443ID, an identity and access management open source intelligence cybersecurity company, announced its emergence from stealth mode and the closing of an $8 million seed funding round. Bill Wood Ventures and Silverton Partners co-led the round.

Co-founded in 2021 by Stephen Shoaff and Mark Batchelor, Austin-headquartered 443ID is on a mission to bring the power of open source intelligence (OSINT) to the identity security marketplace. The company's technology permits users of today's most popular identity and access management platforms to leverage the power of OSINT to make better decisions about the outside risk, how to register, verify, authenticate and manage friction during user engagement. The 443ID platform makes OSINT data actionable at login speed through simple API and key IAM platform integrations at a price anyone can afford.