Smile Identity

Nigeria - Victoria Island, Lagos

• 21/02/2023
• Series B
• $20,000,000

Smile Identity provides the best Africa-focused solutions for real time Digital KYC, Identity Verification, User Onboarding, Document Verification, Liveness Checks, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, Know your Business (KYB), and Identity Data Deduplication across Africa. We are building the tools and software that make it easier for millions of Africans to prove and verify their identity online.

Our platform includes SDKs and APIs for User Onboarding, Digital KYC, Identity Verification, Document Verification, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, and ID validation in mobile applications and on the web. Our identity verification and artificial intelligence tools have been specially designed for African faces and identities.

Our mission is to make the benefits of a modern digital lifestyle universally accessible by expanding trust in underserved markets. We are backed by Costanoa Ventures, Future Africa, PTB Ventures, Khosla Impact, 500 Startups, CRE Venture Capital, and more.

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Mark StraubFounder

United Kingdom - ND

I'm the CEO of Smile Identity.
I've spent much of my career trying to help people in underserved markets get access to better opportunities through technology and investment. I've been a venture capital investor for a decade and have worked with over 20 companies doing business in adtech, fintech, healthcare, and energy in markets ranging from the US to India and Sub-Saharan Africa. During my time at DFJ I was fortunate enough to be an investor in all three of Elon Musk's companies. Working with Vinod Khosla at Khosla Impact I was proud to lead investments in Kopo Kopo, NeoGrowth, Milaap, Branch and Flutterwave as well as incubate Smile Identity.

At Smile ID, our mission is to make the benefits of a modern digital lifestyle universally accessible by expanding trust in underserved markets between institutions and mobile users. We do this through image recognition and machine learning. We believe being able to easily prove your identity is fundamental to accessing a range of services and opportunities from transportation to jobs to healthcare and banking.

We are hiring.
https://smileidentity.com/hiring.html

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/markstraub/