k-ID

k-ID is a compliance infrastructure company that provides age assurance, regulatory intelligence, and compliance technology. It serves gaming, social media, consumer AI, and other platforms with user-generated content, helping operators maintain compliance across more than 200 jurisdictions worldwide. Its products include AgeKit and AgeKit+ for age classification and verification, CDK for market-specific compliance logic, and neimo for regulatory intelligence. It also orchestrates third-party age assurance methods, including AgeKey reusable credentials from the OpenAge Initiative.

k-ID's co-founders include Kieran Donovan, who is CEO, and Timothy Ma, who is Chief Legal Officer. Julian Corbett and Jeff Wu are also listed as co-founders. Its team has experience in law, privacy, trust, safety and gaming at companies including Meta, Google, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Netflix, Tencent, Unity and Latham & Watkins.

The Compliance Development Kit (CDK) evaluates age, jurisdiction, and consent status for every player session. Its parental consent flows include parent verification, consent collection, and ongoing management. The k-ID API provides methods for initiating Verifiable Parental Consent, initiating age verification, and getting enabled permissions for a player.