Founders and Team Members Are Investing Their Own Personal Capital in the Series B
When a company’s own founders and team members dig deeper into their pockets to invest more of their personal money, you know something big is happening. That’s exactly what just occurred at 1Kosmos—and it’s sending ripples through the digital identity world.
Today we announced $57M in Series B funding, bringing our total funding to $72M. But here’s what makes this round extraordinary: it was led by Forgepoint Capital and Origami Capital’s Oquirrh Ventures, with every prior investor participating, and included new funding from some of our own team members.
This blows past the typical $38M Series B, but the real story isn’t the size—it’s who’s writing the checks.
Momentum Building to a Crescendo
This funding caps off a remarkable year of wins. We’ve achieved 3x revenue growth while becoming the only full-service Credential Service Provider with both FedRAMP High authorization and NIST 800-63-3 certification. KuppingerCole named us a leader across Product, Innovation, and Overall categories in their 2025 Leadership Compass for Identity Verification and passwordless authentication, and we scored “perfect” marks in Presentation Attack Detection level 2 (PAD 2) certification.
Our new Microsoft partnership for External Authentication Methods to Entra ID and the Carahsoft-awarded Login.gov blanket purchase agreement worth up to $194.5M prove the market is ready for what we’re building. Add our 1Kosmos biometric security key (aka1Key) for frontline workers with LiveID (real biometrics), and it’s clear why everyone—including us—wanted in on this round.
Riding the Digital Identity Wave
Digital identity has become one of tech’s hottest sectors, and for good reason. On the heels of warnings from none other than Sam Altman about the coming “fraud crisis” powered by artificial intelligence to enable bad actors to impersonate other people, major breaches and rising identity fraud have exposed fatal flaws in passwords and fragmented ID checks.
Recent news of Palo Alto Network acquiring CyberArk provides further evidence of a turning point in Identity. Cybersecurity stalwarts that traditionally considered identity verification peripheral to their mission now recognize it as the new security perimeter. It’s clear organizations worldwide are scrambling for solutions that deliver both security and user-friendly identity verification experiences.
The shift to zero trust security models puts verified digital identity at the center of access control. Cybersecurity investors are flocking to identity-focused startups because these solutions tackle the most pressing issues in our digital-first world.
What’s Next: Putting $57M to Work
This funding enables us to accelerate on three fronts: expanding our engineering team to push product innovation faster, scaling our go-to-market efforts globally, and building partnerships that bring passwordless multi-factor authentication to more organizations.
Our Engineering team is already using powerful AI tools in areas such as prototyping UI / UX designs to reduce cycle times and recommending microservices to update, data models to use, and APIs to build for speeding implementation planning. We have site reliability engineering in our target, using AI to handle complex operational functions independently, moving beyond simple automation to true autonomous decision-making. We’ll continue to work harder and smarter in engineering.
With the injection of fresh capital, Marketing and Sales will move beyond regional focus, tapping into global demand for improved identity and authentication services. Partnering will also benefit from the cash infusion. We plan to engage large global systems integrators, regional systems integrators, and various government entities to expand the 1Kosmos footprint into ready industries including Healthcare, FED/SLED and Manufacturing,
The included $10M credit line also gives us financial flexibility to pursue growth opportunities without immediate dilution—letting us move fast when the right deals or talent emerge.
Our platform uniquely addresses both identity proofing and authentication, providing comprehensive protection against identity fraud and account takeover. Organizations need to stop bad actors without creating obstacles for legitimate users, and that’s exactly what 1Kosmos delivers.
The Bottom Line
When founders and executives invest their own money alongside institutional investors, it sends an unmistakable signal: we’re not just confident in our pitch deck—we’re betting our personal wealth on our vision.
With $57M in the bank and our team doubling down with their own money, we’re not just riding the digital identity wave—we’re creating it. The mission we founded 1Kosmos on—secure digital identity under user control, enabling ubiquitous access that can’t be stolen, borrowed or shared—is no longer just a vision.
It’s happening. And we’re just getting started.
