Yoti
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The UK made age checks mandatory in 2025. Yoti reads your age from a selfie, says over/under-18, and stores nothing.
Will it work? · our read
Sell the mandate. A great business the moment the law lands - but the market exists purely at a regulator's whim, and it took a $630M founder fortune to survive the decade until it did.
01How the money moves
A law forces every adult/social site to age-check
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Site embeds Yoti's selfie age-estimation SDK
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Yoti bills per check; image deleted, nothing stored
02The numbers
$37M
2025 revenue (+62% YoY)
FY25 results
1B+
age checks completed
Yoti Nov'25
72M
under-18 blocks in 2025
Yoti
Revenue is Yoti's own reported result; check counts are company-stated. Biometric Update
£29.0M / about $37M FY2025, +62% YoY, EBITDA positive
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Biometric Update - Yoti 62% revenue growth to £29.0M / about $37M (2025)Sifted - Yoti self-funded £110m for a decade before outside cashOfcom - 'highly effective' age checks (OSA), enforced 25 Jul 2025Companies House - YOTI LTD (08998951)Biometric Update - Yoti reaches EBITDA profitability (2025)
Revenue (£29.0M / about $37M, FY2025, +62%) is Yoti's own reported annual result, filed at Companies House and reported by Biometric Update - first-party, not an estimate; Yoti also states EBITDA profitability and 1B+ checks. Competitor revenues (Persona/Sumsub/Veriff) are third-party Latka estimates, flagged in the rivals note. Gamesys' about $2.5B (£2bn) sale, the about $630M (£500m) founder proceeds and the about $140M (£110m) self-funding are press-reported (Sifted, The Truant). The 'why 2019 died / Ofcom approved the selfie method' narrative is documented (GOV.UK, Ofcom). No numbers invented. We never score you.