HNC

HNC Software Inc. was a San Diego-based predictive-software company founded in 1986 that built neural-network and decision-management systems for credit-card and workers-compensation fraud detection, customer analytics, and profitability management across financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and retail. Its flagship Falcon product screened a large share of the world's payment-card transactions for fraud. HNC was an early Battery Ventures investment, went public in 1995, and was acquired by Fair Isaac (FICO) in May 2002; it no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes no current developer or API surface.

HNC is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Fraud Prevention, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Decision Management.

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: hnc
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hnc.png
name: HNC
description: HNC Software Inc. was a San Diego-based predictive-software company founded in 1986 that built neural-network
  and decision-management systems for credit-card and workers-compensation fraud detection, customer analytics, and profitability
  management across financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and retail. Its flagship Falcon product screened a
  large share of the world's payment-card transactions for fraud. HNC was an early Battery Ventures investment, went public
  in 1995, and was acquired by Fair Isaac (FICO) in May 2002; it no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes
  no current developer or API surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hnc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: fico
x-acquired-date: 2002-05
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Fraud Prevention
- Predictive Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Decision Management
- Financial Services
- Insurance
tags_raw:
- Company
- Fraud Detection
- Predictive Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Decision Management
- Financial Services
- Insurance
- Machine-Learning
- Financial-Services
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1

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