KYC, Fraud & Security

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  Kount

  Boise, Idaho, United States

  Kount, an Equifax Company, is a global leader in AI-powered fraud prevention, identity verification, and compliance solutions. Founded in 2007 in Boise, Idaho, the company originally spun out from Keynetics and was built on technology developed at ClickBank. Kount’s platform uses patented machine learning and real-time analytics to protect digital transactions across e-commerce, financial services, gaming, and retail. Its solutions cover the entire customer journey—from account creation and login to payment processing and post-transaction chargeback management. In 2021, Equifax acquired Kount in a deal valued at $640 million, integrating it into the U.S. Information Solutions business unit. Today, Kount serves over 9,000 brands across 180 countries, processing billions of transactions annually. Its flagship Kount 360 platform unifies identity, payment, and compliance capabilities on a single interface, helping businesses reduce fraud, prevent account takeover, and streamline regulatory compliance. Kount remains headquartered in Boise and continues to operate as a distinct brand within Equifax, with Brad Wiskirchen as CEO.

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  Kinectify

  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

  Kinectify is a B2B technology company providing anti-money laundering (AML) and risk management software purpose-built for the gaming industry. Founded in 2020 by Joseph Martin and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company serves commercial, tribal, and interactive gaming operators across the United States and Canada. Kinectify’s cloud‑based platform collects and analyzes millions of daily transactions in near‑real time, delivering a single enterprise view of compliance data that eliminates silos and manual inefficiencies. The platform integrates with existing casino systems via API or SFTP and runs on Microsoft Azure, leveraging AI services for automated screening, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity detection. In addition to its core AML software, Kinectify offers advisory services staffed by gaming‑industry compliance professionals who can design, test, and manage regulatory programs. The company has grown rapidly through partnerships with major operators such as Foxwoods Resort Casino, The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, Chumash Casino Resort, FireKeepers Casino Hotel, and High Roller Technologies. Kinectify’s leadership team includes founder and CEO Joseph Martin, CTO Michael Calvin, and CMO Devin Simonson, along with a board of directors featuring executives from Microsoft, Aristocrat Gaming, and the New York Jets. The company is positioned as a dedicated compliance technology partner for an industry facing increasingly complex money‑laundering regulations.

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  Jumio

  Sunnyvale, California, United States

  Jumio is an AI-powered identity intelligence platform that enables businesses to verify, authenticate, and continuously monitor customer identities throughout the digital lifecycle. Founded in 2010 by Daniel Mattes, the company initially focused on mobile payment and card scanning solutions before pivoting to become a leading provider of online identity verification and KYC/AML compliance services. Backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Eduardo Saverin, Centana Growth Partners, and Great Hill Partners (which led a $150 million funding round in 2021), Jumio has processed over one billion transactions across more than 200 countries and territories. The company’s core platform integrates document verification, biometric liveness detection, risk assessment, and a proprietary Identity Graph that aggregates tens of millions of known identities to detect sophisticated fraud including deepfakes and synthetic identities. Jumio serves over 30,000 customers globally, spanning financial services, gambling and gaming, fintech, healthcare, and other regulated industries. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, and additional offices in Linz and Vienna, Austria, and London, UK, the company employs approximately 200 people as of 2026. Jumio holds over 300 patents and patent applications and consistently wins industry awards for fraud prevention and identity verification. Key products include Jumio Identity Verification, Jumio Risk Signals, Jumio Liveness, and the Jumio Platform, all designed to help organizations meet regulatory requirements while reducing onboarding friction and combating AI-driven identity threats.

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  JFT Defense LLC

  2040 NW 30th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, USA

  JFT Defense LLC is a Florida-based private security and risk consulting firm that provides armed and unarmed security solutions, facility security design and construction, and turnkey intelligence services. Founded in May 2022 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the company primarily serves casinos, commercial properties, and other businesses requiring on-site protection and risk mitigation. It positions itself as a vendor within the iGaming and hospitality security ecosystem, offering both uniformed security personnel and integrated consulting. The founding team brings over 20 years of combined security experience, and the company has established a presence at industry trade shows and in casino-vendor directories. JFT Defense LLC is registered with the State of Florida and lists two managers—Jeffrey Toro and Ray Maestas—as its current leadership, though no C-level titles have been publicly confirmed. The company's website, jftdefense.com, is referenced in multiple listings but its content is not accessible for verification. Despite its small size, it competes in the specialized market of casino security, focusing on regulatory compliance and high-value asset protection.

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  Imperva

  San Mateo, California, United States

  Imperva is a global cybersecurity company that protects enterprise applications, data, and APIs across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Founded in 2002 by cybersecurity veterans Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman, and Mickey Boodaei, the company initially developed the SecureSphere web application firewall (WAF) and has since expanded through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions, including Incapsula, Distil Networks, Prevoty, and jSonar. Acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2019 for $2.1 billion, Imperva was later purchased by French multinational Thales Group in December 2023 for approximately $3.6 billion and now operates as a subsidiary while maintaining its own brand. The company serves over 6,200 enterprise customers in 150 countries, including seven of the top ten U.S. commercial banks and 34% of the Fortune 100. Its comprehensive portfolio spans web application firewalls, DDoS mitigation, runtime application self‑protection, bot management, API security, and data security solutions such as Data Activity Monitoring and data masking. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Imperva employs roughly 1,400 people and works with more than 500 channel partners worldwide.

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  IDScan.net

  New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

  IDScan.net is a New Orleans-based provider of adaptive AI identity verification and fraud prevention solutions serving industries such as logistics, financial services, hospitality, gaming, retail, and security. Founded by Denis Petrov and Andrey Stanovnov, the company originally launched VeriScan, described as the first iOS-based ID scanning app, and has evolved into a comprehensive identity platform that processes hundreds of millions of identity documents to detect fake IDs, synthetic identities, and deepfake fraud. Its platform combines mobile and remote scanning, age verification, access management, and real-time document authentication, and is used by more than 7,000 clients. IDScan.net integrates with major partners such as Jack Henry, Cloudbeds, and ARGO, and has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. The company maintains offices in New Orleans, Las Vegas, Seattle, and Europe, and continues to expand its global data partnerships with a focus on proactive, AI-driven identity intelligence.

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  IDVerse

  Sydney, Australia (business unit of LexisNexis Risk Solutions; parent company headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

  IDVerse is an AI-powered identity verification and document authentication provider, originally founded as OCR Labs in Sydney, Australia in 2017. The company's deep neural network platform can verify over 16,000 types of identity documents globally, performing up to 300 automated checks per document for tampering and forgery, while also executing biometric liveness detection and face-matching with a reported 99.998% accuracy. IDVerse is distinguished by its Zero Bias AI technology, which uses regenerative AI to reduce demographic bias, and its ability to combat advanced fraud vectors such as deepfakes and injection attacks. In February 2025, IDVerse was acquired by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a RELX company, and now operates as a stand-alone brand within its Business Services segment. The solution is integrated into LexisNexis platforms like RiskNarrative and Dynamic Decision Platform, and is used across financial services, insurance, crypto, and telecommunications for account opening, KYC/AML compliance, and fraud prevention. Prior to acquisition, IDVerse raised $46 million in funding from investors including Equable Capital. The company serves a global client base and continues to be led by CEO John Myers from its Sydney headquarters.

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  IDMERIT

  Carlsbad, California, USA

  IDMERIT is a privately held global identity verification and compliance technology company headquartered in Carlsbad, California. Founded in 2014 by Tony Raval, the company provides a comprehensive suite of SaaS solutions that enable businesses to verify individuals and entities in real time, meet Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory obligations, prevent fraud, and deliver frictionless onboarding experiences. Its proprietary platform, IDMkyX, integrates multiple verification services—including identity data cross‑referencing (IDMkyc), document scanning with liveness detection (IDMscan), and sanctions/politically exposed person (PEP) screening (IDMaml)—into a waterfall model that covers authentication, compliance, and risk monitoring under a single API. IDMERIT claims direct data partnerships in more than 180 countries and access to over 440 data sources, allowing it to verify more than five billion individuals globally. The company serves clients across banking, fintech, cryptocurrency, healthcare, insurance, and retail sectors. Its executive team, led by CEO and Co‑Founder Tony Raval, brings deep experience in data technology and identity intelligence, having previously worked with institutions such as Google, Salesforce, and HP. IDMERIT employs between 51 and 200 people and is ISO 27001 certified. In late 2025, the company was involved in a well‑publicised data exposure incident, which it has stated did not compromise its own systems.

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  HooYu

  London, United Kingdom

  HooYu is a global digital identity verification and customer onboarding platform that helps organisations confidently verify who their customers are in a fast-moving digital world. The company blends multiple KYC tools—including ID document validation, digital footprint analysis, geo-location mapping, facial biometrics, and traditional database checks with PEPs & sanctions screening—into a unified, customisable user experience. HooYu’s platform is engineered not only to increase the integrity of KYC processes but also to maximise the percentage of customers that can be successfully onboarded, reducing friction and abandonment rates. The team behind HooYu has deep roots in data and identity, having pioneered online people search with the launch of 192.com, one of the UK’s most widely used consumer data platforms. Building on that success, the same expertise was applied to create 192business, a market-leading identity verification solution that was acquired by Experian in 2012. HooYu itself was launched in 2016 and quickly gained traction with leading banks such as NatWest and top online gambling sites like Betfred. In March 2022, HooYu was acquired by Mitek Systems, Inc., a global leader in identity and fraud prevention technologies. Today, HooYu operates as a fully integrated part of Mitek, delivering advanced, end-to-end solutions that help businesses meet regulatory requirements, prevent fraud, and create seamless digital experiences. The technology supports banks, fintechs, online gambling operators, sharing-economy platforms, online retailers, and many other organisations that need to onboard customers securely and efficiently.

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  GBGroup

  Chester, United Kingdom

  GB Group plc, known globally as GBG, is a UK-headquartered identity verification, location intelligence and fraud prevention company. Founded in 1989 by Trevor Burke as Phonelink Data, the company has evolved through multiple name changes and a series of strategic acquisitions to become a public-listed leader in the digital trust ecosystem. GBG helps businesses validate the identity and location of their customers in real time, enabling secure onboarding, compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations, and the prevention of fraud. The company’s platform integrates third-party reference data, biometric checks, document verification and AI-driven analytics to provide a single global identity and location intelligence solution. Its key brands include GBG Go, Acuant, IDology, Loqate and PCA Predict. GBG serves a wide range of sectors including financial services, e-commerce, fintech, gaming and government, with operations across EMEA, the Americas and Asia Pacific. The company employs approximately 1,100 people and is headquartered in Chester, United Kingdom. In October 2025, GBG moved from the AIM growth market to the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and became a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. With a reported revenue of £285 million for the 2026 financial year, GBG continues to invest in platform innovation and strategic partnerships – most notably a partnership with Equifax – to strengthen its competitive position in the global identity verification market.

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  Gallant Background Checks

  Tulsa, Oklahoma

  Gallant Background Checks is a Tulsa, Oklahoma‑based provider of comprehensive background screening services tailored to employers, property managers, volunteer organisations, and other entities that require thorough pre‑hire and tenant vetting. Founded in September 2009 by Carla and Stephanie (last names not publicly disclosed), the company was launched as a woman‑ and Native‑owned business, later expanding into mobile on‑site drug testing and fingerprinting through a sister company, OnSite Occupational Screening. Gallant’s core offering includes employee background checks, volunteer screenings, tenant screenings, and Consent‑Based Social Security Number Verification (CBSV), a service that provides instant, 100% accurate SSN verification through the Social Security Administration to combat synthetic identity fraud. The company emphasises personalised customer service, fast turnaround times, and competitive pricing, positioning itself as a regional leader in the background check industry. In recent years, operational leadership has transitioned to Andrew Staub, who serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. Gallant remains a privately held, unfunded business with a primary focus on serving clients across the United States. Its website (gallantbackgroundchecks.com) details service packages designed to “shield your trusted organization” by delivering accurate, FCRA‑compliant information that helps clients make informed hiring and leasing decisions.

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  FraudLabs Pro

  Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  FraudLabs Pro is a cloud-based fraud prevention service specializing in card-not-present (CNP) payment fraud detection. Founded in 2002 by Kim Loong Liew, the company is headquartered in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Its solution analyzes e-commerce and digital transactions in real-time, assigning a risk score and flagging orders that match fraudulent patterns. While not exclusively an iGaming tool, FraudLabs Pro is widely adopted by online gambling operators, betting platforms, and general merchants to reduce chargebacks and false declines. The platform processes key transaction data points—IP geolocation, billing/shipping address verification, email and phone risk assessment, device fingerprinting, and proxy detection—via a simple REST API. It integrates with over 20 e-commerce platforms (Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, etc.) and workflow automation tools like Zapier and Make. FraudLabs Pro offers a free tier with 500 monthly queries and paid plans based on volume, making it accessible to small and medium-sized businesses. Its AI-driven scoring engine, custom rule engine, and sandbox testing environment allow merchants to fine-tune detection without impacting live orders. The company is privately held and has not disclosed headcount publicly, though market estimates suggest a team of 20–50 employees.