# Element, Inc.

> Element develops mobile biometric identity, electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC), authentication, and fraud-risk software for banks, lenders, and digital platforms. Founded by Adam Perold and Yann LeCun in 2012, it emphasizes portable identity models, on-device processing, and access to essential services across international markets.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Adam Perold (Co-founder, President and CEO), Yann LeCun (Co-founder; described as chief science advisor in 2018 reporting)
- **Products:** eKYC, Authentication, Risk Platform
- **Notable:** Announced a US$12 million Series A in April 2018., Describes a configurable 2KB biometric user model for on-device or server-side processing., Entered the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE in April 2019; entry is not a prize win.

## Products & services

- **eKYC** — Configurable onboarding combining selfie enrollment, liveness, OCR, government ID verification, licensed regulatory-database APIs, and optional human validation.
- **Authentication** — Selfie authentication with anti-spoofing, SDK/API integration, and configurable on-device or server-side processing.
- **Risk Platform** — 1:N biometric search and deduplication for duplicate records and repeat fraud; the company also describes graph-deep-learning fraud systems under development.

## Achievements

- Announced a US$12 million Series A in April 2018.
- Describes a configurable 2KB biometric user model for on-device or server-side processing.
- Entered the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE in April 2019; entry is not a prize win.
- Co-founder Adam Perold is a co-author of A Generalization of ViT/MLP-Mixer to Graphs.

## Latest updates

- **2023-02** — Announced Brankas open-finance partnership; newest dated item on the company news index reviewed on October 3, 2026.
- **2023-01** — Published a company post on A Generalization of ViT/MLP-Mixer to Graphs.
- **2022-07** — Shared DECORE network-compression research and invited commercial and research collaboration.

## Links

- Website: https://www.elementresearch.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/discoverelement
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/discoverelement
- GitHub: https://github.com/Element1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverelement/

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Last updated: 2026-10-03