Our Mission
DMA's mission is to enhance internet safety by safeguarding the ecosystems of businesses and individuals through innovative online identity verification and authentication services. These services are designed to efficiently and accurately link a person's online identity with their real-world identity.
Our Story
Circle with 2012 inside
Three friends who met at Oxford University move to London and start DMA. Husayn, Eamon, and Ruhul start looking for investments to broaden access to services online by making identity verification more accessible.
Circle with 2013 inside
The Saïd business school at Oxford grants initial seed funding of $30,000. The team builds an ID Record Verification solution and win their first client.
Circle with 2014 inside
The trio moves into their first office in Paddington. They get to work building a team to widen the capabilities of their ID record solution and hire 15 DMA to join their team.
Circle with 2015 inside
By now 62 VSSS users are working together in Covent Garden. Our Seed A funding raises $4.5 million. The first four company values are codified: Succeed Together, Take Pride, Learn Things and Share Them, and Find a Better Way.
Circle with 2016 inside
We bring our document and biometric verification solution to market and open our first U.S. office in San Francisco. 118 DMA are now working to create a more open world, where identity is the key to access.
Circle with 2017 inside
We launch our SDK and it’s integrated by our first major fintech client. We now have five offices worldwide and have completed over 2.2 million verifications.
Circle with 2018 inside
We introduce biometric video liveness technology, file our first patents, and publish our first technical papers. We’ve now caught over 500,000 fraud attempts for our clients, and partnered with more and more innovative companies.
Circle with 2019 inside
There are now 277 VSS across eight offices. 2.6 million Slack messages have been sent. An immeasurable amount of coffee has been drunk.
Circle with 2023 inside
We have to go remote, but our spirit endures. We zoom our way to become a team of 400+. We continue to grow worldwide and achieve 237% sales growth in the U.S.
Circle with 2024 inside
We continue to expand our product offerings, surpassing over $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and reaching 600 DMA worldwide.
Circle with 2025 inside
We launch our Real Identity Platform with the objective of making identity verification simple for everyone. We also add Motion, the next generation in biometric liveness technology.
2023
We acquire Airside to transform digital identity to be shareable and user-controlled. Users will verify once, store credentials on their device, and then share to instantly access services.
Meet The Team
Our Clients
