DUST Identity

Diamond-based authentication for physical objects.

dustidentity.com

HQ: Boston, MA, USA

Cybersecurity

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

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

85 Wells Avenue, Newton, Massachusetts (headquarters)

Framingham, Massachusetts

Princeton, New Jersey (R&D facility)

Business model

B2B enterprise software and cloud verification

Hardware-enabled authentication platform

Enterprise implementation and API integrations

Industry-specific solutions for aerospace, defense, manufacturing, luxury, and government

Pricing appears quote-based; no public rate card found

Funding

Stage

Series B / venture-backed growth stage

Total raised

$52.3M

Latest round

Series B · Dec 2023

Latest amount

$40M

Series B

Dec 2023 · Castle Island Ventures

$40M

Later Stage VC

Dec 2021

Venture round / later-stage financing

Dec 2021

Series A

Jul 2019 · Kleiner Perkins

$10M

Seed

Nov 2018 · Kleiner Perkins

$2.3M

People & investors

Leadership

Ophir Gaathon

Co-Founder and CEO

Jonathan Hodges

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

Investors

Castle Island Partners

Castle Island Ventures

Kleiner Perkins

Lockheed Martin Ventures

Mad Arts

Mobius Energy

New England Patriots ProShop

Work & culture

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

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

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Company equity/options

Performance bonuses

Wellness reimbursement

Life and disability insurance

HSA option

Free parking

Hybrid/remote work program

Product & market

Pricing

Enterprise quote-based pricing; public pricing was not found. Likely combines hardware/scanner, implementation, and recurring software/platform components.

Differentiators

—Physical identity is embedded in or attached to the object rather than relying only on a label, certificate, or database record.
—Engineered diamond-particle patterns are covert, durable, and designed to be effectively impossible to clone.
—Links physical evidence directly to digital records across an object's lifecycle.
—Supports handheld field authentication and inline production-line scanning.
—API integrations connect authentication events to existing ERP, CRM, MES, quality, and blockchain systems.
—Combines materials science, imaging hardware, and cloud software in one enterprise workflow.

Technology

Engineered nitrogen-vacancy nanodiamonds

Optical scanners and photoluminescence imaging

Cloud-based digital identity and verification platform

Digital twins / anchored digital thread

REST/API integrations

ERP, CRM, MES, blockchain and quality-management integrations

Microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

React

React Native

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

AWS

GitHub Actions

Istio

Customers

Parker Aerospace

Lockheed Martin

New England Patriots ProShop / New England Patriots

Oxygen Esports

Competitors

AlpVision

SICPA

Authentix

Entrupy

NFC/RFID and digital-product-passport providers

Blockchain-based product-authentication platforms

Scale & contact

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

info@dustidentity.com 508-205-6870

Latest news

DUST Identity and Selinko (TOPPAN Group) Partner to Embed Unclonable Physical Identity into Luxury Products

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.

DUST Identity Launches Theseus Platform To Secure Aerospace Supply Chains

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.

DUST Identity Launches Theseus, an End-to-End Aerospace Material & Parts Authentication Platform

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.

DUST Identity and Securikett Launch Diamond-Based, Impossible-to-Copy Labels

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.

DUST Identity Announces $40M Series B and Partnership with Oxygen Esports

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.

Jobs and careers at DUST Identity

23 jobs at DUST Identity

Senior Product Manager

On-site

Product

Paris; Paris, Île de France, France

1w ago

On-site

Full-time