Identity Startups

SpruceID provides digital identity systems for governments and regulated industries, enabling secure verification and authentication across legacy and modern infrastructure. The company specializes in integrating identity solutions with existing workflows, using open standards to ensure interoperability and long-term flexibility.

15 investors

AiPrise provides AI-powered compliance and risk management software for KYB/KYC processes, covering fraud prevention and regulatory compliance. The platform serves compliance teams across regulated industries and consolidates data from 100+ global sources covering 200+ countries.

6 investors

Plutto is a risk assessment platform that verifies financial, legal, labor, and regulatory risks of counterparties using official sources in real-time. The platform consolidates the entire evaluation process from hiring request through monitoring, with AI-powered pattern detection and automated reporting.

5 investors

Prembly provides an API that enables digital businesses to verify the identities of individuals and companies across emerging market regions.

5 investors

Cloudanix provides cloud security solutions that help engineering teams identify and remediate security findings across their cloud infrastructure. The platform maps findings to identity, assets, and blast radius with associated remediation guidance.

4 investors

Dojah provides end-to-end customer onboarding and identity verification services for businesses operating in Africa. The platform enables companies to verify and securely onboard customers across borders while maintaining compliance with regulations.

4 investors

Proxy built a mobile and wearable digital wallet for payments, identity, and authentication, centered on a smart ring. The company, based in San Francisco, was acquired by Oura in 2023.

4 investors

Berbix provides ID verification and fraud detection technology that companies access through developer SDKs to confirm their users' identities. It serves online platforms across a range of industries needing to validate user IDs.

3 investors

Indemni provides compliance and risk management software for freight brokers and shippers, enabling verification of drivers, carriers, and shipment documentation to prevent non-compliant assignments and costly claims. The platform integrates with transportation management systems and offers real-time visibility, driver verification, and automated workflow tools for the logistics industry.

3 investors

PropelAuth provides authentication and user management infrastructure for developers building B2B and B2C applications. The platform offers integrated tools for user identity, security, and relationship management to streamline the developer experience.

3 investors

TrueBiz provides AI-powered automated analysis of business legitimacy and risk profiles by synthesizing data from the merchant's internet footprint, designed for payments providers and financial services organizations during customer onboarding.

3 investors

Agentic Fabriq provides an identity and access governance platform for AI agents, enabling secure authentication, permissions management, and audit logging across agent deployments. The platform allows agents to act on behalf of users while maintaining security and compliance across enterprise tools and data.

2 investors

Cognito provides an identity verification system that confirms a user's name, date of birth, address, phone, and Social Security Number starting from just a phone number. It aims to reduce friction in the verification process while building trust.

2 investors

Reclaim Protocol provides automated credential verification across employment, education, loyalty, and other categories using AI-assisted connectors and cryptographic verification. The platform serves enterprises and platforms that need to verify credentials across 90+ countries at significantly lower cost than legacy verification providers.

2 investors

Bouncer provides a mobile SDK for scanning and verifying credit cards and photo IDs within apps, serving developers building payments and identity verification features. It operates in the payments and identity verification space.

1 investor

GrayPass provides continuous identity assurance that verifies the expected person remains in control before high-stakes actions such as approving payments, changing admin permissions, exporting sensitive data, or authorizing AI agents. It analyzes behavioral signals like typing rhythm, cursor movement, scrolling, and response timing along with session and device context, returning allow, challenge, hold, or deny decisions with signed proof for each action.

1 investor

Notebook Labs provides zero-knowledge identity verification for Web3, allowing users to prove personhood and aggregate credentials across wallets while maintaining anonymity. The service helps DeFi protocols, DAOs, and communities prevent fraud through Sybil resistance and enable lending protocols to assess creditworthiness.

1 investor