Top Identity Startups in 2027

Revinate is a direct booking platform that leads the hospitality industry in driving direct revenue and increased profitability. Our products and our people combine to give hoteliers the superpowers they need to crush their goals. With Revinate, hoteliers shift share away from OTAs and drive tangible results across an individual property or a portfolio. Our industry-leading, AI-powered customer data platform collects, unifies, and synthesizes data, giving hoteliers a foundational advantage. Hoteliers gain critical intelligence – guest lifetime spend, stay preferences, ancillary revenue, and more. With Revinate’s Rich Guest Profiles™, hoteliers don’t need to guess who their most profitable guests are or how to drive conversions across email, voice, messaging, and digital channels. Revinate's direct booking platform and omnichannel communication technology powers 950+ million Rich Guest Profiles across 12,500+ hotels to drive over $17.2 billion in direct revenue. We have won numerous awards for our Software-as-a-Service solutions, including 2019’s Top Rated Email Marketing and CRM Product by Hotel Tech Report. We make technology work for your hotel so you can make the most of every guest. Check out our Explainer Video: revinate.com/?wvideo=frbmfzdygf

Reputation.com delivers the category-leading Online Reputation Management (ORM) platform for large enterprises with thousands of locations. With our platform, Fortune 500 companies can monitor and manage their online ratings and reviews, and respond to customer feedback in real time. Businesses can also gain valuable insights at the local level that will give them the information they need to make operational changes that will ultimately maximize customer retention and revenue.

Incode Technologies is an omnichannel biometric identity company that builds secure, top-rated solutions for frictionless banking, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security in order to enhance customer experiences and build a global database of identities using the world’s fastest edge-facial recognition technology as recognized by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Incode’s anti-spoofing technology, LiveBeam, doesn’t require any user interaction and is the first passive facial liveness system in the world to achieve Level-1 certification for NIST iBeta Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) testing. The company’s web and mobile solutions are adopted globally for a variety of applications, including onboarding, identity & ID verification, and transactions by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Founded in 2015 by a passionate serial-entrepreneur and a group of hard-working individuals, we seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach new challenges unconventionally. We believe brilliant minds have the power to do great things! We’re a fun-loving, goal-crushing team who are immensely proud to be part of a common goal: to map the identity of humankind. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates globally with additional offices in Latin America and Europe.

Our blockchain-enabled platform allows you to unlock the massive value locked away in your existing reputations. You can link any of your websites, for example Airbnb for your guest score or Upwork for your reviews as a gig worker. You are empowered to reveal these verified reputations, over and over again, instantly proving you are trustworthy as part of any application or signup process, for example to secure a tenancy agreement, a loan, or a job as an Upworker. We’ve built Reputationaire on a blockchain giving you ownership, security, privacy and control. Via your private trust vault, you and only you, have ownership of not only your data but more importantly the reputation that you've invested time carefully building. And you'll be able to take your reputation with you between services, so you'll never have to start from zero stars when joining a new service. We help overcome negative bias and lack of trust with the option to remain anonymous yet trusted.

Socure is the leader in high-assurance digital identity verification technology. Its predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone, address, IP, social media and the broader Internet to authenticate identities in real-time. Socure powers financial inclusion, increasing acceptance as much as 40 percent for millennials and other thin-file consumers. It also reduces fraud for online new account opening by up to 90 percent, lowers manually reviewed knowledge-based authentication (KBA) rates by as much as 80 percent, and automates Customer Identification Program (CIP), Know Your Customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance initiatives. Socure was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.

We’re Mitek, a NASDAQ-listed global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions built on the latest advancements in AI and machine learning. Our Mobile Verify and Mobile Deposit products power and protect millions of identity evaluations and mobile deposits every day, around the world.

Footprint is the agentic platform that learns your compliance program, and runs it end-to-end. Our technology helps compliance teams clear their alert backlog faster, with deeper context and better judgment. Financial crime is growing faster than any risk team can hire against it, and most investigations still happen the old way: one analyst, one case, a pile of PDFs and a dozen disconnected tools. We built Percy to change that. Percy doesn't impose a workflow. It learns yours, converts your policies and procedures into agents line by line, and runs them the same way every time, with a full audit trail. When a regulator asks how a decision was made, the answer is already written. Every investigation is grounded in the vendors and data sources our customers already trust, like LexisNexis, ComplyAdvantage and government registries. Each one is committed to an organizational memory that compounds and adapts as procedures change. Our customers include FDIC- and OCC-regulated banks and fintechs such as Bilt, Nuvei and MoonPay. In September we announced a $25M Series B led by QED, with Index, Commerce Ventures and others. We're using it to double our engineering and sales teams in New York and San Francisco.

Pindrop® Protect provides a risk score and call intelligence to the call center in the first few seconds of each call. The risk score — along with the analysis of the caller’s voice, device, and behavior — is provided to the call center’s fraud analyst team for further investigation. Pindrop’s proprietary machine learning algorithms then use feedback from the investigation to maximize solution performance. Pindrop® Passport evaluates call center interactions in real-time to passively authenticate legitimate customers. Passport runs in the background of every call, combining patented Phoneprinting™ technology with proprietary Deep Voice™ biometrics to determine if a caller has the right device, voice, and behavior to access an account. Whether callers use voice or touch-tone interactions within the IVR — or opt to speak to an agent — Pindrop credentials follow customers across the lifecycle of each call.

Allthenticate replaces passwords with the phone in your pocket. Employees unlock their Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, sign in to their apps with single sign-on, open office doors, and SSH into servers, all from one app and without a password. For IT, it's one place to manage every credential. Allthenticate syncs with the identity providers and business apps companies already use, so onboarding and offboarding happen automatically. We're a small, fast-moving team in Houston, TX, building with Rust, Python, Flutter, and embedded Linux.

SOCi is a leading all-in-one marketing platform built specifically for "next-level" multi-location marketers. Our customers include top brands and influencers like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips, and Anytime Fitness who have the impossible challenge of managing their digital presence across 100s or 1000s of locations. SOCi platform makes the impossible, possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across hundreds and thousands of local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation.