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TickerAUID
SectorSoftware - Infrastructure
Mkt cap$17M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1534154

authID Inc.

AUIDHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

authID Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Software & IT.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

flat

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

flat

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$2M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$12M
EV / Revenue6.0×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$5M
Total debt$245K
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Behavioral posture, nine reads.

Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.

Active Acquirer

4/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $9M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

18/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 39d
  • 127 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 11 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 11 activism filings

Pressure Watch

34/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 11 activism filings
  • Latest activism 4.1y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 209d stale
  • 11 activism filings

Restatement Risk

0/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 127 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $12M
  • 10-Q 209d ago
  • 2 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $9M · Peak count: 2

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/A
§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Technology Acquisition
    50%
  • Platform
    50%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • technology_acquisition
  • platform
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

Innovation in Motion was formed in April 2009 in the State of Florida, and was a private company operating in two technology fields: the handheld identification market and mobile payment market.

10-KFY2014

The Acquisition was effected by the Company through the exchange of each of the outstanding shares and interests of Innovation in Motion for 1.6 shares of common stock of the Company.

10-KFY2014

In implementing a structure for a particular business acquisition, the Company may become a party to a merger, consolidation, reorganization, joint venture, licensing agreement or other arrangement with another corporation or entity. On the consummation of a transaction, it is likely that the present management and shareholders of the Company will no longer be in control of the Company. In addition, it is likely that the officer and director of the Company will, as part of the terms of the business combination, resign and be replaced by one or more new officers and directors.

10-KFY2011

On February 8, 2016 the Company closed on the acquisition of FIN Holdings Inc. ("FIN"), a related party via common management and partial common ownership, and its wholly owned subsidiaries, ID Solutions Inc. a Delaware Corporation specializing in field proven, cutting-edge biometric fingerprint software technology technology and algorithms, as well as Cards Plus Pty Ltd, a South African company which provides unique secure credential products and solutions to government customers in Africa.

10-KFY2016
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Market context.

Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.

Primary market

Software & IT

Market spend (2023–2025)
$217.7B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$197.1B
Recent vs prior
+10%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

AUID trades at a -15.0-turn discount to the Software & IT peer median of 14.3×.

EV / Revenue
6.0×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
14.3×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
23.4×10.7×0.2×$64.1B$27.7B
15.5×9.8×0.0×$318.3B$75.4B
14.3×4.4×0.6×$41.5B$12.1B
11.0×3.7×-0.1×$6.4B$1.7B
7.6×2.8×0.1×$21.1B$10M

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Buyer landscape.

Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.

Likely buyers

No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.

Likely sellers / divestiture partners

No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing activity & signal stream.

Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.

Filing cadence

  • 10-K (annual)172026-03-31
  • 10-Q (quarterly)482025-11-12
  • 8-K (event)1272026-05-01
  • Proxy / DEF 14A82025-05-16
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)112022-04-28

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2022-04-28

    11 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Audited corpus.

No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.

This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.

authID Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster