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Vouched

506 2nd Avenue Suite 1400, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States

Overview

Vouched provides an AI-powered identity and agent verification platform, with its Know Your Agent (KYA) suite and KnowThat.ai Agent Reputation Directory for onboarding, monitoring, and compliance. The KYA suite includes modules for credentials, risk, and continuous compliance, and offers developer-friendly APIs plus a turnkey MCP-Identity server supporting the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Its platform enables real-time monitoring and anomalous-agent detection to help enterprises maintain transparent, secure, and compliant agent interactions. Vouched serves industries with critical verification needs—such as healthcare, finance, and automotive—and has traction in e-commerce, digital marketplaces, and regulated sectors. The company says it verifies millions of human and AI agent identities annually and is used by organizations around the world. With the new funding it plans to advance product development, expand industry partnerships, and scale the KYA platform. Vouched provides an AI-based identity verification platform that delivers multi-dimensional, dynamic verification of individuals. Its core product is used by regulated and commercial businesses to quickly and accurately verify individuals while minimizing fraud risk. The company serves more than 300 banks, fintechs and healthcare providers, including Alloy and Hims Health. Vouched intends to use the new funds to enhance its platform, recruit talent, and extend support for financial services and healthtech businesses. Founded in 2018 and led by John Baird, the company is based in Seattle, WA. To date the company has raised more than $18m. Vouched offers an AI and computer vision–driven, end-to-end visual identity verification service that performs real-time fraud detection across government-issued IDs. The platform is expert on more than 550 government-issued identity documents in 70+ countries and supports touchless verification. Vouched has verified nearly 3 million individuals worldwide and serves more than 150 companies across banking, fintech, healthcare, telemedicine, legal, travel/hotel, car rentals, ecommerce, art purchasing, wire transfers, and employment screening. The company emphasizes fast, rigorous, accurate, and compliant online verification to enable digital access to services like banking, healthcare, and government aid. Management says the business will accelerate growth and expand its worldwide identity platform through strategic partnerships, particularly with banking and legal services. Vouched positions its product as a competitive advantage for businesses migrating interactions online and expects continued enterprise adoption. Vouched builds proprietary artificial intelligence and computer-vision systems that power end-to-end visual identity verification and fraud detection in real time. The platform is an expert on more than 450 government-issued identity documents across 50+ countries and serves banks, fintechs, hospitals, e-commerce, and gig and sharing businesses. Vouched’s technology verifies identities in challenging, real-world image conditions and quickly learns new IDs, adapting to diverse business use cases. The company announced a $3M funding round to accelerate growth across banking, fintech, and healthcare verticals. Vouched intends to use the funding to expand into the European market to address PSD2 and new AML compliance demand. Bankers Healthcare Group will also help bring Vouched’s services to nearly 1,200 members of its BHG Bank Network and healthcare partners.

Total raised
$31M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Sep 2025

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Computer Vision
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Health Care
  • Identity Management
  • Machine Learning
  • Security
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Sep 2025

    $17M

  2. Equity

    Feb 2023

    $6M

  3. Equity

    Aug 2021

    $5M

  4. Equity

    Dec 2020

    $3M

Team

  • John Baird

    Co-Founder/CEO

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  • John Cao

    CPO, CTO, and Co-founder

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  • Imran Khawaja

    Director Of Engineering

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  • Marita Scarfi

    Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Operations Officer

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