Deepak Jain, CEO and founder of Wink, outlines its mission to shakeup payment authentication by providing fast, secure, as well as effortless checkout experiences, making finance more accessible and trustworthy.

Listen now to CEO, Deepak Jain on the heels of Wink’s “Best of Show” win at FinovateSpring discuss the future of biometric payments on the Finovate Podcast.

Deepak Jain said he wants Wink to become a "unicorn" — a privately-held startup company with a valuation at or above $1 billion. It's a lofty goal set by a lot of startup founders, but Ritesh Agarwal, a partner at CerraCap Ventures who's helped lead the firm's expansion into New Mexico, thinks Wink has the potential.

In a lineup of carefully selected startups showcasing cutting-edge innovations in fintech and AI, Wink's innovation in the various areas of facial and voice recognition, especially with its new voice liveness detection technology using generative AI, biometrically enhanced human presence check for validating financial transactions, and the use of multi-modal biometrics in a multitude of banking and payment use cases, drew one of the largest amount of votes, solidifying its position as an industry frontrunner.

Wink named as a finalist for Shoptalk 2023’s “Shark Reef” startup pitch competition, which saw 12 technology innovators across four areas of retail disruption compete.

Wink and Brainvire form a strategic go-to-market partnership for deploying unique biometric payment solutions for frictionless fraud-free e-commerce checkout experiences

Wink, a Texas and California based, biometric identity and payments platform, is pleased to announce that it has received an additional $3M million of seed investment.

Wink is pleased to work with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis Connected Services to demonstrate a new camera-based driver recognition and handsfree payment technology for the connected car market. Through our work together, we look forward to showcasing how we can bring to market unique frictionless payment experiences as automakers shift to software-defined vehicle architectures

Wink is on a mission to eliminate identity theft and payments fraud on the internet while enhancing user convenience and speed for e-commerce transactions. Wink announced the successful close of a pre-seed funding round of $2.85 million, highly oversubscribed against its goal of $1 million. Wink’s biometric payments and identity platform uses advanced face, voice and device recognition combined with AI and Machine learning, to truly eliminate passwords and card numbers from e-commerce. The venture was launched by serial entrepreneur Deepak Jain, who has previously built transformational businesses and products in the NFC payments, neobanking, blockchain and cross border payment spaces.

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