Reinventing Business Identity

About this episode

Kyle Mack discusses building Middesk, a leading business identity platform, and its implications for business verification and compliance.

In this episode of the Wharton FinTech Podcast, Bobby Ma sits down with Kyle Mack, CEO & Co-Founder of Middesk, a Series B company. Kyle shares his experience building Middesk, the leading business identify platform modernizing business verification, risk evaluation, and compliance. Its fast, frictionless APIs support KYB, credit assessment, and tax registration use cases, with data updated in days, not months. More than 500 customers trust Middesk to verify, underwrite, and grow with confidence. The company has raised over $70 million in funding and is backed by top-tier investors including Accel, Sequoia, and Insight Partners. We discuss: - Kyle’s journey building Middesk starting from developing proprietary data pipelines to creating a leading business identity platform - The value proposition of KYB and how it is fundamentally more complex than KYC - How Middesk serves and plugs into its customers’ decisioning workflows -The future of business identity as it evolves with AI and other technology trends

People in this episode

Host: Bobby Ma

Guest: Kyle Mack

Topics covered

• business identity
• verification
• risk evaluation
• compliance
• technology trends
• AI

Keywords

• Middesk
• business identity
• KYB
• KYC
• risk evaluation
• compliance
• APIs
• funding
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Middesk, Accel, Sequoia, Insight Partners

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