# Ranjan R Reddy

> Ranjan R Reddy is the San Francisco-based founder and CEO of Bureau, a risk-intelligence company that brings identity verification, fraud prevention, compliance and credit decisioning into one platform. His career has followed the mobile transaction from content and carrier billing to the harder question beneath every online exchange: whether the person on the other side is real and trustworthy.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Bureau
- **Organizations:** Bureau, Village Global, Boku, Qubecell, Neomobile, Arena Mobile, Times Internet, Star TV
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Mass Media and Business Management, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, Program not publicly specified, Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Founded Qubecell and sold it to Boku in 2013 after roughly a year of operation., Led Boku Identity as chief business officer and general manager before Boku sold the business to Twilio in 2019., Founded Bureau in 2020 and raised a $30 million Series B in December 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2004-2005** — Worked in content and communications at Star TV.
- **2005-2006** — Worked as a manager at Times Internet.
- **2006-2008** — Served as managing director for Asia Pacific at Arena Mobile, later acquired by Neomobile.
- **2008-2011** — Served as vice president of global business development at Neomobile.
- **2012** — Founded Mumbai-based carrier-billing company Qubecell.
- **2013** — Boku acquired Qubecell; Reddy joined Boku's Asian leadership.
- **2014-2019** — Held business development and mobile identity leadership roles at Boku, culminating in chief business officer and general manager of Boku Identity.
- **2019** — Boku sold its identity business to Twilio.
- **2020** — Founded Bureau in San Francisco.
- **2021** — Bureau announced a $12 million Series A led by Quona Capital.
- **2023** — Bureau completed its Series A at $16.5 million and acquired identity-verification startup inVOID.
- **2024** — Bureau raised a $30 million Series B led by Sorenson Capital with participation from PayPal Ventures and existing investors.

## Achievements

- Founded Qubecell and sold it to Boku in 2013 after roughly a year of operation.
- Led Boku Identity as chief business officer and general manager before Boku sold the business to Twilio in 2019.
- Founded Bureau in 2020 and raised a $30 million Series B in December 2024.
- Bureau reported more than 600 million identities verified for over 150 customers by December 2024.
- Bureau acquired Y Combinator-backed identity-verification company inVOID in 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Bureau listed Reddy as a speaker for Global Fintech Fest 2026, including a session on self-learning financial defense systems.
- **2026-09** — In a Liminal Friday Five interview, Reddy argued that fraud, compliance, credit and security are converging and that risk teams need network-level intelligence layered onto existing systems.
- **2026-01** — Appeared on the Clearing the BLUR podcast to discuss digital-arrest scams, identity theft, bots and the tension between privacy and convenient online access.
- **2024-12** — Bureau announced a $30 million Series B; Reddy said the company had more than tripled customer count and revenue since its prior round and had verified more than 600 million identities.

## Links

- Website: https://bureau.id
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjanready
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bureauidentity

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Last updated: 2026-09-27