"Outsmart Risk | World leader in Adaptive Behavioural Analytics software for fraud, risk and compliance.

Featurespace was created by Professor Bill Fitzgerald, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY and his PhD student, Dave Excell, at the forefront and confluence of two academic fields: Data Science and Computer Science. Dave Excell adapted and commercialised this technology into Featurespace’s award-winning ARIC platform.

Teaching machines to act and to think like humans is an exciting recent breakthrough in these academic fields. Featurespace’s Adaptive Behavioural Analytics technology left the Cambridge Engineering Department in 2008, when BETFAIR asked Featurespace to build the first system to outwit fraud attacks by thinking like each one of their customers.

Featurespace built the world’s first Adaptive Behavioural Analytics engine – the ARIC platform – to solve this commercial challenge. We found the Financial Services industry was plagued by similar issues. ARIC is proving the commercial value in the world of this anomaly detection technology, helping organisations revolutionise the way they get the best out of their own data. ARIC is live and deployed with our clients in some of the world’s largest banks, insurance companies and gaming organisations.

CUSTOMERS: Worldpay, TSYS, Vocalink Zapp (customers of banking partners, including Barclays, Nationwide and Metro Bank), goHenry, The International Air Transport Association (IATA), William Hill, This Global Credit Card Issuer, Betfair, MIT - Mercadotecnia Ideas y Tecnologia, OpenBet

PARTNERS: Playtech, Icon Solutions, OpenBet, PWC, MongoDB, Robertson & Co, Vigilance, Kyte, GNSOL, IHS Technology, DS matrix, InAuth

March 07, 2018. Featurespace enters Tech City UK’s fast-growing ‘Future Fifty’

INVESTORS:
• CAMBRIDGE ANGELS GROUP
• CAMBRIDGE CAPITAL GROUP
• HIGHLAND EUROPE
• INVOKE CAPITAL PARTNERS
• NESTA VENTURES
• TOUCHSTONE INNOVATIONS
• TTV CAPITAL
• WORLDPAY

BOARD:
• Gordon Hurst, Chairman
• Martina King, CEO
• David Excell, Co-Founder and CTO
• Dr Robert Sansom, Non-Executive Director, Founder of Cambridge Angels
• Laurence Garrett, Highland Europe
• Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, Invoke Capital
• Gardiner Garrard, TTV Capital
• Alex Hook, Nesta
• Jon Edington, Touchstone Innovations"