$2M of MIT funding to solve world challenges including digital inclusion
Antiracist Technology and Digital Inclusion are among the categories of MIT Solve 2021, an initiative from the Massachusetts Institute of…
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Map services firm NextBillion.ai raises funds for “Facial AI and NLP” development
Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, M12, has placed $6.25 million in geospatial data startup NextBillion.ai, and its ambitions for enterprise AI,…
Rank One awarded $250K for face biometrics expansion by Colorado accelerator program
Rank One Computing has received a grant of $250,000 from a state government body to advance its face biometrics technology…
Investments in airport biometrics and health pass adoption grow as sector reopens
Aviation sector investments in biometrics and digital health pass adoption feature in the most-read news coverage on Biometric Update this…
UK government throws a bone to its troubled digital ID-assurance program
The UK has put its troubled digital ID-assurance program, Verify, on life support as government officials stoke development of a…
Yinda Infocomm doubles down on Tech5 biometrics with $8M investment
Tech5 has received a further $8 million investment from Yinda Infocomm, which has also expressed an intention to exercise its…
Twosense to bring behavioral biometrics to enterprises, grow team with $3M Seed round
Biometric cybersecurity provider Twosense has raised $3 million in a Seed funding round to expand its continuous authentication with behavioral…
Paravision plans to hire and expand facial recognition reach with $23M funding round
Paravision has raised $23 million in funding, which the company says reflects its emergence as the technology partner of choice…
Demand for biometric payments, secure digital ID grows but consumers, governments need education
The market’s readiness for biometric payment cards, the contrasting degrees of success between public and private sector digital ID efforts,…
Oura raises $100M, Sencure $1.8M in busy biometric wearables market
Oura secures the headline figure, but Sencure has also raised funding to develop its wearable biometrics for health monitoring, as…
