INETCO Systems Ltd.
Founded 1984 Β· 38 employees on LinkedIn Β· 3 known investors
INETCO builds AI-powered payment security software, including the BullzAI fraud prevention platform and INETCO Insight for real-time payment performance monitoring. Its products serve banks, payment processors, and retailers globally, detecting and blocking payment fraud and monitoring transactions in real time.
Also known as INETCO Β· INETCO Systems
Investors Β· 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026INETCO Systems Ltd. is a British Columbia, Canada-based software company founded in 1984 that develops real-time transaction monitoring and payment fraud prevention software for the payments industry. Its portfolio centres on two products: INETCO BullzAI, an AI-based payment fraud prevention platform that detects, blocks and supports investigation of fraudulent payments before authorization, and INETCO Insight, a real-time payment performance monitoring product used to isolate transaction issues, improve customer experience and meet service level commitments. Related capabilities described by the company include customer experience analytics and data visualization and forwarding.
The company positions its platform as working in real time to predict, detect and block fraudulent payments, insider fraud transactions and advanced persistent threats, and also markets cybersecurity capabilities to payment operators. Recent product work includes an AI-assisted investigation capability in which agentic AI fraud agents triage payment fraud alerts, prioritize high-risk cases and provide explainable risk scoring while keeping decisions with human analysts and sensitive data on-premise, plus a transaction firewall function aimed at blocking low-value card testing and high-velocity BIN attacks before authorization.
INETCO holds a patent portfolio of 39 patents, with technical areas spanning machine learning, data analysis, transaction data, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.
Founding story
The company was founded in 1984. Co-founder Ugan Naidoo, who holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, an MBA and Professional Engineer designation, came to the company after senior leadership roles in cybersecurity and enterprise consulting at CA Technologies, Fujitsu and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and continues to lead its technical direction as CTO.
Business model
INETCO licenses enterprise payment security and monitoring software to financial institutions and payment operators, with deployments that can keep sensitive data on-premise. Products are sold as distinct platforms β BullzAI for fraud prevention and Insight for payment performance monitoring β to customers in more than 30 countries.
Traction
The company reports monitoring more than 100 billion transactions annually and protecting customers in more than 30 countries, with claimed outcomes including a 90% reduction in mean time to detect fraud and blocking of confirmed fraudulent transactions in under 20 milliseconds. It holds 39 patents and is staffed in the 10-50 employee range.
Latest developments
INETCO launched an AI-assisted investigation capability built on its real-time payment fraud prevention platform, using agentic AI fraud agents to triage alerts, prioritize high-risk cases and provide explainable risk scoring with human oversight and on-premise data handling. It was recognized as a sample vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Fraud and Financial Crime Prevention, 2026, and named a Category Leader in the Chartis Research 2026 RiskTech Quadrants. The company also markets BullzAI's transaction firewall for blocking BIN attacks and card testing before authorization, and publishes research and articles on card scheme penalties for acquirers and liquidity risk arising from real-time payments fraud.
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Market position
INETCO is described as a global provider of real-time payment fraud detection and prevention as well as cybersecurity solutions for the payments industry. It was named a Category Leader in Chartis Research's 2026 RiskTech Quadrants and recognized as a sample vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Fraud and Financial Crime Prevention, 2026, spanning self-supervised learning and generative AI applications. Third-party profiling associates it with a competitive set that includes Oracle, SAP, SAS Institute, BAE Systems, ACI Worldwide and IBM in AI, software and data analytics segments.
The company states it operates the only platform that works in real time to predict, detect and block fraudulent payments, insider fraud transactions and advanced persistent threats, emphasizing pre-authorization blocking, sub-20-millisecond decisioning, explainable risk scoring with analyst-in-the-loop control, and on-premise handling of sensitive data.
Technology
The technology processes payment transactions in real time, applying AI and machine learning to detect emerging fraud patterns within milliseconds and block confirmed fraudulent transactions in under 20 milliseconds. A transaction firewall targets card testing and BIN attacks before authorization, and agentic AI fraud agents automatically triage alerts, deliver explainable risk scoring and refine models from analyst feedback while running with sensitive data kept on-premise. Patented work spans machine learning, data analysis, data acquisition, predictive analytics and transaction data processing.
Go-to-market
Banks, payment service providers, payment processors and payment switches, retailers, multinational financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.
Geography
Headquartered in British Columbia, Canada, serving customers in over 30 countries; Bloomberg's profile notes customers in Canada, and the company's website is published in English and Portuguese with Brazil-timed webinars.
History
INETCO Systems Ltd. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in British Columbia, Canada. Ugan Naidoo, a co-founder, serves as Chief Technology Officer, leading design and development of the company's core technologies; before co-founding INETCO he was Managing Director of CA Security at CA Technologies, Head of Consulting at Fujitsu and a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company is listed as a portfolio company of SFU VentureLabs. More recently INETCO has extended its product line from real-time transaction monitoring and analytics into AI-driven payment fraud prevention with the BullzAI platform and agentic AI investigation tooling.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 3
launches, deals, and filingsChartis Research recognized INETCO for preventing payment fraud before authorization using real-time transaction intelligence and adaptive AI.
Recognition spans self-supervised learning and generative AI applications in fraud and financial crime detection.
Agentic AI fraud agents built on INETCO's real-time payment fraud prevention platform automatically triage payment fraud alerts, prioritize the highest-risk cases, deliver explainable risk scoring and refine through analyst feedback, keeping decisions with human analysts and sensitive data on-premise.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does INETCO Systems Ltd. do?
- Canadian software vendor providing real-time payment fraud prevention and transaction performance monitoring for banks and processors.
- Who are INETCO Systems Ltd.'s investors?
- INETCO Systems Ltd.'s investors include Pender Growth Fund, SFU VentureLabs, WUTIF Capital.