EIN Presswire / DUST Identity · Jun 2026
Strategic partnership combining DUST's embedded diamond-based physical anchors with Selinko's digital product-identity and passport platform for luxury goods.
Diamond-based authentication for physical objects.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
DUST Identity is a private MIT-spinoff company building physical-to-digital trust infrastructure. It embeds engineered diamond particles in products, parts, materials, labels, or documents to create durable, covert, effectively unclonable physical fingerprints, then links those fingerprints to secure digital records for authentication, provenance, and lifecycle traceability.
Primary product
DUST Identity Platform / Diamond Unclonable Security Tag (DUST), including scanners, embedded diamond-based markers, cloud verification, digital-twin records, APIs, and the Theseus aerospace parts-authentication platform.
Founded
2018
Headquarters
85 Wells Avenue, Suite 112, Newton, Massachusetts 02459, United States
Team size
20-30 (LinkedIn-derived estimate); Built In lists 30
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development / Enterprise technology
Sub-industry
Physical authentication, supply-chain traceability, product identity, anti-counterfeiting, and digital-thread infrastructure
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series B / venture-backed growth stage
Total raised
$52.3M
Latest round
Series B · Dec 2023
Latest amount
$40M
Dec 2023 · Castle Island Ventures
Dec 2021
Jul 2019 · Kleiner Perkins
Nov 2018 · Kleiner Perkins
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Ittai Marom
Chief Operating Officer
Keith Goldstein
EVP & GM
Sergio Allegri
Vice President, Global Materials Traceability
Andrew Stern
Director of Software Engineering
Roy Solomon
Chief Revenue Officer
Founders
Dirk Englund
Co-Founder / MIT quantum-photonics researcher
Public recruiting material describes a startup environment for self-starters and problem solvers, emphasizing trust, transparency, candor, authenticity, and ownership. Public employee-review signals are mixed and should not be treated as representative.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
No
Compensation
Public job-board signals describe market-competitive compensation plus equity and benefits. A Senior DevOps posting specified no immigration sponsorship and on-site work four days per week. Third-party salary estimates include approximately $128,893 for Senior Software Engineer and $146,931 for Chief of Staff, but these are not company-confirmed ranges.
Benefits
Pricing
Enterprise quote-based pricing; public pricing was not found. Likely combines hardware/scanner, implementation, and recurring software/platform components.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $2.9M estimated annual revenue for 2024; broader third-party range $1M-$10M. Not company-reported.
Estimated monthly visits
487
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
EIN Presswire / DUST Identity · Jun 2026
Strategic partnership combining DUST's embedded diamond-based physical anchors with Selinko's digital product-identity and passport platform for luxury goods.
AirPro News · Apr 2026
Major product launch introducing Theseus, an aerospace supply-chain fraud solution combining raw-material traceability and AI-assisted verification of airworthiness documents.
EIN Presswire / DUST Identity · Apr 2026
Launch of Theseus for aerospace MRO and supply-chain authentication, combining physical marking, digital verification, AI-assisted document review, and airworthiness records; Parker Aerospace and Lockheed Martin were identified as customers.
EIN Presswire / DUST Identity · Jan 2026
Partnership to embed DUST's diamond-based physical identities into Securikett tamper-evident security labels for sectors including pharmaceuticals, luxury, electronics, aerospace, and government.
PR Newswire / DUST Identity · Dec 2023
DUST announced its $40M Series B led by Castle Island Ventures, a mobile authentication solution, and an expansion into luxury goods, artwork, sports apparel, and memorabilia.