News in Brief

ID.me Secures Funding to Expand AI-Resilient Identity Infrastructure

ID.me has raised $340 million in Series E funding to scale its secure, interoperable digital identity platform. With over 152 million users and adoption across 20 US federal and 45 state agencies, the platform supports federated identity at NIST IAL2 assurance levels – essential for high-trust public sector applications.

The platform’s enrolment workflow relies on government-issued identity documents – typically ICAO 9303-compliant ePassports, national ID cards, or REAL

ID-compliant driving licences – as primary evidence of identity. These are authenticated using document-centric verification technologies including OCR, barcode parsing, NFC chip reading, and anti-spoofing checks, supplemented by selfie-based biometric comparison and liveness detection. This integration of physical and digital credentials ensures both provenance and uniqueness of identity claims.