Fundraising Fox
Corgi Labs
YC W23San Francisco, US · Founded 2022 · 3 employees · 2 known investors
Find your way into Corgi Labs
Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Corgi Labs
- Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Corgi Labs team. We find them for you
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
- Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone
Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.
Corgi Labs builds a platform that uses machine learning to help businesses recover hidden revenue in their payments data through improved fraud detection, transaction approval, and chargeback reduction for online retailers.
Also known as CorgiAI, Inc. · CorgiAI
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceFintechArtificial IntelligencePaymentsAnalyticsFraud DetectionSingaporeSoutheast AsiaPartly Remote
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W23)
Corgi Labs was founded in 2022 by Saif Farooqui and Brian Grech.
SF
Saif FarooquiFounder + CEOSaif Farooqui worked as a data scientist at Stripe, Google, and Meta, and previously worked as a healthcare economist. He is now founder of Corgi Labs, which provides fraud and payments intelligence for growing businesses.
MY
Marjorie Yang's Associate
RV
Romain VermeulenEngineeringformer
AL
Alexis LeeCOOformer
Investors · 2
Y Combinatorlisted by Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K
How we know: the Y Combinator directory · open dataset · 5k.vc investor directory · Not right? Tell us
HAVEN VENTURESreportedPalo Alto · $10K – $1M
How we know: Y Combinator's founder network · Not right? Tell us
The YC application· Winter 2023 batch
What they told YC
- What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
- The founders are building a suite of fraud detection and prevention tools, including analytics to track dispute and fraud metrics, an AI product that flags transactions for merchants to review, and an AI system that recommends rules for payment platforms such as Stripe, Shopify, and Adyen to reduce dispute and fraud rates.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
Related companies · 10
Corgi InsuranceCorgi is an AI-native, full-stack insurance platform that provides modular business insurance coverage designed for technology companies. It handles underwriting, policy design, servicing, and claims administration to simplify the insurance experience.
SlopeSlope provides a B2B payments platform that enables businesses to accept payments and offer financing, with a focus on digitizing the order-to-cash process for online commerce. The company uses generative AI to modernize traditionally manual B2B payment workflows.
ForterForter provides identity intelligence and fraud prevention for digital commerce. The platform automates transaction decisions for online retailers and payment processors to improve approval rates while detecting fraudulent activity.
OverwatchOverwatch Data provides an AI-powered threat intelligence platform that monitors digital sources to detect and combat fraud and security risks for enterprise security and risk teams. The platform analyzes open, social, and dark web data to deliver real-time insights for threat response.
SardineSardine provides a fraud investigation platform that contextualizes risk across customers, devices, transactions, and businesses within an organization's ecosystem. The platform uses AI agents, device intelligence, and network data to help financial institutions and payment platforms detect coordinated abuse, unauthorized activity, and fraud at scale.
InscribeInscribe builds an AI-powered document fraud detection platform for financial institutions, banks, and fintechs to identify and prevent fraudulent applications. The company uses agentic AI agents that are continuously trained to detect fake documents and stay ahead of evolving fraud tactics.
SiftSift provides an AI-powered platform for fraud prevention and risk decisioning that helps digital businesses detect and manage online fraud. The platform serves companies across industries looking to reduce fraud losses while enabling secure growth.
MouseCatMouseCat provides agentic AI infrastructure that automates fraud investigations and risk operations within customer cloud environments. The platform enables enterprises to scale investigation quality across all transactions while retaining full data control and ownership.
CheckoutCheckout.com offers Flow, a hosted payment page that businesses can deploy with a low-code, one-time integration to accept payments online. The page can be customized to match a site's branding for a consistent checkout experience.
Hesper AIHesper AI develops AI agents that investigate property and casualty insurance claims, reading claim files to detect tampered documents, verify facts, check coverage, flag inconsistencies, and generate audit-ready case files. It serves claims and special investigations teams at insurance carriers, managing general agents, and third-party administrators.
Companies working in the same space as Corgi Labs.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureCorgiAI, Inc.
In the news
Frequently asked questions
- What does Corgi Labs do?
- Corgi Labs builds a platform that uses machine learning to help businesses recover hidden revenue in their payments data through improved fraud detection, transaction approval, and chargeback reduction for online retailers.
- Who founded Corgi Labs?
- Corgi Labs was founded by Saif Farooqui, Brian Grech in 2022.
- Who are Corgi Labs's investors?
- Corgi Labs's investors include Y Combinator, HAVEN VENTURES.
- Where is Corgi Labs headquartered?
- Corgi Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, US.