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Funding and backers

Total raised
$72M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$57M
Series B · Aug 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
16
+12 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
55/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 6 New executive 1Kosmos Names Frank Cohen Chief Revenue Officer · The Manila Times Aug 12, 2025 Raised a round Series B $57M · YahooFinance Feb 27, 2025 Partnership 1Kosmos Partners with Microsoft to Secure Entra ID Environments Through External Authentication Methods · businesswire.com May 12, 2021 Certified 1Kosmos becomes industry's first digital identity solution to be approved as NIST 800-63-3 Conformant & FIDO2 Certified · Security Info Watch Feb 16, 2021 Raised a round Series A $15M · Venturebeat 2018 Founded
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Web presence
top 0.33%
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Aug 2025 $57M — YahooFinance
Series A Feb 2021 $15M — Venturebeat
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How 1Kosmos hires

Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
71 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
40%
Reposted roles
0%

1Kosmos scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 40% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 71 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · Filed H-1B visas in the last two years

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Overview

Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, 1Kosmos is a leading provider of digital identity verification and passwordless authentication solutions. Founded in 2018, the company combines government-grade biometrics with advanced architecture to secure workforce and customer access. By eliminating traditional passwords, the enterprise helps global organizations prevent identity fraud and meet rigorous regulatory compliance standards.

News

News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
1Kosmos Delivers High Assurance Identity Verification for Healthcare Providers in EpicCare Link
ISELIN, N.J., Aug. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 1Kosmos, a leader in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, today announced...
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Award markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
1Kosmos Recognized as a Sample Vendor in Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Identity, 2026
ISELIN, N.J., Aug. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 1Kosmos, a leader in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, today announced...
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
1Kosmos Names Frank Cohen Chief Revenue Officer
ISELIN, N.J., Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 1Kosmos, a leader in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, today announced...
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Press release The Manila Times 2 months ago
1Kosmos Names Frank Cohen Chief Revenue Officer
Enterprise cybersecurity sales leader will accelerate global revenue growth and go-to-market execution for leader in continuous verified digital identity
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Press release The Manila Times 3 months ago
1Kosmos Recognized by Microsoft as Entra Verified ID Partner for Delivering Secure Remote Onboarding and Enhanced Digital Trust
Integration Empowers Organizations with Seamless, Fraud-Resistant Identity Verification and Authentication Across All Environments
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News SiliconANGLE 1 year ago
1Kosmos raises $57M to advance passwordless authentication and global identity security expansion
Identity proofing and passwordless authentication company 1Kosmos Inc. announced today that it had raised $57 million in new funding for product innovation, expansion of global sales and deeper integr
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
1Kosmos Secures $57M in Series B Funding to Accelerate Market Expansion for Identity Verification and Passwordless Authentication Platform
ISELIN, N.J., August 12, 2025--The new capital will enable 1Kosmos to meet the escalating demand for identity-first security from enterprises amid rising impersonation threats.
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News Help Net Security 1 year ago
1Kosmos 1Key secures shared login environments and OT systems
1Kosmos 1Key enhances security, accountability, and compliance across collaborative and high-security environments.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at 1Kosmos over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
70
Postings analysed
24
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript33%
Python29%
Node JS17%
Java13%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenCV4%
Playwright4%
PyTorch4%
Selenium4%
Databases
Amazon Aurora4%
Amazon DocumentDB4%
Amazon Redshift4%
Apache Iceberg4%
Cloud & platforms
AWS42%
Azure29%
Okta29%
GCP25%
AI & ML
LLM8%
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Full 1Kosmos tech stack 70 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$70k – $225k
Open positions
7
4 Jobs
Senior 50%
Architect 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 2 $180k $160k – $200k
Architect 2 $213k $200k – $225k
Highest paying role Senior Director of Engineering $225k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at 1Kosmos By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
88/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
16
11 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
69 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
27% ▲
Marketing
14% ▼
Leadership
9% ▼
HR
9% ▼
Management
9% ▼
Industrial Engineering
9% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Selenium to stack Oct 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Sep 2026
Added Claude Code to stack Sep 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack Sep 2026
New location: Iselin Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack Sep 2026
Added LDAP to stack Sep 2026
Added Active Directory to stack Sep 2026
Added ITSM to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Edison
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Somerset United States
HQ
Edison United States
Support & operations
5 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 200-500 est. staff $149k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, QA, Leadership
seen since Nov 2025 job postings
Earlier presence
Mumbai, India 3 open roles · last posting Jun 2026
Delhi, India 1 open roles · last posting Jan 2026

Jobs

$225k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Edison
Python
JavaScript
Java
Node JS
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LLM
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$200k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Edison
JavaScript
Node JS
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
QA
Selenium
JMeter
Apply
≈ $151k – $331k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Edison
Python
OpenCV
Quantization
Computer Vision
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Anomaly Detection
Data Augmentation
Synthetic Data
OCR
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
GDPR
FedRAMP
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$200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
Azure
AWS
IAM
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≈ $12k – $32k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
JavaScript
GCP
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Cybersecurity
Snyk
Wiz
Management
Jira
Agile
Scrum
QA
JMeter
Playwright
Swagger
Postman
k6
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≈ $26k – $73k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
C++
Node JS
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
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Financials

Total raised
$72M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2025 $57M Details
Series A 2021 $15M Details