Trustfull, a real-time digital risk intelligence platform, has raised €6 million in a seed round led by Seaya Ventures and Elevator Ventures, with continued participation from United Ventures. This funding will power the Milan-based startup’s expansion across European markets, specifically Italy, Spain, and France, and deepen its product suite aimed at transforming fraud detection through silent, smart trust scoring.

In a world where traditional fraud prevention often slows down user onboarding or requires heavy manual verification, Trustfull built a system that works invisibly. The platform analyzes digital signals like email addresses, phone numbers, IPs, and device metadata in milliseconds, returning highly accurate risk scores that help businesses detect fraud before it happens - without adding friction.

Its growing customer base includes ING Bank, Nexi, Cofidis, Scalapay, and AirHelp - clear proof that the platform’s predictive accuracy and seamless integration into existing onboarding flows are hitting the right note across high-stakes sectors.

Smart Risk Detection That Doesn’t Get in the Way

Most compliance tools operate after the fact - Trustfull is built to prevent. Its core innovation is the ability to determine trustworthiness based on OSINT signals alone, in real time. Instead of relying on post-fraud analysis or behavior models that take weeks to tune, Trustfull reads signal patterns the moment a user logs in, signs up, or triggers a transaction.

This approach means less friction for legitimate users and faster detection of suspicious behavior - making it possible for businesses to increase approval rates while decreasing fraud risk. That delicate balance of speed and scrutiny is where Trustfull has carved out its niche.

As Trustfull scales, one crucial insight emerges that every founder should consider: true product-market fit in compliance tech isn’t found in adding features - it’s in disappearing into the workflow. Trustfull doesn’t aim to be the loudest tool in a risk stack. It aims to be the one that’s never noticed - because it just works. Its value lies not in dashboards or flags, but in the absence of breach, error, or disruption. That’s where its loyalty comes from. By embedding directly into onboarding and payment flows, the platform becomes invisible infrastructure. And when a product is invisible and indispensable, retention becomes a function of trust, not churn defense.

This principle - building something so operationally essential that customers stop thinking about it - is the foundation of deep enterprise loyalty. Founders building in sensitive, regulated, or trust-sensitive categories would do well to architect their product not around visibility, but around absence: absence of friction, absence of risk, and absence of downstream repair work.

European Growth, Real-Time Ambition

With this new round of capital, Trustfull will accelerate go-to-market strategies across Western and Southern Europe, expanding both its customer-facing teams and technical capabilities. The startup plans to broaden integrations for high-fraud industries like fintech, travel, and iGaming - where the costs of false positives and account takeovers are steep.

Trustfull is already processing millions of digital risk assessments and aims to increase that volume dramatically over the next 12 months. According to CEO Marko Maras, their growth isn’t about chasing logos - it’s about making fraud detection an embedded standard across platforms.

Their roadmap includes deeper coverage of account takeover prevention, synthetic identity detection, and adaptive KYC scoring models. The company is also exploring predictive modules for user journeys that correlate signal risk with historical abuse trends - giving fraud teams not just red flags, but early indicators.

From Risk Engine to Trust Infrastructure

Trustfull’s product is composed of multiple APIs and SDKs that can be deployed into mobile, web, or CRM environments. Its scoring system leverages metadata correlations across communication channels, device types, behavioral patterns, and public digital histories. The result is a confidence score that is both real-time and deeply contextual - allowing platforms to segment users by risk before they complete high-stakes actions.

And unlike many fraud detection platforms that focus on financial flows alone, Trustfull’s technology also maps infrastructure-level trust signals: domain age, IP mobility, phone-number reputation, and cross-channel fingerprinting.

The platform is built for high-volume, low-latency environments - something essential for neobanks, payment gateways, or marketplaces where trust must be established in milliseconds.

Investor Perspective and Next Steps

Seaya Ventures, one of Southern Europe’s most active VC firms, led the round due to Trustfull’s domain precision and early traction with tier-one banks and fintechs. Elevator Ventures, the VC arm of Raiffeisen Bank International, brings regional banking insight and will help the startup gain regulatory exposure in DACH and Central Europe. United Ventures, who backed the company early, doubled down in this round - affirming their long-term belief in Trustfull’s operational model and leadership.

The company plans to double its team over the next year, hiring engineers, fraud analysts, and business development professionals to handle the wave of interest from both enterprise and mid-market players.

Trustfull’s story is less about being flashy and more about being foundational. In a world of increasing digital complexity and regulatory scrutiny, the platforms that quietly resolve risk without disrupting user flow are the ones that will scale. And in that silent space between speed and certainty, Trustfull is building its moat.