Digital Identity Friday Five: February 14, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of February 8 to February 14
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Today is Friday, February 14. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
But first, I’m thrilled to announce I’m attending my first MRC | Merchant Risk Council conference next month!
March 10-13 in #LasVegas
See you there? I can’t "heartly" wait!
🔗 peakidv.link/MRClasvegas
Now, let’s get to the updates
1/ Sardine Raises $70M
This week, Sardine announced a $70 million Series C funding round, bringing their total capital raised to $145 million
I’ve been following this company since early 2021 and I'm super impressed with their evolution and growth
Check out their blog post for more details: peakidv.link/SardineBlog
Congrats, Soups Ranjan & team
#fishpowered #fraudfighers
2/ Socure Launches RiskOS™
Socure announced their latest offering accelerated by their Effectiv (now part of Socure) Acquisition
"RiskOS transforms identity verification, fraud prevention, and compliance with real-time decisioning, proactive risk alerts, and seamless orchestration—integrating 50+ third-party data solutions and Socure’s unmatched consortium intelligence"
The full post detailing RiskOS is interesting
I’m particularly curious about:
A/B Champion-Challenger Backtesting and Shadow Mode
Check it out in the links below 👇
3/ TrueBiz Appoints Will S. as Biz Dev Lead
Danny Hakimian is accelerating TrueBiz GTM with a new BD hire
"Will will be working closely with new and existing TrueBiz customers to help them navigate merchant risk, enhance procedures with additional insights, and drive additional revenue from their customer base."
TrueBiz enables payments providers to automate more of their underwriting processes
Congrats, Danny!
ICYMI, check out Danny’s PEAK IDV EXECUTIVE SERIES VIDEO PODCAST interview which recently became the most watched: peakidv.link/TrueBizPod
4/ Data Zoo and Alloy Partner on Onboarding
Data Zoo is now available on Alloy according to joint press
Industry veterans Charlie Minutella, Jon Jones, & Michael Ramsbacker are rollin’ in ‘25...
"Data Zoo’s mission is to empower businesses with critical access to identity data globally to boost financial inclusion and block out bad actors," said Charlie
#datacentric #data #KYC #KYB
5/ OneID® Secures New Funding to Transform Digital Identity Verification
OneID announced it has raised over £16m from 200+ UK, Swedish and US Angel Investors (approx. $20 million USD)
"At OneID, our goal is to make the world safer by making digital identity verification more efficient and accessible for businesses and users." said Paula Sussex, CEO, OneID
#digitalidentity #identityverification #bankdata
*** LINKS
SARDINE: https://peakidv.link/1-ff02-14
SOCURE: https://peakidv.link/2-ff02-14
TRUEBIZ: https://peakidv.link/3-ff02-14
DATAZOO: https://peakidv.link/4-ff02-14