Socure, a specialist in 100 per cent digital identity trust, has secured USD100 million in a Series D round of funding led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Commerce Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Flint Capital, Citi Ventures, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Synchrony, Sorenson, Two Sigma Ventures, and others.
This round brings Socure’s total funding to USD196 million, following a recent USD35 million investment less than six months ago led by Sorenson Ventures.
Already the leader in financial services, the new financing will support Socure’s rapid expansion across every consumer-facing vertical including online gaming, healthcare, telco, e-commerce, and on-demand services. Proceeds from the round will also accelerate product innovation as the company’s patent portfolio grows and the company continues to attract top talent. Amit Jhawar, Partner at Accel and former General Manager of Venmo, will join the board of directors at Socure.
The tremendous growth in the digital identity market is part of the macro trend of businesses migrating towards digital-first online services, commerce, and transactions, including for those services once defined by physical interaction and exchange. According to One World Identity, the U.S. digital identity market is projected to increase from just under USD15 billion in 2019 to over USD30 billion by 2023.
“The Covid-19 year accelerated our global shift to a digital-first economy and with that came security challenges,” says Amit Jhawar, Partner at Accel. “The Socure team accurately predicted the immediate need for identity verification solutions in industries like banking and fintech, and we’re excited by the tremendous opportunity as Socure expands to support new industries.”
“We are honoured to be working with Accel and our existing investors as we further our mission to ensure 100 per cent trusted identity for every application and transaction on the Internet,” says Johnny Ayers, Co-founder and CEO of Socure. “We are now more confident than ever that we will be the first company to eliminate identity fraud while unlocking complete and fully-automated coverage of every good ID.”
With Socure, B2C enterprises can achieve KYC auto-approval rates of up to 97 per cent, as well as identity and synthetic fraud capture rates of up to 90 per cent in just the riskiest 2 per cent of users. When combined with Socure’s physical document authentication solution, Socure supports fully-automated decisioning of up to 98 per cent. Through a single, simple modularised API or SDK, the company’s ID+ platform maximises accuracy at sign-up and transaction, while capturing more fraud, reducing false positives, decreasing manual reviews, and providing a level of unmatched population coverage. Socure enables the democratisation of access to online services, especially for the underbanked including thin-file and young consumers in the critical 18- to 25-year-old demographic.
“The market opportunity for digital identity is huge,” says Dan Rosen, Founder and General Partner at Commerce Ventures and Board Member of Socure. “Congratulations to Johnny, Pablo, and the entire Socure team for reaching this milestone as it will certainly catapult the company into its next phase of growth. We are excited to see what Socure does next.”
“Reaching unicorn status is a testament to our dedicated and talented team which we are looking forward to rapidly scaling to meet demand,” Ayers says. “We are incredibly grateful for the chance to innovate and partner to solve this problem with some of the greatest companies in the world and are energised for the opportunities that lay ahead for Socure, especially as we make our march to a potential IPO.”
