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<p>Merit’s verified identity ecosystem helps trusted organizations across government and enterprise solve critical real-world problems in workforce development, emergency services, licensing, education, defense readiness, and other sectors. Thousands of trusted organizations - including government agencies and nonprofits - use Merit for digital verification of credentials, licenses, training, and skills.</p><p>Using Merit, organizations can capture and certify people-data in containers called merits, and permit them to individuals. All of an individual’s merits are stored in one place, providing people agency over their verified data, giving people secure access, and selective sharing with other organizations.</p><p>By connecting organizations and individuals, the Merit Platform supports a robust verified identity network that serves as a source of truth and trust for entire industries; bringing visibility, liquidity, and trust to people’s data.</p><p>Merit has been widely adopted and used by numerous organizations:</p><p>-The <strong>Florida Division of Emergency Management</strong> partnered with Merit to provide a fast, secure, paperless solution for the verification and time-tracking of thousands of volunteers and paid medical professionals assisting with the statewide COVID-19 vaccination efforts. As a result of our work together, FDEM was named a StateScoop 50</p><p>Award winner for the State IT Innovation of the Year.</p><p>-<strong>BARBICIDE®</strong> partnered with Merit to provide digital credentials to beauty professionals worldwide, exceeding two million digital, portable, shareable BARBICIDE® merits sent to date through Merit’s verified identity platform. The merits are granted for the completion of BARBICIDE’s widely utilized courses on safety standards and best practices.</p><p>-<strong>Virginia’s Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR) </strong>partnered with Merit to streamline licensing and digital credentialing for the more than 300,000 professionals across more than 40 industries that are required to have a license to work. With Merit, those licenses are now digital, accessible, and easily verifiable by consumers and businesses.</p><p>Our Values</p><p>Merit’s values are more than just words on paper – they permeate the company’s brand, culture,</p><p>products, and even individual actions. Our values are:</p><p>1. Building a network of truth and trust. Merit is modeling the real world of Verified Identity into a digital one, built on merits. Society values truth and merits represent the truth.</p><p>2. Everyone is a friend. We see opportunities everywhere because Merit has endless ways to grow the already vast and self-propagating Verified Identity graph.</p><p>3. A rising tide lifts all boats. We think about entire industries and how to make the most impact on people’s lives. When we succeed, our employees, partners, and everyone on Merit should succeed.</p><p>4. Measure to meaningfully improve. Work is measured by output, not vanity metrics, and the things we do measure have goals.</p><p>5. Use Merit to build Merit. The strength of the Merit network, platform, and company compounds with the addition of every partner, consumer, and employee.</p>