Sift announced a definitive agreement to acquire Chargeback to add real-time dispute management to its fraud suite.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Sift is a San Francisco-based AI-powered digital fraud prevention and risk-based authentication company founded in 2011. It helps businesses detect and stop payment fraud, account takeover, account abuse, and related trust-and-safety risks using a global data network and machine learning.
Primary product
AI-powered digital fraud prevention and risk-based authentication platform
Founded
2011
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
150-200
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Sub-industry
Fraud prevention / Digital Trust & Safety
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series E / late-stage private
Total raised
$156.6M
Latest round
Series E · Apr 2021
Latest amount
$50M
Apr 2021 · Insight Partners
Mar 2018 · Stripes Group
Jul 2016 · Insight Venture Partners
May 2014 · Spark Capital
Mar 2013 · Union Square Ventures
Sep 2011 · Max Levchin
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Product Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief People Officer
Chief Strategy Officer
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Field Chief Technology Officer
Vice President, Customer Experience
Chief Revenue Officer
Vice President, Global Channel Sales
Investors
Mission-driven and customer-centric, with a ‘Borderless Sift’ work model and a ‘Gather with Purpose’ collaboration style. The company emphasizes diversity, inclusion, continuous improvement, ownership, and ‘Win as One Team’.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
No public salary bands found. Public compensation signals include employee equity, retirement savings, a lifestyle wallet, paid parental leave, generous time off, mental health days, and fully covered individual medical/dental/vision plans.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom enterprise quote; pricing is not publicly disclosed.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$60M-$70M
Estimated monthly visits
85.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Sift announced a definitive agreement to acquire Chargeback to add real-time dispute management to its fraud suite.
SourceMultiple employee LinkedIn posts in August 2024 said they were affected by a round of layoffs at Sift; this appears to have been a material reduction, though the company did not publish a layoff post of its own.
SourceSift Blog · Jul 2026
Sift’s latest benchmarks say fraud is moving from high-volume attacks to more selective, higher-impact targeting; the post highlights shifts in payment fraud, account takeover, and chargebacks across the network.
Sift Blog · Oct 2025
A quarterly roundup covering product releases, G2 recognition, and account takeover trends, including rising fintech ATO activity and new fraud investigation tooling.
GlobeNewswire / Sift · Jun 2025
Sift’s Q2 2025 Digital Trust Index reported a 62% year-over-year increase in scam victims and warned that AI-generated scams are outpacing consumer awareness.
GlobeNewswire / Sift · Apr 2025
Sift announced FIBR integration into Sift Console, giving customers in-product benchmarking against the Sift Global Data Network.
Reuters via TradingView · Mar 2025
Sift’s Q1 2025 report said consumer exposure to payment-fraud offers surged 89% year over year and highlighted the rise of accessible fraud toolkits and social-media-driven fraud markets.