IDfy
👤 Ashok Hariharan (Ex-BT engineer, ISB MBA. Built India's KYC infrastructure from 2011 — years before RBI's video-KYC mandate made it mandatory.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
When KYC is the law, verification isn't a nice-to-have — it's a line item every regulated firm must buy.
Will it work? · our read
Forced demand. The moat is a statute: no regulated Indian firm can legally onboard a user without KYC, so IDfy gets paid on every signup, and now runs a profit.
01How the money moves
Bank, fintech or gaming app must KYC a new user
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App calls IDfy's API: ID, face match, video KYC, checks
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IDfy charges per verification — 60M+ a month
02The numbers
about Rs 188 Cr ($22M)EstimateFY25 rev · Entrackr est.
FY2025 (Apr'24-Mar'25)
FY25 profit and scale via Entrackr's review of IDfy accounts; unaudited, IDfy did not confirm. Entrackr
Up from Rs 145 Cr in FY24 — and IDfy's first net profit.
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Entrackr — IDfy Rs 188.5 Cr FY25 revenue, back to profitInc42 — IDfy financials (reports Rs 191 Cr FY25, a differing figure)Wikipedia — IDfy: founders, RBI KYC, DPDP, fundingIDfy — product, verification volumes, clientsAshok Hariharan — Co-founder & CEO, LinkedIn
Revenue is third-party: Entrackr reports Rs 188.5 Cr for FY25 (up from Rs 145 Cr FY24) with a Rs 7.8 Cr net profit, from documents it reviewed; IDfy called the numbers unaudited and declined to confirm, so verified is false and this is graded EST. Inc42 reports a close but different Rs 191 Cr revenue / Rs 1.6 Cr profit for FY25 — the sources agree on the profit turn and strong growth, not the exact figure. USD at about Rs 85/$1. The 60M+ monthly checks and 1,500-client count are IDfy's own claims (via Entrackr and its site). Regulation framing — RBI KYC Master Direction, PMLA/AML, RBI video-KYC (V-CIP), DPDP Act 2023 — is factual. We never score you.