Biometrics companies raise $303M in three funding rounds as fingerprint card market matures
The most widely read news of the week in the biometrics and digital ID industry has been a trio of…
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Onfido raises $100M funding round to deliver new identity standard with biometrics
Biometrics and remote identification companies continue to buck the bear market trend, with Onfido announcing a new $100 million Series…
AISpeech $58M funding round highlights China’s continuing interest in speech recognition
Speech recognition player AISpeech Company Ltd. this month received RMB 410 million (US$58 million) in a series E round, led…
BioCatch $145M Series C funding round to expand behavioral biometrics offerings and verticals served
BioCatch has closed a $145 million Series C investment round to broaden its portfolio of behavioral biometrics offerings, accelerate the…
What pandemic? China biometrics startup clinches $141M fund
It is a precarious moment for the waylaid Chinese economy, but a Shenzhen biometrics startup has just closed a round…
Global ID and Idiap Research Institute to develop contactless vein biometric scanner for hospitals
A new project to develop a contactless scanner for biometric hand vein identification has been launched by Global ID and…
Okta commits $10M funding to nonprofits, launches Nonprofit Technology Initiative
Okta will be giving $10 million in philanthropic funding for the upcoming three years to help nonprofit organizations introduce and…
Fully-Verified successfully raises financing round for its biometric identity solutions
Fully-Verified, a Tallinn, Estonia-based company that provides biometric identity verification, said it raised “capital to further grow [its] business and…
Proxy secures $42M funding for Bluetooth-enabled keyless entry with biometrics
Digital identity startup Proxy has secured $42 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners, to further develop…
Deepgram secures $12M to expand speech recognition tech accuracy
Speech recognition startup Deepgram has secured $12 million in Series A funding led by Wing VC, writes TechCrunch. Deepgram leverages…
