2023年5月5日

优点:通用身份验证平台价值的平台帮助用户创建、更新和共享安全、便携式凭证2分钟写的数字身份是一个统称为任何事情在数字格式,比如创建一个PDF现有纸质的执照或证书。而数字身份变得普遍在许多业务环境,转换过程仍依靠人工干预来收集、转换和存储记录,导致潜在的人工错误。结果,需要迅速和有效地验证标识和认证在几乎每个行业是一个全球性的挑战。校友企业投资组合公司绩效解决这个需要验证身份通过提供一个普遍的清算所。绩效提供许可和认证验证每个人从建筑师、房地产和建筑专家,技术,水管工、电工、紧急救援等。机构和行业利益通过一个共同的标准检查凭证和比较的资格,而个人利益通过他们所有的成就在一个安全的地方。价值的商业模式是基于“土地和扩张”的战略,与政府用例扩展到其他项目。例如,价值被带到了佛罗里达帮助协调单位疫苗。后来(基于疫苗接种项目的成功),该公司还为海边的公寓被要求协调现场复苏崩溃。我们喜欢什么值得建立投资者支持的:从一开始,值得支持杰夫Andreessen Horowitz约旦。 Jeff is a Midas List investor with investments in Airbnb and Pinterest. The lead investor for the company’s latest round is Rose Park Advisors, founded by the late HBS professor Clayton Christensen (a former advisor to Alumni Ventures’ CEO Mike Collins). Rose Park’s investments include Coupang and DocuSign. Strong Market and Growing Potential: The press attention that Merit has generated from government projects has translated to significant commercial interest from customers in the private sector, making them well-positioned to disrupt the global identity verification market (expected to reach $18.6 billion by 2026 ). Additionally, Merit is in the process of shifting to annual contracts where the local government will pay for yearly usage upfront, thus increasing recurring revenue. Significant Customer Demand: Merit’s identity verification platform spans many use cases and has seen high interest from state and local governments. With impressive performance that met the challenges of the pandemic, Merit has shown significant growth and strong customer demand. As a result, the company serves 1,500 trusted private, state, and municipal organizations to solve critical real-world problems in multiple sectors. How We Are Involved Spike Ventures (for the Stanford community), Waterman Ventures (for the Brown community), and 116 Street Ventures (for the Columbia community) deployed capital in Merit’s $50 million Series B led by Rose Park Advisors. The company is also in AV’s AI Fund , and part of the allocation was raised via a Syndication. Want to learn more?