Civic Technologies, Inc.

Founded in 2015 by Vinny Lingham and Jonathan Smith, Civic Technologies, Inc. is a US-based decentralized identity verification company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Civic provides AI and blockchain-based decentralized identity and attribute verification solutions, empowering users to register, validate, and lock their personal identity information to prevent identity theft and fraud. Civic enables on-chain reusable identity that users control across multiple blockchains, with products including Civic Pass, Civic.me, and a physical/hybrid global ID card usable across 190+ countries with security features such as holograms, laser engraving, and NFC-based verification. The company raised over $33 million through its 2017 token sale (CVC token) and is focused on combating AI-based identity fraud through user-controlled digital identity.