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| 01.09.2026 | Social media companies are trying harder to know which users are kids | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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Of the child safety measures agreed to in Meta’s landmark legal settlement, no category contains more detailed requirements than its commitments on age assu... |
| 18.08.2026 | Ticketmaster Biometric Check Clears Face Data in 60 Days; Failed Checks Hold Data 3 Years | By Kyle Belmonte
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| 17.06.2026 | Best Identity Verification Software Providers: Tested and Reviewed for 2026 | Share
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Most “best identity verification software” lists are written from the outside looking in -feature sheets, vendor claims, and review-site star ratings stitched into a ranking. Useful, but it leaves out the part ... |
| 18.05.2026 | Dust: $40 Million Raised For Multiplayer Enterprise AI Platform | Dust, a multiplayer AI platform designed for human-agent collaboration inside enterprises, announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Abstract and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Snowflake and Dat... |
| 23.02.2026 | ChatGPT сохраняет ваше лицо и определяет «насколько оно подозрительно». Расследование Persona | Вы когда-нибудь пользовались ChatGPT, продуктами OpenAI или KYC верификацей?
В расследовании нашли, что одна из самых известных компаний Persona, которая предоставляет услуги верификаций и проверки возраста по селфи,... связана с фбр сша?
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| 18.11.2025 | Roblox is updating chat rules with a simple age check keeps you playing | What Happened: Roblox is making a massive move to clean up its platform.
In a first for the gaming world, the company announced it will soon require every single user to pass a facial age check if they want to use chat features.
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| 11.08.2025 | Why Labour’s Online Safety Act has become a political nightmare | The UK’s Online Safety Act, which came into force on 25th July, was conceived with the noble aim of protecting children from harmful online content.
It mandates that web service providers implement “highly effective” age verification measur... |
| 26.06.2025 | The Rise of AI in Hiring: Battling Deepfakes and Identity Fraud | In the digital age, hiring has become a double-edged sword. On one side, companies embrace remote work and the flexibility it brings. On the other, a shadowy threat looms: deepfakes and AI-generated identities. The hiring landscape is chang... |
| 24.06.2025 | 75 million deepfakes blocked: Persona leads the corporate fight against hiring fraud | Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more
As remote work has become the norm, a shadowy threat has emerged in corporate hiri... |
| 04.05.2025 | Persona: $200 Million Raised At $2 Billion Valuation For Agentic AI Verified Identity Layer | Persona, a leading verified identity platform, announced a $200 million Series D funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 billion. The funding round was co-led by Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, with participation from existi... |
| 02.05.2025 | Persona's $200M Funding: A New Era in Identity Verification | In a world where the line between reality and digital deception blurs, identity verification has become paramount. Persona, a San Francisco-based startup, has emerged as a beacon in this chaotic landscape. Recently, the company announced a ... |
| 30.04.2025 | Identity verification startup Persona raises $200M at $2B valuation
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One click below supports our mission to provide free,... | Persona Identities Inc., a startup that helps companies such as online retailers verify the identity of users, has closed a $200 million late-stage funding round.
The Series D investment was announced today. Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital... |
| 30.04.2025 | Persona Raises $200M in Series D; at $2B Valuation | Persona, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a verified identity platform, raised $200M in Series D funding, at $2 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors includ... |
| 30.04.2025 | Persona raises $200M at $2B valuation to build the verified identity layer for an agentic AI world | Persona, the leading verified identity platform, today announced a $200 million Series D funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 billion. The round was co-led by Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital, with participation from existi... |
| 24.01.2025 | The AI Arms Race: Navigating the Landscape of Fraud and Responsibility | In the digital age, the battle against fraud has taken on a new form. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the landscape, creating both opportunities and threats. As businesses rush to adopt AI technologies, they must al... |
| 22.01.2025 | Persona Unveils Significant Advances in Detection of AI-based Face Spoofs | Enhancements bolster defenses against recent 50x surge in deepfakes
Persona, a leading global identity platform, today announced significant advancements in its AI-based face spoof detection capabilities. These updates strengthen Persona’s ... |
| 14.12.2024 | Synthetic data has its limits — why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
My, how quickly the tables turn in the tech world. Just two years ago, AI was lauded as the “next transformationa... |
| 09.11.2024 | The Double-Edged Sword of AI: Navigating Degradation and Cybersecurity Risks | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword. On one side, it promises efficiency and innovation. On the other, it poses significant risks that could undermine its very foundations. As we delve deeper into the world of AI, two criti... |
| 08.11.2024 | AI degradation -- what is it and how do we address it? [Q&A] | Many in the industry believe that AI is degrading because it's being starved of human-generated data. This leads to models being trained on the output of older models which increases the risk of hallucinations and errors.
But how big an iss... |
| 30.06.2024 | The dangers of voice fraud: We can’t detect what we can’t see | Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More
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| 03.02.2024 | Who will protect us from AI-generated disinformation? | Generative AI has gone from zero to a hundred in under a year. While early, it’s shown its potential to transform business. That we can all agree on. Where we diverge is on how to contain the dangers it poses. To be clear, I am pro innovati... |
| 28.09.2023 | Reddit forces personalized ads, starts X-like user payment program | Enlarge
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Reddit rolled out some changes this week as its continues its push for revenue and profitability jumpstarted by its API rule changes in July. Among the most controversial, the company will no longer al... |
| 02.02.2023 | Is Instagram considering paid verification? Code reveals references to a ‘paid blue badge’ | New references in Instagram’s code suggest the company could be developing a paid verification feature following the rollout of a similar system at Twitter under Elon Musk. Recently discovered code snippets reference explicitly refer to a “... |
| 27.10.2022 | Persona expands beyond identity verification with new suite of services | Persona, a four-year-old identity startup, has done pretty well for itself with its original identity verification idea, an API that lets companies capture various documents like a driver’s license or passport to prove who you are online. I... |
| 27.10.2022 | Persona Launches Unified Identity Platform to Fight Fraud and Reduce Compliance Risk | Persona launched the next evolution of its unified identity platform to help businesses mitigate online fraud and meet ever-evolving compliance standards. The new Persona platform connects, centralizes and orchestrates all fragmented identi... |
| 06.10.2022 | Persona and SentiLink Partner to Automate Cutting-Edge Fraud Reduction Technology | ...In order to accurately assess risk, you need context and a holistic approach that harnesses signals from multiple systems. Our partnership with Sentilink is part of our ongoing commitment to build the most comprehensive identity platform... |
| 27.09.2022 | 14 Security-Focused Questions Companies Should Ask Their SaaS Vendors | Getty |
| 20.07.2022 | Persona releases a new risk verification engine to combat identity fraud | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Verifying the identity of modern users is difficu... |
| 25.02.2022 | Identity Verification: More Than Security — A Crucial Component Of Customer Experience | Rick Song, Co-founder and CEO of Persona. |
| 23.12.2021 | Social media and dating apps have a serious identity problem | Rick Song Contributor
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| 13.10.2021 | The changing face of digital identity verification [Q&A] | As we've grown more and more reliant on the internet to carry out everyday transactions, proving who we are has become a major issue.
We are still heavily dependent on IDs, passwords and supplementary security questions, but all of these ar... |
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| 15.09.2021 | Identity startup Persona closes $150M round at $1.5B valuation
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes Amazon ... | Persona Inc., a startup that helps companies such as financial technology providers collect and process identity information from customers, has closed a $150 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation.
The Series C round was led by ... |
| 15.09.2021 | Daily funding roundup - September 15th, 2021 | Persona raised $150M; Arcadia landed $100M; Glean closed $55M; StrongDM secured $54M
Persona: Persona is a San Francisco-based identity infrastructure company built to manage customer identities. Persona has raised $150 million in Series C ... |
| 15.09.2021 | Persona Raises $150M in Series C Funding | Persona, a San Francisco, CA-based Trusted Identity Infrastructure company, raised $150M in Series C funding.
The round, which brings the total amount raised to date to $217.5 million, with a valuation of $1.5 billion, was led by Founders F... |
| 27.05.2021 | Identity Infrastructure Company Persona Raises $50 Million | Persona — an identity infrastructure company offering businesses the building blocks to create a personalized identity verification experience for any use case — announced recently that it has secured $50 million in Series B funding. These ... |
| 05.05.2021 | Identity Infrastructure company Persona raises US$ 50M in Series B round | US-based Persona, an identity infrastructure company that personalizes identity verification experience “for any use case,” raised US$ 50M in a Series B round of funding on 4 May 2021. |
| 05.05.2021 | Index Ventures backs $50M round for Persona | Persona has raised a $50 million Series B led by Index Ventures, with participation from Coatue Management. The San Francisco-based company is the developer of a platform that helps companies including Sonder, Brex and Udemy protect, verify... |
| 04.05.2021 | The Identity Layer of the Internet is Getting a Makeover: Our $50M Series B Investment into Persona | Persona co-founders Rick Song (left) and Charles Yeh (right)
Trust underpins every interaction on the internet. And yet, the entire paradigm for identity has barely evolved since the days of Web 1.0. How many times have you been asked to v... |
| 04.05.2021 | Identity Infrastructure Company Persona Secures $50 Million Through Series B Funding Round Led By Index Ventures | Persona, a U.S.-based identity infrastructure company offering businesses the building blocks to create a personalized identity verification experience for any use case, announced on Tuesday it secured $50 million through its Series B fundi... |
| 04.05.2021 | Persona Secures $50 Million in Series B Funding to Become the Identity Layer of the Internet | Index Ventures Leads Round, Supporting Persona’s Vision for Personalized Identity Verification
Persona, the identity infrastructure company offering businesses the building blocks to create a personalized identity verification experience fo... |
| 23.03.2021 | The next era of moderation will be verified | Rick Song Contributor
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| 28.01.2020 | Persona raises $17.5M for an identify verification platform that goes beyond user IDs and passwords | The proliferation of data breaches based on leaked passwords, and the rising tide of regulation that puts a hard stop on just how much user information can be collected, stored and used by companies have laid bare the holes in simple passwo... |
| 28.01.2020 | Persona Raises $17.5M in Series A Funding | Persona, a San Francisco, CA—based identity verification (IDV) startup securing internet transactions, raised $17.5m in Series A funding.
Backers included Coatue and First Round Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its re... |
| 28.01.2020 | Persona raises $17.5 million to verify identities without humans in the loop | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Deepfakes — which replace a figure in an existing image, audio recording, or video with someone else’s likeness — are on the rise, so i... |
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