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Adult Industry Tech, Compliance & Infrastructure covers age assurance, payment processing, hosting, moderation, legal services, analytics, cybersecurity, privacy tools, and other back-end services adult companies rely on. The boring plumbing matters. It decides who gets paid, who gets deplatformed, who gets protected, and who gets quietly squeezed by the rules nobody reads until something breaks.
AgeID is an age verification service built specifically for adult content platforms and sexual wellness sites that need to confirm visitors are of legal age. Developed by Mindgeek (the parent
Allpasstrust is an age verification service that handles the gate-keeping for adult content platforms like Pornhub and other Aylo-owned sites. When you try to access age-restricted content in places with
Apple's App Store policies have a massive ripple effect across the entire sextech industry. The company's strict content guidelines determine what intimacy apps, sexual wellness platforms, and even dating services
Boost VC invests in frontier tech startups at the pre-seed stage, with a portfolio that includes companies pushing boundaries in VR, AR, and AI—technologies that are directly reshaping adult entertainment
BranditScan protects adult content creators from having their intimate content stolen and spread across the internet without permission. The platform uses AI-powered scans to hunt down pirated videos, photos, and
Buttplug.io is an open-source software project that does the behind-the-scenes heavy lifting for a huge chunk of the sextech world. It's basically a universal remote control protocol for sex toys—instead
Checkr is a background screening outfit that runs the usual employer checks: criminal records, employment history, driving records, drug tests. Founded in 2014 by two engineers fed up with how
CoinPayments is a cryptocurrency payment gateway that processes Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over 2,000 other digital currencies for online merchants. It's become particularly useful for sextech and adult wellness brands that
Discord is a voice, video, and text chat platform that launched in 2015 as a gaming communication tool. It's since sprawled well beyond gaming into education, business, and every flavor
DiTa specializes in tax planning and strategy services specifically tailored for professionals in the adult entertainment and alternative industries. The firm focuses on helping clients navigate the complex tax landscape
E-gree is a legal tech app that lets people create and sign contracts for just about anything—including a 'Sexting' agreement template. As we covered, the platform offers this alongside templates
FCKSPACE is basically the venue marketplace that adult content creators have been waiting for—think Airbnb, but actually porn-friendly. The platform curates handpicked locations specifically for adult productions, solving the longstanding
Fight for the Future is a digital rights advocacy nonprofit that runs campaigns to protect internet freedom, privacy, and net neutrality. Since 2011, it's been organizing mass online activism around
Future of Sex Labs runs one of the most well-known media platforms covering the sextech and sexual wellness industry. Founded by Bryony Cole—who's basically become the go-to authority on everything
Giselle International is a B2B sales and business development firm that works exclusively with sexual wellness brands. Founded by Lisa Sananes and Zai Bertel, the company helps pleasure product brands,
Google isn't making sex toys, but its policies shape the entire sextech landscape. The Play Store's content guidelines determine which apps can reach Android users, and its advertising restrictions affect
Healthy Pleasure Group isn't selling products to consumers—it's powering the entire sexual health and tech ecosystem from behind the scenes. Founded by Dominnique Karetsos, the company focuses on accelerating innovation
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JME Ventures is a Madrid-based venture capital firm that's quietly backed some of the most interesting names in sexual wellness tech. The firm runs three funds managing around €120 million
KCSVRC (Korea Cyber Sexual Violence Response Center) is a South Korean nonprofit that supports survivors of digital sexual harm—think revenge porn, deepfake pornography, and other forms of non-consensual intimate imagery.
Kickstarter has become one of the main launching pads for sextech innovation since 2009. The crowdfunding platform has hosted dozens of successful intimate wellness campaigns, from the Crave Vesper 2
Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is not a sextech company per se, but its influence on digital interactions and virtual reality (VR) technology has significant implications for the sextech
Microsoft has become a surprising but significant infrastructure player in the adult content world, particularly around age verification and content moderation. The tech giant was lobbied by Aylo (owner of
Mozilla's biggest impact on the sexual wellness industry comes through its privacy advocacy work. The nonprofit behind Firefox regularly investigates how tech companies handle sensitive user data—and they've published some