Deep Identity Inc.
Deep Identity Inc. (deepidv) builds an AI-native identity verification, compliance, and anti-fraud platform for verifying humans and, increasingly, the AI agents acting for them. Its stated goal is to provide a unified trust infrastructure layer covering identity, deepfake detection, fraud prevention, screening, and ongoing monitoring.
At a Glance
- Fintech and financial services
- PropTech and real estate
- Hospitality
- HR and PeopleTech
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AI Tools by Deep Identity Inc.
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deepidv
AI Identity Verification API
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Latest News
deepidv partners with Plumma to add carrier-grade network intelligence, silent phone verification, SIM-swap defense, and network-based identity/age signals across Europe.
Founder and CEO Shawn-Marc Melo appeared on Shift & Thrive podcast to discuss human and AI verification, agentic commerce, and deepfake-driven trust risks.
Deepidv teamed up with Simpello at HITEC 2026 to demonstrate no-PII hotel verification using Bluetooth proximity and on-device biometrics.
Deepidv joined the Age Verification Providers Association.
Products & Services
Government-ID verification combined with real-time face liveness and face matching.
Multi-layer forensic analysis for IDs, paystubs, bank statements, contracts, and AI-generated or forged documents.
Detection across images, video, audio, and documents, including C2PA content-provenance verification.
An 8-inch tabletop hardware device for in-person identity verification, biometric authentication, age verification, facial recognition, and access control.
Market Position
Deepidv positions itself as an AI-native, API-first alternative to fragmented legacy KYC/AML stacks: one modular platform combines identity, deepfake, fraud, business verification, screening, and monitoring, with transparent pay-per-use pricing and sub-150ms decisions. Its comparison content places it against Jumio, Sumsub, Persona, Trulioo, 1Kosmos, Incode, AU10TIX, Reality Defender, Veridas, Fourthline, authID, and CLEAR.
Leadership
Founders
Shawn-Marc Melo
Founder and CEO; a two-time exited fintech and retail entrepreneur who leads deepidv's vision, strategy, and go-to-market.
Executive Team
Shawn-Marc Melo
Founder & CEO
Two-time exited fintech and retail founder; leads company vision, strategy, and go-to-market from San Francisco.
Omar Tahir
Chief Technology Officer
Founding engineer and CTO; previously Software Engineering Lead at MarketBox.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
The company says it was born from the conviction that an autonomous world needs a fundamentally new trust layer rather than a patched-together legacy identity stack. Shawn-Marc Melo says he built deepidv after seeing firsthand that digital trust infrastructure was broken, with the initial vision of building identity verification from scratch and AI-native from day one.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Pay-per-use verification and screening services for individuals/small teams, plus custom-priced enterprise contracts and production API deployments. The platform also sells hardware/in-person verification and white-label capabilities.
Pricing Tiers
All deepidv services available pay-per-use; intended for testing and low-volume usage.
High-throughput APIs, support for millions of checks per year, SSO, role-based access, audit logs, SLA-backed uptime, dedicated support, and custom deployment.
Government-ID verification with real-time face liveness.
Forensic document analysis.
Images, video, audio, documents, and C2PA provenance checks.
Company registration, beneficial ownership, and corporate structure validation.
Cross-border ownership graphs, sanctions linkage, director adverse media, and live registry validation across 211+ jurisdictions.
Phone ownership and carrier details.
PEP lists and international sanctions databases.
Cryptographic age-token issuance.
Target Markets
- Fintech and financial services
- PropTech and real estate
- Hospitality
- HR and PeopleTech
- iGaming
- B2B SaaS platforms
- Customer onboarding and KYC
- Fraud prevention and deepfake defense
- Age-gated products and services
- PEP, sanctions, AML, and adverse-media compliance
- Business onboarding and beneficial-ownership verification
- Fintech underwriting, affordability, and open-banking analysis
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