Youverify has raised US$1.5 million in a funding round led by Orange Digital Ventures. Youverify is an identity technology company solving the identity requirements in West African business and financial services. The company was established in 2018 by a Nigerian entrepreneur, Gbenga Odegbami, and has concluded identity verification for banks and financial services companies in Nigeria.

Orange Digital Ventures invests in entrepreneurs from around the world whose ambition is to imagine, design and develop tomorrow’s services and technologies. The company ranks among the major venture capital firms in Europe and Africa with a fund size of €150 million.