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Overwatch vs Recorded Future

Overwatch sells a system that runs cyber, fraud, brand and merchant risk, with AI agents handling collection and the first pass of every investigation. Recorded Future is a threat intelligence company that sells real-time intelligence and autonomous defense. CISO Tribune files both under Threat intelligence and Digital risk protection. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Overwatch vs Recorded Future: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
OverwatchOverwatch sells a system that runs cyber, fraud, brand and merchant risk, with AI agents handling collection and the first pass of every investigation.overwatchdata.aiRecorded FutureRecorded Future is a threat intelligence company that sells real-time intelligence and autonomous defense.recordedfuture.com
What it sells
  • Investigations[6]AI agents take each signal to an evidence package, and analysts take the cases that need judgment.
  • Intelligence Graph[4][5]Indexes and analyzes threat data from over a million sources.
  • Collective Insights[11]Integrates data from security tools such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and email security.
  • Threat Intelligence[3][6][11][12]Provides profiles of threat actors and the techniques and tools they use.
  • Vulnerability Intelligence[7]Scores vulnerabilities based on their exploitability.
  • Geopolitical Intelligence[9]Indexes global data from social media, local news, and messaging platforms.
  • Managed Services[13]Recorded Future analysts provide validated incident escalations.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesBoston, United States[2]
Founded
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Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
  • October 19, 2026Overwatch Data announced a $15 million Series A led by Mouro Capital, with Visa Ventures and Capital One Ventures participating.[11]
  • June 2, 2026Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.[14]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Overwatch sells mainly to cyber, fraud and risk teams. Overwatch describes card networks and acquirers as vetting portfolios of merchant descriptors for transaction laundering, prohibited content and shell storefronts. Overwatch names customers in finance, fintech and media. For executive protection, Overwatch says alerts go to whoever the customer nominates, which in most deployments is corporate security. Overwatch says it turns its understanding of the criminal underground into investigations and risk decisions for fraud and security teams.Risk and compliance teams are named as users who monitor third-party exposure before it surfaces as an incident. Fraud prevention teams are named as users who detect compromised payment infrastructure and active fraud campaigns before they reach customers. Executive and finance teams are named as users who quantify risk exposure and make decisions about security investment. Recorded Future states that its services team works with customers across various industries, sizes, and maturity levels.
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October 26, 2026November 4, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Threat intelligence is the primary category of both Overwatch and Recorded Future; both are also filed under Digital risk protection.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Overwatch is also filed under Fraud prevention. Recorded Future is also filed under Third-party risk and security ratings and External attack surface management.
  • Overwatch lists Investigations. Recorded Future lists Intelligence Graph, Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and 1 more.
  • Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Overwatch and Recorded Future under Threat intelligence as the primary category, and both also appear under Digital risk protection. Overwatch sells AI-native threat intelligence and risk operations for cyber, fraud and risk teams, with AI agents taking each signal to an evidence package and analysts handling the cases that need judgment. Its offerings also include merchant review and KYB, brand protection, and monitoring for threats against executives. Recorded Future sells the Intelligence Graph, which indexes data from over a million sources, along with Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence, Collective Insights and Managed Services.

The two overlap on dark web collection, fraud-related detection and vendor monitoring. Overwatch routes findings into SIEM, SOAR and case management, and Recorded Future describes an API-first design with integrations across SIEM, SOAR, EDR and IAM. Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.

Overwatch has raised a $15 million Series A led by Mouro Capital, with Visa Ventures and Capital One Ventures participating. It names Visa among its customers, alongside 40+ others in finance, fintech and media. Overwatch announced that round on October 19, 2026. Recorded Future names INVESTBANK and NOV as customers. On June 2, 2026, Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.

What it sells: Overwatch

What Investigations does[6]
Overwatch agents follow the actor, resolve connected infrastructure, pair exposed data with breach records and check what has been seen before. Findings can be assigned to individuals, given a status and commented on from first signal to close. Sources consulted, evidence found, connected entities and a verdict are attached to every finding.

What it sells: Recorded Future

What Intelligence Graph does[4][5]
The Intelligence Graph indexes data from over a million sources, including the open web, dark web, technical feeds, and customer telemetry. It connects data points using an ontology graph for stable information and an event graph for rapidly changing threat data. Recorded Future states that the Intelligence Graph is accessible via API and powers nine specialized products.
What Collective Insights does[11]
Collective Insights integrates data from security tools like EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and email security. Collective Insights automatically tags security events and maps them to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The Collective Insights API is free to use with a current Recorded Future subscription. Collective Insights uses read-only API access and only touches detection metadata.
What Threat Intelligence does[3][6][11][12]
Recorded Future Threat Intelligence provides detailed profiles of the threat actors currently attacking similar organizations and the techniques and tools they use. Recorded Future provides pre-built hunting packages with YARA, Snort, and Sigma rules written and tested by its Insikt Group.
What Vulnerability Intelligence does[7]
Vulnerability Intelligence uses real-time data to score vulnerabilities based on their exploitability. Vulnerability Intelligence tracks vulnerabilities specific to an organization's tech stack without any agents or sensors required. Recorded Future lets users monitor vulnerabilities by lifecycle stage, from disclosure to exploitation.
What Geopolitical Intelligence does[9]
Geopolitical Intelligence indexes global data from across social media, local news, and messaging platforms in numerous languages. Recorded Future offers Country Risk Scoring to assess the risk of conducting or continuing business in a specific country. Recorded Future assesses country risk across five functional categories.
What Managed Services does[13]
Recorded Future analysts provide validated incident escalations. Recorded Future services staff continuously monitor vulnerabilities across the weaponization lifecycle and alert on what needs to be prioritized.

Questions about Overwatch and Recorded Future

What do Overwatch and Recorded Future sell?
Overwatch sells Investigations. Recorded Future sells Intelligence Graph, Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and 1 more.
Are Overwatch and Recorded Future in the same category?
Yes. Threat intelligence is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Overwatch and Recorded Future headquartered?
Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.
Who are Overwatch and Recorded Future sold to?
From its own pages, Overwatch sells mainly to cyber, fraud and risk teams. Risk and compliance teams are named as users who monitor third-party exposure before it surfaces as an incident.
What have Overwatch and Recorded Future announced recently?
October 19, 2026: Overwatch Data announced a $15 million Series A led by Mouro Capital, with Visa Ventures and Capital One Ventures participating. June 2, 2026: Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.

About Overwatch

Overwatch sells a system that runs cyber, fraud, brand and merchant risk, with AI agents handling collection and the first pass of every investigation. Overwatch sells AI-native threat intelligence and risk operations for cyber, fraud and risk teams. Overwatch says threats arrive from every direction, including compromised accounts, fraud patterns and fake merchant applications.[1][2][3]

Overwatch collects continuously across the criminal underground, markets, leak sites, forums and channels where fraudsters and threat actors stage. Overwatch uses classifiers and anomaly detection to turn a constant stream of raw activity into candidate signal. Overwatch collection runs continuously across underground forums, marketplaces, leak sites and messaging channels, including non-English communities. Overwatch agents follow the actor, resolve connected infrastructure, pair exposed data with breach records and check what has been seen before. Overwatch attaches sources consulted, evidence found, connected entities and a verdict to every finding.[1][3][5][6]

Overwatch analysts work the hard cases by hand, including leads found through human collection where stolen data and access are sold. Overwatch analysts take the hard cases and teach the agents what to look for next. Overwatch delivers validated findings into SIEM, SOAR, case management and executive briefings. Overwatch findings can be assigned to individuals, given a status and commented on for each case from first signal to close. Overwatch delivers email and SMS alerts, Slack, API, and SIEM and case management integrations. Overwatch offers monitoring mapped to a customer's assets, vendors and business units, with automated alerts tuned to priorities.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Overwatch cyber threat intelligence covers dark web markets, ransomware leak sites and vulnerability chatter. Overwatch offers automated merchant review and KYB, including fraud review and card network compliance checks. Overwatch brand protection addresses impersonation, lookalike domains and spoofed storefronts aimed at a brand, with takedown signals routed to the right team. Overwatch addresses threats against executives and VIPs that cross into the physical world, including risks tied to events and facilities. Overwatch offers continuous monitoring for vendor and supply chain compromise.[4]

Overwatch collects the tools, methods and stolen data circulating in fraud channels and works out which of it points at the customer. Overwatch fraud collection includes image-based material such as receipts, balance screenshots and phishing kits. Overwatch agents verify listings against issuer records, map seller aliases across channels and pair compromised data with the customer base. Overwatch routes fraud findings to fraud operations with the evidence attached, including card reissue lists and prioritized actions. Overwatch brand protection watches newly registered domains, app stores, social platforms and the channels where scam kits are traded. Overwatch agents confirm the impersonation, trace hosting and registration, capture evidence and assess reach. Overwatch assembles the evidence package and routes it to a takedown provider where a customer uses one. Overwatch monitors for threats against executives, board members and public figures, including exposed personal data, coordinated harassment and threats tied to an event, a facility or a trip. Overwatch routes executive escalations with evidence attached to corporate security, the protective detail or law enforcement. Overwatch collection covers channels it has legitimate access to, including invite-based fraud and harassment channels.[4][7][8]

Overwatch describes card networks and acquirers as facing portfolios of merchant descriptors to vet for transaction laundering, prohibited content and shell storefronts. Overwatch merchant agents inspect the merchant and its policy pages, examine hosting and registration signals, trace the checkout and payment flow, pull external reputation, and output a risk verdict. Overwatch merchant risk returns a written verdict with risk indicators and confidence into the review queue or via API. Overwatch merchant reviews map to a customer's categories and MCC structure.[10]

Overwatch is the system Arjun Bisen and Zara Perumal wanted after careers at Stripe, Google and Twitter. Overwatch has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Mouro Capital with Visa Ventures and Capital One Ventures. Overwatch says the funding lets it extend its agents across more of the risk lifecycle, from monitoring and investigations in the criminal underground to merchant onboarding and due diligence. Overwatch names Visa among its customers, alongside 40+ others in finance, fintech and media.[2][3][4][5][6]

Overwatch on the record

Sources

Overwatch full record

  1. [1]overwatchdata.aiOverwatch · overwatchdata.ai · undated page, accessed October 26, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]About Overwatch Data: founders, team & missionOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]AI-native threat intelligence & risk operations | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]AI threat intelligence platform | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Cyber threat intelligence | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI agents for investigations | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Fraud intelligence | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Brand protection | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]VIP & executive protection | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Merchant risk & KYB automation | Overwatch DataOverwatch · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]We raised $15 million to help risk teams keep pace with AI-scale attacks | Overwatch DataOverwatch Data · published October 19, 2026 · Tier A

Recorded Future full record

  1. [1]Mastercard to acquire recorded futureRecorded Future · recordedfuture.com · published September 12, 2024 · Tier A
  2. [2]Working in bostonRecorded Future · recordedfuture.com · published October 15, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Intelligence Platform | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Intelligence Graph | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Threat Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Vulnerability Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]SecOps Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Protect Assets with Geopolitical Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Demo Center | Explore Powerful Tools | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Collective Insights® API | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Integrations for Your Cybersecurity Stack | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Managed Monitoring Service | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Recorded Future Announces Strategic Partnership with Wipro to Deliver AI-Powered Threat Intelligence at Global Enterprise ScalePRNewswire · published June 2, 2026 · Tier A

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