Unico

About

Unico is a Brazilian identity verification company, founded in 2007 by Diego Martins, Rui Jordão and Paulo Alencastro, that uses facial biometrics and liveness detection to verify who is carrying out a transaction. Its products include an identity verification platform, IDPay for card-not-present purchases, which verifies the buyer's identity and card ownership, and Human Token, which creates a reusable token from a single selfie for login, account recovery and step-up checks. It serves financial services, retail and commerce, and gambling companies, and says it performs approximately 1 billion identity authentications a year. Its investors include SoftBank, General Atlantic and Goldman Sachs. In September 2026 it signed an agreement to acquire Valida as part of its entry into Argentina.