KYB and business-identity risk platform, extended to AI agents
Baselayer is a business-identity and fraud-risk platform for financial institutions: its Graph AI risk engine identifies, assesses and predicts the risk of prospective business customers in real time, with the aim of stripping the friction out of Know Your Business (KYB) review for small and midsize companies. The company reports that more than 2,000 financial institutions — which it characterises as over 20% of US institutions — along with government agencies and Fortune 500 companies use the technology, and that customers have prevented more than $1 billion in fraud losses since its founding. Alongside its 2026-09-22 Series A, Baselayer launched an Agentic Identity Suite that extends the same identity network from businesses to the AI agents transacting on their behalf — answering whether a given agent is genuinely authorised to act for a particular person or business, as opposed to a bot scraping data or committing fraud. Founded in 2023 by Jonathan Awad (CEO) and Timothy Hyde, with about 50 employees across San Francisco and New York.
Fintech📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2023
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Baselayer going public?
No. Baselayer is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Baselayer's valuation in 2026?
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Has Baselayer filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Baselayer.
Who are Baselayer's investors?
Baselayer's investors include M13, Picus Capital, Torch Capital, Afore Capital.
How much has Baselayer raised?
Baselayer has raised $40M in total across 2 disclosed rounds, most recently a Series A of $35M in Sep 2026.
Is Baselayer publicly traded — can you buy Baselayer stock?
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Company Profile
CEO
Jonathan Awad
Founded
2023
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~50
Total Raised
$40M
Last Round
Series A — $35M (Sep 2026) · Lead: M13
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series A · $35M · this month
privateTotal raised $40M2 disclosed rounds
Growth & Valuation
Capital raised per round
Charts built from publicly disclosed funding rounds and revenue estimates. Approximate, not real-time, not investment advice.
Funding History
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$35M
Sep 2026
M13
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Seed
$6.5M
May 2024
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Founders & Key People
Jonathan AwadTimothy Hyde
Investors
M13 · Picus Capital · Torch Capital · Afore Capital
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