Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools.

MaxMind provides its geolocation technology through the GeoIP brand. By accurately pinpointing the location of Internet customers and visitors by country, geographic region, down to the granular detail of city in real-time, MaxMind enables online businesses to have a valuable marketing tool as well as the ability to customize their websites to better serve clients. There are currently more than 2,000 clients using GeoIP.

MaxMind's industry-leading minFraud service is aimed at helping merchants prevent fraud from online card not present transactions. Through its comprehensive fraud screening system, merchants can accurately detect and automatically flag attempted fraud from card not present transactions. Currently, more than 6,000 e-commerce businesses benefit from the minFraud service through our client and partner networks.

MaxMind's clients include About.com, AT&T, Dupont, Earthlink, eBay, IBM, Lexis Nexis, Lycos, Match.com, Morgan Stanley, Orbitz, Red Hat, Reed Elsevier, Sony, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Warner Brothers, WebEx and Yahoo!.

MaxMind is privately held and based in Boston, Massachusetts.