Fintech Takes
Digital Identity Tomorrow
The future of digital identity is here. Footprint simplifies onboarding with a unified solution, building trust and persistent digital identity.
December 10, 2024
Media
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Businesswire
Footprint selected by Money2020 as one of top 7 fintechs at 2024 conference
Money20/20 USA highlights Footprint and other pioneering fintechs poised to transform the future of finance.
October 30, 2024
Business Insider
Footprint makes the Top 49 Fintechs list for the second year in a row!
Check out the 49 startups identified as most promising by 27 top investors.
May 21, 2024
Business Insider
Here's the pitch deck Footprint, a startup helping Wall Street verify customer identities, used to raise $13 million from VCs like QED and Index Ventures
Footprint raised $13 million in a Series A, announced today, that was led by QED Investors.
May 21, 2024
QED Investors
Why QED invested in Footprint
QED invested in Footprint to help solve the problem of how to verify a person’s identity online.
May 21, 2024
Fintech Innovation 50
Footprint is in the Fintech Innovation 50 list for 2023
GGV Capital U.S. is excited to unveil the Fintech Innovation 50, an annual list highlighting the most innovative emerging and established fintech companies.
Jan 25, 2024
Why You Should Join: Inside Edition
Suggestions from Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia), Shardul Shah (Index), Alex Kolicich (8VC), Ali Partovi and Suzanne Xie (Neo), and Arash Afrakhteh (Pear).
“Why You Should Join” is a monthly newsletter highlighting early-stage startups on track to becoming generational companies. Footprint was proudly featured in the January 2024 edition.
Jan 1, 2024
Primary Ventures
Focal Fintech: 25 Startups to Watch
Meet NYC's up-and-coming startup leaders transforming financial services—from banking and payments to retirement planning.
Oct 19, 2023
Business Insider
Top best fintech startups according to VCs
After several tough quarters in the fintech space, VCs are still bullish on the sector, and Footprint is in the top startups to watch, according to VCs.
Sept 5, 2023
Fast Company
This Gen-Z tech CEO wants to build the Apple Pay of identity—a one-stop shop for your data
Eli Wachs, cofounder of Footprint, is finding success in the verification business at a time when consumer trust is increasingly hard to come by.
Jan 7, 2023
Not Boring Podcast
Not Boring founders: Eli Wachs & Alex Grinman
Eli Wachs & Alex Grinman are the co-founders of Footprint. Footprint's mission is to bring back trust on the internet. The company wants to put people in control of their identity while solving KYC, IDV, and PII storage problems for enterprises. Footprint just announced a $6M Seed Round led by Index Ventures.
Aug 5, 2022
TechCrunch
Footprint wants to change how companis collect, store and share personal data
Anyone who has ever applied for an apartment or a mortgage knows that these companies tend to collect much more information than they need to determine if you can afford the monthly payment...
Aug 3, 2022
Index Ventures
Footprint Emerges from Stealth to Transform Digital Identity
Today, when consumers are asked to verify their identity (such as creating a bank account, applying for a credit card, or onboarding to a new job), they have to go through the same process of entering...
Aug 3, 2022
DARKReading
Startup Footprint Tackles Identity Verification
Whenever a person walks into a financial services institution to open a bank account, apply for a loan, or obtain a credit card, that institution needs to first verify that person’s identity. Personal info...
Aug 3, 2022
Lerer Hippeau
Please welcome Footprint, the last identity form you’ll ever fill out
Being a digital citizen requires using identity credentials, including SSN, DL, DOB, education and employment history, income, and more, online. Current verification processes are broken, though. They add...
Aug 3, 2022
