verification

Zulily co-founders Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon invest in ID verification tech startup Vouched

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Zulily co-founders Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon invest in ID verification tech startup Vouched

Vouched investor Darrell Cavens (left) and Vouched CEO John Baird. (Verified photo) Vouched, a Seattle-based startup helping companies verify identity, has raised $ 4.5 million from investors including Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon, co-founders of e-commerce giant Zulily. It’s a vote of confidence in the three-year-old company that emerged from Madrona Venture Labs, the Seattle-based … Read more

Twitter has paused verification applications again

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Igor Bonifacic

Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but again Twitter temporarily stopped accepting new user verification requests. This most recent hiatus comes after the company briefly opened the process to the public in May and then closed it again about eight days later. We have temporarily paused in introducing Access to Request Review so we … Read more

Twitter is already pausing public verification

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Andrew Tarantola

Just eight days after announcing the restart of the long-paused Bluecheck verification process, Twitter announced on Friday that it is unfortunately overflowing with requests and is temporarily ignoring new applications from users until the backlog is resolved. Until that past respite, Twitter had not allowed members of the public to request a site-wide review since … Read more