Mitek Systems

Mitek Systems is a digital identity verification and fraud prevention company founded in 1986 and headquartered in San Diego, California. Originally focused on image analytics and OCR for financial institutions, the company has expanded into a broad identity verification platform serving over 7,000 enterprise customers globally. Mitek's core product offerings include identity document verification, biometric authentication, liveness detection, and mobile image capture. Its Verified Identity Platform (MiVIP), launched in 2022, provides unified identity orchestration for KYC and onboarding workflows. The company's IDLive Face product provides passive liveness detection, and its Check Fraud Defender uses AI and consortium data to detect altered checks across banking channels. The company's technology combines AI, optical character recognition (OCR), biometrics (face and voice), and mobile image capture to verify identities and detect fraud across digital transactions. Capabilities include document and selfie matching, handwriting recognition, synthetic identity detection, and deepfake defense. Mitek serves sectors including banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, and the gig economy. Its Mobile Deposit product, launched in 2008, was the first application enabling check deposits via smartphone. The company has processed over 8.8 billion mobile checks and verified over 1.3 billion identities. The company holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications and is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker MITK. Growth has been driven in part through acquisitions including IDchecker, ICAR, A2iA, ID R&D, and HooYu.