Founded in 2002, MaxMind is a provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools.
MaxMind provides its geolocation technology through the GeoIP brand. Maxmind pinpoints in real-time the location of Internet customers and visitors by country, geographic region, and the granular detail of city.
MaxMind's minFraud service is aimed at helping merchants prevent fraud from online card not present transactions. Through its fraud screening system, merchants can detect and automatically flag attempted fraud from card not present transactions. Maxmind screens over 200 million e-commerce transactions a year. Currently, more than 6,000 e-commerce businesses benefit from the minFraud service through Maxmind's client and partner networks.
MaxMind is privately held and based in Boston, Massachusetts.