The best way to grow your startup
Build your identity program using one of Persona’s world-class product offerings alongside a cohort of peer companies, starting at $0.
Learn about our program cohorts
All cohorts includes limited access to Persona with 500 free services* per month for one full year.
Program Eligibility: All applications to the program are evaluated on intended use of Persona products and businesses must be a startup with less than $5M in funding raised, an independently owned and operated small business, and/or business with less than 50 employees.
General Cohort
Get off the ground with Persona’s most popular products & services
Highlights
- Access to Government ID Verification (with optional Selfie Verification) services
- Digital office hours for personalized support with Persona product team
- Coffee chat introduction between founders worldwide
- Persona Academy courses on identity verification solutions and best practices
Other Eligibility requirements
- None 😄
Fintech Cohort 🏦
Learn Fintech best practices and meet compliance requirements
Everything in General, plus
- Access to Watchlist and Politically Exposed Persons Report services
- Compliance focused webinars with fintech compliance leaders
- Access to building blocks to aid in AML and KYC compliance
- Exclusive Persona Academy courses on global compliance concepts
Other Eligibility requirements
- Building a business in the banking, payments, personal finance, lending, or wealth spaces; or working alongside a sponsor bank or carrier partner
Fintech SF Cohort 🌁
Join us for in-person Fintech programs at our San Francisco HQ
Everything in fintech, plus
- Access to select Beta product releases and user research programs
- Monthly founders meetup and social events in the bay area
- In-person trainings and networking sessions at Persona HQ
- Exclusive perks: Persona team meet & greets, company swag, pizza , and drinks
Other ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
- Building a business in the banking, payments, personal finance, lending, or wealth spaces; or working alongside a sponsor bank or carrier partner
- Based in San Francisco
How it works
- Configure templates, workflows, and verification settings (repeat detection checks, accepted countries)
- Build customized workflows to automate business processes and decisioning
- Access API endpoints
- Perform end-to-end implementation testing with real data in our Production environment
- Trial end-to-end implementation tests with real data
- Conduct additional forms of verification beyond Gov ID
- Document verification
- Database verification
- Business Verifications (US only)
- Watchlist & sanctions screening
- Adverse media report
- Phone and email risk reports