Nikhil Srinivasan and Alex Kern started working together in 2014 to commercialize anti-fraud and compliance tools they built for online communities and marketplaces. They were featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for their work in Enterprise Technology. Distributed Systems paired computer vision technology with a Stripe-like developer SDK to offer businesses with a simple way to automate identity verification.The company was acquired by Coinbase in August 2018.

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