Dodgeball

What Dodgeball does

Dodgeball was a San Francisco-based, privately-held software company founded in 2021 that developed an AI-powered fraud management platform targeting e-commerce merchants. The company's product combined fraud detection and prevention with payment orchestration to improve transaction reliability for online merchants. Dodgeball operated with a small team (11-50 employees) and was led by four co-founders covering CEO (Adam Hiatt), Chief Architect (Andrew Schwartz), CTO (Patrick Teague), and Chief Design Officer / Head of Strategic Experience Design (Charles Reeves). Total disclosed external funding was approximately $177,778 raised in May 2024 in a round led by Point72 Ventures with participation from Gaingels, Runtime Ventures, and SNR.vc.

In September 2025, Dodgeball was acquired by Spreedly, a US-based global payments orchestration platform. Post-acquisition, Dodgeball's AI-powered fraud management technology was integrated into Spreedly's platform — specifically supporting the 'Protect' pillar (a flexible fraud and authentication layer offering advanced fraud tools and 3DS) and the broader orchestration stack spanning Connect, Vault, Optimize, and Resolve. As a result, Dodgeball is no longer an independent operating company and its product surface now reaches Spreedly's global merchant and partner ecosystem, including partners such as PayPal and Paysafe.

Pricing, revenue model, and customer-level commercial details are not publicly disclosed. The company's primary stated customer segment was e-commerce merchants seeking fraud management and transaction reliability. No certifications, patents, trademarks, named customer logos, or detailed financial metrics are available in the provided source data.

Name

Dodgeball

Website

https://dodgeballhq.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Dodgeball was a San Francisco-based software firm founded in 2021 that built an AI-powered fraud management and payment orchestration platform for e-commerce merchants. Acquired by Spreedly in September 2025, its technology now powers Spreedly's fraud and authentication layer.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fraud Management Software

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320)

akta.pro primary industry

Fraud Prevention, Risk & Chargeback Management (CRAFALAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fraud Detection & Transaction Monitoring (FSAMALAA), Payments Fraud & Chargeback Prevention (HDADALAE)

Keywords

• Fraud management software
• E-commerce fraud prevention
• Payment orchestration
• Transaction security platform
• AI fraud detection

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Core offering

Dodgeball built an AI-powered fraud management and orchestration platform intended to prevent fraud for e-commerce merchants. The platform automated fraud detection and integrated with payment orchestration to enhance transaction reliability and block fraudulent transactions.

Product overview

Dodgeball was an independent company specializing in AI-powered fraud management solutions for e-commerce. In September 2025, Dodgeball was acquired by Spreedly, a US-based global payments orchestration platform provider. Following the acquisition, Dodgeball's fraud management technology was integrated into Spreedly's platform to enhance transaction reliability and fraud prevention for e-commerce merchants.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dodgeball AI-powered fraud management platform for e-commerce merchants, providing automated fraud detection and prevention integrated with payment orchestration to enhance transaction reliability.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SpreedlycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2025In September 2025, Spreedly acquired Dodgeball to integrate AI-powered fraud management capabilities into its payments orchestration platform. The acquisition was intended to enhance transaction reliability and fraud prevention for e-commerce merchants using Spreedly's global payments connectivity solutions.

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sift: Sift is a leading AI-powered fraud detection and prevention platform purpose-built for e-commerce and digital businesses. It is the closest direct competitor to Dodgeball, competing for the same merchant fraud-management use case with ML-driven transaction scoring.
• Forter: Forter is a real-time, fully automated fraud prevention platform focused on e-commerce merchants, using a large identity network and ML models. It is a direct peer competing for the same AI-driven transaction-fraud use case as Dodgeball.
• Signifyd: Signifyd provides AI-driven fraud protection and chargeback guarantees for e-commerce merchants. It competes directly with Dodgeball in automating transaction approval decisions for online retailers.
• Riskified: Riskified is an e-commerce fraud prevention platform using ML to approve or decline transactions and provide chargeback guarantees. It is a direct peer to Dodgeball given the shared focus on AI fraud decisioning for online merchants.
• NoFraud: NoFraud provides AI and human-reviewed fraud screening for e-commerce merchants, integrating with major shopping carts and payment gateways. It is a direct competitor in the small-to-mid merchant fraud-prevention segment.
• Vesta: Vesta provides real-time payment fraud prevention and decisioning for e-commerce and digital goods merchants, combining ML models with guaranteed approvals. It competes directly with Dodgeball in the online payment fraud-prevention category.

Broad incumbents

• Stripe Radar: Stripe Radar is the native fraud prevention layer within Stripe's global payments platform. It serves e-commerce merchants with AI-driven transaction risk scoring, competing broadly against standalone fraud tools like Dodgeball, especially where merchants are already on Stripe.
• Kount (Equifax): Kount, owned by Equifax, is an established fraud prevention platform offering AI-driven transaction scoring and identity verification. It serves e-commerce and broader digital commerce customers and competes broadly with Dodgeball's fraud layer.
• Spreedly: Spreedly is the parent company of Dodgeball and a global open payments orchestration platform. It is comparable as the broader platform into which Dodgeball's fraud technology is now embedded, and where Dodgeball powers the 'Protect' pillar.

Emerging players

• Ravelin: Ravelin offers fraud, account takeover, and payment protection solutions using machine learning, focused primarily on online merchants and digital businesses. It overlaps with Dodgeball's e-commerce fraud-premission value proposition.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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