1Kosmos

1Kosmos, founded in 2018, builds government-grade digital identity verification and phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication for enterprises. The threat model here is credential theft at scale - phishing, social engineering, compromised passwords - and the company's answer is to eliminate the password entirely, anchoring identity in biometrics and verified credentials instead. The core product is the BlockID platform , which unifies identity proofing, credential verification, and continuous authentication in a single privacy-first architecture. The technical stack spans biometrics, identity verification, and authentication , operating across banking, healthcare, government agencies, and enterprise verticals. The system handles millions of daily authentications with 99%+ accuracy, deployed worldwide. This is identity infrastructure for organizations where the stakes of a compromised credential aren't theoretical - regulated industries, critical systems, environments with compliance mandates baked into the procurement process. The work sits at the intersection of cryptographic identity, biometric signal processing, and real-time auth at volume.