About Truv
Enabling a More Equitable Financial Ecosystem
Access to credit is fundamental to our lives, but traditional measures for evaluating credit are becoming increasingly less accurate. That’s why the way employment and income data is currently siloed is increasingly unacceptable, for both businesses and consumers.
Thankfully, with advances in consumer data access and protection, it’s now possible to unlock this data and make it accessible. That’s what we’re doing at Truv. We’ve built the safest and most reliable API connections to payroll accounts, unlocking the power of consumer permissioned data.


Vision
Unlocking the Power of Consumer-Permissioned Data
Truv has built the safest and most reliable API connections to payroll accounts to enable use cases such as income & employment verification as well as direct deposit switching.
Founding Story
The idea was simple: manual and legacy methods are slow, expensive, and often inaccurate. Better access to data can change that. In 2020, we set out to automate the process to improve the experience and outcomes for everyone.
Truv Co-Founder and CEO Kirill Klokov has experienced the struggles first hand. Klokov immigrated to the U.S. and attended Stanford Business School for his MBA before successfully leading product organizations at several very successful startup organizations. However, he had a 520 credit score. Getting approved for a loan in some cases was impossible, and other cases required very manual processes like uploading paystubs, W2s, and more.
In two short years, we now cover more than 120 million Americans via 50 integrations with payroll providers, and over 2,000 custom-built connections to specific employers. We work with the majority of the top 10 background screening companies, 3 out of top 10 largest mortgage lenders, some of the top 20 banks in the US, and have partnered with the major credit bureau Experian.
This is just the beginning.

Company at a Glance
Truv’s Leadership Team

Kirill Klokov
CEO, Co-Founder

Ilya Chatsviorkin
CTO, Co-Founder

Darshana Shetty
VP, Head of Product

Colton Pond
VP, Head of Marketing

Sunil Sampat
Chief Revenue Officer
Backed by Top VCs and Investors

Ilya Fushman
Kleiner Perkins

Jeremy Solomon
nyca

Ramtin Naimi
Abstract Ventures

Lachy Groom
Investor
Our Advisors

Henry Ward
Carta

Dave Dickerson
Accurate Background

Kevin Hartz
Eventbrite, Xoom

Mark Pincus
Zynga

Daniel Graf
Twitter, Uber

Brad Strock
PayPal, Bank of America

Jason Morris
Sterling

Huey Lin
PayPal, Affirm
Our Core Values
01
Relentless Customer Focus
We start with the customer and work backward
02
Transparency
We have access to most data and answer direct questions with transparency
03
Ownership
We acts as owners and stay accountable on behalf of the entire company
04
Bias for Action
We move fast and get things done
05
Continuous Innovation
We stay on top of our metrics and know what needs and can be improved
06
Meritocracy
We treat each other as equals and partners and work with grit and passion
We’re hiring!
Our team is growing and we’re on the look out for talented people to join us on our journey.