Didit Raises $2M and Joins Y Combinator (W26)

Didit is now officially part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch.

Over the last few months, we also raised ~$2M from incredible funds and angels.

We’re growing at +20% MoM, close to profitability, and still operating with a small, insanely effective team.

This is a special moment for us. And even though we rarely write these kinds of posts — everyone who knows us knows we’re obsessed builders, not talkers. Today feels like a good time to pause, reflect, and share what’s happening at Didit.

Sometimes telling the story matters. So here we go.

Where It Started

Before Didit, my twin brother Alejandro (CTO) and I were working as AI and software engineers, but we were already deep into entrepreneurship. We had built projects, made tons of mistakes, and learned the hard way: product mistakes, management mistakes, marketing mistakes… everything. We were already doing, failing, iterating, and trying again.

But growing up in Barcelona, this path wasn’t obvious.

Today Barcelona has a solid, growing startup ecosystem with great founders, more capital, strong communities, and real ambition. But years ago, when we were getting started, it wasn’t like this at all. The ecosystem was small. Access to experienced founders was limited. Tech wasn’t mainstream. Being a young entrepreneur felt almost strange — like you were trying to do something that didn’t fully “exist” yet in your environment.

So we had to search for resources everywhere. We wanted to understand how real startups were built: how founders validated ideas, built products, communicated, raised money, and actually scaled something meaningful.

That search led us to Y Combinator. We watched every YC video, read every post, absorbed every lesson. We saw people building ambitious things, solving hard problems, and doing it with clarity and discipline.

YC didn’t start our entrepreneurial journey it accelerated it and changed the way we thought about building.

The Beginning of Didit

After a few early attempts and a lot of mistakes, we started building Didit about two years ago with a clear obsession: to create the identity layer of the internet. We imagined a world where any person (or agent) could verify, authenticate, and onboard to any service instantly — no passwords, no friction, no repetitive forms — and where identity is reusable, secure, and truly yours. We were fascinated by the productivity unlocks and the new use cases this could enable: running digital democracies, connecting health data, university titles, driving records, and government databases, having app discovery and onboarding in one click, and creating a seamless bridge between the digital and physical world. We still believe that a secure reusable identity will remove massive inefficiencies and unlock trillions in value creation.

But then came the obvious question: how do two kids from Spain build infrastructure that doesn’t exist and create the biggest identity network in the world?

The answer for us was simple: start with the fundamentals.

Why We Tackled KYC First

If you want to build the identity layer of the internet, you must first master identity verification — extremely secure, ultra-low-cost, incredibly fast, and frictionless. That’s why we went straight after the KYC market, even when everyone around us said it was a terrible idea: “You can’t compete with established players,” “The market is saturated,” “It’s too regulated,” “You’ll never catch up.” But our view was simple: established markets must be challenged or innovation dies — and when Alejandro and I commit to something, we go allin for it.

We built our first MVP quickly, but in a trust-driven and highly regulated industry, an MVP isn’t enough. Reliability, compliance, security, documentation, certification — all these fundamentals matter. So we kept building. We hired an incredible team aligned with our culture; we improved everything — speed, accuracy, UX, infrastructure, docs, console, SDKs, workflows; we obsessed about customers; answered WhatsApps at 3am; fixed bugs in minutes; and shipped features at a velocity most teams don’t believe is possible. After a year of this pace, we launched Didit V1 in August 2024, and we haven’t stopped since.

Today, Didit is — we truly believe — the best identity verification platform in the world: state-of-the-art AI, instant developer experience, the most flexible workflows, fair transparent pricing, record-level security, the fastest execution, and the closest relationship with customers in the industry. People who understand identity know how hard this is, and they see how far ahead we are.

Where We Stand Today

Today, Didit is in a very healthy and exciting position. We’re growing at +20% month over month, supported by retention and NRR metrics that we’re genuinely proud of. Our cohorts are strong, customers stay, and usage keeps increasing. And despite all this growth, we’ve remained intentionally lean — operating with a small, extremely effective team while already being close to profitability. This combination of growth, efficiency, and financial discipline is something we care deeply about.

And now, on top of this momentum, comes the milestone we’re thrilled to share: Didit is joining Y Combinator.

Y Combinator

We’ve admired YC for years, not only for the companies it has backed, but for the huge positive impact it has had on innovation and human progress. For us, YC was always that place that pushed the world forward. This year, for the first time ever, we finally decided to apply… and we got in.

YC brings much more than money. It gives you community, people who think like you, founders who push you to be better, and a level of credibility that opens doors immediately. It helps you hire faster, close deals quicker, and learn at a pace that’s almost unfair. It’s an environment that forces you to operate on your absolute best version. We believe YC is one of the most magical places in the world, where the most talented optimistic people get together to change the world! isn’t that crazy?

Our Investors

Along the way, we also met exceptional people who believed in what we were building long before it was obvious. Over the last few months, we raised around $2M from funds and angels across the US, Brazil, and the EU — including Y Combinator, Saasholic, Hypersphere, Roar VC, Masia VC, and other amazing operators who are now part of our journey.

We heard a lot of “no’s” (every founder does) but the people who said “yes” did it with conviction. They understood our pace, our ambition, and our obsession with the product. Those “yes” people are now partners, allies, and friends. They are part of the foundation we’re building this company on.

What’s Next

We’re going to keep doing what has brought us here: executing relentlessly, staying completely obsessed with the product, and delivering with more quality and more speed than anyone else in the market. We will continue gaining market share in identity verification, and very soon we will enter the authentication and user-management space as well.

We’re also going to keep innovating deeply in identity — pushing boundaries, exploring new use cases, and getting closer to our long-term mission of creating the identity layer of the internet: the biggest identity network in the world. We truly believe identity will be one of the biggest value creators of the coming decade, and we are extremely well positioned to lead that new market.

We are super excited for this next phase — more motivated than ever for the growth ahead, the learnings, and the amazing people we’ll meet along the way. Optimism is good.

To our customers: thank you for trusting us. To our team: thank you for the hard work — you make all of this possible. To our investors: thank you for believing in what we’re building.

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” — Rob Siltanen & Ken Segall