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Persona

Configurable identity-verification workflows for digital onboarding
Fintech 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2018
Current Valuation
$1.5B
as of 2021-Q3
UNICORN
Persona offers configurable identity-verification, fraud, and compliance workflows for onboarding and account monitoring. It is a core private-company comparable for KYC, fraud, and embedded-finance infrastructure.

Company Profile

CEO
Rick Song
Founded
2018
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~500
Total Raised
$217M
Last Round
Series C — $150M (Sep 2021) · Lead: Founders Fund
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series C · $150M · 4y 11mo ago
privateTotal raised $217M

Secondary Market

Implied price / share
$11.2
Last round price / share
$50.36
vs last round
-77.8%
Last round price vs secondary price
Last round vs current secondary price per share$50.36Last round$11.20Current
Secondary price return by period
Secondary market period returns3-month0.0%6-month0.0%1-year-3.1%All-time-46.1%
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series C$150MSep 2021Founders Fund

Founders & Key People

Rick SongCharles Yeh

Investors

Founders Fund · Index Ventures · Coatue · First Round Capital · BOND

Products

  • Identity verification
  • Document verification
  • KYB workflows
  • Fraud detection

Competitors

Alloy · Socure · SentiLink · Middesk · Trulioo
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2021-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.