69 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 187 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $7.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $101.6m.

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

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Gemalto logo

Gemalto

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

5

Funding Rounds

$37.0m

Money raised

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Paravision

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

3

Funding Rounds

$47.0m

Money raised

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MetaMap

MetaMap aims to digitize trust

1

Funding Rounds

$13.5m

Money raised

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Clearview AI

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

4

Funding Rounds

$38.6m

Money raised

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Socure

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

8

Funding Rounds

$646.9m

Money raised

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Fortress Identity

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Onfido

Onfido is an identity verification service for enterprises.

7

Funding Rounds

$309.9m

Money raised

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Kairos (company)

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

6

Funding Rounds

$9.8m

Money raised

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iProov

iProov is a user authentication technology company based in London.

4

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

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globaliD

globaliD is a company founded in 2016.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

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Evernym

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

3

Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

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Clarifai

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

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LAFORGE Optical

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

3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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ElectronicID

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

2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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Ava

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

9

Funding Rounds

$77.0m

Money raised

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Ping Identity

Ping Identity is a Denver-based cybersecurity company providing cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.

3

Funding Rounds

$78.0m

Money raised

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AimBrain

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

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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AnyVision

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.

5

Funding Rounds

$395.0m

Money raised

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Signzy

Signzy is a company founded in 2015.

3

Funding Rounds

$32.4m

Money raised

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Ambiq Micro

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

17

Funding Rounds

$286.9m

Money raised

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Persona

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

4

Funding Rounds

$217.5m

Money raised

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Keyless

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

6

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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Fully-Verified

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

2

Funding Rounds

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Boku

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

6

Funding Rounds

$86.8m

Money raised

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Veriff

Veriff is a company founded in 2015 by Kaarel Kotkas.

7

Funding Rounds

$192.3m

Money raised

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HYPR Corp

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

7

Funding Rounds

$132.3m

Money raised

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SecureAuth

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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TrueFace.Ai

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

5

Funding Rounds

$8.7m

Money raised

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NeuroFlow

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

3

Funding Rounds

$10.8m

Money raised

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Certn

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.

8

Funding Rounds

$115.8m

Money raised

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Smile Identity

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

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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DeepGram

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

8

Funding Rounds

$68.9m

Money raised

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IDnow

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.

4

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

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ID Finance

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

6

Funding Rounds

$78.4m

Money raised

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Nitro

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

2

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Passbase

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

8

Funding Rounds

$48.6m

Money raised

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BioCatch

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

2

Funding Rounds

$175.0m

Money raised

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NBD Nanotechnologies

NBD Nanotechnologies is a company that provides coatings to surfaces

3

Funding Rounds

$4.8m

Money raised

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Verato

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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HyperVerge

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Snips

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

4

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Syntiant

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

4

Funding Rounds

$120.1m

Money raised

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Deputy

Deputy is a company founded in 2008.

2

Funding Rounds

$106.0m

Money raised

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Transmit Security

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

2

Funding Rounds

$583.0m

Money raised

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Featurespace

Featurespace is the world-leader in Adaptive Behavioural Analytics and creator of the ARIC platform for fraud and risk management. The ARIC platform a real-time machine learning software system monitors individual behaviours and detects anomalies to catch new fraud attacks as they happen. The increased accuracy of understanding customer behaviour simultaneously reduces the number of genuine customers whose purchases and transactions are incorrectly declined. Customers include TSYS, Ally Bank, Worldpay, Playtech, Paddy Power Betfair, Vocalink Zapp, CashFlows and William Hill. To find out more visit: www.featurespace.com

6

Funding Rounds

$181.6m

Money raised

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Secret Double Octopus

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

4

Funding Rounds

$22.5m

Money raised

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Speechmatics

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

4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

Money raised

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Kneron

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

9

Funding Rounds

$150.0m

Money raised

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Hailo Technologies

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

6

Funding Rounds

$224.1m

Money raised

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Valencell

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

5

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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adjust (software company)

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$234.6m

Money raised

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Shufti Pro

Shufti Pro is a company founded by Amelia Matters.

3

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

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1Kosmos

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

4

Funding Rounds

$46.5m

Money raised

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Alcatraz AI, Inc.

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

6

Funding Rounds

$37.9m

Money raised

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Scenic Biotech

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

6

Funding Rounds

$87.5m

Money raised

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BehavioSec

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

3

Funding Rounds

$19.5m

Money raised

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Behavox

Data platform company specializing in compliance and employee surveillance company

6

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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AOptix Technologies

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

3

Funding Rounds

$69.9m

Money raised

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ID-Pal

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

3

Funding Rounds

$9.4m

Money raised

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SecureKey Technologies

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

3

Funding Rounds

$69.2m

Money raised

VSBLTY GROUPE TECHNOLOGIES CORP. logo

VSBLTY GROUPE TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

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

8

Funding Rounds

$8.6m

Money raised

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Spitch

Platform delivering AI solutions for business communication needs.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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Trusona

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

2

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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First AML

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

3

Funding Rounds

$28.9m

Money raised

Nethone logo

Nethone

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

4

Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

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Ondato

Ondato brings you a completely customized KYC process built according to the best practices on the market.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

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Kogniz

Kogniz offers an SaaS-based video surveillance platform for monitoring various workplace safety problems.

4

Funding Rounds

$14.9m

Money raised

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Yoti Biometric Identity

Yoti offer a suite of business solutions that span identity verification, age estimation, e-signing and AI anti-spoofing technologies.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.8m

Money raised

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awamo

awamo is a Frankfurt-based developer of mobile banking and business platform for micro-financing and microcredit.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised