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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nCharles Yeh co-founded Persona, an identity verification company, with Rick Song in 2018, after working as an engineer at Dropbox. Persona builds infrastructure for businesses to verify people and organisations and to meet KYC, anti-money laundering and age verification rules.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesyeh\n\n## What Charles builds\n\n- [Persona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/persona.md), graded B, 69.6/100, in Identity \u0026 business verification. Persona is an identity verification platform from Persona Identities, Inc. Its REST API and hosted MCP server create inquiries, run government ID, selfie, document and database verifications, screen people and businesses against watchlists, and manage review cases. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Rick Song](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rick-song/), Co-founder and CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Founders Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-fund/)\n- [Ribbit Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ribbit-capital/)\n- [BOND](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bond/)\n- [Chemistry](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/chemistry/)\n- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)\n- [First Round Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/first-round-capital/)\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Charles Yeh?\n\nCharles Yeh co-founded Persona, an identity verification company, with Rick Song in 2018, after working as an engineer at Dropbox. Persona builds infrastructure for businesses to verify people and organisations and to meet KYC, anti-money laundering and age verification rules.\n\n### What does Persona Identities, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Persona from Persona Identities, Inc.. Persona is an identity verification platform from Persona Identities, Inc. Its REST API and hosted MCP server create inquiries, run government ID, selfie, document and database verifications, screen people and businesses against watchlists, and manage review cases.\n\n### Who has invested in Persona Identities, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital, BOND, Chemistry, Coatue, First Round Capital and Index Ventures.\n\n### How are Charles's tools graded?\n\nPersona is graded B, 69.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-song-25198b24\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesyeh\n- https://withpersona.com/about\n- https://app.withpersona.com/dashboard/contact-us\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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