Digital Identity Friday Five: December 20, 2024
Covering the most interesting news for the week of December 14 to December 20
Today is Friday, December 20. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
1/ Bureau raises $30M Series B
Bureau announced a $30 million Series B round
The round was led by Sorenson Capital with participation from PayPal Ventures
"As cyberfraud reaches unprecedented levels, Bureau stands at the forefront of the fight against digital fraud," explained Ranjan R Reddy, CEO and Founder
Congrats, Ranjan and team!
#identityverification #idv
2/ OneSpan Appoints Identity Expert Ashish Jain as CTO
OneSpan announced the appointment of Ashish Jain as their new Chief Technology Officer
Ashish was most recently CPO at Arkose Labs
Prior to joining Arkose Labs, Ashish was Head of Identity at eBay where his team was responsible for the identity, risk, and trust platform and manage onboarding, #authentication, account management, #KYC, #AML, #ATO, and consumer fraud
Congrats, Ashish!
3/ Variety: YouTube Teams With Creative Artists Agency to Let Talent Identify — and Pull Down — AI Deepfakes of Themselves
"YouTube’s tool will identify unauthorized AI replicas and let talent submit requests to remove them"
These tools are most definitely needed by the sheer number of times Joe Rogan or Elon Musk offer me free #crypto
#deepfakes
4/ Datasource Background Screening Partners with Cerebrum
Datasource announced a partnership with Cerebrum to offer their clients faster, more accurate screenings with integrated #biometric #idv
"We are excited to collaborate with Datasource to bring a simple, enjoyable screening process to their clients," said Sebastian Mellen, co-founder and CEO of Cerebrum
#workforce #idv #employeeonboarding
5/ Dock Labs Certs is now Truvera
The team at Dock announced a rebrand of their Certs platform, now called Truvera
"Derived from "trust" and "verification," Truvera is designed to support ID companies with digital verifiable credentials that solve complex data-matching issues and create frictionless, trusted interactions"
Congrats, Nick Lambert and team!
#verifiedcredentials #VC
Be sure to check out an early PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES VIDEO PODCAST interview with Nick
🔗: https://executiveseries.peakidv.com/p/prevent-fraud-and-verify-data-with
And those are this week’s #fridayfive
*** LINKS
BUREAU: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/12/18/2999165/0/en/Bureau-raises-30M-Series-B-as-global-fraud-losses-hit-486B.html
VARIETY: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/caa-youtube-talent-ai-deepfakes-remove-1236251470/