Validity Sensors provides fingerprint sensor solutions for authentication, mobile payment and touch-based navigation systems.
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility.Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security.Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.
Announced Date | Round | Money Raised | Number of Investors | Lead Investors | Post Valuation | |
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Oct 19, 2012 | Series E | $10M | 2 | TeleSoft Partners | — | Detail |
Jul 28, 2010 | Series D | $12.60M | 1 | — | — | Detail |
Mar 11, 2009 | Series C | $10M | 1 | — | — | Detail |
Dec 1, 2007 | Series B | $20M | 1 | — | — | Detail |
Oct 17, 2006 | Series A | $20M | 1 | TeleSoft Partners | — | Detail |
Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round |
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TeleSoft Partners | Yes | Series E |
Venture Tech Associates | — | Series E |