Telesign
Telesign is a technology company providing phone number, SMS, and identity verification APIs to enhance security and build customer trust. Their products leverage global phone data and AI to assess risk, increase efficiency, and fight fraud, enabling seamless onboarding, account integrity, fraud protection, and customer engagement. Serving over two-thirds of the largest global brands, Telesign offers solutions across 230+ countries and territories with 35+ patents worldwide. Their business model is primarily SaaS, delivering APIs for digital identity verification, messaging, and voice communication to enterprises in financial services, e-commerce, travel, and more, helping protect against synthetic identity fraud, account takeovers, and other digital threats.
Telesign
Telesign is a technology company providing phone number, SMS, and identity verification APIs to enhance security and build customer trust. Their products leverage global phone data and AI to assess risk, increase efficiency, and fight fraud, enabling seamless onboarding, account integrity, fraud protection, and customer engagement. Serving over two-thirds of the largest global brands, Telesign offers solutions across 230+ countries and territories with 35+ patents worldwide. Their business model is primarily SaaS, delivering APIs for digital identity verification, messaging, and voice communication to enterprises in financial services, e-commerce, travel, and more, helping protect against synthetic identity fraud, account takeovers, and other digital threats.
TL;DR
Headquarters / Base: Los Angeles-based
Core product: Phone-number intelligence, identity verification, and omnichannel communications APIs
Scale: Verifies billions of phone numbers monthly; serves major global brands across 230+ countries/territories
Ownership: Part of Proximus group (via acquisition by BICS)
Founded: 2005
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Digital identity, fraud prevention, and secure customer communications for enterprises.
Founded
2005
Industry
Cybersecurity / Communications / Identity verification
Funding Track Record
$49,000,000
Series B announced July 3, 2014
Investor Signal
“Acquired by BICS in October 2017 for $230 million; Proximus became sole shareholder of BICS (and Telesign) in February 2021”