Announcing our seed funding of $5M

From left to right: Ido Shilon, who previously led the Israeli R&D center for the Nielsen company, Itay Levy, who sold his previous startup Appoxee to Teradata back in 2015, and was a part of the founding team of Buzzmetrics which was acquired by Nielsen, and Uri Arad, who previously led the Israeli Analytics and Data Science group at PayPal ’s risk department.

Today is a big day for Identiq as we are announcing our raise of $5M in Seed funding from 4 leading VCs, Entrée Capital, Slow Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and Oryzn Capital.

Since we founded Identiq back in September 2018, we have been working closely with some of the largest companies in the world, and the feedback we’ve gotten has been incredible.

We are constantly hearing that our approach and technology is truly game-changing, and is something the fraud-prevention market has been craving for years.

This early stage-funding round has added validation (pun intended) to the market need for a solution that delivers both the highest quality identity validation and sets a new standard for end-user privacy.

In the Era of Cambridge Analytica, the Equifax breach and other such scandals, and while tech giants struggle with how to keep consumer data private, we’ve found a way to help companies meet their business goals without sharing or even exposing any private company or consumer data.

For the very first time, we’re allowing companies to work together to ensure all their users are real and trustworthy, without a middleman, centralized database, or blockchain ledger. We believe this new approach will allow our member companies to make more accurate decisions regarding fraud, deliver a better user experience, and truly protect the privacy of their consumers.

You can read the full press release about our funding round on PR Newswire.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our amazing investors, my wonderful co-founders, our world-class team here at Identiq HQ, and most importantly our industry partners for believing in our mission. Thank you all.

Itay Levy
Co-Founder & CEO
Identiq

I’ve put a small sample of some of the media pickups below if you’re interested:

• Fintech Futures: Identiq launches privacy-first identity validation network, raises $5m
• CTech: Identity Verification Startup Identiq Raises $5 Million
• FinTech Finance: Identiq Raises $5M Seed, Launches Privacy-First Identity Validation Network So Companies Can Fight Fraud Together
• Mobile Payments Today: Identiq raises $5M in funding for identify verification startup
• NoCamels: Anti-Fraud Identity Verification Startup Identiq Raises $5M Seed Round
• Globes: Israeli fraud prevention co Identiq raises $5m
• Tech.eu: Israeli identity verification startup Identiq secures $5 million
• Yahoo Finance: Identiq Raises $5M Seed, Launches Privacy-First Identity Validation Network so Companies Can Fight Fraud Together
• Geektime: Identiq is exposed: Raised $ 5 million so we will no longer have to struggle registering for websites
• Hon: Identiq completes $ 5 million seed round