Gataca is growing.

New investors joined our cap table, and our existing investors increased their stake, the strongest validation we could offer anyone. Digital identity is moving faster than most companies in this space are built for. Gataca built for this speed years ago: infrastructure for a world where verification is instant, reusable and fraud-resistant. Tightening compliance is one reason to adopt it now. The stronger reason is that robust identity verification has become today a business necessity on its own, and we're finally resourced to lead that shift.

Identity fraud stopped being an edge case the moment generative AI reached the mass market. Deepfakes, synthetic identities and document forgery have made traditional verification approaches inadequate, and regulators are responding by setting a stricter baseline for secure identity verification.

In iGaming, the signals are impossible to ignore. At Bet On Ceuta (one of Spain's most relevant gatherings of local gaming regulators, operators and legal experts) identity fraud dominated the conversation. A 12% increase in identity theft cases versus the previous year. As one regulator put it plainly: "a photo and a selfie are no longer enough."

In finance, eIDAS 2.0 becomes mandatory by end of 2027, and institutions that start now will onboard faster than those buying under deadline pressure.

Age verification laws are proliferating across Europe, the US and Australia, with real fines already behind them. At the same time, consumers are less patient than ever. Onboarding friction now shows up where it hurts: lost conversion, lost revenue and deals lost to whoever onboards faster.

ID wallets solve this. Users hold their identity credentials in a wallet on their phone, issued once by a trusted source. The same way we keep credit cards in Apple or Google Wallet, but for ID documents. Proving who we are becomes as simple as paying with our phone, in one tap. Organizations can instantly confirm the credential's origin instantly, something a forged scan can't fake.

This is the model Europe and more than twenty other countries are building their** national digital identity strategies** around. It's also what we've been building: the infrastructure that lets regulated companies verify users instantly worldwide, built on ID wallets and real time intelligence.

What we've already proven

We're not starting from zero. Years of R&D, deployments at scale with public and private institutions in 8 countries, and advisory work across the ecosystem (including the European Commission), have given us the infrastructure that's already in production and certified, and the expertise to scale it. We’ve processed over 750.000 Wallet transactions in 2025 alone. And the result is a KYC process that actually works:

For businesses teams, onboarding and authentication that users don't abandon. For compliance teams, fraud control and full auditability.

For the person who just wants to open a bank account or sign up for a service, an alternative to sending the same ID document for the tenth time and filling out another long form. With Gataca, that goes from a headache to one click.

Getting one system to interoperate with every ID wallet out there is harder than it looks. Each wallet has its own subtleties, and making them all work together takes real engineering. We've spent years on it: building, optimizing, pentesting, deploying and certifying. That groundwork is what now lets us add an intelligence layer that makes the difference.

Where the capital goes

New partners come in to help us execute our plans we've already built. Two priorities lead our work:

Growth. Expanding in Media, iGaming, and Finance across Europe and beyond. Each of these markets has its own clock running:

• age verification laws landing on social platforms
• fraud pressure and tightening rules in iGaming, and the eIDAS 2.0 deadline pulling financial institutions into the market now.

We already have live conversations and a pipeline in each. What we lacked was the capacity to pursue all three at once. That's what this funding changes, in sales, in deployment and in the people who do both.

Product. Deepening the intelligence layer that sets Gataca apart, and widening the wallet interoperability underneath it. Concretely: building the tools that deliver higher conversion for the business teams who own onboarding, richer fraud signals and controls for the analysts who chase them, and more automation for the compliance teams who carry the regulatory load. The identity verification works today. The next phase is making the decision on top of it sharper.

To our investors, thank you

To our existing investors who increased their stake, including our lead investor Signature Ventures and business angels: that decision says more than any pitch deck could. You've seen us up close, and stayed with us in the progress. And now you chose to bet more.

To our new partners, including Wolver Ventures and many other private investors: welcome. You're backing a team set on cutting identity fraud, protecting user privacy, and building the identity infrastructure that secures millions of transactions worldwide. Your conviction will get us there.