What Fraudmarc does

Fraudmarc, Inc. is an Atlanta, Georgia-based email authentication company founded in 2016 that builds proprietary infrastructure and tooling to help organizations manage SPF, DKIM, and DMARC policies at scale. Its product portfolio spans free diagnostic tools (SPF Record Check, DMARC Check), self-service subscriptions (Universal SPF at $21–$105/domain/month, SPF Compression℠ at $2–$4/mailbox/month, and DMARC analysis tiers up to $12/user/month), a managed-service offering (Outbox Protection) that secures customer domains to p=reject DMARC enforcement, an open-source DMARC analyzer (Fraudmarc CE on GitHub), and a newer Linux full-disk encryption control plane branded Panocrypt. Universal SPF is its most technically distinctive product: an inline DNS upgrade that resolves SPF's 10-lookup limit by routing queries through a globally distributed edge network of ~100 PoPs operating under the UniversalSPF.org include mechanism, with private backhaul to regional clusters in Asia, Europe, and the USA and sub-100ms global warm-query latency. SenderTrace™ Intelligence layers per-user, per-vendor sender visibility on top of standard DMARC aggregate reports, branded as High-Definition DMARC (DMARC-HD), and was developed over roughly four years against a corpus of more than 8.3 million analyzed DMARC reports.

Fraudmarc reaches customers through a hybrid go-to-market: a self-service product-led growth motion for SPF Record Check, DMARC Check, Universal SPF, SPF Compression, and the DMARC reporting tiers (purchased directly via the website with annual Stripe billing), paired with a full-service enterprise motion (Outbox Protection) in which Fraudmarc experts configure and maintain customer email authentication end-to-end. Customer evidence spans small and medium businesses with multiple email vendors (frequent SPF PermError victims), higher-education and government deployments, and large-volume Outbox Protection clients including large email service providers and household brands sending billions of monthly emails. The company also operates a developer-community channel via its GitHub-hosted open-source DMARC analyzer and a content-marketing engine (blog, free tools, remarketing display ads) that drives top-of-funnel organic traffic.

Fraudmarc was a TechStars Atlanta 2017 graduate but deliberately declined to pursue venture capital, financing operations instead with the standard ~$100–120K TechStars investment plus founder savings. The company states it reached profitability within its first few years and continues to operate as a bootstrapped, client-financed private company. As of the available data, no institutional investors, parent entities, subsidiaries, mergers, acquisitions, or restructuring events are disclosed.

Name

Fraudmarc

Legal name

Fraudmarc, Inc.

Website

https://fraudmarc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fraudmarc builds proprietary SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication tooling — including Universal SPF, SPF Compression℠, SenderTrace™ Intelligence, and a managed Outbox Protection service — for any organization sending email, with additional products in Linux disk encryption.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Email Authentication & Deliverability Software

akta.pro primary industry

Email Authentication & Domain Protection (DMARC/SPF/DKIM) (HDADAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Email Phishing & BEC Protection (HDADAKAB), Email Data Loss Prevention & Encryption (HDADAKAD)

Keywords

• Email authentication
• DMARC monitoring
• SPF management
• Phishing protection
• Email deliverability

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription - Per Domain: Recurring monthly/annual subscription plans for Universal SPF and DMARC analysis tools, priced per domain per month. Includes Basic, Pro (Universal SPF), and multiple tiers for DMARC analysis (Standard, Advanced, SenderTrace Intelligence). Billing is annual with monthly equivalent rates. Enterprise tiers (Team at $4/user/month, Enterprise at $2/user/month) for SPF Compression℠.
2. SaaS Subscription - Per User/Mailbox: SPF Compression℠ plans priced per mailbox per month for Team ($4/mailbox/month) and Enterprise ($2/mailbox/month) tiers, plus Solo at $150/month flat rate. Professional services component included in higher tiers.
3. Outbox Protection (Managed/F full-service): Full-service managed email authentication package where Fraudmarc experts fully configure and maintain a customer's email authentication policies. Customers share domain access with the Fraudmarc team; primary domain is secured to DMARC p=reject (100% Secured). Priced as a managed service with custom/contact-based pricing.
4. Free Tool Access / Freemium: SPF Record Check and DMARC Policy Check tools are available for free. Fraudmarc Community Edition (open source DMARC analyzer) is available on GitHub at no cost. This drives awareness and top-of-funnel conversion to paid tiers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fraudmarc sells email authentication products and services that help organizations deploy SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to prevent spoofing and improve deliverability. Offerings include a self-serve DMARC monitoring product, Universal SPF (which overcomes the ten-DNS-lookup limit), Outbox Protection for outbound email signing, and full-service managed authentication for organizations without in-house email expertise.

Product overview

Fraudmarc is an email authentication company offering a portfolio of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC management products. The core offering consists of free diagnostic tools (SPF Record Check, DMARC Check), SPF management solutions (Universal SPF, SPF Compression℠), DMARC analysis tiers (Standard, Advanced, SenderTrace™ Intelligence), managed Outbox Protection service, open-source Fraudmarc CE, and Panocrypt for Linux full-disk encryption. Products range from self-service tools to enterprise managed services, with pricing from free to $150+/month.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Panocrypt: An operational control plane for Linux full-disk encryption. It enrolls machines, binds LUKS key slots to policy-controlled remote unlock, and evaluates boot-time unlock requests without taking custody of disk keys.

Products and services

• Universal SPF Raises the SPF lookup ceiling above the RFC 7208 10-DNS-lookup limit so organizations sending email through many vendors can authenticate all their legitimate traffic without flattening records.
• SPF Compression Method to fit more sending sources into an SPF record using the 'ip4' mechanism and 'exists' macro so customers can authenticate more legitimate email services without breaking the SPF lookup limit.
• Outbox Protection Office 365 / Outlook add-in that signs outbound mail with DKIM to align outbound email authentication for users on Microsoft cloud mail platforms.
• Fraudmarc Self-Serve DMARC Self-serve subscription SaaS that aggregates DMARC reports, provides dashboards across mail-from domains, and enables policy enforcement for organizations running their own authentication.
• Full-Service Managed Authentication Managed-service offering in which Fraudmarc's team handles SPF, DKIM, and DMARC deployment, monitoring, and enforcement on behalf of customers that lack in-house email expertise.
• Fraudmarc CE Free open-source DMARC aggregator released on GitHub that lets users self-host a DMARC report processor and visualizer as an entry point to Fraudmarc's paid products.
• SPF Record Check Free online utility that lets users look up and validate an SPF record on any domain.
• DMARC Check Free online utility that lets users look up and validate a DMARC record on any domain.
• Panocrypt Linux-based full-disk encryption suite that supports LUKS, TPM, biometrics, and single-file encrypted containers to protect end-user devices and servers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Overcome the 10 DNS lookup limit in SPF records, reducing lookups to as few as 3/10 for complex policies
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Proofpoint: Proofpoint is a broad email security incumbent (formerly including Agari, which it acquired) offering phishing protection, DMARC enforcement, and email fraud defense as part of a large enterprise platform. It competes with Fraudmarc in enterprise RFPs, particularly for organizations consolidating email security spend with one vendor.
• Mimecast: Mimecast is a broad email security incumbent offering secure email gateways, archiving, and DMARC-related capabilities as part of a larger platform. While not specializing in DMARC enforcement, Mimecast competes for enterprise email security wallet share that Fraudmarc's Outbox Protection targets, especially with large ESP customers.
• Valimail Defend/Agari (now Proofpoint): Agari (acquired by Proofpoint) was a direct competitor in DMARC enforcement and BEC/phishing protection before the acquisition. Post-acquisition it operates as part of Proofpoint's Email Fraud Defense, continuing to compete for the same enterprise DMARC budgets as Fraudmarc's Outbox Protection.

Emerging players

• MXToolbox: MXToolbox provides free and paid DNS and email diagnostics, including SPF and DMARC record checks that directly compete with Fraudmarc's free SPF Record Check and DMARC Check tools at the top of funnel. While broader in scope (MX records, blacklist monitoring), it competes for organic search traffic on email authentication queries.

Direct peers

• Red Sift (OnDMARC): Red Sift's OnDMARC product competes directly with Fraudmarc's DMARC analysis tools. Both offer hosted DMARC monitoring with automated analysis and SPF/DKIM alignment guidance. Red Sift is a UK-headquartered competitor serving similar enterprise and managed service provider customers globally.
• Sendmarc: Sendmarc is a DMARC enforcement and email authentication provider with directly overlapping products (DMARC monitoring, SPF/DKIM management, managed implementation). Both companies target similar enterprise segments with comparable service tiers and serve MSPs as a channel.
• dmarcian: dmarcian is a direct DMARC-focused competitor offering DMARC monitoring, SPF flattening, and managed services. The two companies overlap directly in product (DMARC report analysis, SPF management) and target customers (mid-market to enterprise senders). dmarcian is widely cited as the original DMARC-as-a-service provider.
• Valimail: Valimail is a direct competitor in DMARC enforcement and email authentication. Both companies sell DMARC monitoring, SPF management, and managed services to enterprises seeking to enforce p=reject policies. Valimail has raised substantially more venture funding but competes in the same product category with overlapping customer segments (large email senders, government, financial services).
• PowerDMARC: PowerDMARC offers DMARC, SPF, DKIM, and BIMI monitoring tools plus managed services, directly overlapping with Fraudmarc's core offerings. Both serve MSPs, enterprises, and government entities with similar pricing tier structures.
• EasyDMARC: EasyDMARC is a direct competitor in the DMARC/SPF/DKIM tooling space, offering hosted monitoring and managed services. Both companies sell self-serve tiers plus enterprise packages, and share overlapping SMB-to-enterprise customer segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fraudmarc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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