Identity Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

We are building a safer supply chain. Cargo Theft has been increasing yearly, and the supply chain industry is urgently looking for ways to solve this. Using experience fighting fraud at the largest delivery marketplaces and logistics tech companies, we are building solutions to stop Cargo Theft and improve profit margins and revenue for warehouses and freight brokers.

Plutto is a supply-chain risk management and compliance platform for Latin America. We automate due diligence, compliance checks, and conflict-of-interest reviews—helping corporates across LatAm work with vendors and contractors safely.

Verify your customers globally with a single platform. Get 800+ data points on each business and 100+ data points on each individual and onboard with confidence.

TrueBiz helps financial service providers reduce manual review during business onboarding. We add color to the company's background with 250+ data points on the company from around the web (such as industry and address), and summarize key risk indicators. The process takes seconds – not days, so financial service providers can efficiently meet risk requirements and onboard new businesses faster.

Dojah is the anti-fraud infrastructure for the internet, helping businesses verify identities, detect fraud, and stay compliant with powerful APIs and no-code tools. Fintechs, banks, and digital businesses rely on Dojah’s solutions for seamless user onboarding, AI-driven fraud detection, KYC & KYB verification, and transaction monitoring. By leveraging government data lookups, biometric authentication, and real-time risk analysis, Dojah ensures businesses can mitigate fraud risks, improve user trust, and scale efficiently while staying compliant with regulatory standards.

PropelAuth provides the right level of authentication for all stages of a company. New startups can use our hosted pre-built UIs which provide the simplest possible integration. Out of the box, our customers immediately have the same auth experience as large tech companies like Slack. As those startups grow, they can use our APIs and component libraries to pull aspects of the experience into their product. More than just authentication, we will also provide useful functions tied to a "user" or "organization", like analytics, billing/subscriptions, referral programs, etc.

We are making it possible for digital businesses to easily verify individuals and businesses within seconds across Emerging Markets.

We help DevOps teams to improve the security of their Cloud infrastructure. Our solution value increases for companies using multi-cloud (like GCP, Azure, AWS) or have multi-accounts (like Dev, Test, Prod)

SpruceID lets users control their data across the web. Instead of people signing into platforms, we imagine platforms should sign into people’s data vaults. We implement this pattern into digital wallet ecosystems for governments, enterprises, and blockchains. We believe that architectures that enable individual autonomy in the digital world are necessary for free societies and dynamic economies to thrive.

Reclaim Protocol is a verification company that leverages advances in AI and cryptography to bring you global, instantaneous and compliant verifications. Using Reclaim Protocol, you can verify : - Education : Which university is this student enrolled in? 20k+ universities globally supported - Employment : Where is the user employed and what is their designation? Employers in all countries supported - Finances : What is the Credit Score and Accredited Investor status of the user? Again, all countries supported - Shopping : Where is the user spending, and what brands are they loyal to? Supporting all major ecommerce and travel services Once you integrate Reclaim Protocol, your users will be presented with a button similar to "Login with Google", but for the website from where we need to verify information. e.g. their university portal, their tax portals and so on. As soon as they login, Reclaim Protocol extracts the required information and verifies the integrity of it. Particularly, ensures that the user has not tampered with the data that was displayed by the website. The verification is done using zero knowledge proofs using an open sourced library!

Berbix’s mission is to enable all individuals to prove who they are and control how their information gets shared. Founded by the former engineering and product leaders for Trust & Safety at Airbnb, we empower companies to confidently answer the question: “Are you who you say you are?"​ This is a question many online platforms need to answer about their users. We solve that problem by offering best-in-class ID verification and proprietary fraud detection technology to our customers, which they can access through developer friendly SDKs. We serve customers in a broad variety of industries, recently raised our Series A led by Mayfield, and are actively growing our all-star team.

We're building a mobile and wearable digital wallet that makes interacting with payments, identity, and authentication seamless, fun, and empowering. Acquired by OURA in 2023

Cognito is the highest converting ID verification system on the market. By starting with just a user's phone number, Cognito can verify their name, date of birth, address, phone, and Social Security Number. The strong link formed between a user and their phone number builds trust while reducing friction.