Founded in 2016 with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, Smile Identity equips companies with digital onboarding, biometric authentication, deduplication and anti-fraud checks, and KYC and Know Your Business (KYB) compliance solutions. With the fresh funding, Smile Identity will expand its product and engineering teams, and accelerate development of its AI-led biometrics, document verification, anti-fraud and compliance solutions. It also intends to expand across Africa and enter Francophone and Arab-speaking markets.

Source: https://www.fintechfutures.com/biometrics-id-verification/african-id-verification-platform-smile-identity-nabs-20m-series-b