{"id":954779,"date":"2025-08-13T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954779"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:35:09","slug":"identity-verification-startup-1kosmos-raises-57-million-in-series-b-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/13\/identity-verification-startup-1kosmos-raises-57-million-in-series-b-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity verification startup 1Kosmos raises $57 million in Series B round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: 1Kosmos, the leader in unifying identity proofing and password-less authentication, on Tuesday said it has raised $57 million in Series B funding, including a $10 million line of credit from Bridge Bank. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Forgepoint Capital, and Origami\u2019s Oquirrh Ventures with participation by Craig Abod, Founder and President of Carahsoft, NextEra Energy Ventures, Gula Tech Adventures, and the 1Kosmos management team. <\/p>\n<p>This brings the company\u2019s total funding to more than $72 million, including a prior $15 million Series A round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: 1Kosmos, the leader in unifying identity proofing and password-less authentication, on Tuesday said it has raised $57 million in Series B funding, including a $10 million line of credit from Bridge Bank. The round was led by Forgepoint Capital, and Origami\u2019s Oquirrh Ventures with participation by Craig Abod, Founder and President of Carahsoft, NextEra Energy Ventures, Gula Tech Adventures, and the 1Kosmos management team. This brings the company\u2019s total funding to more than $72 million, including a prior $15 million Series A round.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954779","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=954779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}