Mumbai-built digital-trust and verification platform — founded in 2011 by Ashok Hariharan (CEO) and Vineet Jawa, with a six-person founding cohort (Hatim Baheranwala, Kaushik Shah, Narayanswamy Hariharan, Wriju Ray). The largest Indian player in the video-KYC segment; 65 million verifications monthly across 7 countries, 2,500+ clients in 15+ industries. Successful FY25 turnaround (revenue ₹188.5 Cr with ₹7.8 Cr net profit vs FY24's ₹8.8 Cr net loss). $27M Series E in 2024 (Elev8 led, ~$66.5M cumulative) then ₹476 Cr (~$53M) Series F on 13 February 2026 led by Neo Asset Management's Neo Secondaries Fund. Early 2024 Difenz acquisition added fraud / AML capability.
IDfy is the broadest digital-trust and verification platform built in India — the only Indian KYC vendor that genuinely operates at scale across the full verification spectrum from BGV (background verification for employment, the company's original product) through RBI-compliant Video KYC (V-CIP), Aadhaar e-KYC, document OCR, face match + liveness, AML / sanctions screening, and post the early-2024 Difenz acquisition fraud / transaction-monitoring. The company was founded in 2011 in Mumbai by Ashok Hariharan (CEO) — previously at British Telecom — and Vineet Jawa (later a co-founder at CredRight), with a full six-person founding cohort that also includes Hatim Baheranwala, Kaushik Shah, Narayanswamy Hariharan and Wriju Ray. Original focus was BGV (employment background verification — a market IDfy still leads in India); the company expanded into V-CIP, e-KYC and broader verification as Indian fintech and digital banking demanded a single-vendor trust layer. Scale is genuinely large: 65 million verifications monthly across 7 countries, 2,500+ clients in 15+ industries, positioned as "the largest player in the video KYC segment" in India per multiple analyst views. The financial trajectory is now genuinely healthy: FY24 (April 2023 – March 2024) revenue ₹145 crore with a ₹8.8 crore net loss turned to FY25 (April 2024 – March 2025) revenue ₹188.5 crore with a ₹7.8 crore net PROFIT — a meaningful operational turnaround. Funding: $27M Series E in March 2024 led by Elev8 Venture Partners (with KB Investment and Tenacity Ventures participating, plus a secondary component for early backers) took total funding to approximately $66.5 million, and most importantly on 13 February 2026 IDfy closed a ₹476 crore (~$53 million) Series F led by Neo Asset Management's Neo Secondaries Fund (primary + secondary components) with returning investors Blume Ventures, Analog Capital, Elev8, IndiaMART and Kae Capital all participating. A separate strategic move worth flagging: early 2024 acquisition of Difenz — a fraud-risk-management vendor — added AML screening and transaction monitoring to the IDfy platform, materially broadening the product surface beyond pure KYC. The right framing for Indian buyers in 2026: IDfy is the default-correct call for any Indian bank, NBFC, fintech, BPO, IT services, GCC or large-enterprise customer that needs a single-vendor digital-trust layer covering BGV + V-CIP + KYC + AML + fraud under one MSA — and especially for any company with global / GCC expansion needs (7-country footprint is meaningful). It is the wrong call only for teams that specifically want the deepest Indian-face liveness AI accuracy at lowest latency (HyperVerge), the Mastercard partnership leverage (Signzy), or a fraud-only / device-intelligence layer without primary KYC (Bureau / Sardine).
IDfy is a digital-trust platform — a single API and managed-services surface that gives Indian banks, NBFCs, fintech, large enterprises and HR / BGV procurement teams everything they need to verify the identity and trustworthiness of customers, employees and counterparties. The mental model: where a credit bureau (CIBIL / CRIF / Experian / Equifax India) answers "is this person creditworthy" and a fraud-prevention vendor (Bureau / Sardine / SEON) answers "is this device / behaviour trustworthy," IDfy answers the orthogonal question — "is this person who they say they are, and does their background check out?"
The company was founded in 2011 in Mumbai by Ashok Hariharan (CEO) and Vineet Jawa, with a six-person founding cohort that also includes Hatim Baheranwala, Kaushik Shah, Narayanswamy Hariharan and Wriju Ray. Hariharan previously worked at British Telecom; Jawa later co-founded the fintech firm CredRight. The original product was employment background verification (BGV) — verifying education, employment history, criminal records, address, and identity for HR / hiring teams at Indian IT services companies, BPOs, and GCCs. BGV is a high-volume, low-glamour market, but it gave IDfy a deep moat of Indian government / regulatory / educational-institution data connections that subsequently became valuable when the company expanded into V-CIP and broader KYC around 2018–2020 as Indian digital banking accelerated.
Scale today is genuinely large for an Indian SaaS vendor:
The financial story is now a turnaround story:
Funding history added with the recent rounds that the old page missed:
One strategic move that materially expanded the platform surface: early 2024 IDfy acquired Difenz — a fraud-risk-management vendor specialising in AML screening and transaction monitoring. This brought a fraud / AML layer into the IDfy platform that previously existed only as a thin add-on, and reduces (though doesn't eliminate) the case for layering a separate fraud-prevention vendor on top of IDfy.
The original IDfy product and still the deepest in the Indian market — verifies education, employment history, criminal records, address, identity, court records, professional licences and credit history for HR / hiring at IT services, BPO, GCC, BFSI and large enterprises. The data-source depth here is hard to replicate.
RBI-compliant Video CIP for banks, NBFCs and fintech digital onboarding — agent-assisted and assisted-self-service flows, AI-led pre-screening, audit-trail compliance. Positioned as the largest Indian V-KYC player by volume.
Aadhaar online e-KYC, Aadhaar offline KYC / DigiLocker, full Indian-document OCR (PAN, Aadhaar masking, DL, RC, voter ID, GST, passport). Visa partnership since June 2020 for video KYC distribution.
Face-match between selfie and ID-photo with passive and active liveness; spoof / injection-attack / deepfake detection. Solid Indian-face accuracy though HyperVerge generally wins on lowest-latency benchmarks at scale.
Sanctions and PEP screening, AML transaction monitoring, fraud risk scoring — meaningfully expanded post the early-2024 Difenz acquisition. Reduces the case for stacking a separate AML vendor on top.
Operational footprint across India + 6 other countries — particularly valuable for Indian IT services / GCC customers running global hiring or KYC, and for Indian fintechs expanding into ASEAN, MENA or Africa. This is one of the few Indian KYC vendors that scales globally without forcing customers to integrate a separate global vendor.
IDfy uses per-verification INR pricing with volume tiers; no public list price, enterprise sales motion. Indicative ranges:
All pricing INR with 18% GST through IDfy's Indian entity. Multi-year contracts 20–30% off list; large enterprise / PSU bank deployments routinely include custom MSAs, dedicated CSM and on-premise / private-cloud deployment options for compliance-sensitive customers.
IDfy is the wrong call when: you specifically need the lowest-latency, highest-accuracy Indian-face V-CIP at extreme scale — HyperVerge generally wins on this; you need Mastercard partnership leverage for cross-border deployments — Signzy has the global Mastercard alliance; you need a standalone fraud / device-intelligence layer without primary KYC — use Bureau / Sardine instead; you need USD billing through a non-Indian entity; or your buying committee is reluctant to consolidate BGV + KYC + AML + fraud under one vendor (some BFSI buyers prefer to multi-vendor for risk-distribution).