k-ID offers a modular compliance platform that automates global age‑gate logic, verification, parental consent, and age‑appropriate feature controls for digital products. Its free AgeKit API and premium AgeKit+ provide jurisdiction‑specific age determination and privacy‑preserving age assurance, while the Compliance Development Kit (CDK) translates this data into real‑time permission sets for over 50 features, enabling game studios, social platforms, and AI applications to stay compliant across 200+ regions with minimal user friction.
Funding
$45M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Digital products must comply with a fragmented set of age‑related regulations that vary by country, state, and even platform, requiring accurate age determination, parental consent, and age‑appropriate feature controls. Failure to meet these rules leads to fines, app‑store rejections, and loss of under‑18 users.
Solution
k‑ID provides a modular compliance stack that automates global age‑gate logic, verification, consent collection, and permission enforcement. Its free AgeKit API returns the correct digital age of consent and approved collection methods for any of 200+ jurisdictions, eliminating hard‑coded thresholds. AgeKit+ adds privacy‑preserving age assurance via facial estimation, ID checks, and reusable age tokens. The Compliance Development Kit (CDK) translates a user’s age, location, and consent status into real‑time feature permissions, supporting over 50 granular controls such as chat, purchases, and loot boxes. Family Connect consolidates parental accounts and consent across a publisher’s portfolio, while AgeKey offers reusable, zero‑knowledge age credentials built on FIDO2 passkeys. Together, these components let developers launch and operate products worldwide without manual legal updates or disruptive user friction.
Target Audience
Primary customers are mobile and console game studios, social media and streaming platforms, and AI‑enabled applications that need to serve under‑18 users globally while remaining compliant with age‑related regulations.
Features
- Free AgeKit API delivers jurisdiction‑specific consent ages, approved collection methods, and classification logic in a single low‑latency call
- AgeKit+ provides multi‑method age assurance (facial estimation, ID verification, self‑declaration) with privacy‑preserving age categories
- CDK engine automatically applies up‑to‑date rules for 200+ jurisdictions, returning granular permission sets for 50+ features per user session
- Built‑in Safe Start flow lets users enter a default safe experience and unlock features only after verification, improving conversion
- Portfolio Consent via Family Connect enables a single parental approval to cover multiple titles, reducing consent fatigue
- AgeKey reusable credential uses FIDO2 passkeys to prove age‑over‑threshold without storing personal data, enabling instant verification across sites
- Real‑time regulatory updates (monthly) and audit‑ready logs (SOC 2 Type 2, ESRB certified) ensure compliance without code changes
- SDKs, embeddable widgets, and API endpoints support mobile, console, web, and AI platforms with <50 ms P90 latency and 99.9 % uptime