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About Know Your Customer

Know Your Customer provides end-to-end digital solutions that quickly and accurately identify and verify companies and individuals prior to client on-boarding, wherever they are in the world. It offers quick document collection, Digital ID verification and automated anti-money laundering checks in multiple languages and across multiple jurisdictions, automating 90% of compliance teams’ routine tasks. Know Your Customer’s suite of products helps organisations with compliance, risk and client on-boarding, ensuring companies can accurately and confidently conduct their KYC and AML functions.

Established in  Hong Kong  in  2015 , Know Your Customer was founded by Claus Christensen, Richard Barrett and Cormac Doddy. The three co-founders, whose combined experience ranged from real estate and property development to IT and business strategy, joined forces to build a  state of the art platform  and  revolutionise  the world of  KYC compliance . Their mission was to fully digitise and streamline the onboarding process for  both corporate and individual customers , improving efficiency and strengthening compliance.

With offices in  Hong Kong ,  Singapore ,  Shanghai , and  Dublin  and team members across  17 different countries , Know Your Customer has quickly established a global presence and a  reputation for excellence . Our clients span across  11 sectors  – including banking, FinTech, insurance, payments, real estate, asset management, legal, among others – and  18 jurisdictions  and are using our technology to verify and onboard customers from more than  180 countries .

Funding

$6.9m

Total raised

RoundYearAmount
Latest round 2021
Round −1 2020 $1m
Round −2 2019 $2.5m
Round −3 2017 $3.4m