Id verification platform for companies, Bureau, has added $4.5 million in its Collection A, bringing its complete to $16.5 million. The funding was raised from GMO Enterprise Companions and GMO Cost Gateway. Different buyers within the spherical embrace Quona Capital and Commerce Ventures.
Bureau has now raised $20.5 million to this point. Along with its new funding, it additionally introduced the acquisition of inVOID, a Y Combinator-backed identification verification startup, and entered a strategic partnership with GMO Cost Gateway.
Based in 2020, Bureau is headquartered in California, with groups in Dubai and India. It claims that during the last 12 months, it elevated its buyer and income numbers 6x, with 300 million identities verified by means of its platform. Bureau helps firms forestall fraud and preserve in keeping with compliance laws. Sectors served by Bureau embrace banking, fintech, insurance coverage, the gig financial system and actual cash gaming.
Earlier than founding Bureau, co-founder and CEO Ranjan Reddy began cell billing aggregator Qubecell, which was bought to cell funds firm Boku in 2013. Reddy then served as chief enterprise officer at Boku Id, which was acquired by Twilio.

Bureau founder Ranjan Reddy
Reddy stated Bureau’s strategy is construct a single supply of fact, with its community of verified identities, all tokenized behind a cell quantity. Reddy defined that Bureau maps out a digital particular person, together with cell numbers, emails, units and IPs, and in addition a bodily identification based mostly on doc verification, OCR, Facematch, biometric, information from authorities databases or database/AML checks. This generates contextual, tokenized insights when somebody opens an account, performs compliance for verification, logs onto an app or make a transaction.
An identification community is constructed up over time by combining digital individuals, bodily identification and habits utilizing hyperlink evaluation. The danger issue of an identification is then assessed based mostly on what number of hyperlinks there are and what kind, together with indications of previous fraudulent actions.
Some examples of how Bureau has been used is by banks and neobanks to stop mule accounts and artificial ID detection at onboarding. A number of lending firms are utilizing Bureau’s insights to lend to a bigger base of new-to-credit prospects by evaluating their danger profile extra precisely. Some fintech organizations have use Bureau’s anti-fraud software program to detect account takeover.
Reddy stated a method Bureau differentiates from different identification administration platforms is that it isn’t an information dealer. It shares selections and never shopper information. He added that tokenized identities are a part of Bureau’s information privateness structure.
Bureau’s new funding will probably be utilized in extra investments in information and AI capabilities to automate its selections, bettering their effectivity and protection. It additionally desires to broaden its present protection in 20 markets to greater than 100 markets around the globe.