3x founder

Christopher Morton

President and COO at Cognito, phone-number-based ID verification

Founder

Cognito· Summer 2014🇺🇸 Miami, Florida, United States

in LinkedIn

2014Founder· Core

Founder · since 2007

Company

Core

Role

Founder and CEO

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Cognito

Frictionless, modern identity verification that starts with just a…

Summer 2014

Experience

Career

Cognito
President and COO · Miami, Florida, United States · 2014 – Present
2014
Core
Founder
Founder and CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014 – 2015
2014
Cube
Founder
Founder and CEO · 2011 – 2013
2011
Storsimple
Director of Marketing · 2010 – 2011
2010
InnoPath Software
Director of Marketing · 2010
2010
ASAP
Founder
CEO and Founder · 2007 – 2010
2007
Cisco Systems
Technical Marketing · 2004 – 2009
2004
Andiamo Systems
Technical Marketing · 2001 – 2004
2001
Nishan
Technical Marketing Engineer · 2000 – 2001
2000
IBM
Product Engineer · 1998 – 1999
1998
UC Davis
Parking Automation Project · Davis, California · 1994 – 1998
1994

Bio

Christopher Morton is the Co‑Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Cognito, an identity verification and anti‑fraud solution for online transactions that originated as BlockScore and is now part of Plaid. He has led Cognito since around 2013–2014, helping build phone‑number‑based identity verification and compliance products for digital finance. Prior to Cognito he founded and led companies such as Core and Cube, and he is also active as an angel investor.