: Can create volatility in earnings
Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are used to supplement GAAP and can differ meaningfully from statutory results.
Impact: Affects investor interpretation of operating performance
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Last updated: 28/09/2026