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Aidan McCarty

CEO @ Verified ✅ | Millions of signups run through Verified -- I post what the data says about converting more | Forbes 30U30 | Stanford ’19

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It's well after midnight in a double hotel room in California, and I'm deep in conversation with my brother. Just 19 years old, we're laying out a vision for a set of companies that would transform America. We took the leap later that year. I soon dropped out of college, leaving medicine and research behind, and we haven't looked back. The journey has been anything but linear. Building companies, it's said, is like chewing glass and staring into the abyss. But I'm addicted to the challenge and the opportunity to create something truly transformative. We built Be Heard to combat online fraud in political outreach. We built something people loved. Named 20 Open Gov Leaders You Need to Know. OZY Genius Award Recipient. Featured in the Skimm. We built Unum ID, with an audacious dream of creating VISA for identity -- enabling each user to own and control their personal data. We raised funding from Tim Draper, Samsung, Franklin Templeton, Wedbush Ventures, Outliers, and other world class ventures funds and angels. And we've found breakout success with Verified, where we help dozens of the world's best companies instantly onboard millions of Americans. Our mission is to help real people t

Experience

CEO, FounderVerified ✅
Sep 2019
AdvisorSilo Markets
Oct 2025
Angel Investor and AdvisorAidan McCarty
Jan 2023
Board MemberOxford Entrepreneurs
May 2023 to Aug 2025
FounderBe Heard
Aug 2016 to Sep 2019
Teaching TeamHacking for Defense Stanford
Sep 2018 to Jun 2019
ResearcherStanford University
Jun 2017 to Jul 2017
Research Assistant Gordon LabStanford University
Sep 2015 to Jun 2016
Research Assistant Zare LabStanford University Department of Chemistry
Apr 2016 to Aug 2016

Education

Stanford University
Bachelor of Science Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Oxford
Magdalen College Computational Neuroscience
2017 to 2017
Brookfield Academy
2011 to 2015