{"id":1031694,"date":"2026-08-28T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031694"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:53:44","slug":"socure-valued-at-5-2-billion-in-latest-funding-buys-fravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/socure-valued-at-5-2-billion-in-latest-funding-buys-fravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Socure valued at $5.2 billion in latest funding, buys Fravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identity verification startup Socure raised $156 million in a series E extension round that valued the company at $5.2 billion, Chief Marketing Officer Colton Pond told Reuters on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The extension comes nearly five years after the company raised $450 million as part of its \u200cSeries E \u2060round \u2060at a $4.5 billion valuation. <\/p>\n<p>The latest investment included primary funding and a secondary \u200btender offer for employees. It was led by Summit Partners, with participation \u200bfrom Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo, DocuSign and other investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity verification startup Socure raised $156 million in a series E extension round that valued the company at $5.2 billion, Chief Marketing Officer Colton Pond told Reuters on Thursday. The extension comes nearly five years after the company raised $450 million as part of its \u200cSeries E \u2060round \u2060at a $4.5 billion valuation. The latest investment included primary funding and a secondary \u200btender offer for employees. It was led by Summit Partners, with participation \u200bfrom Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo, DocuSign and other investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031731,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031694\/revisions\/1031731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}