EyeVerify, a Kansas City, KS-based developer of mobile authentication solutions, closed a $2.3m Series A financing round.
Backers included existing investors Think Big Ventures and Nebraska Angels and new investors including Mid America Angels.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate deployments with major customers, add specific features for the financial sector and grow the marketing and sales team.
Led by Toby Rush, CEO and founder, EyeVerify provides secure mobile identity protection and access to personal information using existing smartphones. The company’s patented vascular “Eyeprint” Verification System leverages built-in cameras of mobile devices to image and then pattern match blood vessels in the whites of users’ eyes, ensuring digital identity protection, without requiring additional hardware for businesses or end users.
EyeVerify also announced the availability of its solution to the banking and financial services sectors with banks, credit unions, investment firms, payment systems, etc.
FinSMEs
14/05/2013