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Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 Top Biometrics Startups out of 334
The insights of this data-driven analysis are derived from the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering 2.093.000+ startups & scaleups globally. The platform gives you an exhaustive overview of emerging technologies & relevant startups within a specific field in just a few clicks.
The Global Startup Heat Map below reveals the distribution of the 334 exemplary startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research. Further, it highlights 5 travel startups that we hand-picked based on criteria such as founding year, location, funding raised, and more. You get to explore the solutions of these 5 startups & scaleups in this report. For insights on the other 329 biometrics solutions, get in touch.
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First Biometric works on Biometric Travel Cards
While visiting a new city, travelers usually purchase separate tickets for each mode of transport, such as trains and buses. Single travel cards and similar solutions eliminate the requirement to purchase tickets frequently. Advancing this solution further, startups enhance these travel cards with biometric technology to prevent theft and increase verification security.
US-based startup First Biometric develops biometric travel cards for the travel, fintech, and healthcare industries, among others. The startup combines chip technology and biometric fingerprinting to enhance smart card performance and security. By integrating its technology into travel cards, First Biometric improves travelers’ transportation experience in a new city.
Midas Touch produces a Fingerprint Identification (ID) Padlock
The importance of luggage security increases manifold when passports, tickets, cash, and clothes are packed in several suitcases and handbags. Therefore, when visiting a foreign country, travelers tend to be extra careful while choosing the locks for their luggage. To this avail, biometrics startups integrate padlock solutions with fingerprint ID.
Taiwanese startup Midas Touch produces fingerprint identification padlocks for travelers. The startup develops biometric locks for handbags, laptop bags, and briefcases, among other portable luggage. Midas Touch’s padlock stores multiple sets of fingertips and supports an adaptive opening algorithm, enabling faster reaction time. By providing a locking solution that requires no physical key, the startup eliminates the inconvenience of losing a key and correspondingly, losing access to essential belongings during a trip.
Amani builds AI-powered ID Verification
To book a trip from a travel agency, check in to flights, or rent a car abroad, travelers are required to prove their identity. To improve the traveler experience, optimize passenger flow at airports, and reduce human contact during the COVID-19 pandemic, startups develop facial recognition solutions. Additionally, these biometrics solutions enable effective detection of fraud and impersonation attempts.
Turkish startup Amani builds AI-powered identity verification solutions for the travel, hospitality, e-commerce, healthcare, and security sectors. The startup’s 4D Biometrics Module integrates a Simple Face Match Module featuring a 68 focal points face match solution and a Face Liveness Module, which ensures the presence of a live person in front of the device. Moreover, Amani offers such solutions as eye gaze and blinking analytics. Additionally, the startup develops document verification and data integrity solutions to help travel agencies, airports, and hotels reduce booking abandonments, eliminate booking errors, and automate check-in processes.
KEYO advances Palm-Vein Biometrics
Biometrics solutions such as fingerprinting or iris scan already find use cases in airports and hospitality services. These solutions increase traveler identification efficiency. However, their utilization poses certain security risks as it is possible to capture and replicate the prints of external body parts. To mitigate this, startups develop biometrics solutions that use the internal palm-vein structure as identification markers.
US-based startup KEYO works on palm-vein biometrics solutions for ticketing, access and control, and travel systems. The startup’s Keyo Base solution features a palm-vein sensor that maps hemoglobin in blood using near-infrared light to identify internal vein structure. The startup’s technology enables efficient, secure, and contactless ticketing and identity checks for travelers.
Zamna secures Biometric Data Sharing with Blockchain
Secure biometrics data sharing between airports and government agencies is hard to achieve since such data is commonly shared in silos. Therefore, passenger data needs to be manually checked and verified, which delays check-in processes for airports and border control agencies. The lack of secure data sharing also prevents the widespread adoption of biometrics technologies. To mitigate this, startups apply blockchain technology to improve the security of biometrics data transfers.
British startup Zamna develops blockchain solutions for identity verification in the travel and aviation industries. The Zamna Genesis solution features privacy-preserving biometrics verification, which creates and persists anonymous biometrics tokens and links them to ID data. The solution retrieves the tokens during online check-in to instantly verify the traveler’s identity. This way, Zamna allows airports and government agencies to share biometrics data securely and instantly.
Discover more Travel startups
Travel startups such as the examples highlighted in this report focus on virtual travel, in-flight connectivity, and sustainable tourism. While all of these technologies play a major role in advancing the travel industry, they only represent the tip of the iceberg. To explore more travel technologies, simply get in touch to let us look into your areas of interest. For a more general overview, you can download our free Industry Innovation Reports to save your time and improve strategic decision-making.
