Smile ID
Africa's leading digital KYC provider using machine learning for identity verification.
Agent readinessAbove median Open the scores section.Agent Readiness: 47/100. Above median. Measured by StartupHub.ai. Median 41.54/100Trust scoreTop 25% Open the scores section.Data Trust: 83/100. Top 25%. Measured by StartupHub.ai. Median 61.About
Smile ID provides digital identity verification, fraud detection, and KYC compliance solutions for businesses operating in Africa. Their core offerings include document verification, AML checks, biometric authentication, and business verification, enabling companies to build trusted user bases and scale across the continent. They serve industries such as banking, crypto, and buy now pay later.
Key facts
- Website
- smile.id
- Headquarters
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 76
Tech stack
Detected on smile.id, last scanned 21 Sept 2026. Run your own scan
- Frontend
- Bootstrap
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight Tag
- Support
- HubSpot
- CMS / Builders
- Webflow
- CDN
- Cloudflare
- Email marketing
- HubSpot Forms
Measured, not editorial
Ahrefs DR
Measured by Ahrefs
Strength of the site’s backlink profile, on Ahrefs’ 0-100 Domain Rating scale. Licensed third-party data, not our opinion.1/100
Bottom 25%
Agent Readiness
Measured by StartupHub.ai
How well an AI agent can read and use this site: structured data, clean markup, and whether key facts are reachable without running JavaScript. We scan the live site.47/100
Above median
Site Speed
Measured by Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed mobile performance for the company’s own site. Measured by Google, not by us.54/100
Below median
Data Trust
Measured by StartupHub.ai
Whether this company is a safe place to put your data: security posture, privacy signals, and reputation evidence we could verify.83/100
Top 25% · 1,337 scored
API & MCP Security
Measured by StartupHub.ai
What this company’s API or MCP server gives an anonymous stranger: transport, whether anything answers without credentials, CORS, response headers and, when an MCP server replies, which of its tools can be called with no key. Scanned live, on request, because a security verdict months old is worse than none.Test your Ahrefs DR
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Frequently asked
Is Smile ID trustworthy and reputable?
StartupHub's Data Trust & Reputation score for Smile ID is 83 out of 100, a trusted rating, based on site security posture, privacy practices, malware and phishing checks, and public reputation signals.
How many employees does Smile ID have?
Smile ID has approximately 76 people on record.
SEC filings, insider activity, nonprofit links and pay benchmarks for Smile ID:
Company details: from public sources. Funding: no announced round on file. Ownership: not yet claimed by the company. Scores: measured by named tools; each links to its method. Our rules
