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<\/b>Smile Identity is providing the Identity Verification, Digital KYC, User Onboarding, Document Verification, Liveness Checks, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, and Identity Data Deduplication tools powering the rapid growth and expansion of businesses and startups across Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LAGOS, Nigeria, July 8, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Smile Identity<\/a>, the company that enables ID verification and KYC compliance through Artificial Intelligence designed for African faces and identities, announced today that the company had secured $7 million in Series A funding.<\/p>\n

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The investment was co-led by\u00a0Costanoa Ventures<\/a>\u00a0and the pan-African venture firm,\u00a0CRE Venture Capital<\/a>, along with participation from\u00a0LocalGlobe<\/a>,\u00a0Intercept Ventures<\/a>,\u00a0Future Africa Ventures<\/a>, and Angel Investors from across Africa and around the world. Existing investors, including\u00a0Khosla Impact<\/a>,\u00a0ValueStream Ventures<\/a>,\u00a0Beta Ventures<\/a>,\u00a0500 Startups<\/a>, and\u00a0Story Ventures<\/a>\u00a0also participated.<\/p>\n

The round, which marks the largest investment into an identity verification company focused on Africa, brings Smile Identity’s total funding to over $11M. The company plans to use the new funding to improve its services, expand across more markets, add support for more ID types and hire more engineers and support staff across Africa. In conjunction with this round,\u00a0John Cowgill<\/a>\u00a0of Costanoa, will be joining Smile Identity’s board.<\/p>\n

Smile Identity launched in 2017 with a mission to make it easy for Africans anywhere to quickly and easily prove their identity online, while providing startups and established enterprises with the tools and software they need to automate customer onboarding, verify identities, and prevent fraud.<\/p>\n

Africans spend an inordinate amount of time trying to prove or verify their identities in order to gain access to financial accounts, loans, SIM cards, address proofs, and social services; and an estimated 500 million Africans have no formal identification at all. “We believe anyone should be able to prove their identity easily, anywhere in the world and that access to a modern digital lifestyle should not depend on the origin of your ID Card or IP address,” said Mark Straub, Smile Identity’s Co-founder and CEO.<\/p>\n

To standardize identity verification across the continent and provide a single solution for a new generation of African companies, Smile Identity works with local ID authorities and has built a platform that combines ID validation with proprietary face verification and liveness checks to support non-surveillance, consent-based access and financial inclusion. The company performs over 1 million identity checks every month across Africa and its software is used in banking, fintech, ride sharing, worker verification, public social welfare programs, and telecommunications. Its customers include payments companies like\u00a0Paystack<\/a>,\u00a0Paga<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chippercash<\/a>; neo-banks like\u00a0Kudabank<\/a>\u00a0and Umba; traditional banks like\u00a0Stanbic IBTC<\/a>; cryptocurrency exchanges like\u00a0Binance<\/a>, Luno, and Paxful; and even supply-chain businesses like\u00a0Twiga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Smile Identity has powered our hyper growth across Africa, accelerating our ability to acquire real users and build a great KYC user experience for our customers. With Smile Identity, we were able to automate our compliance process and reduce KYC completion time by 99%, from 2 days to 2 minutes. Within 6 weeks of turning on Smile Identity’s automated KYC solution, we catapulted to #1 in the South African app store.” Says\u00a0Chippercash<\/a>\u00a0Co-founder and President\u00a0Maijid Moujaled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With subsidiaries, branch offices and engineers in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda and counting, Smile Identity’s growing team is made up of people from 12 countries, including 8 African nations.<\/p>\n

About Smile Identity
\n<\/b>Smile Identity is the leading Know Your Customer (KYC) and Identity Verification provider for Africa. We help companies scale rapidly across Africa by confirming the true identity of their users in real time, using any smartphone or computer. Our technology is powered by proprietary Machine Learning algorithms designed specifically for African faces, and our products include Identity Verification, Digital KYC, User Onboarding, Document Verification, Liveness Checks, Face Verification, Anti-fraud Checks, and Identity Data Deduplication. Backed by Costanoa, CRE Venture Capital, Khosla Impact, LocalGlobe and a host of Angel Investors from across Africa, Smile Identity is enabling the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while providing infrastructure to build trust online. For more information, please visit\u00a0www.smileidentity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Costanoa
\n<\/b>Costanoa Ventures backs tenacious and thoughtful founders who change how business gets done. Costanoa seeks to be a long-term partner to entrepreneurs building durable companies leveraging data to solve complex business problems. For more information, please visit\u00a0www.costanoavc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About CRE Venture Capital
\n<\/b>CRE Venture Capital partners with and invests in visionary entrepreneurs building category-defining tech companies in Africa. Founded by Pule Taukobong and Pardon Makumbe, CRE taps into its relationships and experience to help founders build African tech companies with global relevance and impact. Current investments include Andela, Flutterwave, Rensource, Yoco and Oradian.<\/p>\n

Press Contact:
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\n<\/i>press@smileidentity.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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\n<\/i>https:\/\/cdn.smileidentity.com\/Smile-Identity-Media-Kit.zip<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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