These Are The Top 52 Identity Management Startups to Follow in 2021

January 24, 2021

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Identity Management startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Identity Management industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Identity Management Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

SAWO

SAWO

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SAWO provides a customer-centric, standardized, and device-based secure authentication solution for apps and websites to deliver a seamless user experience, by removing the need for login passwords and OTPs. SAWO provides Authentication as a Service (PaaS) for Indian app publishers and IT/software enterprises deploying authentication for their products.

It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.. .

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Beyond Identity

Beyond Identity

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Beyond Identity’s mission is to empower the next generation of secure digital business by replacing passwords with fundamentally secure X.509-based certificates. This patent-pending approach creates an extended Chain of Trust that includes user and device identity and a real-time snapshot of the device’s security posture for adaptive risk-based authentication and authorization.

Beyond Identity’s cloud-native solution enables customers to increase business velocity, implement new business models, reduce operating costs, and achieve complete passwordless identity management.. .

Keyless

Keyless

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Keyless is a deeptech, cybersecurity company building the world’s first privacy-preserving biometric authentication and personal identity management platform. The Keyless Platform empowers businesses to embrace passwordless, protect their remote workforce and enable strong customer authentication with just a look.

Keyless Zero-Knowledge Biometric (ZKB™) solutions provide passwordless multi-factor authentication that eliminates fraud, phishing and credential reuse – all while enhancing customer and employee experiences and protecting their privacy. With Keyless, businesses are finally able to adopt zero-trust security, eliminate passwords, ensure privacy compliance and deliver unified authentication experiences across every touchpoint with just a look.

#gokeyless at www.keyless.io. .

Strata Identity

Strata Identity

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Strata Identity provides distributed multi-cloud identity solutions to enterprises. Its identity orchestration platform is designed specifically for hybrid and multi-cloud environments that enable users to easily manage distributed identity systems.

The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boulder, with offices in Vancouver, San Francisco, Austin, and Atlanta.. .

Confection.io

Confection.io

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The end of third-party cookies in Chrome. iOS’ new IDFA consent feature.

Privacy laws like CCPA, GDPR, and LGPD. These send a strong, clear signal: Privacy-first web browsing is coming.

Confection helps businesses thrive in privacy-first browsing environments. Lightweight, flexible, frictionless, and compliant with international data privacy laws, it’s a data management solution for the new reality..

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Animal ID

Animal ID

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Animal ID is an international online platform for responsible animal owners. We have united more than hundreds of thousands of owners of identified animals worldwide.

The company wants to become the voice of animal rights and freedoms and to raise the culture of treating our four-legged friends to a higher level by providing high-quality IT products and services. Nowadays Animal ID operates in the US and East Europe markets and provides to its customers: – digital pet profiles with many useful services (in the web and in APPs) – unique pet ID tags that connected with their profiles through QR codes Animal ID has its own non-profits and runs many social projects which aim is to solve the issue of stray animals.

Its nonprofit solutions are successfully used in more than 10 countries already. The organization cooperates with the biggest international animal welfare foundations and is a member of the European association of animal databases.

Everything we do, we do with love and care for our own four-legged friends.. .

Hive.id

Hive.id

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Hive Identity, backed by Startup Wise Guys, was founded with a simple guiding mission: to make identity easy and secure. Since 2019, the company has been delivering against that goal, connecting a person’s online and real-world identities and letting them authenticate to services effortlessly and without passwords.

The company’s Modern Identity Platform helps organizations of all sizes to drive down fraud risk at onboarding and beyond.. .

Impresso Labs

Impresso Labs

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A Digital Identity on the cloud where you truly own the control rights of your privacy and confidentiality of your personal and professional data for sharing, un-sharing and deletion. Serving over 120 countries today from personal identity verification to professional data authentication.

The IMPRESSO team is building one of the most sophisticated online data authentication platform to serve users and businesses all over the world. Our target markets today is in the recruitment and careers industry.

Our users also benefit from having a digital identity they can utilize to prove who they are without having to give away their personal documents or data. IMPRESSO Labs is headquartered in Switzerland..

Keybe

Keybe

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We are helping to build the new normal and our purpose is to take your business further, faster, and more successfully. Keybe is an Internet of Actions (IoA) service.

We offer a suite of cloud services based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that you can start using today without the need to know programming.. .

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qbound

qbound

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We enable organizations to securely access cloud solutions, servers, and IoT devices via our blockchain-backed Zero Trust access solution.

CyberSec Consulting

CyberSec Consulting

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CYBERSEC CONSULTING is a professional Cyber Security and Consulting services company headquartered in UAE to cover the India and META market, is a global provider of the Cyber Security Professional Services, Remote Support, Certified Trainings, Outsourcing, Assessment and Consulting Services, as well as solution to offer the Security Operations Center (SOC) and Managed Security Services (MSS). CYBERSEC CONSULTING is established by Industry Security experts who have extensive experience working with End-User, System Integrators, Distributors and Vendors, and understand the regional gap and challenges in the Cyber Security Industry.

We are going beyond to build the trust and strategic relationship to deliver the standard and customized services packages that can meet the business expectations. Our business model helps in boosting the profitability by minimizing risk from changing Cyber Security landscape.

Besides, we have a best in class professional consultants with comprehensive background in Project Management and Cyber Security to provide a tailored Solutions and Consulting Services on market-leading Security technologies to empower Customers, System Integrators, Distributors and Vendors. .

Incognia

Incognia

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Incognia is a privacy-first digital identity company that uses location behavioral biometrics for frictionless mobile fraud prevention.

GetID

GetID

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GetID offers a reliable and secure personal identity and ID document verification service, commonly referred to as KYC or Know Your Customer. Additional personal background checks for international sanctions, political exposure, special interest, and adverse media, in compliance with International Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing regulations, can be conducted.

– Document Verification – Face Matching – Liveness Detection – AML Screening (PEPs and Sanctions Lists) – Age Verification Service enables remote customer onboarding in various industries: cryptocurrency, banking, crowdfunding, legal services, telecom, and many other industries, where customer onboarding can or should be done remotely without compromising process security. GetID provides multiple seamless ways of integration that allow quick and low-cost setup on client websites and mobile applications: – Web SDK – for instant integration of personal identity and document verification into websites.

– Mobile SDK (iOS & Android) – an easy add-on to any mobile application for instant KYC process deployment with NFC support. – Cloud-based verification page – send a link to customers and get verification results instantly in your Admin Panel or via webhook.

– API integration – integrate our KYC and customer verification solutions into your platform, collect data you need and get the results via API. The verification process is fast, intuitive, and straightforward.

In just a few steps a user can verify his identity online by presenting a document on a web-camera, making a photo of himself, and recording a short video clip for a liveness check. Key benefits: – Security and Compliance ( KYC/AML compliance, Fraud protection, Secure customer data storage) – Time and Cost Savings (Fast and easy set-up, Reduced workloads for compliance teams, Increased conversions) – Flexibility and Adaptability (Omni-channel platform, Global Coverage).

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Manetu

Manetu

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Manetu is a consumer privacy management platform.

filancore

filancore

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filancore`s mission is to help organizations safeguard their digital business and assets in terms of a fully networked device and machine economy, called the internet of things (IoT). Therefore we are building our filancore Identity Gateway.

– For organizations that need digital identities to provide their services and access to their resources. – Who lose track of stored identities or do not even have the ability to control and secure them.

– Who are not satisfied with the market solution in terms of cost efficiency and additional expenditure… Our filancore Identity Gateway is an Identity as a Service solution which provides • the highest security and privacy, • fast, trusted interactions between boundaries • real scalability and a convenient managed To build the strong foundation for your digital business!.

tru.ID

tru.ID

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Mobile Authentication, Reimagined. Blazingly Fast Phone Verification.

APIs for instant, invisible strong authentication.. .

BritePool

BritePool

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BritePool provides identity verification for advertisers to publishers by Creating Google level identities without third-party cookies.

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Delta AI

Delta AI

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Delta AI is a product intelligence company that lets brands discover how products are used in context around the world. Delta AI uses computer vision to monitor social media for brands to track product trends and insights on how they are used globally, everyday.

Our platform will allow brands to develop and launch meaningful new products and tailored marketing strategies faster.. .

Singular Key

Singular Key

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Singular Key modernizes passwordless identity verification and reduces OpEx with No-code Identity Security Orchestration & Automation

DIRO – Internet Original Documents, Inc

DIRO – Internet Original Documents, Inc

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Instantly verify any document or person from any bank, utility company, or government globally – Most Innovative FinTech

VerifyMyAge

VerifyMyAge

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VMA was founded in 2019 to serve businesses that sell age restricted products and services, with a significantly better alternative. We’re a small team and self-funded, but in less than 12 months we’ve verified 1m+ consumers, gained over 400 merchants, and achieved 6 figure MRR.

However, our journey has only just begun. VMA is the first of a series of consumer authentication products we plan to build, which by early 2021 will be housed under one brand – Nucleus.

We have a global vision to empower consumers and businesses to frictionlessly, efficiently and securely transact on the web.. .

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CardLatch

CardLatch

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CardLatch is solution for identify and stops card present fraud at the source with no need to change your existing infrastructure

S1Seven

S1Seven

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Digital quality certificates for metals to replace paper documents with immutable records and to trace CO2 emissions. Blockchain SaaS.

Truentity

Truentity

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Our current health system is plagued with inefficiencies. Manual processes create bottlenecks that drive down patient care and increase hospital readmissions.

Legacy EHR systems create data silos preventing the sharing of information between primary care providers, hospitals, and patients. At Truentity, we have built a patient-centric digital health platform with privacy-first principles.

Our mission is to provide individuals the ability to take control of their health data by allowing them to select whom to share the data with, for what purpose, and for how long. Our provider based workflows allow access to patient consented data that can be shared across multiple health systems which helps streamline processes, increase compliance, and reduce costs..

myEGO

myEGO

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myEGO2GO is a user-centric digital identity management platform (SSI) leveraging blockchain technology to re-use verified data. myEGO2GO creates a secure and private space in which the user can organize, structure and share data – all in one place.

With myEGO2GO you can securely manage the entire user profile with only one connection. With our smart and sustainable onboarding approach, you can link the user data assets across ecosystems and services and thus eliminate data silos.

myEGO2GO makes digital identity more than just another eID or KYC process.​ Users can store and share a plethora of verified data assets through their private storage.. .

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MedCreds

MedCreds

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MedCreds allows a doctor to provide portable and verifiable medical test results. The patient may consent to share the data with someone that needs to see it.

This person has cryptographic assurance the data came from a doctor.. .

Sybal Corp

Sybal Corp

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Sybal Corp is a progressive Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) Innovation Company. Our namesake, Sybal, is our oracle.

She is a predictive AI trained to augment key blockchain activities. Her qualifications include speed of learning, speed of security, speed of scale, and a validator of truth.

Unfettered by human Bias for financial gain, she is unconstrained and unrelenting in her pursuit of fairness, inclusion, and consumer protection. We are honored to join the efforts of companies around the world in tackling these issues, with human focus & innovation as our winning edge.

With Sybal Digital ID, our consumer-focused blockchain ecosystem will thrive, as we become not only the safest access point to the digital world but the lead connection for global change.. .

G-71

G-71

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G-71 provides identification technology to protect sensitive information. Its patented identification technology applies to web-interface and printed data and guarantees the identification of the leak source in case of an incident.

It works even in cases when data is stolen with a photo or hard copy. It began operation in 2019, with its headquarters in Brooklyn in New York..

EveryDay

EveryDay

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Everyday is a payments infrastructure company that offers financial services to consumers and businesses. The company specializes in the fields of banking, big data, blockchain, financial services, identity management, and payments.

The company was founded in 2019.. .

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dip

dip

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Dip is a mobile application that empowers users in their quest to manage their digital identities. It enables users to understand and manage their digital footprints in real-time to prevent and mitigate security and criminal threats that can cause them and those close to them harm.

The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York.. .

Spruce Systems

Spruce Systems

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We are creating a suite of products around a WYSIWYG form builder called Intake that helps operations managers implement killer document collection and processing workflows. Passports can be fed to KYC verifiers, purchase orders can create approval requests, and DocuSign becomes a streamlined step in your onboarding flow.

Files end up in predictable and safe places such as Box.com, and people can see where they are in your intake process if you enable their dashboards.. .

Aerobyte Cyber Defense

Aerobyte Cyber Defense

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Aerobyte is dedicated to protecting individuals, corporations, and governments by dynamically protecting the digital flow of information. Analyzing current market conditions, our focus as a company is to identify key weakness within IT infrastructures.

We review remote workforces, on-premise systems, and cloud environments in the pursuit of ultimate protection, regardless of the network structure.. .

AIO

AIO

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AIO is a software platform that collects and submits data and documents for its client’s financial identity.

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Future Identity

Future Identity

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Identity platform for public services

idBlender

idBlender

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The Secure Network Access made easy for organizations. Hackers will use every trick in the book to get into your network.

Why not do the same to protect it? idBlender brings two very powerful technologies together secure WiFi and VPN. It is a cloud-based SaaS service.

With enterprise-grade encryption and API built-in and Cloud RADIUS. And you don’t even have to buy new hardware.

It is compatible with your infrastructure already. The beauty of this approach is that you can control and manage access in one place.

You don’t have to buy different solutions for identity management, for WiFi, for VPN and try to combine them with duck tape.. .

Didux.io

Didux.io

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Didux.io offers identity management solutions for individuals and companies such as verifiable phonecall, mail and access control.

Control.My.ID

Control.My.ID

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Consumers now have a way to take control of their privacy and their data. Control.My.ID provides consumers with an ability to view the information companies and others have about them (and the ability to monitor this data on an ongoing basis) for free.

Tools are also available to manage this data, correct information, take part in data dividends and more. Enterprises no longer have to build out full products and keep up on all of the different data and privacy compliance issues that are cropping up everyday.

Control.My.ID for Enterprises provides a platform they can plug into to manage their consumer data, interact with consumers, achieve regulatory compliance, and build out their audience and audience trust.. .

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Sagacore

Sagacore

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Gamified lifestyle social platform.

BeVision

BeVision

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Device with camera and software for face recognition applications

CyberGamp

CyberGamp

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We are cyber-security company specialized on designing and implementing Information Security Management Systems for our customers.

ZeroTolerance

ZeroTolerance

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ZeroTolerance is your remote AML and legal department. We give all technical tools, bulletproof AML framework and dedicated team of experts to cover ALL your AML requirements.

Such a comprehensive approach allows us to provide the ALL-IN-ONE solution that no company in the market can provide. We are a global consulting firm with a headquarters in London, providing clients with compliance advisory services from offices in the UK, Singapore and Estonia.

Our team includes experts certified by ACAMS and ICA, the gold standards of AML qualification. We work with leading financial and regulated companies across fintech, payments, crypto, gaming, trading and other AML-regulated sectors..

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Aerobase

Aerobase

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Aerobase develops an open source platform for identity and access management.

Spaceman ID

Spaceman ID

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A turnkey solution that any app or service can use to make digital identities private, secure, and portable.

ChemCode

ChemCode

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ChemCode provides security and authenticity for areas covering supply chain management, logistics and identity.

3F SECURITY

3F SECURITY

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RESPONSE TO CRISES WORLDWIDE.

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The Penn Group

The Penn Group

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The Penn Group is a cybersecurity company focused on keeping you and your clients safe from cybercriminals. Using a unique blend of services, software, and support, The Penn Group offers a proprietary approach to securing an organization, irrespective of their existing security posture.

Utilizing a unique 3 step approach, TPG can handle virtually any cybersecurity challenge. Founded in 2019, The Penn Group burst out of the gate, securing agreements with multiple companies within the first few weeks of operation.

Our consultants are highly qualified, and most hold high level security clearances issued by the United States Department of Defense.. .

Applihub

Applihub

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Hiring and recruiting platform

Tethys e-ID

Tethys e-ID

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Tethys e-ID is a digital identification system based on artificial intelligence.

Securematix

Securematix

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Securematix™ is a technology leader and a trusted security solutions partner for their customers. With an elite team of engineers, security professionals and cryptographic experts, the company is focused on helping organisations secure their sensitive documents and prevent tampering and identity-theft.

Securematix™ provides cutting-edge solutions to avoid security breaches, forgery, tampering and identity theft with an aim to raise the importance of keeping assets, data, documents and the products safe.. .

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Risk Trade

Risk Trade

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More than 800 tools for managing various risks from simple systems to complex systems at the macro level. OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICE.

MONITORING AND DETECTING RISKS IN COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS. TESTING FOR RESISTANCE TO DIFFERENT RISKS OF COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS.

RED TEAM SECURITY. SOCIAL ENGINEERING.

INVESTMENT PROTECTION TOOLS. DYNAMIC DEFAULT SWAP.

Identity Insured

Identity Insured

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You have insurance for your home, car, and life but do you have insurance for your family’s identity & credit? Protect your identity and credit from data breaches, hackers, and the dark web today with Identity Insured’s protection plans! Identity Insured protects the identities of families and children with a $1 Million insurance policy for each member in case of identity theft. Membership includes monitoring the dark web, social media and weekly “smart money” tactics that members can use to save thousands on mortgages, car loans and credit cards.

The ID Insured team has reviewed hundreds of thousands of credit reports and shares unique strategies to move expensive debts over to new 0% account for up to 15 months.. .

HELIX

HELIX

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Helix is an enterprise Identity and Access Management platform that enables credential verification throughout your IT ecosystem.