Digital Identity Friday Five: February 16, 2024

Covering the most interesting news for the week of February 10 to February 16

​​Today is Friday, February 16. Here are five things in #digitalidentity that I found interesting this week

1/ Clarity Raises $16M in Seed Funding led by Walden Catalyst Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners

Per the company’s press release, "Clarity enables organizations to rapidly identify and immunize from deepfakes and synthetic media created by generative AI."

Bessemer Venture Partners is on a roll! They also led the $31M Series B investment in Incognia last month

2/ Sumsub Unveils Deepfake Detection in Video Identification

Sumsub announced it has integrated hashtag#deepfake detection into its real-time hashtag#videoidentification solution

More info about their new feature in the press release link below

3/ EQ Bank | Equitable Bank Partners With Trulioo for Identity Document and Biometric Verification

Trulioo announced its partnership with EQ Bank to provide hashtag#identitydocument and #biometric verification

Per the press, Canada-based EQ Bank leveraged Trulioo Workflow Studio – their no-code, drag-and-drop workflow builder for #IDV

4/ Dark Reading: Bank of America Warns Customers of Data Leak in Third-Party Breach

Over 57,000 customers were affected in the breach, the attack also exposed sensitive data — including the combination of names or other personal identifiers along with #ssns

5/ Data Zoo appoints new CEO

Data Zoo, an Australian provider of hashtag#idv solutions announced it appointed Charlie Minutella as its new Chief Executive, effective this month

Minutella will be based in their hashtag#NewYork office, most recently he was with LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) where he held several roles, including leading the hashtag#Refinitiv division

*** LINKS

CLARITY: https://www.getclarity.ai/company-news/clarity-raises-16m-in-seed-funding-led-by-walden-catalyst-and-bessemer-venture-partners

INCOGNIA: https://www.incognia.com/newsroom/incognia-secures-31mm-series-b-funding-for-proactive-approach-to-fraud-prevention  

SUMSUB: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sumsub-unveils-industry-first-deepfake-detection-in-video-identification-302060411.html

TRULIOO: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-eq-bank-partners-trulioo-140000165.html 

BOA: https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/bofa-warns-customers-of-data-leak-in-third-party-breach

DATA ZOO: https://www.fintechfutures.com/2024/02/id-verification-fintech-data-zoo-appoints-new-ceo/