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Smile ID

65 employees

Smile ID 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 etc Subscribe to Identity Illustrated - A newsletter by Smile ID enabling African business leaders to understand the continent's complex ID, regulatory and fraud landscape one illustration at a time - https://identityillustrated.com/

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Funding rounds participated in

$20M sweet spot round size

Investor type

Privately Held

Basic info

Industry

Software Development

Sectors

Software Development

Date founded

2017

Funding rounds raised

Total raised

$20M

from 3 investors over 1 rounds

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Smile ID raised $20M on March 13, 2023

Investors: Norrsken22, Costanoa Ventures and + 9 Other investors

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