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Meet Tony Gatterman, Veriff’s new Head of Commercial Legal
We are proud to welcome Tony Gatterman to the Veriff team as our new Head of Commercial Legal. He will support our sales and partnership organizations and take our procurement and contracting processes to the next level. Following stints with Slack and Salesforce, Tony brings more than a decade of experience providing corporate legal counsel to Veriff. Read on to learn more about him!
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Meet Mariano Semelman - A conversation with our Head of Data Science Platform
Mariano Semelman is the Head of Data Science Platform at Veriff. He is originally from Argentina, but he moved to Europe in 2018. After living in Berlin for three years, Mariano decided to live and work in Barcelona, and shortly after that, he joined the Veriff team. We recently had a fascinating conversation about his career, interests, and life at Veriff.
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From academia to the startup world
Meet our Data Scientist – Paco Romero Ferrero. After having multiple years of experience in the academic world as a PhD researcher, he joined our team in March 2022 to face new challenges and grow as a professional.
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Meet Sacha Vasilkioti, Veriff’s FinTech Product Manager
Sacha Vasilkioti is a FinTech Product Manager at Veriff. She joined the company back in April 2019 as a Verification Team Lead, where she managed a team and scaled up the operational process.
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Meet Jason Butler: Our Senior Recruiter Growing Veriff In The U.S.
Veriff recently reached 500 employees globally and is expanding even more. To help our growing company, we are extremely proud and excited to have Jason Butler join our Talent Acquisition team in the U.S.
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Caroline Mogford joins Veriff as Chief Marketing Officer
Former marketing leader at Qualtrics joins Veriff’s executive team as CMO to expand strategic marketing initiatives across the globe.
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Reaching $1.5 billion in a year with Veriff CFO Amish Mody
In early 2021, we welcomed Amish Mody to the team as our new Chief Financial Officer. During his first 12 months at Veriff, he has been the mastermind behind our $69m Series B and $100m Series C rounds. His efforts together with the team, have helped to bring Veriff across the magical $1b dollar line to become a unicorn.
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Meet Amber Rucker - A Conversation with Our Head of Design
Having worked internationally for years, U.S.-born Amber Rucker currently resides in Barcelona as our Head Of Design. She discusses her passion for design and development, what attracted her to Veriff, and much more.
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Finding Best Practices to Prevent Online Fraud - An Interview With Munna Poddar
Munna Poddar is a Fraud Product Manager at Veriff. Originally, he is from India, but he came to Estonia in March 2020 to continue his career at Microsoft.
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Meet Mert Celik - A Conversation with Our Engineering Team Lead
In 2014, Mert Celik moved from Turkey to Estonia to complete a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, and joined the Veriff team after graduation. Discover how his career started, what attracted him to Veriff, and his day-to-day experiences in the role.
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Meet Madis Pink: An interview with Veriff's Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Madis Pink is a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Veriff. He is from Estonia, and he joined the Veriff team back in July 2019 as an Android Engineer. Before that, he worked with many global tech companies on various successful projects. These companies include Skype, Spotify, Fortumo, and more.
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Veriff Rolls out Sabbaticals for its Teams Across the Globe
We believe that in order to live a fulfilling and impactful life, our employees could benefit from longer breaks every once in a while. Our Sabbatical Program allows every Veriff employee whose tenure is longer than three years in the company to take six weeks of fully paid time away from work.
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Meet Angela González: Veriff’s Senior Recruiter helping expand our Barcelona hub
We’re excited to have Angela González join us as senior recruiter to help us grow in Barcelona.
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"Working at Veriff is a lot of fun - no two days are the same"
We chat with Krister Kasemaa, an intern in Veriff's Product and Verification Automation teams, who recently finished up his time with the company. We ask about his life as a student, what brought him to Veriff, and what he does outside his studies.
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Veriff’s Global Mission - Next Stop Barcelona
I chatted with our VP of Product, Duncan Steblyna, about how his time with Veriff has been since joining in March, the big challenges we face right now, and why he might not be in Tallinn much longer...read to find out!
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Growing Veriff with Luke Govier, Head of Talent Acquisition
We chat with Luke Govier, who recently joined Veriff to help us bring more awesome talent to our team to match our growing ambitions.
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Managing a Startup Fundraising Process in Veriff
Gretlin Prukk, Executive Assistant to our CEO, recently wrote a brilliant article for Executive Support Magazine about raising our Series B fundraising earlier this year. Get a flavour of it here and read the rest in the magazine.
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"It was nice to know that my colleagues had my back in my professional and personal life"
Braian Dias moved from Brazil to Estonia to work for Veriff as a Data Scientist. Learn about where his career started, what attracted him to Veriff, and the challenges he faces in his daily work.
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From Tango to Tech - Andre's Journey to Veriff
Andre Haikal is a Technical Owner at Veriff, but he also owns a dance studio in Tallinn and took quite a journey from self-trained Engineer to the Estonian Start-Up world. Enjoy his story!
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"Working with the diverse Veriff team is really exciting for me"
Mostafa Khalil is a Senior Software Engineer at Veriff, and a member of our growing international team, having moved to Estonia in 2019. We chat with Mostafa about what brought him to engineering, how life is in Estonia, and what he enjoys about Veriff.
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Moving to Estonia with a little help from Veriff
Mahwish Naim is a Senior Account Manager in Veriff, who moved to Estonia for her job with us. She was recently interviewed by Postimees about what it's like to live in Estonia, the local culture, and how life is within Veriff.
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A Headteacher Interning at a Start-Up - How Did It Work Out?
Back in February, we wrote about Veriff taking part in the Educational Leaders’ Internship Program. As our intern Siret ends her time with us, we revisited her and her mentor, Tiit Paananen, to ask about the success of the mentorship and what they both learned.
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How does the Verification department operate in Veriff? - An interview with Amber de Wolde
We chat with Amber, a Verification Team Lead, all about Veriff's Verification Department - how it operates day-to-day, what challenges they face, and what it takes to join the team!
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Focusing On The Positive Results In Unexpected Benefits
We welcomed Dr. Eva-Maria Kangro to Veriff (remotely of course) earlier this year to give us six sessions on how brain hacks can help boost positivity, productivity, and manage anxiety. Here, she expands on the lessons in those sessions and how they could help you.
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"The Veriff team connected with me — the culture really attracted me here"
We chat with Roman Zolotarev, a member of Veriff's Verification Tools team, about what brought him to Veriff, his long career in software engineering, and what advice he'd give to anyone just starting out.
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“A problem-solver mindset helps our company scale and come up with effective solutions daily”
We speak to one of our Technical Support Engineers, Ugur Gecgil, about moving from Turkey to Estonia to join Veriff, his career path, and how he's finding life in a new country.
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Changing The Online World For Good With Veriff
In a guest blog from Startup Adventures, Ucha Vekua spoke to our Head of Recruitment, Kristiine Kukk about daily life at Veriff, the challenges the business has faced during it's growth and the core values we stand for.
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Setting Goals and Achieving Big Results in Sport and Professionally
We sat down with Henri Rästas, the Lead of Veriff's Extraction Team, and a self-proclaimed 'adrenaline junkie' to talk about his life before Veriff, his time with the company so far, and what he does outside the office.
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Duncan Steblyna joins Veriff as our new VP of Product
In another exciting appointment for Veriff, we’re thrilled to welcome Duncan Steblyna as our new Vice President of Product. I spoke to him about why he chose Veriff, and what he sees as the first big challenges in our product development.
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Design & Research Collaboration at Veriff
In this third and final blog post in our series, we discuss how design works together with research at Veriff.
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Veriff's First Hackathon - Two More Exciting Entries
We speak to two more teams from Veriff's first hackathon - one who started creating a brand new product called Face Match, and the other who made a game you can play while you wait to be verified!
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Amish Mody joins Veriff as our new Chief Finance Officer
Veriff welcomes a brand new CFO, Amish Mody, and talks to him about what brought him to Veriff, his time with Monese, and what he plans to tackle first in his new role.
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I was excited about what Veriff aimed to achieve and wanted to be part of that
Luis Barragan has been a Team Lead at Veriff for a little over two years, seeing the company grow from 30 people to 300. We asked him all about his life before Estonia, his work before Veriff, and his new found love of photography.
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A Headteacher Interning at a Start-Up – Only in Estonia!
Veriff is taking part in the Educational Leaders’ Internship Program, and is pleased to welcome headteacher Siret Paasmäe to our team as part of the program. We spoke to both her and her mentor, Tiit Paananen, to see how the internship is going so far.
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The Veriff Hackathon Winners - Canary Releases
We speak to Siim and Kateryna, members of the winning team during Veriff's first hackathon which took place in December 2020 all about their winning idea, canary releases, and the benefits it now offers Veriff.
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Veriff's First Hackathon - An Interview with Kalev Rundu
We interview Kalev Rundu, who was the spearhead behind our first-ever hackathon, which took place in December. He tells us about the beginning of the idea, the amazing pitches, the winning team, and what happens next.
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I actually wouldn’t recommend this for any sane person
Joonatan Samuel is without doubt one of Veriff's brightest and most exciting young minds. We talk to him about his time in the company so far, the experiences he's gained during his career, and his love of running (even in winter!).
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How We Measure The Impact of Design
In the second in a series of blogs, we discuss how design is being measured at Veriff, and how it helps us to make certain decisions.
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Kaarel Kotkas talks to SafetyDetectives
Our CEO, Kaarel Kotkas, was interviewed by SafetyDetectives.com, so we took the opportunity to share his interview right here. Enjoy!
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Indrek Heinloo joins Veriff as our new COO
Veriff is excited to announce the arrival of Indrek Heinloo as our new COO. We caught up with him about his career so far, and his immediate plans in Veriff.
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An interview with Kaarel & Janer about 5 years in Veriff
It's Veriff's Birthday week! So we spoke to our CEO and COO about how they met, their first five years in Veriff, and what they see in their future.
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Kaarel Kotkas Described as a Visionary
On an October morning, Veriff founder Kaarel Kotkas was speaking with Veiko Valkiainen about leadership. What does it take to be a great leader and a successful entrepreneur? How do you reach your goals? Tune in to hear Kaarel's thoughts on leadership.
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How Design Can Improve Conversion
In the first in a series of blogs, we discuss how Veriff approaches design, and how this helps our partners welcome even more honest customers.
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Maintaining a balance between physical and mental health
Taivo is a man who first and foremost likes to maintain a balance between physical and mental health. With this balance, he’s able to put focus into starting and completing new and increasingly interesting challenges.
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Piret Saag as our new Head of People Operations
Piret brings a wealth of experience in the start-up field, and a passion for company culture and values, so she’s excited to help Veriff keep building on strong foundations.
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Veriff's a Lighthouse in Identity Verification Sector
Kaarel Kotkas, the founder and CEO of Veriff gave an interview to Baltic Startup Mafia podcast talking about how Veriff was started and where it is heading. Tune in!
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You just need to be confident in taking chances
After my first attempt at an interview needed to be canceled due to a last minute scheduling issue, I was happy to be able to meetup with (via Zoom) Liisi to discuss her role in Veriff, and how she’s been able to use so many different experiences to further grow as a person and as a professional.
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Everything you do should come straight from the heart
On an uncharacteristically chilly/rainy day in July, I had the chance to interview (via Zoom) Ilia Aphtsiauri, one of the founding engineers in Veriff.
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Webinar: How to Build Your AI Startup
Superangel hosted a Flash Webinar with Taivo Pungas, Veriff's Automation Lead, on building AI teams, products, and startups.
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No Challenge Too Difficult
Kateryna Porshnieva, sitting in her house and surrounded by greenery, took some time to discuss how and why she joined Veriff as the Engineering Team Lead and about her life in Ukraine before moving to Estonia.
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Mixing Work & Fun Together is Recipe for a Balanced Life
Mixing Work and Fun Together is Tiit Paananen’s, Veriff VP Engineering, Recipe for a Balanced Life. Technology and internet trust levels are driving factors in his life, yet they are far from the only thing that interest him, as you'll see.
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5 Ways Startups Can Make a Positive Environmental Impact
The state of our environment is worsening, and unsustainable businesses are becoming the ghosts of pasts. If you’re looking for ways to be more eco- friendly in 2020 here are some of our favorites.
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Veriff Welcomes Guy Zerega and Opens New York Office
Veriff welcomes Guy Zerega, a former Executive Vice President of Revenue of Stack Overflow. Zerega serves as the Senior Vice President of Sales at Veriff being in charge of building the company’s global sales organization and business expansion. He will also be leading Veriff’s New York Office.
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Veriff to Be Carbon Neutral by 2030
Carbon neutral by 2030! We are excited to join Bolt, Guardtime, Telia, TransferWise, and over 50 other brands as founding members of Estonia’s Tech Green Pledge initiative.
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Measuring the Impact of a Design System
Veriff Senior Software Engineer, Rauno Freiberg gives us an inside look into the experience of building our new internal design system, Genoma.
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Veriff’s New Visual Brand Identity
A bold company needs a bold look. Here’s the why behind Veriff’s new look, and the process that took us from concept to a new and improved visual brand identity.
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#GoodbyeBadBag Saved 4,220 Plastic Bags this Summer
Our plastic-free summer prevented 4,220 plastic bags from polluting the environment. Here’s how we did it, and why.
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The People of Veriff: We’re 300 Now!
Growing team Veriff to over 300 people was a milestone came with a lot of challenges and rewards. Our Head of People Operations, Kristina Lilleõis, talks about the highs and lows for her team and beyond in this edition of The People of Veriff.
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Veriff’s Team Grows 17 Times in One Year
Veriff has grown from 17 employees to 300 in one year - proof of the high demand for reliable verification tools to help to prevent identity fraud and abuse.
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#GoodbyeBadBag: A Summer Without Plastic Bags
We read the news, too. Global warming is really global heating. A million species are going extinct because of human activity. Oh well. It’s just some bugs and fish other icky beings you wouldn’t want to share a bed with anyway. Right?
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The People of Veriff: Hail the Hundredth!
Veriff's Head of People Operations writes a memo to her future self as our team reaches the 100-people landmark.
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