About InkLink
We built this because we paid for the problem.
For years, Prat ran the P&L at MoneyLion, the neobank he co-founded that grew to serve over 20 million users before its $1 billion acquisition. And every year, the same line item bled: $60 million lost to verification failures. Not fraud. Not bad actors. Legitimate people — gig workers, contractors, small business employees — who simply couldn't prove what they earned because the data lived somewhere legacy APIs couldn't reach.
Jong built the systems that tried to solve it. He designed MoneyLion's fraud, KYC, and payments infrastructure, processing $4 billion in annual payment volume, and saw exactly where verification broke and why patching around it wasn't going to work.
InkLink is the fix they couldn't build inside a bank.
To ensure that 100% of legitimate human and agent transactions pass verification.
We start by unlocking the data that legacy APIs cannot see: gig platforms, government portals, utilities, SMB employers, the creator economy. If someone earns money there, we can verify it.
The team
Pratyush "Prat" Tiwari
CEO & Co-founder
Co-founded MoneyLion in 2013. Owned the P&L that bled $60M/year on this problem, which makes him the most motivated person in the room to fix it.
Jong Char
CTO & Co-founder
MoneyLion's VP of Engineering. Architected fraud, KYC, and payments systems for 20M+ users and $4B/year in payment volume. He quietly makes everything work.
Chris Ashley
COO & Co-founder
15 years of enterprise go-to-market. $300M+ in SaaS revenue booked across Cisco Meraki, Invoca, and beyond. Runs every customer and investor conversation.
This team has built verification at scale and seen where it breaks. Now we're fixing it.
Based in San Francisco · Founded 2024
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