Renowned technologists and entrepreneurs Neha Narkhede and Sachin Kulkarni announce launch of Oscilar - the first company that uses real-time data and AI to protect every online transaction
On March 30, 2023, Neha Narkhede and Sachin Kulkarni announced the launch of Oscilar, a company focused on enhancing online transaction security using real-time AI technology. Self-funded with a $20 million investment, Oscilar aims to address significant fraud and theft challenges in the growing $200 billion risk protection market. Their AI Risk Decisioning platform promises to automate risk assessment in milliseconds, reducing the $48 billion annual fraud costs to companies and $8 billion to consumers. Oscilar's founding team includes industry veterans from Apple, Uber, and LinkedIn, emphasizing their capability to build a comprehensive fraud detection solution.
- Self-funded with $20 million to rapidly scale operations.
- Innovative AI Risk Decisioning platform enhances online transaction security.
- The market for risk protection is valued at $200 billion, providing substantial growth potential.
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Kulkarni and Narkhede have self-funded Oscilar with a
Oscilar is a first-of-its kind real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered platform that, within milliseconds, makes online transactions significantly safer for companies and consumers. Oscilar's all-new approach to fraud and risk management, called AI Risk Decisioning, is the most advanced solution ever created to protect online transactions.
After working in stealth for the past two years, Narkhede and Kulkarni announced that they are self-funding Oscilar with
"We see a huge opportunity to use AI to keep both consumers safe and ensure companies are able to smartly and accurately assess their risk in real time. Customers expect every online transaction to be instantaneous and safe, but existing technology puts businesses and customers at significant risk – and requires intense engineering support and overhead," Oscilar Co-Founder and CEO
The market for risk protection is valued at over
"During my time leading engineering teams at Meta, I found that data and AI played a huge role for making risk decisions – but this technology was hard to build and not easily accessible to our business teams. We built Oscilar so that companies could have a thorough risk decisioning solution but wouldn't have to use their engineering teams' valuable time to achieve that," Oscilar Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Oscilar is built by the same team that created advanced risk management platforms at Apple, Uber, and LinkedIn. Oscilar's founding leadership team includes:
Neha Narkhede is Co-Founder and CEO of Oscilar, and one of America's wealthiest self-made women, according to Forbes. Narkhede is co-creator of Apache Kafka – an open-source distributed streaming system used for stream processing, real-time data pipelines, and data integration at scale – and the co-founder of Confluent. Previously Neha led product and technology at Confluent, and before that, led the data streams charter at LinkedIn where she and her co-founders created Apache Kafka. Born and raised inPune, India , Narkhede moved tothe United States in 2006, where she earned a master's in computer science fromGeorgia Institute of Technology .Sachin Kulkarni is Co-Founder and CTO of Oscilar. Prior to Oscilar, Kulkarni worked as an executive at Facebook, where he most recently served as senior director of Engineering and led the team that built Facebook's private cloud, Facebook Live and the backend of Facebook Messenger. He improved trust and safety of the Facebook platform by building hyper-scale real time data processing systems to detect and mitigate fraud and spam. Kulkarni is originally fromPune, India . Kulkarni moved tothe United States in 2005, where he earned a master's in computer science fromCarnegie Mellon University .Karthik Ramasamy is the fraud and machine learning (ML) lead at Oscilar where he works on creating ML infrastructure and models to tackle various fraud problems. One of Oscilar's first hires, Karthik led ML and Fraud teams at Google, Uber, and LinkedIn. At Google, he was a Tech Lead in the TensorFlow for Enterprise team and helped launch several enterprise ML products. He was the first Fraud and Risk Data Scientist at LinkedIn, and led Account Security Data Science teams at Uber and LinkedIn. Originally fromTamil Nadu, India , Karthik holds a Master's in Computer Science fromColumbia University , specializing in Machine Learning.
To learn more about Oscilar visit: https://oscilar.com/.
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