Onfido will use the funds to further extend its unique offering for finance: Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solutions that significantly improve remote identity verification. Many retail financial transactions requiring KYC/AML verification are riddled with obstacles and inefficiencies, built on paperwork and manual document verification. Onfido’s machine learning-based technology allows clients to carry out robust, remote KYC/AML through one simple API.

Joining Salesforce Ventures are Talis Capital, investors in Darktrace, angel investors Charlie Songhurst, founder of Katana Capital and former Head of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft; and Hank Vigil, a general partner at Acequia Capital and former Senior Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships at Microsoft. Earlier in the year, Onfido announced their Series B round from Idinvest Partners, Wellington Partners and CrunchFund.

“FinTech innovation is disrupting and reshaping how financial companies operate,” said Husayn Kassai, CEO and co-founder at Onfido. “But traditional ID verification technology is not keeping up. On average, between 30-50 percent of people going through in-person ID verification do not complete the manual onboarding process. Onfido automates KYC/AML to eliminate inefficiencies and improve the experience on both sides of the transaction. We’re pleased to welcome our new investors to advance our superior KYC/AML solution.”

“It’s critical that businesses today can quickly identify fraudsters and other risky actors,” said Matus Maar, Partner at Talis Capital. “But just as importantly, they must be able to quickly verify those who should be trusted, in order to onboard them without any delay. Onfido is uniquely qualified to apply advanced technology to improve retail finance transactions.”

With offices in London and San Francisco, Onfido is powering background checks and identity verification for top on-demand service providers and financial institutions.