Digital Identity Friday Five: January 3, 2025
Covering the most interesting news for the week of December 28 to January 3
Today is Friday, January 3, 2025! Here are five things in hashtag#digitalidentity that I found interesting this week
A new year, same format - let’s goooooo!
1/ Ver.iD raises €2M angel funding
Amsterdam-based Ver.iD, a platform specializing in digital identity login + verification, has secured €2M in an angel round of funding
Congrats to Sten Reijers, Roger Olivieira (currently fundraising) & Robert Van Altena on the great start to 2025
#funding #angelround #idv
2/ The Prism Project Highlights $72B Revenue for Travel & Hospitality
Acuity Market Intelligence & The Prism Project forecasts $72 billion in global revenue from 2024 through 2028 for the travel & hospitality industry
Be sure to check out the 2024 Flagship report as well
🔗 to download reports: https://www.the-prism-project.com/reports
#biometrics #travel #marketsizing
3/ Marketplace Risk Adding Austin, TX Conference in 2025
Jeremy H. Gottschalk and team announced their organization is expanding to Austin!
This new show is in addition to events in #SanFrancisco, #London, & #NYC
#MRATX25 is happening Thursday, February 27, 2025
Interested in the #marketplace or #digitalplatform community?
#MRATX25 is your opportunity to learn, connect, and grow your network
Austin call for speakers & sponsors is OPEN!
4/ authID Joins the Accountable Digital Identity Association (ADI Association)
This technically happened last week but interesting nonetheless
authID announced it has joined the ADI Association as a member
ADIA is an open industry association created to drive the development of a standardized, interoperable framework for decentralized identity services
Learn more about ADIA here: https://adiassociation.org/
5/ Forbes Technology Council: AI: Artificial Intelligence Or Artificial Identity?
Interesting article by Morey Haber, Chief Security Advisor at BeyondTrust
"We'll have to adapt the tools we use to manage identities in order to manage humans and machines through future aspects of electronic communications."
#AI #artificialintelligence #artificialidentity #AIID
*** LINKS
VER.ID: https://tech.eu/2025/01/02/ver-id-raises-2m-angel-funding-for-identity-verification-saas/
MARKETPLACE RISK: https://mailchi.mp/marketplacerisk/solutionproviderexcellenceprogramhonorees-1125