---
title: "Vouched"
slug: "vouched"
status: "active"
last_checked: "2026-07-05"
categories:
  - "identity"
---

# Vouched

Vouched verifies human identity and, through its Know Your Agent suite, issues verifiable identity credentials for AI agents and links them back to an accountable human.

- Status: active
- URL: https://www.vouched.id/
- Last checked: 2026-07-05
- Freshness: 1 days
- Founded: 2019
- Funding: $17M Series A led by Spring Rock Ventures, announced September 2025, bringing total funding to $22M.

## Offerings

### Identity

- Offering status: live
- What you get: Agents enrolled in Vouched's Know Your Agent suite receive a did:cheqd decentralized identifier and W3C verifiable credentials anchored on the cheqd network, cryptographically linking the agent back to a verified human or organizational owner. Vouched also offers Agent Checkpoint, which detects agentic traffic on a site, applies access policies, and governs delegated permissions, plus KnowThat.ai, a public registry for discovering and checking the reputation of agents before interacting with them.
- Acquisition: not published
- Geographies: not published
- Pricing: not published
- Pricing URL: not published
- API: yes
- SDK: not published
- MCP: not published
- Standards: kya

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| credential_type | did:cheqd DID with W3C verifiable credentials (DID-Linked Resources on the cheqd network) |
| who_accepts | Sites and platforms using Vouched Agent Checkpoint to gate agentic traffic, Organizations querying the KnowThat.ai registry |
| delegation_model | Each agent DID is cryptographically linked back to the verified human or organization that authorized it, using hierarchical Decentralised Trust Chains from a root authority through accredited organizations to individual agents. |
| revocation | Credentials support suspension and revocation with tamper-evident, on-chain history maintained on the cheqd network. |
| reputation_model | KnowThat.ai maintains verifiable, time-stamped interaction logs used to evaluate agent reputation before enabling interaction. |

## Sources

- https://www.vouched.id/
- https://www.vouched.id/know-your-agent
- https://www.vouched.id/learn/vouched-integrates-with-cheqd-to-bring-decentralised-identity-to-ai-agents
- https://www.vouched.id/learn/vouched-raises-17m-to-bring-next-level-trust-to-ai-and-human-identity-verification
- https://www.vouched.id/learn/blog/ai-agent-identity-verification-guide