BioCatch vs Onfido

BioCatch has a disclosed valuation of $1.3B, while Onfido's valuation is not publicly available, making a direct size comparison difficult. BioCatch employs 100-500 people.

BioCatch has raised more in total funding at $213M, compared to Onfido's $200M — a gap of $13M. Combined, the two companies have completed 3 known funding rounds.

BioCatch leads with an Awaira Score of 80/100, while Onfido sits at 68/100. That 12-point gap reflects real differences in funding, scale, and traction — it's not a vanity metric.

BioCatch was founded by Avi Turgeman in 2011. Onfido was founded by Husayn Kassai in 2012. Visit each company's profile on Awaira for a full founder biography.

BioCatch: BioCatch provides behavioural biometrics and fraud prevention AI that analyses how users physically interact with digital devices — mouse movements, typing cadence, touch pressure, and navigation patterns — to authenticate genuine users and detect account takeover, social engineering, and application fraud in real time during banking and financial transactions. The Tel Aviv company processes behavioural signals from hundreds of millions of user sessions monthly, building individual profiles that flag deviations indicating fraud.\n\nThe company raised approximately $213 million in venture funding including a Series D led by Tiger Global, reaching a valuation exceeding $1 billion. BioCatch counts over 30 tier-one banks globally among its clients including American Express, NatWest, and Lloyds Banking Group, with deployments protecting online banking and mobile banking sessions from fraud that bypasses traditional authentication controls. The platform is particularly effective against malware-assisted fraud and social engineering scams where the genuine account holder is unknowingly manipulated.\n\nBioCatch competes in the behavioural biometrics and fraud intelligence market alongside ThreatMetrix (now LexisNexis Risk Solutions), Sift, and Sardine, as well as traditional fraud management platforms from FICO and SAS. Its differentiation is the depth of its behavioural feature engineering from passive interaction signals that do not require active user participation, creating a fraud layer that operates continuously without adding friction to legitimate user journeys. The growing prevalence of authorised push payment fraud and social engineering attacks in European banking has expanded the relevant use case for BioCatch beyond traditional account takeover detection. Onfido: Onfido provided AI-powered identity verification services, using computer vision and machine learning to authenticate government-issued documents and biometric selfies for remote customer onboarding. The platform enabled banks, fintech companies, and regulated service providers to comply with Know Your Customer requirements without requiring in-person identity checks, processing identity verifications across more than 195 countries and supporting hundreds of document types.\n\nFounded in London in 2012, Onfido raised approximately $200 million from investors including SoftBank, TPG Growth, and Salesforce Ventures before being acquired by Entrust, the identity security company, in 2024 for approximately $400 million. At the time of acquisition, Onfido was processing hundreds of millions of identity checks annually for clients including HSBC, Revolut, and Bitstamp, making it one of the largest independent identity verification providers in the world.\n\nOnfido competed in the KYC and identity verification market alongside Jumio, Mitek, and AU10TIX, as well as large platform players including Experian and LexisNexis. The acquisition by Entrust gave Onfido access to a broader portfolio of physical and digital identity credentials and an enterprise sales channel with reach across government, banking, and enterprise security. The combined entity positions Entrust as a full-stack identity provider spanning physical documents, digital certificates, and AI-powered biometric verification.

BioCatch got there first, launching in 2011 — that's 1 year of extra runway. Onfido didn't arrive until 2012. In AI, that kind of head start means more training data, deeper customer relationships, and a bigger talent moat.

BioCatch has about 100-500 employees; Onfido has about 500-1000. A bigger team usually means more revenue or heavier VC backing, but in AI, small teams can build at massive scale.

Yes — they're direct rivals. Both BioCatch and Onfido compete in AI Security, targeting many of the same buyers. If you're evaluating one, you should be looking at the other.