India's oldest background-verification & KYC platform — Gurugram-built since 2005, bootstrapped to ₹148 Cr revenue, with separate product lines for HR, BFSI customer-KYC, and vendor due-diligence
AuthBridge is the grandfather of Indian background verification and digital identity — founded in 2005 in Gurugram by Ajay Trehan, bootstrapped for 16 years, and one of the very few Indian B2B SaaS companies that built scale before the Aadhaar / DigiLocker / UPI infrastructure made digital KYC easy. The company spent its first decade running primarily as a Background Verification (BGV) platform for HR teams — pre-employment checks, criminal history, education and reference verification — and then expanded across two more product lines as the Indian KYC stack matured: Fintelle for BFSI customer KYC and digital onboarding (banks, NBFCs, fintechs) and Business Solutions for vendor due-diligence and merchant verification. AuthBridge raised its first external funding only in December 2021 — a $7M Series B from Phi Capital, Infinity Alternatives and Kinetic Capital — and reported ₹148 Cr in revenue for FY ending March 2025 with around 990 employees and 1,500+ clients across 30+ sectors. For Indian product, HR and risk teams the right framing is: AuthBridge is the conservative, BGV-rooted, bank-friendly choice when accuracy and audit trail matter more than developer-first APIs. For developer-first identity verification look at HyperVerge; for business-data and credit-bureau APIs look at Karza or IDfy.
AuthBridge is an identity-verification, background-screening and due-diligence platform built for Indian enterprises. The product surface combines the database integrations and government API plumbing — Aadhaar, PAN, GST, ITR, MCA, criminal records, education and employment verification — with a workflow layer that an HR or fintech onboarding team can actually use without writing code. Behind that surface sits a 20-year-old verification operations capability: a network of physical-verification field agents, court-record researchers and education-document specialists across India, plus the audit-trail discipline a bank's compliance team expects.
The company was founded in 2005 by Ajay Trehan, who started AuthBridge after running an earlier BPO business (CoreBPO, founded 2003). International clients of CoreBPO repeatedly asked Trehan how the company verified its hires; he found that India had no real corporate BGV market at the time and decided to build one. AuthBridge spent its first ~16 years as a profitable, bootstrapped business — a rarity in Indian B2B SaaS. The first external round (a $7M Series B led by Phi Capital with Infinity Alternatives and Kinetic Capital) closed in December 2021, with total funding of approximately $11.2M to date.
The company today is meaningfully more than a BGV vendor. It runs three distinct product lines:
The reason this matters for Indian product teams is that buying AuthBridge is rarely about a single API call — it's about buying into the operations layer that does the messy reconciliation across government databases, court records, and physical verification. That operations depth is where AuthBridge is differentiated; the API surface itself is competent but not a category leader.
End-to-end pre-employment verification: criminal record search, court-record check, employment verification (last 2–4 employers), education verification (degree, university), address verification (physical visit if needed), and reference checks. The original product, still the largest revenue line.
Aadhaar OKYC, PAN verification, video KYC (RBI-compliant for banking customers), bank-account verification (penny-drop / IFSC validation), driving-licence and voter-ID checks. Designed for BFSI digital-onboarding journeys.
GSTIN verification, MCA company-data lookups, beneficial-ownership tracing, sanction-list and PEP screening, court-record and litigation history search, and financial-strength signals from public filings. Used by enterprises onboarding suppliers and marketplaces vetting sellers.
Re-verify employees or vendors on a recurring schedule against criminal, court and sanction databases. Automatic alerts when new adverse data appears. Important for regulated industries (BFSI, pharma, large IT services exporters).
Real-time screening against Indian and global sanction lists (OFAC, EU, UN, RBI) plus PEP lists. Configurable risk-scoring rules and case-management workflow for compliance teams to review hits.
Tamper-evident audit trail of every verification check, including who ran it, when, with what inputs, and what result was returned. The single biggest reason regulated banks and large enterprises choose AuthBridge over a pure-API vendor.
AuthBridge does not publish list prices. Real-world pricing structure has three components:
For mid-sized Indian fintechs and SaaS companies, total annual contracts typically land in the ₹15L–₹2Cr range. The previous "starts ~₹50,000/month" figure on this page implied a flat subscription that doesn't really exist for AuthBridge — pricing is meaningfully driven by volume and product mix. Always negotiate via the authbridge.com sales team; multi-product contracts (Workforce + Fintelle, for example) typically unlock material discounts.
AuthBridge is the wrong call when: you're a developer-led fintech that wants the most modern API and lowest per-call cost (use HyperVerge for face match / video KYC, IDfy for general identity verification, or Karza for credit-bureau and business-data depth); when you only need a single one-off API like Aadhaar OKYC (use a focused vendor); or when you're an early-stage startup that needs to be live this week (AuthBridge sales cycles are enterprise-paced).