# Ondato > Beat the challenge of KYC, KYB, and AML Ondato is a compliance software company providing KYC, KYB, and AML tools for regulated businesses. It offers identity verification, due diligence, and monitoring across multiple industries including financial services and cryptocurrency. Ondato is a compliance technology company that builds identity verification and anti-money laundering software for regulated businesses. Its platform covers customer and business onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and lifecycle management, serving industries such as financial services, insurance, gambling, telecommunications, and cryptocurrency. The company positions its offering as a single interface for organizations that need to meet regulatory obligations while onboarding clients remotely. The platform, known as Ondato OS, addresses the operational burden of manual identity checks and fragmented compliance tools by combining verification, screening, and authentication into one system. Users can verify identity documents, confirm business ownership structures, screen individuals against sanctions and politically exposed persons lists, and authenticate returning customers through biometric and electronic signature methods. These capabilities are delivered through APIs, SDKs, and no-code integrations, and the company is regulated and publishes information about its compliance certifications. Beyond its core identity verification and know your business modules, Ondato offers age verification, transaction monitoring, and secure remote meeting tools that support video-based onboarding. It also provides customer due diligence and sanctions screening services for continuous risk monitoring after onboarding. The platform is used by businesses across multiple regulated sectors that need to verify and monitor customers and business partners while meeting regional data protection and anti-money laundering requirements. - Type: Company - Sector: Accounting and Legal - Status: Active - Founded: 2018-10-03 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/ondato ## Products - [Ondato OS](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ondato): Ondato OS is a compliance platform that provides identity verification, business onboarding, age verification, and anti-money laundering screening for regulated businesses. It uses AI-driven document analysis, optical character recognition, biometric liveness detection, and near-field-communication chip reading to authenticate identity documents, alongside screening against sanctions, politically exposed persons, and adverse media databases. Businesses integrate the platform through an application programming interface, embeddable software development kits, or a no-code hosted link, allowing them to build onboarding and monitoring flows suited to their own products. The platform also offers electronic signature, biometric authentication, and virtual meeting modules to verify returning users and support remote client interactions. (KYC & Identity Verification, Live, Main Product) ## Links - [Main](https://ondato.com) - [Blog](https://ondato.com/blog) - [Privacy policy](https://ondato.com/privacy-policy) - [Media Kit/branding](https://ondato.com/press-kit) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/OndatoKYC) - [Facebook](https://facebook.com/OndatoKYC) - [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/ondato) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4eMJhSGAf5hRO4YxnzrFFw) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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