Alain Meier has been working since his Stanford undergrad years on technologies to help fintech companies and their customers prove their users are who they say they are. In 2013, Meier cofounded Cognito, a platform that expedites and secures identity verification, and he served as CEO until its sale to Plaid for a reported $250 million in January 2022. Many of Plaid’s customers were already using Cognito’s tech by the time of the…