Post by Michael Schneider

Every VC said the KYC market was dead. Two Spanish twins just raised $7.5M anyway. Profitable. Inside YC W26. With a Spanish Treasury letter no incumbent in the category has. This week's Cutting Through the Noise unpacks how Alberto and Alejandro Rosas at Didit (YC W26) engineered: → A 9-fund seed with operator angels from Gusto, Fond, and the YC alumnus who fought fraud at Zeus → The only identity verification vendor a European regulator has formally called safer than in-person → A founder bio that names a failed Web3 token (Gamium) as career architecture, not buried apology → Pre-YC profitability that inverted the Demo Day fundraise narrative → One load-bearing sentence the whole essay was constructed around Five transferable lessons.