Pat Kinsel

Pat is the Founder/CEO of Proof, formerly Notarize. The company is responsible for creating the online notary industry and digitizing countless workflows for the first time. Proof completed the country's first-ever online mortgage closing in 2017, online will, and more. The company has passed legislation in 47 states and has changed countless federal policies to enable the digital, secure execution of life’s most important transactions. Rebranding from Notarize the Proof, the platform now extends its online notarization capabilities with cryptographic signatures and advanced fraud, deepfake, and anti-forgery capabilities to secure every customer interaction from identity verification, to eSignature, authorizations, and online closings. Pat was previously a Partner in the venture capital firm Polaris Partners where he built and invested in new technology companies. He led Series A and B in Lob and Drizly (acquired by Uber for $1.1B) and served on the boards of both companies. Pat has built products across a wide range of industries, including search, social, productivity, legal, finance, and real estate. He co-founded Spindle, which was acquired by Twitter in June 2013. Spindle developed patented search technology to generate topical, algorithmic timelines from Facebook and Twitter content. Prior to Spindle, Pat was at Microsoft incubating new concepts and bringing them to market, leading the development of Docs.com. Launched by Mark Zuckerberg at F8 in 2010, Docs.com was a collaboration with Facebook to bring Microsoft Office Online to the Facebook audience. Before Docs.com, he helped to launch Bing Social Search in October 2009.