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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Hello World :)

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

We have one spot left for our amazing @wander offsite next week. If you’re an amazing infrastructure/design engineer who wants a nice get away next week, our dms are open 🤗

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

Very cool to be spoken about on a Times Square billboard! @tryramp really does everything for their startups

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

👋 from our team offsite!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

August 3rd 🤫🤐

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

New website who dis

Footprint: Onboard users in a unified platform

Verify your customers while blocking fraud, ensuring compliance, and driving revenue.

www.onefootprint.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Nice quote from a demo call today: “our compliance team is going to love this”. Our goal is to offload the security, compliance, and cost of storing PII so you can focus on your core business!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could open a bank account or apply for an apartment with just Face ID?

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Very excited to come out of stealth and share our mission! We will be doing KYC on DAOs looking for shipwrecks of 16th century Spanish galleons⛵️. Here’s our story and why we’re doing it 🧵 👇

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Fintech needs its own OAuth to make account creation frictionless

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

If you think the horses at the derby today are fast, you should see our KYC

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Customer quote of the day: "what I appreciate on your solution is the PII storage and not having to deal with that via *** and other PCI compliant storage solutions"

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

Not only do we have public pricing, but we can now help you calculate your first year spend on Footprint!

clodo

@clodoan

1 year

Added some magic to @Footprint_HQ 's pricing page today ❤️✨😉

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@elonmusk 👋 we’d be happy to help here

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Introducing the Footprint legal library. We built this to help break down the current (and evolving) regulatory landscape surrounding financial services, fintechs, and data security:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Thanks to @Redpoint and @mkhandel for including us on their market map for infra tools in identity, fraud, and risk! Here to change KYC and PII storage one day at a time :)

Make Cents: The Universe of Fintech Infrastructure

The picks-and-shovel building blocks that power fintech use cases

makecents.substack.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Some fun things happening here :)

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

The penguin moves at the rapid pace and little friction of our KYC

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@marques_ph Whoever that team is, they are beyond lucky to be working with you :)

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@shardul_shah loves us so much he's moving to be closer to our HQ 😉. This is amazing news for @IndexVentures and New York. Shardul will help the best companies on the east coast reach new heights!

Index Ventures

@IndexVentures

2 years

We are thrilled to share that we’re opening an office in New York City 🗽 Joining existing offices in London & SF, we will now have a major presence in the top 3 global startup ecosystems. More from @martinmignot & @shardul_shah on why we ❤️ NY:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Awesome write up by the amazing @packyM . Love the mission of encryption and privacy by the awesome @evervault team. And love Nitro Enclaves 😊

Packy McCormick

@packyM

2 years

Shane is one of the most compelling and talented founders I've met. He's been working on this problem for a decade, since he was 12, and he's prepared to give it another full decade for the full plan to come together. Read the full story at Not Boring:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Words we love to hear 😍😍

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

The path to eliminating fraud is taking away possible vectors by which fraud is possible. Footprint is proudly the first and only KYC company to incorporate Passkeys and App Clips into our flow to make this a reality.

App-Clips Verify Real People Behind Devices

App clips make sure we limit each device to one identity.

www.onefootprint.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

🤫🤐

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

Watching our demo for the first time 👀: beyond proud of our team and couldn’t be more excited to share with the world soon 🤓. Second mover advantage is a very real thing 🐧

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Wouldn’t it be great if companies didn’t need to worry about holding PII 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

Giving a warm welcome to @gucaslelfond for joining us!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Identity

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

What an excellent question. We have a radical idea: build the last IDV form people ever fill out so they can stop entering their SSNs everywhere:

Why the heck are SSNs still treated as passwords in the US? | TechCrunch

A couple of weeks ago yet another of my friends was a victim of identity theft, and I got yet another deep look into how fantastically broken the U.S. can

techcrunch.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

We’ve updated the logo a bit, but nonetheless appreciate UNC for repping one-click KYC in the final four!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

6 months

We're honored to be on the @GGVCapital #FintechInnovation50 list!

Fintech Innovation 50

GGV Capital U.S. is excited to unveil the Fintech Innovation 50, an annual list highlighting the most innovative emerging and established fintech companies.

www.fintechinnovation50.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

Why use two tools when you could use one? We have companies today using Footprint to do both KYC and PII vaulting. Reply here with a time and zoom link and we’ll get you running on both in 30 minutes.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@mikekarnj @ankurnagpal @usealloy Completely agreed! We combine KYC + PII Vaulting. Onboard customers, offload the risk. All in 5-lines of code and with best-in-class pricing.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

We're thrilled to be on the @awscloud Nitro Enclave page as one of five highlighted customer stories!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

People should control their data:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

If you refer us an amazing frontend engineer @Footprint_HQ I’ll adopt a 🐧 in your honor at a zoo

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Good things happen when people can get access to data that helps them, instead of just enterprises selecting choice data against them

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

Traditional credit scores don't work, and is rooted in systems that perpetuate inequality. This is a great step to improve it, and I hope by making more income and identity data portable over time we can fix broken credit even more:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

We need to make it frictionless for good actors to create accounts. Companies lose far more revenue on good actors not being let in than fraud because toggles balance security and speed. Footprint does both 👣🤓

Peter

@peter

2 years

Just tried to sign up for a @Chime account and was denied. Of course, "security rules" (prob. Bank Secrecy Act) prevent them from telling me why. Rather ironic for someone who's been in fintech as long as I have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Let's play around with some alliteration: reducing fraud, friction, and funds spent on KYC

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

🐧🚀❤️

Pedro Marques

@marques_ph

2 years

You know you work at the right co when you look forward to Mondays. I’m grateful. Happy Sunday. Happy Monday.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

A thread of fun times to enter your SSN on the internet 🧵 👇

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

April fools 😊

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

"Footprint is building a single solution for both groups, while also trying to bring the end customer in as a stakeholder (enter your PII into Footprint once and then use it wherever Footprint is available). TechCrunch is right, that is ambitious."

Play Now, Pay Later - Fintech Takes

3 Fintech News Stories #1: Flexible Benefits What happened? Ben, an employee benefits platform, raised a $16 million Series A round: Cherry Ventures, DN Capital and Seedcamp joined the round for Ben,...

fintechtakes.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

3 years

Happy #NationalDataPrivacyDay ! There’s a lot of work to be done to make our data safer, and we want to help lead the way!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

11 months

Product leaders choose Footprint because of our dedication to incredible UX experiences that help you boost conversion. With built-in Security + Fraud Checks. And that all matches your branding!

The Power of Customization

The onboarding is a crucial part of fintech products. With Footprint, we give you full control to empower you to boost conversion.

www.onefootprint.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

People should control their data, and have a right to know how it is stored, who has access, and for what it’s used.

Rachel Cheung

@rachel_cheung1

2 years

3 people I spoke to confirmed the police reports leaked this week, as a sample of a massive Chinese police database being sold online. Only one was aware of the data breach, but he did not realize it included his report of a stolen vehicle in 2010.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

As fintech takes off, people need a unique digital passport to more easily open and secure accounts 🛂

Jean-Denis Greze 💡

@jgreze

2 years

Super Bowl by the numbers: - nearly half a million people signed up for a new fintech app on @Plaid yesterday 🚀 - 3,000 API requests / sec - 99.99 uptime 📈 Running a reliable platform on a large scale doesn’t just happen without a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

This is the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, a helicopter invented in 1936 that didn't survive WWII. SSNs were created in 1936 and we still use them to create online accounts. We retire physical things, it's time to do the same digitally.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

More of a web 2.25 kind of company but we’ll take it 🤝

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Privacy-first and people-first

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

Wanted to thank @ShaleneGupta for spending the time with me and writing this incredible feature about our work Footprint. We have perhaps a paradoxical view on privacy: that it means control and not deletion of your data.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@giacaglia 🙌🙌

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

The current system clearly doesn't work if this is the result. If you only look for fraud, you'll find more fraud modules to sell. We instead need to unify the identity layer of the digital realm with the ecosystem of good actors to transact with interoperability.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 months

Announcing our $13M Series A led by @QEDInvestors . Business deserve better onboarding tools to drive revenue and block fraud, while people deserve an internet they can trust. Read the exclusive story from @BusinessInsider :

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

We want to remove toggles that were thought of as immutable on the internet. For too long, there has been a trade-off between a desire to create an account and the need to fork over personal data. We're here to solve it.

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

By letting users securely onboard while remaining in control of their data, @Footprint_HQ lets companies convert more people at sign-up, and allow for people to participate in more of a powerful digital ecosystem.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

PIDS (Portable Identities): 1

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

Very surreal moment. I just did the first-ever live verification on @Footprint_HQ , and hopefully filled out the final identity form of my life.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Happy to help :)

Predrag Gruevski (@[email protected])

@PredragGruevski

2 years

@AlexGrinman @rbranson @hytradboi @sc13ts If you can't do the above because of PII in your db, then maybe try something like @OneFootprintID to move the PII out of your main database and into somewhere safer? It's 2022, with good tools one can handle having more than one database. And you should use the best tools!

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

“Footprint, for example, is a security company that stores important user data and then verifies the information before the user is onboarded to other platforms.”—thanks for the mention @profgalloway —we want to bring back trust to the internet here

Scott Galloway

@profgalloway

2 years

We should change course & require proof of identity on social media. #nomercynomalice

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Let’s remove the toggle between friction and accuracy for companies and the toggle between usability and privacy for people

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

Thanks to @profgalloway for highlighting how @Footprint_HQ can help bring back trust to the internet through KYC that lets good actors use the internet with less friction, and keeps bad actors and bots out:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

The easiest way for companies to prevent breaches of user data is by simply offloading the storage of that data:

Jack Dorsey’s Payments Company Block Is Sued For ‘Negligent’ Security After Breach Of 8.2 Million...

The company formerly known as Square is facing a class action in which the Twitter cofounder’s business is accused of being “negligent.” It comes as a former Twitter security exec dropped bombshell...

www.forbes.com

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Our line is always open for anyone who wants to build a better future in fintech.

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

Seeing the news today about Fast. There is so much luck involved in building a company, and I know the news isn't a reflection of their awesome employees. We are building one-click KYC + PII vaulting--if you want to continue the mission in an adjacent field, would love to talk.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

If only there was a company that could do this without friction

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@EliWachs Ratio for having a convo with yourself on Twitter

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

We thought it was important to create this to explain to our customers (and the broader public) why our tools are needed. We designed Footprint with regulation in mind, and met with FinCEN in the early days of building.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Once someone is fraudulent, a unified platform should remove them from all accounts. We need peer-to-peer verification to power the future of fintech:

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

We second this message. Inputting your information to open and check in on an account is so outdated 😊

Paul English (pme.org)

@englishpaulm

2 years

I hate passwords.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

This seems interesting 🧐🤓🤔

Liminal

@LiminalStrategy

2 years

We crunched the numbers, and the TAM for reusable identities is est. at $32.8B in 2022, to reach $266.5B by 2027, with a CAGR of 68.9%. Today, the market is still nascent but is posed for strong growth. Download the latest research: #digitalidentity

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Our goal is to minimize (and to the degree possible, fully offload) compliance burdens from companies in the space. We will continually upload the library, and hope it can serve as a living guide to the space at large.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Good KYC and PII vaulting is life 😤😍

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

One-click KYC

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

7 months

We're honored to be featured here!

Pregasen — security and technical writer

@mathewpregasen

7 months

Today's Startup of the Day is @Footprint_HQ , helmed by @EliWachs . Eli saw the current system as inefficient. There were disparate KYCs each time a service created an account or individual company vaulting. This made it difficult to solve real issues of fraud. Footprint is an

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

See here how we think about pricing, and dare to onboard more good actors for less money through a better business model for our customers.

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

2 years

We're doing something shockingly radical @Footprint_HQ : publishing our pricing. To us, bringing back trust means being transparent to all stakeholders. This is how we can do cheaper KYC and onboard more users through more aligned pricing 👇🧵

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

Here is a radical idea: let people own their data. They will trust the companies that support this more.

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

1 year

Built by developers for developers!

Eli Wachs 👣

@EliWachs

1 year

When you create a @Footprint_HQ dashboard account, we now guide you on how to create an onboarding configuration. Our goal is for you to be able to do this + vault your first identity in <60 seconds. Then just 5 lines of code on your site and it can be live :)

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Footprint

@Footprint_HQ

2 years

@eldivyn We can help 👋. Get in more good actors without friction and keep the bad ones out.

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