
Prove (formerly Payfone) Stock
Prove is the modern way of proving identity with just a phone.
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About Prove (formerly Payfone) Stock
Prove is the modern way for businesses to enable their customers to prove their identities with just a phone. Prove offers phone-centric solutions that enable its customers to acquire new consumers and engage with their existing consumers by removing friction while bolstering security, and enhancing consumer privacy and consumer choice. Prove's solutions are used by more than 1,000 businesses across diversified industries, including banks, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and e-commerce. Prove has two main solutions + MFA: • Prove Pre-fill™ for Onboarding & Digital Acquisition, which helps companies increase signups and mitigate account opening fraud by authenticating consumer identities, and auto-filling verified data in any channel. • Fonebook™ for Digital Servicing, which helps companies: - Access a single identity authentication platform that reduces complexity and total cost of ownership to create a holistic view of your customer across their entire channels - Manage, add, and update customer phone numbers to ensure you always have the right number for your customer Multi-factor Authentication: - Standard SMS & Voice OTPs - Instant Link™ (authenticate through SMS link without needing OTP) - Mobile Auth™ (authentication via cellular networks; passive method for passwordless login) - Voice Biometrics – Match against a consumer’s voice for authentication - Push Authentication – App-based method to prove Possession, can also pull in behavioral biometrics, device (PKI), and environmental (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, network) signals - Secure transactions across multiple digital servicing use cases, including login, high-risk transactions, call center, and passwordless login
Funding History
June 2008 | $1.6M |
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August 2010 | $11.0M |
April 2011 | $18.6M |
October 2013 | $10.0M |
January 2017 | $23.5M |
February 2018 | $23.0M |
April 2019 | $15.1M |
June 2020 | $98.0M |
Management
CEO
Rodger Desai
Chief Financial Officer
Tom FitzSimmons
Chief Marketing Officer
Brad Rosenfeld
Chief Revenue Officer
Kathleen Waid
SVP & GM - Global
Geoffrey Miller
Chief Technology Officer
Greg Bonin
Senior Vice President – Strategy
Michael Lynch
Chief People Officer
Sandra McNeill
SVP & GM - International
Ravi Bijlani
SVP, North American Sales
Michele O'Shaughnessy
Board Member
Gill Cogan
Board Observer
Jonathan Weiner
Board Observer
Alex Baker
Head of Engineering & TechOps
Aaron Rodriguez
Board Observer
Matt Lipton
Advisor
Amol Sarva
Board Member
Stuart Ellman
Board Member
Zach Fuchs
Board Observer
Eric Emmons
Board Observer
Kevin Weber
Chief of Staff
Dimitre Boyukliev
SVP, Consortium
Michelle Wheeler
Cofounder & Board Observer
Mike Brody
Board Member
Shai Cohen
Board Member (Early Warning Liason)
Eric Woodward
Head of Product, Developer Platforms
Leandro Margulis
SVP, Global Sales
Paul Stovall
Advisory Board Member
Jim Greenwell
Board Member
Mike Spadafore
Head of Product
Mike Bijelich
Advisory Board Member
Bob Geiman
Head of Partnerships & Channels
Nancy Yates
Board Member
Daniel O'Keefe
Advisory Board Member
Ralph de la Vega
Advisory Board Member
Strauss Zelnick
Board Observer
Carl Showalter
Board Member
Geoffrey Miller
VP of Engineering
David Berra
Board Member
Kevin Talbot
Board Observer
Charles Svirk
Advisory Board Member
Rajive Mathur
Press
TechCrunch - Jun, 18 2020
Payfone raises $100M for its mobile phone-based digital verification and ID platformTechCrunch - Jun, 6 2016
Twilio launches add-on marketplaceTechCrunch - Aug, 1 2013
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