68 Best Biometrics Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Biometrics Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 189 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $8.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $129.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$37.0m

Money raised

Gemalto is an Amsterdam-based electronics company that has been acquired by Thales.

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$47.0m

Money raised

Paravision is a San Francisco-based provider of facial recognition and activity monitoring software. Paravision was previously known as Ever AI.

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$13.5m

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MetaMap aims to digitize trust

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$38.6m

Money raised

Clearview AI is a software company offering a computer vision system using artificial intelligence for serving the law enforcement industry.

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$646.9m

Money raised

Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.

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$3.0m

Money raised

Fortress Identity is a Miami-based cybersecurity developer offering multi-factor authentication with biometrics inherence factors to secure iOS and Android applications, active directory environments and Citrix applications.

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$212.8m

Money raised

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company developing voice security and authentication solutions.

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Funding Rounds

$474.5m

Money raised

Trulioo is a Vancouver-based company offering an electronic identity verification platform.

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$9.8m

Money raised

Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the alpha release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometric verification system for cryptocurrency transactions.

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$1.3b

Money raised

An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

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$140.0m

Money raised

iProov is a user authentication technology company based in London.

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$73.0m

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Fourthline, founded in 2017 by Krik Gunning and Chris van Straeten, provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-based compliance and know your customer (KYC) platform for financial technology companies.

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$6.0m

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globaliD is a company founded in 2016.

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$16.5m

Money raised

Evernym is a software company that develops an open source sovereign identity block chain.

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$100.0m

Money raised

A technology company utilizing artificial intelligence for image searches that can in turn be used in mobile applications. It is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2013.

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3

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$2.3m

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LAFORGE Optical is a Los Angeles-based company that creates prescription augmented reality eyewear that works with a smart device.

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$320.5m

Money raised

Jumio is a company offering a platform for identity verification founded in 2010.

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$2.2m

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A software company offering a digital identification and e-signature service platform.

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$77.0m

Money raised

Ava is a women's health company based in Zurich and San Francisco.

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$5.0m

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User authentication and fraud prevention with biometric Identity-as-a-Service. AimBrain provides face, voice, lipsync, behavior and anomaly detection modules.

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$395.0m

Money raised

A software company using artificial intelligence to create a computer vision platform for customer onboarding and security. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Holon, Israel.

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$32.4m

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Signzy is a company founded in 2015.

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$286.9m

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Ambiq Micro is an Austin, Texas-based semiconductor company manufacturing low-power chips for edge intelligence systems founded in 2010 by Scott Hanson.

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$217.5m

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Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.

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$19.7m

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Keyless is a privacy-preserving biometric authentication solutions provider founded in 2019 by Andrea Carmignani, Rolf Hoefer, Giuseppe Ateniese and Fabian Eberle.

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A software company offering a banking grade platform for online identity verification.

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$86.8m

Money raised

Boku is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2008 by Mark Britto.

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Funding Rounds

$192.3m

Money raised

Veriff is a company founded in 2015 by Kaarel Kotkas.

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$132.3m

Money raised

HYPR Corp is an american computer and biometric security company founded in 2014 by James Barcia.

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$18.0m

Money raised

SecureAuth is an Irvine, California-based provider of access control solutions for premises, cloud and web applications, and resources. Solutions include multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, adaptive authentication, and self-service tools. The company provides both cloud-based and virtual appliances.

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$8.7m

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An artificial intelligence company using computer vision to monitor, identify patterns, and make decisions based on surveillance camera streams.

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$10.8m

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NeuroFlow is a Philadelphia-based company founded in 2017 by Adam Pardes.

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$115.8m

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Certn is a British Colombia-based company developing a data platform that helps businesses perform comprehensive background checks and ongoing risk monitoring on employees and contractors around the world.

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$7.0m

Money raised

Developer of an identity management platform designed to monitor the customer records easily.

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$68.9m

Money raised

Deepgram is an AI Speech Platform that provides developers with a simple to use Speech-to-Text API

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$40.0m

Money raised

IDnow is the world's fastest, most flexible and most secure identity verification platform, delivering instant verification of the identity documents used by 7 billion people.

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$78.4m

Money raised

ID Finance is a Barcelona-based company that provides an online marketplace for consumer installment loans.

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8

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$48.6m

Money raised

Passbase is building a full-stack identity verification engine backed by verified government documents.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Nitro is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2005 by Max Cantor.

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$175.0m

Money raised

BioCatch is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company developing behavioral biometrics and human-device interactions analysis to build user and data protections.

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$4.8m

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NBD Nanotechnologies is a company that provides coatings to surfaces

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$35.0m

Money raised

Verato offers two cloud-based solutions powered by Referential Matching technology that enable you to match and link your patient or customer data across your enterprise with unprecedented ease and accuracy. Verato Auto-Steward is a simple cloud-based plug-in for your EHR, EMPI, or MDM that automatically finds and resolves its missed matches and duplicate recordswithout disrupting any of your existing processes or IT systems. The Verato Universal MPI is the most accurate, easiest to implement, most secure, and most cost effective EMPI or customer MDM solution on the market. It is a HITRUST-certified SaaS solution that you can deploy in as little as six weeks at any scale. Both solutions are powered by Referential Matching, the new gold standard in patient matching and customer matching technology. Referential Matching is not simply a better algorithmit is a completely different approach that is a quantum leap more accurate than the matching technologies found in conventional EHR, EMPI, and MDM tools.

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$1.0m

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HyperVerge is an AI company with solutions powering applications for large enterprise clients in Financial Services, Telecom, Energy, Security, and Defense.

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$21.0m

Money raised

Snips is a voice platform that uses artificial intelligence founded in 2013 by Rand Hindi.

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$120.1m

Money raised

Syntiant is an Irvine, California-based company founded in 2017 by Pieter Vorenkamp, Kurt Busch, Jeremy Holleman and Steph Bailey.

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$6.0m

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Sum&Substance is a developer of remote verification solutions. Our technology allows online services around the world to meet regulatory requirements, prevent fraud and enhance customer confidence.

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$106.0m

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Deputy is a company founded in 2008.

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$583.0m

Money raised

Transmit Security is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company offering a low code platform for authentication, trust, and identity management.

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4

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$22.5m

Money raised

Secret Double Octopus is a Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence company.

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4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

Money raised

Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.

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9

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$150.0m

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Kneron develops and provides edge AI-based integrated software and hardware for a variety of industries.

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$35.0m

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Valencell is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company developing biometric sensor technology for wearable and hearable OEM's.

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$224.1m

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Hailo develops a specialized deep learning microprocessor to deliver data center performance to edge devices.

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$234.6m

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Unbotify's mission is to provide a best in class solution to one of the major problems of web application security today - detecting malicious bots.

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$60.0m

Money raised

Shufti Pro is a company founded by Amelia Matters.

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Funding Rounds

$46.5m

Money raised

1Kosmos provide Digital Identity and Passwordless Authentication for workforce and customers. Powered by advanced biometrics and blockchain technology.

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$37.9m

Money raised

Alcatraz AI is a Redwood City, CA-based startup which develops physical access control systems which use deep learning-powered facial recognition technology.

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$87.5m

Money raised

Scenic Biotech is a developer of genomics and immunotherapy technology founded in 2017 by Thijn Brummelkamp.

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$19.5m

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BehavioSec is a Stockholm-based fraud detection systems developer based on models of behavior.

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$1.1b

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Data platform company specializing in compliance and employee surveillance company

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$69.9m

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An adaptive optics technology company that gives identify verification and wireless communications solutions to the government and commercial markets

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$9.4m

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Platform that helps businesses verify customer identity and address instantly in any channel.

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$69.2m

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SecureKey is a leading identity and authentication provider that simplifies consumer access to online services and applications.

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$8.6m

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A company offering a marketing and security platform for the retail industry based on video surveillance.

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$3.6m

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Platform delivering AI solutions for business communication needs.

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$30.0m

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Trusona is an enterprise-wide Passwordless MFA founded in 2015 by Ori Eisen.

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$28.9m

Money raised

First AML is an Auckland-based biometrics company founded in 2017.

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$15.4m

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Nethone is a Know Your Users (KYU) company that allows merchants around the world to better serve their clients and prevent online fraud.

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