Overview of Transaction

• On April 22, 2025, Feedzai, the global leader in fraud and financial crime prevention, announced that it has acquired DemystData (“Demyst”), including its Zonic data workflow orchestration platform, intellectual property and sophisticated data-integration capabilities
• Founded in 2010, Demyst provides centralized data connectivity to over 100 market providers through a single API, enabling organizations to harness value from the external data ecosystem while meeting data governance goals
• Based in Portugal and New York, Feedzai is the world’s first end-to-end financial crime prevention platform, protecting people and payments with AI-native solutions that stop fraud and financial crime
• Leading financial institutions trust Feedzai to manage critical risk and compliance processes, safeguarding trillions of dollars of transactions while improving customer experience and protecting the privacy of everyday users

Significance of Transaction

• This strategic move enables Feedzai to unify data orchestration and risk management into a single platform, providing financial institutions with the real-time data, analytics, and trusted artificial intelligence they need to make the best possible risk decisions
• Together, Feedzai and Demyst deliver a strengthened risk operations lifecycle with enhanced account opening capabilities, ensuring a consistent end-to-end customer view from initial onboarding through ongoing transactions

FT Partners' Role

• FT Partners served as the exclusive financial and strategic advisor to Feedzai
• FT Partners previously advised Feedzai on its $200 million Series D financing and acquisition of Revelock in 2021, its $50 million Series C financing in 2017, and its $17.5 million Series B financing in 2015
• This transaction highlights FT Partners’ deep domain expertise in the Fraud Prevention and Risk Management sector, as well as its continued success in providing buy-side advisory to leading FinTech companies