I first spoke to Husayn Kassai, CEO and co-founder at Onfido, in the Summer of 2016, four years after it was first set up. At the time, the startup, co-founded by three young Oxford University graduates, had raised an undisclosed sum from Salesforce Ventures, Talis Capital, and several angels. [Read: Darktrace’s co-CEO on trusting AI to fight cyberattacks on our behalf] Fast forward four years and Onfido — which helps businesses verify peoples’ identities using a photo-based identity document, a selfie, and artificial intelligence algorithms — has just closed an impressive $100 million Series D. But how did Kassai and his…
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