KYC, Fraud & Security

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  CRS Inc

  Huntington Beach, California, USA

  CRS Group, Inc., operating under the brand CRS Credit API, is a US-focused consumer reporting agency (CRA) and financial data-as-a-service company that positions itself as "the single platform for credit, fraud, and compliance." It packages consumer credit, business credit, fraud, and compliance data into a single API, letting clients integrate once and then pull reports and scores from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion alongside public records and alternative data. The product stack includes soft and hard credit reports, FICO and VantageScore models, identity verification (KYC), OFAC sanctions and Military Lending Act screening, income verification, background checks, credit monitoring, and data furnishing. CRS sells to consumer and commercial lenders, fintech and buy-now-pay-later providers, credit unions, auto leasing, tenant screening, and investor-qualification firms, and it exhibits at the Global Gaming Expo as a supplier of KYC, AML, and responsible-gaming data tools for gambling operators. The company cites more than 25 years of cumulative credit-industry experience, over $1 billion in client volume facilitated, and onboarding in under two weeks, though these are self-reported claims rather than independently verified figures.

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  Random Systems International

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  Game Analysis and Monitoring System

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  Electronic Verification Systems (EVS)

  Dallas, Texas, USA

  Electronic Verification Systems (EVS) is a Dallas, Texas-based technology company specialising in ID scanning, age verification, and patron-management software for the casino and regulated hospitality industries. Founded in 2007, EVS helps casinos, tribal gaming operations, bars, and nightclubs turn government-issued ID scans into a unified patron database that improves regulatory compliance, supports responsible-gambling programmes, and enables VIP recognition. Its flagship platform, EVS One, combines ID validation, blacklist and self-exclusion management, VIP profiling, and real-time reporting in a single system, while EVS Connect provides an API layer for integration with established casino-management and player-tracking platforms. The company is a recognised exhibitor at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E), the gaming industry's largest trade show, confirming its active role in the land-based casino technology market. With a headcount estimated at 11-50 employees, EVS is a focused niche player rather than a large enterprise, but its products are widely deployed in North American tribal and commercial casinos. The company's stated mission underscores its dual purpose: making casino environments safer and more profitable for operators.

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  NordVPN

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  Signicat

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  Copenhagen Group

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  IC360

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  Gataca

  Madrid, Spain

  Gataca is a Madrid-based cybersecurity company that specializes in decentralized digital identity technology. Founded in 2017 as a research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and formally incorporated in 2018, Gataca provides a platform that enables organizations to issue, verify, and manage digital credentials stored in user-controlled ID wallets. The company's core mission is to replace friction-prone, fraud-vulnerable identity verification processes with a privacy-preserving, real-time intelligence layer. By leveraging open standards such as W3C Verifiable Credentials and ISO mDL, Gataca supports interoperability with the 27 EUDI (European Digital Identity) Wallets and any wallet adhering to global standards. The company serves governments, financial institutions, media companies, and critically, the iGaming industry, where it automates age verification, KYC, and fraud prevention. Gataca is bootstrapped and reported an estimated $1.3 million in annual recurring revenue as of October 2024, with a team of approximately 10 employees. The company has been certified to the ISO standard for age assurance and has processed over 750,000 wallet transactions in 2025 across eight countries. Its flagship products — Studio, Vouch, Gataca App, and Enterprise Wallet — are designed to help regulated organizations stay compliant while converting more users with one-tap, reusable digital credentials.

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  POPP3R Cybersecurity

  Canada

  POPP3R Cybersecurity is a Canadian boutique consulting firm founded in 2018 by Hernan Popper. Specializing in human risk management and cybersecurity strategic planning, the firm serves small and medium-sized businesses, municipalities, and non-profits across Canada. Its core mission addresses the human element of cyber risk, noting that 68% of breaches involve human factors according to the Verizon DBIR 2024. POPP3R offers a tightly defined set of services including human risk assessments, phishing simulations, interactive training, compliance support, and virtual CISO guidance. The company also operates an innovation division that delivers gamified cybersecurity awareness training (SAT) to large enterprises in North and Latin America. Through its Cyb3rGuru platform, clients access training and assessment tools. POPP3R partners with technology providers like Cynomi to deliver scalable solutions while maintaining a personalized, boutique approach. The firm has helped clients achieve certifications such as CyberSecure Canada, Canada's national cybersecurity certification for SMEs. Hernan Popper serves as founder and principal consultant, and the company maintains a modest online presence with a professional website and LinkedIn page.

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  Sygnia

  Tel Aviv, Israel

  Sygnia is a global cyber readiness and incident response company that helps organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from advanced cyber threats. Founded in 2015 by veterans of Israel’s elite Cyber Intelligence Unit 8200 and launched from the Team8 cybersecurity foundry, the company has grown into a trusted partner for over 500 clients worldwide. Sygnia’s team of more than 250 security professionals operates from hubs in Tel Aviv, New York, Singapore, and London, with distributed presence across North America, Europe, Mexico, Australia, and Japan. The company’s core offerings include cyber incident response, managed detection and response (MDR), threat hunting, and cyber resilience consulting. Its proprietary Velocity TDIR platform powers continuous threat detection, investigation, and response at scale. Sygnia is backed by Team8 and Temasek International and has raised $4.3 million in seed funding. The company serves a wide range of industries, from finance and healthcare to technology and critical infrastructure, and is frequently called upon to handle the most sophisticated attacks, including nation-state intrusions and large-scale ransomware incidents. Notably, Sygnia investigated the $1.5 billion Bybit hack attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group and discovered the 'Operation Highland' campaign targeting air-gapped environments.

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  SEON

  Austin, Texas, USA

  SEON is a global leader in AI-powered fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance software, serving over 5,000 businesses including major brands like Revolut, Spotify, Nubank, Afterpay, and Entain. Founded in 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, by Tamás Kádár and Bence Jendruszák, the company was born from the founders’ own experience battling fraud while running a cryptocurrency exchange. Unable to find an effective off-the-shelf solution, they built an in-house tool that eventually became SEON’s core platform. Today, SEON is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in London, Budapest, Singapore, and Jakarta. Its unified platform connects over 900 first-party data signals—spanning digital footprint, device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and AI agent detection—to deliver real-time risk scoring and decisioning. SEON also offers a comprehensive AML compliance suite that includes customer screening, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting. The company has raised $187 million in total funding, most recently an $80 million Series C round led by Sixth Street Growth in September 2025. SEON claims to have helped its clients prevent over $300 billion in fraud and money laundering losses, and employs approximately 316 people globally as of late 2025.