BlockScore provides a fast and accurate identity verification API. Implement knowledge-based authentication and verification in minutes and start verifying your customers.
Location: United States, California, Menlo Park
Total raised: $2M
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Hard Yaka | hardyaka.c... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 26.06.2014 | Seed | $2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.06.2015 | Raise a Glass: You Can Be a Thiel Fellow and Legally Drink | Peter Thiel made a big fuss in 2010 about why smart kids ages 20 and under should ditch college and apply for his $100,000 fellowship instead. But that didn’t stop several enterprising (and very young) college graduates from successfully re... |
| 28.05.2015 | Virtual Currency Companies Grapple with Role as Crime Watchdogs for Feds | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints When Chris Morton and his partners co-founded BlockScore in June 2013, they initially planned to get into the business of Bitcoin remittances. That’s a new way to send money v... |
| 25.02.2015 | Coaxing US Banking And Payments Into The 21st Century | Jake Howerton Contributor Editor’s note: Jake Howerton is a co-founder of Zipmark, an online payment solution enabling business to make or accept secure digital check payments. In the last decade, financial institutions and industry regulat... |
| 26.06.2014 | BlockScore Lands $2M In Funding For Making I.D. Verification Easier | In 2012, about 7 percent of all people aged 16 or older in the U.S. experienced identity theft, with their financial losses totaling $24.7 billion. Christopher Morton is familiar with the crime because in 2007, he had his identity stolen. F... |
| 26.06.2014 | Identity verification service BlockScore raises $2M | BlockScore provides anti-fraud technology for online businesses With the recent hacking at retail stores like Target, Neiman Marcus, Michaels and others, the issue of identity theft is on everyone's mind. It's a scary proposition, having so... |
| 26.06.2014 | BlockScore Lands $2M In Funding For Making I.D. Verification Easier | In 2012, about 7 percent of all people aged 16 or older in the U.S. experienced identity theft, with their financial losses totaling $24.7 billion. Christopher Morton is familiar with the crime because in 2007, he had his identity stolen. F... |
| 26.06.2014 | BlockScore Raises $2M in Seed Financing | BlockScore, a Menlo Park, CA-based maker of identity-verification and anti-fraud technology for online businesses, raised $2m in seed financing. Backers included Battery Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Atlantic V... |
| 27.02.2014 | How BlockScore is Making Bitcoin Regulatory Compliance Absurdly Simple | While bitcoin is going through some growing pains right now, that shouldn't deter entrepreneurs from starting a digital currency business. As we detailed recently, many VCs are on the lookout for business partners in the burgeoning space. O... |
| 15.12.2013 | 11 Bitcoin Startups Pitch for Funding at Plug and Play Winter Expo | "We're investing in about 10 bitcoin startups," Plug and Play's Scott Robinson revealed to an audience of investors at the recent Winter EXPO. The crowd in attendance saw a batch of fintech (financial technology) startup pitches, ... |