Facebook acquires biometric ID verification startup Confirm.io

Facebook has acquired… Confirm.io. The startup offered an API that let different organizations rapidly check somebody's official identification card, similar to a driver's permit, was bona fide. The Boston-based startup will close down as the two its group and innovation are moved into Facebook, where it could help clients who are bolted out of their records.


Confirm.io had raised at any rate $4 million from financial specialists, including Cava Capital, since propelling three years back. The 2015 seed round subsidized propelled legal sciences used to pull data from an ID card, and in addition portable biometrics and facial acknowledgment to affirm a man's character before the startup erased the individual information.

Customers could rapidly incorporate the tech, which facilitated on-request startup staff onboarding. Sustenance conveyance benefit Doordash utilized Confirm.io to check its drivers, while Notarize utilized it to verify the personality of clients hoping to record archives. 

The startup expresses, "When we propelled Confirm, our main goal was to wind up plainly the market's trusted personality beginning stage for which other multifaceted check administrations can expand upon. Presently, we're prepared to make the following stride on our adventure with Facebook. In any case, meanwhile this implies the greater part of our current advanced ID validation programming offerings will be slowed down."