Corgi Labs
YC W23San Francisco, US · Founded 2022 · 3 employees · 1 known investors
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
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.
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Saif FarooquiinFounderSaif 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.
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Brian GrechCo-Founder & COO
Investors · 1
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.
Competitors · 9
by search overlapCorgi7 shared keywordsCorgi 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.
Forter5 shared keywordsForter 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.
Sardine5 shared keywordsSardine 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.
Sift5 shared keywordsSift 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.
Checkout5 shared keywordsCheckout.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.
Nmi5 shared keywordsNMI provides a modular, white-label payment acceptance platform—including a payment gateway, payment CRM, and processing—that partners such as banks, ISOs, PayFacs, and SaaS providers use to deliver embedded payment experiences under their own brand across online, in-app, in-store, mobile, and unattended channels. The company serves technology partners and merchants globally in the payments infrastructure industry.
Rapyd5 shared keywordsRapyd offers payment solutions including direct card acquiring, multi-currency business accounts, instant payouts, and stablecoin services for businesses operating across multiple industries and regions.
Chargeflow5 shared keywordsChargeflow provides AI-driven chargeback and dispute resolution automation for eCommerce merchants, SaaS companies, and airlines. The platform automates merchant processes to recover lost revenue from credit card disputes and chargebacks.
Ravelin Technology5 shared keywordsRavelin provides an AI-based fraud and abuse prevention platform for online merchants, using machine learning, consortium data, and graph-network analysis to automate risk decisions across the customer journey. Its offerings address refund abuse, account takeover, promo abuse, marketplace and partner fraud, 3D Secure authentication, and transaction optimization.
Companies competing with Corgi Labs for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
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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.
- Where is Corgi Labs headquartered?
- Corgi Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, US.