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Reprompt
Reprompt builds AI agents for location data. Mapping companies like Foursquare, TomTom, and Radar use its agents to keep points-of-interest and business records current - verifying hours, status, ownership, and dozens of other attributes by cross-referencing web, social, government, and news sources. Founded in 2024 by ex-Mapbox and ex-Robinhood operators, the company turns work that once took weeks of manual research into runs that finish in under an hour.
Mesh
Mesh is an Austin-based, API-first B2B identity platform that verifies, onboards, and monitors small businesses and licensed professionals in real time. Founded in 2020 by ex-Amazon executives Diego Asenjo and Tony Bryan, Mesh combines professional license verification, business legitimacy checks, insurance and tax signals, and ongoing risk monitoring into a single multi-factor API - often described as 'Plaid for business identity.' It serves marketplaces, ecommerce platforms, fintechs, and construction/property-tech companies, with 100% coverage for state-licensed professionals in categories like contracting, home services, cosmetology, and architecture.
Diego Asenjo
Diego Asenjo is the CEO and co-founder of Mesh, an Austin-based B2B identity startup that verifies the legitimacy, licensing, insurance, and compliance of small businesses and sole proprietors in real time. A former Amazon product leader who built Business Prime into a multi-billion-dollar program, Diego left to fix a problem he 'could not unsee': the broken data infrastructure that quietly penalizes new, small, and micro businesses. His mission is personal, rooted in watching his father's small auto-parts shop in Argentina lose access to fair credit and opportunity as commerce went digital. Mesh raised a $5.7M seed round led by Greycroft and reports 99%+ satisfaction from the businesses it verifies.
Trulioo
Trulioo is a Vancouver-based global identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, marketplaces and crypto firms verify both people and businesses in seconds. Through a single API it combines KYC, KYB, AML watchlist screening, document and biometric verification, and credit decisioning, drawing on data sources that reach billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses worldwide. The pitch is simple: prove who - and what - you are dealing with, anywhere on earth, without stitching together a dozen regional vendors.
Middesk
Middesk is a San Francisco-based business identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, lenders, and marketplaces verify the businesses they transact with. Its KYB APIs turn the slow, paper-heavy process of vetting a company into a real-time decision, powering onboarding at firms like Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Gusto, Affirm, and Shopify.
Kurt Ruppel
Kurt Ruppel is the Co-Founder and CTO of Middesk, the business identity platform that helps financial institutions, fintechs, and marketplaces verify and onboard businesses in seconds rather than weeks. A UC Berkeley cognitive science alumnus turned engineer, he built his technical chops at Zendesk and Checkr before co-founding Middesk with Kyle Mack in 2018. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch, secured a $4M seed led by Accel and Sequoia before Demo Day ended, and raised a $57M Series B in 2022—bringing total funding to over $77M. Ruppel leads Middesk's technical vision, focusing on primitives and forward concepts that transform raw business data into actionable intelligence for the financial ecosystem.
Kyle Mack
Kyle Mack is the CEO and Co-founder of Middesk, the business identity platform that's modernizing how financial institutions and fintechs verify and trust the companies they work with. Founded in 2018 after Mack witnessed firsthand the painful manual process of customer credentialing at Checkr, Middesk has grown into a category-defining KYB infrastructure company backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel, Insight Partners, and Canapi Ventures with $77M+ in total funding. The company serves hundreds of enterprise clients - including two of the top three U.S. banks and fintechs like Plaid, Affirm, Brex, and Shopify - by connecting to roughly 400 U.S. government agencies to surface real-time business identity intelligence. Mack is also a Sequoia Scout, investing in early-stage founders.