Konfir

Who owns Konfir?

Konfir was owned by Love Ventures through Love Ventures Fund III (2023 vintage) from 2023 to 2026, exited via Trade Sale.

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Hand-verified · updated 2026-06-01

About Konfir

Konfir is a London-based fintech whose cloud platform delivers instant employment and income verification for UK-based workers, replacing a manual referencing process that traditionally took days or weeks. Its system aggregates data from HMRC, payroll providers, open banking and document processing to return verification reports in minutes, giving up to six years of employment history and a consolidated income view alongside fraud-detection checks. Delivered through APIs, a web console and file upload, it serves background screening providers, recruiters, employers, tenant referencing firms and financial services organisations. Konfir positions itself as the first government-certified provider of instant employment and income data, holding UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework certification along with ISO 27001 accreditation.

Ownership journey

Konfir was founded in London in late 2021 by Chris Milligan, a former HR consultant who had previously built and sold the talent platform Adepto, on the premise that verifying who someone works for should not take weeks. After an initial 1.6 million pound round in March 2022, the company raised a 2 million pound seed round in May 2023 backed by Love Ventures through Love Ventures Fund III, taking total funding to 3.6 million pounds. Love Ventures held its stake for roughly three years before exiting in 2026 via a trade sale, its first realised exit from the fund. The transaction saw the business absorbed into a larger verifications operation.

Under PE ownership

The 2023 seed capital was directed at scaling adoption and deepening Konfir's data connections across payroll, tax and banking sources. Over the roughly two years following the investment, more than 5,000 organisations signed up to the platform and connected verification activity was reported to be doubling month on month around the time of the round. The company condensed a manual, offline check into a process completing in two to five minutes, cutting associated manual work by as much as 90 percent, and reached a client base spanning major screening and staffing groups. By the point of exit in 2026, Konfir had established itself as a government-certified verification provider with sufficient scale to attract a strategic acquirer.