GlobaliD is a company.
GlobaliD has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
Key people at GlobaliD.
GlobaliD has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
GlobaliD is a portfolio company building a decentralized digital identity platform that enables self-sovereign, private, and reusable identities for individuals, organizations, and businesses. Its mission is to bring decentralized digital identity to all people, allowing them to communicate, transact, and create value securely across physical and digital worlds, while emphasizing user control over data.[1][2] The platform combines verifiable credentials with device-based simplicity, serving individuals who hold credentials on their devices, organizations issuing them, and businesses verifying users for onboarding, fraud prevention, KYC, compliance, and bot elimination—solving problems like data silos, privacy risks, and inefficient identity verification in fintech, regtech, and beyond.[1][2][3]
GlobaliD was co-founded by Greg Kidd, whose background includes taking Dispatch Management Services public, roles at Booz Allen, Promontory, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, plus early investments in Twitter, Square, Ripple, Coinbase, Robinhood, Filecoin, Brave, and Uphold via his firm Hard Yaka.[1] The idea emerged from harnessing blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to create a "little brother" identity helper—focusing initially on digital financial identity—avoiding centralized "big brother" control and enabling portable, privacy-enhanced identities with governance innovations.[3] Early efforts align with broader initiatives like ID2020, prototyping blockchain-biometric systems for refugees and universal legal IDs, marking pivotal traction in humanitarian and compliance use cases.[5]
GlobaliD rides the decentralized identity (DID) and self-sovereign identity (SSI) trend, fueled by blockchain, biometrics, and Web3, addressing the UN's SDG 16.9 goal for legal identities for all by 2030 amid rising needs for refugees, remote work, and digital transactions.[3][5] Timing is ideal with growing regulatory pressures (e.g., AML/KYC), data breaches, and AI-driven fraud, where market forces like open standards and distributed ledgers enable permissionless, global access without silos.[2][3] It influences the ecosystem by making every company an "identity company," unlocking trust for fintech/regtech, humanitarian aid, and potentially e-voting or IoT, fostering a shift from PII collection to verifiable, privacy-preserving proofs.[1][2][8]
GlobaliD is poised to scale as decentralized identity standards mature (e.g., via W3C, ID2020 integrations), with expansions into financial services, public sector, and emerging Web3 apps driving adoption. Trends like zero-knowledge proofs, regulatory harmonization, and biometric-blockchain convergence will shape its path, potentially evolving influence toward universal "world citizen" IDs and global participation tools. As the key to unlocking social-economic potential, GlobaliD's private, reusable platform positions it to redefine trust in a borderless digital economy.[1][3][5]
Key people at GlobaliD.
GlobaliD has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
GlobaliD's investors include Altair Capital Management, Amino Capital, Arbor Ventures, Flashpoint VC, Flex Capital, iNovia Capital, Journey Ventures, Locus Ventures, Matrix Capital, Obvious Ventures, Pitbull Ventures, Sequoia Capital.
GlobaliD has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Series A in July 2018.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2018 | $6.0M Series A | Altair Capital Management, Amino Capital, Arbor Ventures, Flashpoint VC, Flex Capital, iNovia Capital, Journey Ventures, Locus Ventures, Matrix Capital, Obvious Ventures, Pitbull Ventures, Sequoia Capital, TLV Partners, Bobby Goodlatte, Sue Xu |
