Mastercard and Visa are using facial recognition technology whose algorithm is sourced from SenseTime, one of the Chinese AI firms that have been blacklisted by the US government, according to […]

Ping Identity is creating a new venture capital fund to help drive innovation in the identity space. The newly launched Ping Ventures will operate under the direction of Anton Papp, […]

A few weeks ago, we looked at how the bursting tech bubble is affecting funding for biometrics companies in the private markets. It wasn’t pretty. Investment data and VC sentiment […]

Market watchers have predicted 30 of the last three crashes, but this time the tech bubble really does seem to be bursting. In April, the Nasdaq had its worst decline […]

OwnID is looking to expand after bringing in $6.2 million in seed funding. The company currently has roughly 20 employees, and wants to double that number in the next year […]

Shufti Pro has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, attesting to the considerable excitement about selfie-based remote onboarding technologies. In a statement, Shufti Pro explained that the […]

A new player is entering the increasingly competitive authentication market. Passage is a passwordless authentication specialist that seeks to take advantage of the biometric hardware that now comes standard on […]

iProov has received a vote of confidence from a Silicon Valley investment firm. Sumeru Equity Partners is investing $70 million in the remote identity verification specialist. Focused on potentially high-growth […]

Facial recognition and computer vision “will occupy a central and primary place as a biometric security solution” going forward, according to SoftBank advisory (and former head of Mossad) Yossi Cohen. […]

San Francisco-based authentication startup Stytch has raised $90 million in additional VC funding and has acquired a fellow passwordless authentication startup. The company has been developing an API and SDK […]