Companies

Focused companies for structural shifts.

1440 Ventures builds and backs companies where AI, identity, messaging, trust and deep industry insight converge.

Incubated by 1440 Ventures

Our companies

Incubated by 1440 Ventures

Status: Active

Assure

Identity
Authentication
Trusted Messaging
Fraud Prevention

A verification and customer-trust platform replacing vulnerable one-time codes with verified customer conversations.

Assure is building a verification and customer-trust platform designed to replace vulnerable, expensive email and SMS one-time codes with verified customer conversations. Its platform is intended to help businesses authenticate customers, evaluate risk, manage fraud workflows and transition from automated verification to secure AI or human assistance.

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Incubated by 1440 Ventures

Status: Beta / Early access

Backstage

Trusted Messaging
Agentic Experiences
Secure Transactions
Fan Engagement

Your favorite artists, closer than ever — the full fan journey inside verified business messaging.

Backstage connects fans with artists' teams on Apple Messages for Business (WhatsApp coming soon) to discover new music, hear about shows first and shop exclusive drops with Apple Pay — consent-first, with no personal numbers.

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Incubated by 1440 Ventures

Status: Beta / Early access

iChess

Agentic Experiences
Trusted Messaging
Consumer AI

Learn chess notation and blindfold play, one message at a time.

A chess app powered by Apple Messages for Business. Players choose their ability level, white or black, and whether to face an AI opponent or a friend — building notation fluency and the ability to play blindfolded.

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Case study

How Assure came together

The problem

Legacy OTP was designed to deliver a code, not establish a trusted customer relationship. It creates cost, friction and exposure to phishing, interception and social engineering.

The insight

A verified business channel can do more than deliver a credential. It can become a persistent, branded and interactive trust surface between a company and its customer.

The opportunity

Start with authentication and expand into fraud resolution, secure approvals, customer support, application adoption, payments and other high-value interactions.

Why 1440 Ventures incubated it

Assure emerged from direct operating experience with enterprise messaging, customer engagement, identity workflows and verified business channels.

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