Top Biometrics Startups in 2026

Incode Technologies is an omnichannel biometric identity company that builds secure, top-rated solutions for frictionless banking, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security in order to enhance customer experiences and build a global database of identities using the world’s fastest edge-facial recognition technology as recognized by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Incode’s anti-spoofing technology, LiveBeam, doesn’t require any user interaction and is the first passive facial liveness system in the world to achieve Level-1 certification for NIST iBeta Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) testing. The company’s web and mobile solutions are adopted globally for a variety of applications, including onboarding, identity & ID verification, and transactions by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Founded in 2015 by a passionate serial-entrepreneur and a group of hard-working individuals, we seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach new challenges unconventionally. We believe brilliant minds have the power to do great things! We’re a fun-loving, goal-crushing team who are immensely proud to be part of a common goal: to map the identity of humankind. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates globally with additional offices in Latin America and Europe.

Jumio is the future for online and mobile ID verification, transaction monitoring and fraud detection. We are the largest and fastest-growing company in the ID verification space. With a global footprint, we’re expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services/Fintech, Travel, Sharing Economy, Gaming, Healthcare and others. Our team of over 500 are building solutions that help customers fight fraud at scale and we are looking for people who have a passion for solving challenges that make a significant impact on customers. Having acquired Beam Solutions in September, 2020, we have now brought our AI and ML expertise into AML for financial, retail and gaming and with significant demand need to grow our engineering team.

Yobe takes an innovative approach to the extraction of perceptual information from voice in noisy environments (our solution for the Cocktail Party Problem). Yobe uses AI to mimic the Human Auditory System by identifying unique biometrics within a noisy intake signal to identify and track individual voices. Once isolated, the signal of interest can be enhanced for a better listening experience, speaker identification, or used as a front-end processor to enable significantly improved performance for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and cognitive AI solutions.

Sensity is the verification-everything platform. We are building a new foundational security layer for the Internet: an all-inclusive solution for detecting fake identities, documents, images, video and audio, had they been AI-generated or digitally altered with software. Sensity secures enterprises clients on 4 continents in the financial industry, marketplaces, insurance companies, and cybersecurity and threat intelligence firms; we support the work of dozens of government agencies. Founded in 2018 by AI researchers, Sensity is the world’s first company specialized in the detection of AI-generated content. We are backed by Betaworks (HuggingFace, Giphy), Amadeus Capital (Graphcore, Improbable), other than by the European Commission's Horizon-KTE, Visa Everywhere and Google News Initiative. Sensity is featured in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg

VeryAI is on a mission to make the internet more human, all in the palm of your hand. Combining proprietary palm biometrics with agent verification, VeryAI powers secure and seamless digital experiences across social, fintech, and crypto platforms through the first hardware-free palm scan that works on any smartphone. Built for an era of AI deepfakes and digital spoofing, VeryAI delivers fraud-resistant verification with privacy at its core. The platform enables organizations to confirm real users without compromising personal data. Developed by experts in biometrics, crypto, and AI, VeryAI is designed to meet the growing need for trust in an increasingly digital world. By putting the next layer of trust in the palm of your hand, VeryAI is creating a new standard for online authenticity and security.