Top Identity Management Startups in 2027

Dashlane's mission is to make security simple for millions of organizations and their people. We empower businesses of every size to protect company and employee data while helping everyone easily log in to the accounts they need—anytime, anywhere. Our global team with offices in Paris, New York, and Lisbon is united by a strong sense of community and passion for improving the digital experience. Over 15 million users and 20,000 businesses in 180 countries use Dashlane for a faster, simpler, and more secure internet.

Incode Technologies is an omnichannel biometric identity company that builds secure, top-rated solutions for frictionless banking, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security in order to enhance customer experiences and build a global database of identities using the world’s fastest edge-facial recognition technology as recognized by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Incode’s anti-spoofing technology, LiveBeam, doesn’t require any user interaction and is the first passive facial liveness system in the world to achieve Level-1 certification for NIST iBeta Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) testing. The company’s web and mobile solutions are adopted globally for a variety of applications, including onboarding, identity & ID verification, and transactions by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Founded in 2015 by a passionate serial-entrepreneur and a group of hard-working individuals, we seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach new challenges unconventionally. We believe brilliant minds have the power to do great things! We’re a fun-loving, goal-crushing team who are immensely proud to be part of a common goal: to map the identity of humankind. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates globally with additional offices in Latin America and Europe.

Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere on the planet. Our open source products provide a Unified Access Plane (UAP) for developers and security professionals seeking to simplify secure access to servers, applications, and data across all environments. Teleport is the UAP of choice among leading companies, including Elastic, Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator and S28 Capital. Teleport embraces a remote-first work culture and has employees all over the world. For more information, visit us at goteleport.com on GitHub github.com/gravitational/teleport or on Twitter @goteleport or

ServiceChannel is creating the next huge B-B marketplace by connecting multi-location businesses with tens of thousands of commercial service providers who make their facilities work. Additionally, more than 50,000 contractor companies with over a million service technicians use ServiceChannel to generate more work with less hassle. ServiceChannel’s vision is to help the more than two million multi-location businesses in America get stronger by saving 25 percent of the $100 billion facilities blind spot, improving the quality of their locations, and enhancing their customer experience. Today, 500+ organizations with more than 300,000 locations, like CVS Health, Adidas, Louis Vuitton, H&M, Under Armour, and Bloomin Brands, who care about their customer experience and brand reputation rely on ServiceChannel’s machine learning, cloud applications, IoT software, contractor marketplace and insights to intelligently manage their spaces and assets.

Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With over 6,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for their business. Over 7,000 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.

BigID is transforming enterprise protection and privacy of personal data. Organizations are facing record breaches of personal information and proliferating global privacy regulations with fines reaching 4% of annual revenue. Today enterprises lack dedicated purpose-built technology to help them track and govern their customer data for regulations like GDPR. By bringing data science to data privacy, BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the most important asset organizations manage: their customer data.

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list every year since 2023. Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity. SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.

Jumio is the future for online and mobile ID verification, transaction monitoring and fraud detection. We are the largest and fastest-growing company in the ID verification space. With a global footprint, we’re expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services/Fintech, Travel, Sharing Economy, Gaming, Healthcare and others. Our team of over 500 are building solutions that help customers fight fraud at scale and we are looking for people who have a passion for solving challenges that make a significant impact on customers. Having acquired Beam Solutions in September, 2020, we have now brought our AI and ML expertise into AML for financial, retail and gaming and with significant demand need to grow our engineering team.

WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today's heterogeneous enterprise environments internally and in the cloud. WSO2's service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information,visit wso2.com and check out WSO2 on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, WSO2 Blogsand FriendFeed.

In the AI era, proving who is behind an account or action has become harder, and more important, than ever. Nametag gives organizations a clear way to know the real human behind digital actions. Our workforce identity assurance platform verifies the real human behind high-risk actions across hiring, password resets, account recovery, and AI-initiated actions.