Andrew Kayvanfar

Portable identity. Verifiable data. Trust that moves with you. Indicio is an award‑winning decentralized identity and Verifiable Credentials platform delivering reusable, portable, authenticated data and access, enhanced with biometrics and document authentication. Recognized as a Top 25 Hot Startup of 2026 by PhocusWire, Indicio powers trust wherever verification matters—across industries, not just travel. Organizations rely on Indicio Proven® to securely verify documents and identities, reduce complexity and errors, mitigate fraud, support data compliance, and significantly improve customer experience. With instantly verifiable information, teams can confidently know who they’re interacting with online—human and non‑human—and make fast, informed decisions. Indicio Proven® is an out‑of‑the‑box Verifiable Credential solution for simple, secure digital identity. It’s vendor‑agnostic at the document processing and biometrics layer, integrates easily with existing providers, and delivers tamper‑evident, selectively disclosable, and portable credentials—no matter which verification partner is used. Indicio is actively used across agriculture, education, financial services, government, and travel and hospitality—wherever trust, privacy, and data integrity are essential. Start your digital verification and transformation journey with powerful, flexible, and scalable technology for secure data sharing and digital identity. Proven identity. Proven relationships. Proven data. 👉 Talk with us today at Indicio.tech

Story Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in NYC. We invest in entrepreneurs with big visions that leverage technology and the proliferation of data to impact the way people interact with the world. Send us a note via www.storyventures.vc or shoot an email at info@storyventures.vc!

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.

Portable identity. Verifiable data. Trust that moves with you. Indicio is an award‑winning decentralized identity and Verifiable Credentials platform delivering reusable, portable, authenticated data and access, enhanced with biometrics and document authentication. Recognized as a Top 25 Hot Startup of 2026 by PhocusWire, Indicio powers trust wherever verification matters—across industries, not just travel. Organizations rely on Indicio Proven® to securely verify documents and identities, reduce complexity and errors, mitigate fraud, support data compliance, and significantly improve customer experience. With instantly verifiable information, teams can confidently know who they’re interacting with online—human and non‑human—and make fast, informed decisions. Indicio Proven® is an out‑of‑the‑box Verifiable Credential solution for simple, secure digital identity. It’s vendor‑agnostic at the document processing and biometrics layer, integrates easily with existing providers, and delivers tamper‑evident, selectively disclosable, and portable credentials—no matter which verification partner is used. Indicio is actively used across agriculture, education, financial services, government, and travel and hospitality—wherever trust, privacy, and data integrity are essential. Start your digital verification and transformation journey with powerful, flexible, and scalable technology for secure data sharing and digital identity. Proven identity. Proven relationships. Proven data. 👉 Talk with us today at Indicio.tech

Story Ventures is an early stage VC fund based in NYC. We invest in entrepreneurs with big visions that leverage technology and the proliferation of data to impact the way people interact with the world. Send us a note via www.storyventures.vc or shoot an email at info@storyventures.vc!

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.

Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies and governments. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.