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Shufti is a Glocal identity verification and full-compliance lifecycle management solution, recently awarded SaaS Company of the Year by the UK Business Tech Awards. A single API carries the customer through the entire journey, from signup and KYC to authentication, AML screening, ongoing monitoring, reverification and remediation, replacing fragmented vendor stacks with one unified platform.
Shufti operates the world's largest identity network for docless verification, spanning 4.29 billion verifiable identities across 85+ countries, and offers the industry's most extensive docless proof of address capabilities. The technology is 100% built in-house, including an OCR engine trained on millions of datasets that reads 10,000+ active document types in 150+ languages, including Devanagari, Ethiopic (Ge'ez), Arabic and Japanese, at 99.7% average OCR accuracy and benchmarked to outperform Google Vision on Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Independent achievements in the last 12 months include:
- First European company to achieve iBeta Level 3 certification, with 0% APCER and 0% BPCER on both iOS and Android using single selfie passive liveness, and none of 900 mask attacks passing.
- Top performer in the 2025 US DHS Remote Identity Validation Rally, 1 of only 5 vendors from 16 to meet every goal, with zero extraction failures and a false match rate below 0.01%.
- Ranked the #1 Identity Verification Solution on G2, with multiple badges across the G2 Summer 2026 reports.
- Dual Leader recognition from Liminal in both Age Verification and Age Estimation, with Exceptional performance.
- Honorable Mention in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Identity Verification, cited for its diverse global document coverage.
- Launched Blind Spot Audit on AWS Marketplace, which retroactively rescans already-approved customer bases against 10M+ compromised identities. No competitor offers an equivalent.
Shufti is a SaaS platform trusted by 2,000+ businesses to verify customers, reduce drop-off, and keep user experience frictionless. False acceptance stays under 1%, AML screening runs against 4,000+ watchlists and 215+ sanctions regimes refreshed every 15 minutes, and detection models are retrained continuously against evolving AI threats, recording 99.63% deepfake detection at a 0.46% false accept rate in independent PDID benchmarking.
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The General Administration of Customs – Abu Dhabi
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AI Innovation & Transformation - AI in Government & Public Services
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United Arab Emirates
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FISON HEALTH CO., LIMITED
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Design & Experience Innovation - Digital & Electronic Devices Design
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China
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Shantou Luoqi Guohan Clothing Co., Ltd.
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Design & Experience Innovation - Fashion, Apparel and Garmet Design
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China
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Shenzhen Cocinare Technology Co., Ltd.
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Design & Experience Innovation - Home Appliances Design
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China