ID.me

ID.me

Digital identity verification for secure access

Overview

ID.me runs a digital identity verification platform that lets people prove and share who they are online. It serves groups like military personnel, first responders, students, teachers, nurses, healthcare workers, and government employees, earning revenue by verifying customers for partner companies that offer discounts or services. How it works: users create a verified identity on ID.me, which they can use to access services and offers from partner organizations; companies pay ID.me to confirm their customers’ identities and eligibility. ID.me differentiates itself by connecting a large, mission-critical user base with a broad network of partners, providing a centralized, trusted way to verify identities across sectors and meet security and regulatory requirements.

About ID.me

Simplify's Rating
Why ID.me is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Government & Public Sector

Enterprise Software

Cybersecurity

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$727.3M

Headquarters

McLean, Virginia

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

  • TreasuryDirect's September 2026 rollout converts a massive federal audience into active users.
  • Oracle Health's September 24, 2026 partnership opens patient intake and EPCS workflows.
  • Plaid's September 15, 2026 deal expands ID.me into benefit-payment fraud controls.

What critics are saying

  • OMB's August 2026 Login.gov memo pressures agencies to phase out alternatives like ID.me.
  • POLITICO's May 2026 reporting on biometric retention fuels privacy blowback and oversight.
  • TreasuryDirect dependence creates catastrophic lockout risk if Treasury reverses ID.me after October 2026.

What makes ID.me unique

  • ID.me combines reusable identity wallets with NIST IAL2/AAL2 federal-grade verification.
  • TreasuryDirect requires ID.me on October 28, 2026, proving national-scale distribution.
  • ID.me spans 22 federal agencies, 50 states, and 100-plus healthcare organizations.

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Funding

Total Funding

$727.3M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

17 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Series E funding typically includes additional rounds after Series D if the company needs more capital. The business is usually stable, and these rounds are typically used for further expansion or to address market challenges.
Series E Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Vacation

401(k) Company Match

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Travel Assistance Program

Wellbeing and Childcare Discounts

Referral Bonus

Learning and Development Benefit

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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PR Newswire
Sep 28th, 2026
ID.me expands executive team, names Susannah Stroud Wright new Chief Legal Officer and Darragh Whelan EVP of Engineering.

ID.me expands executive team, names Susannah Stroud Wright new Chief Legal Officer and Darragh Whelan EVP of Engineering. Sep 28, 2026, 13:05 ET MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - ID.me, the market-leading digital identity wallet, today announced two major additions to its executive management team. Susannah Stroud Wright has joined as Chief Legal Officer to lead ID.me's legal, compliance, and government affairs functions as the company scales its use of AI. Darragh Whelan has simultaneously joined as Executive Vice President of Engineering to lead all product and platform engineering. "Susannah and Darragh both bring decades of expertise at a time when product, user, and legal questions are increasingly interconnected," said Blake Hall, Founder and CEO of ID.me. "As AI raises the stakes for digital verification, it's imperative that legal and engineering are inseparable, not just aligned. When you serve federal agencies and the millions of people relying on them, compliance isn't a constraint on the product - it's a feature of it. Susannah and Darragh both build that way, and that's exactly what ID.me's next stage of growth requires." Susannah Stroud Wright, Chief Legal Officer Wright joins ID.me after eight years as Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Credit Karma, where she built and led a 60-person legal, compliance, and government affairs organization as the company scaled from $500 million to nearly $2 billion in revenue and over 140 million members. Wright has deep experience with building legal and compliance frameworks for the responsible use of AI and has been a speaker on Responsible AI at TEDAI and at Fortune's Most Powerful Women conferences. Prior to joining Credit Karma, Wright led the compliance functions at Tesla and SolarCity. She was also a prosecutor in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier in her career, where she handled all manner of felony cases and worked with local political representatives and community leaders on preventing and reducing crime. Among her many accolades, Wright was named "General Counsel of the Year" by Women, Influence & Power in Law in 2020 and one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Business in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times in 2022. "Identity verification sits at the intersection of some of the most consequential legal and technical questions in tech today, including trust, fraud, and how millions of people access the services they need most. I'm looking forward to helping ID.me navigate those questions in the age of AI and better serve our users, at a moment when getting this right matters more than ever." Darragh Whelan, Executive Vice President of Engineering Whelan joins ID.me having most recently served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mastercard, where he led a 350-plus-person team of product managers, engineers, and data engineers building AI and decisioning systems that make real-time decisions at massive scale. He spent the three years before that as Vice President of Engineering at Chime, leading a 200-person engineering organization across risk, member services, identity management, data engineering and science, and the company's decisioning platform. "What drew me to ID.me is rare: a platform operating at true national scale that still moves like a much smaller company. Fraud and identity threats evolve by the day, and staying ahead of them without slowing down the people who depend on our system is exactly the kind of problem I want to spend my time solving." About ID.me ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly sign in across websites without having to create a new sign-in and verify their identity again. Over 170 million users experience streamlined sign-in and identity verification with ID.me at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 70 healthcare organizations. More than 600 consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.me's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to 'No Identity Left Behind' to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. Learn more at https://network.id.me/. SOURCE ID.me, Inc.

PR Newswire
Sep 28th, 2026
ID.me appoints Susannah Wright as chief legal officer and Darragh Whelan as EVP of engineering

ID.me has appointed Susannah Stroud Wright as chief legal officer and Darragh Whelan as executive vice president of engineering. Wright joins from Credit Karma, where she spent eight years as chief legal officer, helping scale the company from $500 million to nearly $2 billion in revenue. She has extensive experience building legal and compliance frameworks for AI use. Whelan previously served as senior vice president of engineering at Mastercard, leading a team of over 350 people building AI and decisioning systems. Before that, he was vice president of engineering at Chime, overseeing a 200-person team. ID.me provides digital identity verification services to over 170 million users across 22 federal agencies and 50 state government agencies.

PR Newswire
Sep 24th, 2026
Oracle Health partners with ID.me to streamline patient check-in and controlled-substance prescribing

Oracle Health has partnered with ID.me to integrate digital identity verification capabilities into its healthcare solutions. The collaboration aims to streamline patient intake and strengthen credentialing for providers prescribing controlled substances. Organisations using the system can allow patients to verify their identity digitally before or during check-in, reducing repetitive forms and simplifying registration. The integration also enables verification of practitioners' identities and professional credentials for electronic prescription of controlled substances. ID.me's EPCS credentialing network includes nearly 5 million medical professionals and is already used by over 100,000 prescribers nationwide. The solution is now available to Oracle Health customers. The partnership seeks to provide patients with more control over their health data whilst supporting secure, interoperable data exchange across the healthcare ecosystem.

Oracle
Sep 24th, 2026
Oracle Health and ID.me team to simplify secure access to health data.

Oracle Health and ID.me team to simplify secure access to health data. Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit - Orlando, Florida - Sep 24, 2026 Oracle Health and ID.me today announced a collaboration to integrate ID.me's trusted digital identity capabilities into Oracle Health solutions. The integration will simplify patient intake and help strengthen controlled-substance provider credentialing through trusted digital identity. Organizations using the solution can enable patients to verify their identity digitally prior to or during check-in and choose the records they want to share, which will help limit repetitive forms and streamline arrival and registration workflows. In addition, Oracle Health customers can also simplify verification of identities and professional credentials of individual practitioners who perform electronic prescription of controlled substances (EPCS). ID.me's existing network of nearly 5 million medical professionals provides prescribers with an established identity verification and authentication infrastructure designed to support applicable security and compliance requirements. ID.me's EPCS credentialing is already used by more than 100,000 prescribers nationwide and is available now for Oracle Health customers. "Oracle Health is committed to making it easy for patients to access care and remain in control of their health data," said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. "Trusted, verified identity is the foundation that makes secure, interoperable data exchange possible. By extending that foundation to patients and providers, we can help enable patients to exercise more control over the data they choose to share with providers and alleviate repetitive administrative tasks for staff and clinicians." Verified identity can provide a foundation for secure data access and exchange across the healthcare ecosystem. The collaboration between Oracle Health and ID.me is intended to complement Oracle Health's interoperability work and support patients with more convenient, secure access to their health information while helping providers deliver more connected care. "By bringing ID.me's trusted and reusable digital wallets to Oracle Health's ecosystem, we can help simplify the patient experience while also supporting high-assurance provider credentialing for controlled substances for interested health systems," said Wes Turbeville, senior vice president of federal and healthcare, ID.me. "Together, we can help advance the secure, inclusive, patient-centered experiences." Contact info. Stephanie Greenwood Oracle Media Relations About ID.me. ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly sign in across websites without having to create a new sign-in and verify their identity again. Over 175 million users experience streamlined sign-in and identity verification with ID.me at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 100 healthcare organizations. More than 600 consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build authentic relationships. ID.me's technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to "No Identity Left Behind" to enable broad access to a secure digital identity. Learn more at https://network.id.me. About Oracle. Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit Oracle Corporation at www.oracle.com. Trademarks. Oracle, Java, MySQL, and NetSuite are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. NetSuite was the first cloud company - ushering in the new era of cloud computing.

Biometric Update
Sep 16th, 2026
ID.me partners with Plaid to link verification for users, bank accounts.

ID.me partners with Plaid to link verification for users, bank accounts. Joint IDV effort aims to build confidence about 'where the money actually lands' ID.me, a regular provider of identity services for the U.S. government, has announced a partnership with Plaid, a data transfer network that powers fintech and digital finance products. The joint effort will combine ID.me's digital identity wallet with Plaid's financial account verification tools, enabling government agencies to verify both the person requesting a benefit and the associated financial account receiving it, in one place, before funds move. Features of the unified products include faster processing; pre-payment verification; expanded coverage of regional banks, credit unions, and digital-first institutions; a dated, auditable record of who was verified and which account was paid; and a high degree of control and consent for the user in sharing data. A release says the partnership "benefits both state and federal agencies as they work to consolidate legacy capabilities, reduce technical duplication, and improve citizen access." Identity verification has understandably been a priority for many organizations, but the same care has not been taken in verifying where money goes once a person is verified. ID.me notes that a claimant can clear a federal-standard identity check and then enter a bank account that isn't theirs. Blake Hall, Founder and CEO of ID.me, says "that gap is where benefits go missing, and it's costing our government and everyday Americans billions of dollars." Eric Sager of Plaid agrees. "For too long, getting benefits to the people who qualify for them has meant a slow, manual process that fraudsters have learned to exploit," says the COO. "Agencies have gotten very good at confirming who someone is. What's been missing is the same confidence about where the money actually lands." The new partnership links a recipient's financial account within the flow they are already completing: ID.me verifies the person and Plaid verifies the bank account. Hall says this means agencies can confirm an account belongs to the verified person "before a dollar moves," and eligible people get paid faster. TreasuryDirect integrates ID.me identity verification. TreasuryDirect, the U.S. government's online marketplace for U.S. Savings Bonds and other federally-backed investments, is introducing ID.me's identity verification at login. In January 2026, ID.me secured a $1 billion Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Department of Treasury to provide critical identity verification and authentication services across Treasury functions. A notice on TreasuryDirect's website says the "modern login process will strengthen identity verification and account security while making future access faster and smoother." The text informs customers that "ID.me will replace your TreasuryDirect traditional login and will be required after October 28, 2026. All TreasuryDirect customers will need to set up ID.me for TreasuryDirect to maintain access." TreasuryDirect notes that ID.me is a "standard, trusted, government-verified identity provider that uses secure technology with robust identity-proofing," and that "because ID.me is used by other federal agencies, it allows you to safely access multiple government services without needing separate accounts." ID.me has posted a string of public sector wins since December 2050, when FINRA and CMS both moved to adopt ID.me for high assurance verification. In May 2026, it announced a strategic partnership with Verisys to support state Medicaid agencies with IDV. Article topics. Latest biometrics news. Sep 16, 2026, 3:03 pm EDT NIST released its latest Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) 1:N results on September 4, adding submissions from seven new developers... Sep 16, 2026, 1:47 pm EDT Calling an identity attack a "deepfake" may no longer tell fraud teams enough about what actually happened. Persona, working with... Sep 16, 2026, 1:45 pm EDT By Johann-Philipp Thiers, Security Specialist at Swissbit. Passkeys have become one of the most tangible examples of passwordless authentication. They... Sep 16, 2026, 1:37 pm EDT The world's first international standard on age assurance systems is growing. Writing on LinkedIn, the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS)'s... Sep 16, 2026, 1:28 pm EDT A relatively small U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract has revealed unusually specific details about a little-known Homeland Security... Sep 16, 2026, 1:03 pm EDT A strategic partnership struck between Socure and NextgenID to combine AI-powered digital identity intelligence with the highest possible biometric identity...

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