CloudWalk joins $421M funding round for chipmaker amid potential AI pivot
China-based facial recognition software firm CloudWalk has joined a 3-billion-yuan (US$421 million) series D round for ESWIN Computer, also based…
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IN Groupe backs blockchain ID project Archipels to fuel expansion
Archipels, a French digital identity consortium and project based on blockchain technology, has raised an unknown amount of capital from…
Pair of computer vision firms raise huge corporate venture capital round
A pair of video security and surveillance companies joined at the owner are splitting an almost $200 million round invested…
Investors are finding deals among biometric verification firms
A pair of corporate finance deals that a year ago would have barely broken the water’s surface are in the…
Sort-of IPO planned for Yubico with merger. SPACs get more attractive
Another identity authentication firm is turning to a pseudo-IPO to generate funds. Multifactor access security key firm Yubico is merging…
Token raises $30M to fuel growth and development of biometric authentication wearable
Token has announced a $30 million funding round to support the product development of its biometric wearable for passwordless FIDO2-compliant…
Malaysian digital ID companies pair up to address government market
Executives of a Malaysian public company have said they will invest an undisclosed sum in a biometrics developer, also in…
Web3 market may be slowing but stakeholder collaborations on ID are not
Web3 might have lost momentum as some suggest, but there still is investment, policy and development energy behind what most…
Not all fintechs are looking for a hiding place. Plaid and Stripe see opportunities
Fintechs, the firms that have embedded themselves so deeply in world economies, are consolidating and the result will be fintechs…
SITA partners on ‘vertiport’ digital infrastructure, ponies up to build market
Technology-enabled architecture may transform the airports of tomorrow. Volocopter, a provider of urban air mobility services, and SITA, an aviation…
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