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The identity verification startup, which has more than 3,000 customers, has collected a series of $ 200 million led by Ribbit to an assessment of $ 2 billion, bringing its total funding to $ 417 million– Persona helps companies like OpenAi, Linkedin and Reddit to check the identity of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it more and more difficult to do so.
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