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Websitesmileidentity.com

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Founders

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Mark Straub

CEO

Backed By

Mastercard

Costanoa Ventures

Norrsken22

ValueStream Ventures

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Funding

Funding and investors

A clean view of how Smile Identity has raised, who has backed it, and how the capital stack has evolved.

Total Raised

$31M

Latest Post-money

$***,***

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Funding History

Announced

Sep 24, 2025

Money Raised

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Transaction Name

Corporate

Lead investor

Mastercard

Announced

Feb 15, 2023

Money Raised

$20,000,000

Transaction Name

Series B

Lead investor

Costanoa Ventures

Announced	Transaction Name	Money Raised	Lead Investors
Sep 24, 2025	Corporate	—	Mastercard
Feb 15, 2023	Series B	$20,000,000	Costanoa Ventures

Announced

Jul 8, 2021

Money Raised

$7,000,000

Transaction Name

Series A

Lead investor

—

Announced

Nov 5, 2020

Money Raised

—

Transaction Name

Series A

Lead investor

—

Announced

Dec 19, 2019

Money Raised

—

Transaction Name

Seed

Lead investor

—

Announced

Apr 9, 2019

Money Raised

$4,000,000

Transaction Name

Seed

Lead investor

—

Announced

May 1, 2017

Money Raised

—

Transaction Name

Pre-seed

Lead investor

—

Announced

May 1, 2017

Money Raised

$100,000

Transaction Name

Grant

Lead investor

—

Jul 8, 2021	Series A	$7,000,000	—
Nov 5, 2020	Series A	—	—
Dec 19, 2019	Seed	—	—
Apr 9, 2019	Seed	$4,000,000	—
May 1, 2017	Pre-seed	—	—
May 1, 2017	Grant	$100,000	—

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Investors

MastercardLead

Private Equity

Costanoa VenturesLead

Venture Capital

Norrsken22Lead

Investor

ValueStream Ventures

Venture Capital

Intercept Ventures

Venture Capital

Latitude

Venture Capital

Future Africa

Venture Capital

500 Fintech

Investor

Commerce Ventures

Venture Capital

Courtside Ventures

Venture Capital

Two Culture Capital

Venture Capital

500 Startups

Venture Capital

Beta.Ventures

Venture Capital

CRE Venture Capital

Venture Capital

Khosla Impact

Impact Investor

+19 more investors

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Latest Intelligence

1 week agoNaija Gist - Latest

Leading African identity verification platform, Smile Identity, raises $20 Million in series B funding for Pan-African expansion

1 week agoTechCrunch

Costanoa Ventures and Norrsken22 back Smile Identity in $20M Series B round

1 month agoTechpoint Africa

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Leading African identity verification platform, Smile Identity, raises $20 Million in series B funding for Pan-African expansion

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