Socure Increases Approval Rates and Slashes False Positives for Capital One U.S. Card Team as Capital One Ventures Completes Strategic Investment in Company
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Socure, the leading platform for digital identity trust, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from Capital One Ventures, the venture arm of McLean, Virginia-based Capital One Financial Corporation. This latest investment comes on the heels of Socure’s $100m Series D raise led by Accel in March, which catapulted the company to unicorn status.
“Socure is the leading digital identity trust platform in the market. Large financial institutions and FinTechs use the platform for identity verification, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance,” said Aman Sharma, Partner at Capital One Ventures. “Socure’s exceptional performance in fraud classification and identity coverage not only demonstrates the accuracy of their platform but underscores how they are bringing more eligible consumers into the digital services ecosystem as the company rapidly expands into new verticals outside of financial services.”
“Integrating Socure’s technology has meaningfully increased our accuracy in identifying fraud, resulting in a reduction in customer friction while also preventing additional fraud,” said Sarah Strauss, Senior Vice President, Head of Fraud & Servicing Strategy at Capital One. “As Socure continues to innovate, we are excited to deepen our engagement as we stay on the leading edge of identity fraud prevention.”
The immense growth in the digital identity market is part of the macrotrend of businesses moving toward digital-first online services, commerce, and transactions, including those services once defined by physical interaction and exchange. According to One World Identity, the U.S. digital identity market is projected to increase from just under $15 billion in 2019 to over $30 billion by 2023.
“We are thrilled to add Capital One to our expanding roster of strategic investors,” said Johnny Ayers, Founder and CEO of Socure. “We were fortunate to have met the venture as well as fraud and identity teams early on in Socure’s journey. We admired their focus and discipline as a data science and analytics-driven company and channeled that as we built Socure, with the result being that over 20% of our total headcount is in data science today. Over the course of years, the relationship evolved and Capital One has become one of our top clients. Now, we are excited to collaborate with them even more closely with this investment in Socure.”
The investment by Capital One Ventures will support Socure’s growth plans as it continues to expand across every consumer-facing vertical, including financial services, online gaming, healthcare, telco, e-commerce, on-demand services, and more. Socure is also actively recruiting top talent worldwide. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.