Onfido

What is Onfido?

Onfido is a digital identity verification solution that helps businesses confirm who their customers are when they sign up online. It combines three core components: document verification, biometric checks (such as matching a selfie to an ID photo), and data verification. It also includes fraud detection to protect both the business and its customers.

The Real Identity Platform handles the full identity verification process and automates onboarding. Onfido Studio lets businesses assemble different verification steps and checks into custom workflows, simplifying onboarding. Onfido Atlas is the company’s AI technology, using machine learning to analyze documents and biometric data for fast, accurate, and fair verification.

Onfido serves a range of industries, including financial services, gaming, healthcare, retail, and transportation. It supports age verification, fraud prevention, automated onboarding, and regulatory compliance, including complex Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. The platform supports many languages and a wide variety of ID documents.

Who created Onfido?

Onfido was founded by three friends — Husayn, Eamon, and Ruhul — who met while studying at Oxford University. The company launched in London on June 25, 2019, with initial support from the Saïd Business School at Oxford. Its founding goal was to make identity verification easier so people could access online services more readily.

Since then, Onfido has expanded globally, raised significant funding, launched new products, and acquired Airside. Onfido was eventually acquired by Entrust, combining AI-driven identity verification with Entrust’s identity-focused security solutions.

What is Onfido used for?

Onfido’s verification tools are applied across a variety of use cases:

• Financial services: KYC and AML compliance.
• Gaming: Verifying that players meet age and identity requirements.
• Healthcare: Verifying patient identities for secure access to services.
• Retail: Streamlining customer onboarding and preventing account takeovers.
• Transportation: Driver registration verification.
• Fraud detection and prevention: Identifying and stopping fraudulent activity.
• Age verification: Ensuring users meet age restrictions.
• Automated onboarding: Speeding up sign-up and customer acquisition.
• Global compliance: Helping businesses meet international regulations.
• ETSI-certified identity verification: Meeting European standards for digital identity.
• Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) integration: Supporting secure digital signatures.