Socure laid off 69 employees, approximately 13% of its workforce, primarily in marketing, sales and HR, amid slowing fintech growth and pressure to reach sustainable cash flow.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Socure is a privately held AI company providing identity, fraud, compliance and risk-decisioning infrastructure for digital interactions. Its stated mission is to verify good identities and eliminate identity fraud; it serves 3,000+ organizations across financial services, government, gaming, marketplaces, healthcare, telecom, e-commerce and workforce use cases.
Primary product
RiskOS®—an AI-native, vertically integrated identity and risk decisioning platform combining identity verification, business/KYB verification, age assurance, fraud prevention, sanctions/AML screening, authentication and credit/risk workflows through one decision layer/API.
Founded
2012
Headquarters
Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Team size
400–500 (third-party LinkedIn company/profile estimate; official site describes a distributed workforce and talent hubs)
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Artificial intelligence / enterprise software
Sub-industry
Digital identity verification, fraud prevention, regtech and risk decisioning
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage private / generating revenue
Total raised
$743.3M
Latest round
Unattributed VC · Jun 2023
Jun 2023 · Liquid 2 Ventures
Mar 2023 · J.P. Morgan, KeyBanc Capital Markets and Silicon Valley Bank
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Chief AI & Innovation Officer; previously Chief Product & Analytics Officer
Chung-Man Tam
Chief Product Officer
The careers material emphasizes impact over hours at a desk, customer focus, collaboration, high standards in regulated and technically difficult markets, continuous learning, inclusion and globally distributed teamwork.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Official careers information indicates market-competitive base salary, performance bonuses, equity for full-time employees and 401(k) matching. Individual job postings may specify location and eligibility; no company-wide compensation bands or sponsorship policy was established.
Benefits
Pricing
Primarily enterprise quote-based SaaS/API pricing; public evidence also indicates a newer self-serve/startup offering with pay-as-you-go platform credits. No general public rate card found.
Differentiators
Estimated revenue
$300M–$350M annual recurring revenue / revenue run-rate (public company-reported Q1 2026 total ARR exceeded $340M; older third-party estimates are lower and should be treated as stale)
Socure laid off 69 employees, approximately 13% of its workforce, primarily in marketing, sales and HR, amid slowing fintech growth and pressure to reach sustainable cash flow.
SourceAcquired Berbix for $70 million in cash and stock, expanding identity-verification capabilities.
SourceAnnounced a $136 million acquisition of Effectiv, adding real-time risk decisioning, payments fraud, credit underwriting and AML transaction-monitoring capabilities.
Biometric Update · Apr 2026
Independent coverage of Socure’s Q1 2026 ARR, public-sector growth, 2025 bookings and expansion into age, workforce and marketplace risk.
Socure · Apr 2026
Socure reported more than $340M total ARR, 62% year-over-year new ARR growth, $31M+ new bookings and 134% net dollar retention across 3,000+ customers.
Business Wire · Dec 2025
Socure acquired Qlarifi to combine real-time BNPL repayment data with its Identity Graph and RiskOS for underwriting and first-party-fraud prevention.
Socure · Apr 2025
Socure’s company news page identifies FedRAMP authorization as a significant 2025 milestone supporting government adoption.
93 jobs at Socure
Nov 2021 · Accel; T. Rowe Price
Series D extension / strategic
Jun 2021 · Capital One Ventures
Mar 2021 · Accel
Aug 2020 · Sorenson Ventures
Feb 2019 · Scale Venture Partners
Aug 2017 · Commerce Ventures
Dec 2016 · Flint Capital
Aug 2015
Jul 2015 · Two Sigma Ventures
Mar 2014
Chief Growth Officer
Chief Technology Officer
President & Chief Commercial Officer
Aviad Levin
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Teneka Polite
SVP, People and Experience
Eric Woodward
Senior Advisor
Investors
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Acquired Qlarifi, a real-time BNPL credit database, to add BNPL underwriting and first-party-fraud intelligence.
SourcePR Newswire / Socure · Oct 2024
The announced $136M acquisition expanded Socure from identity verification into broader real-time fraud, payments, credit and AML risk decisioning.