Evident

Evident operates a business-identity and credentialing platform that lets companies verify who they are dealing with, whether other businesses, contractors, or their associated licenses, insurance, and certifications, through a single API connected to thousands of authoritative data sources, rather than each company independently collecting and manually verifying sensitive documents from every counterparty. Its core use case is B2B trust and compliance verification, such as confirming a vendor’s business license or insurance is current, rather than consumer identity verification.

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with a second office in Krakow, Poland, Evident has raised roughly $46 million in total funding, including a $20 million Series B led by Aspect Ventures with New Enterprise Associates and Internet Security Systems founder Tom Noonan participating, and a subsequent $14 million Series C, growing to a team of roughly 70 people serving a stated network spanning millions of businesses across more than 100 countries.

By connecting to authoritative government, licensing, and insurance data sources rather than having businesses upload and store copies of sensitive documents themselves, Evident’s model reduces the amount of sensitive data any single customer has to hold directly, a meaningful data-minimization benefit, though independent verification of its claimed data-source coverage and accuracy at that reported scale was not found.