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QA with Nebraska Angels’ Laura Classen on EyeVerify’s recent acquisition
Kansas City based EyeVerify announced last week their acquisition by Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial. Anonymous sources say the deal was over $100 million. Nebraska Angels was one of the first investments in the company. Laura Classen is the Executive Director for Nebraska Angels. SPN caught up with Classen over the phone. SPN: It may surprise some people […]
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EyeVerify sold for $100 million to Alibaba’s Ant Financial [Updated]
Kansas City-based EyeVerify has been sold to Ant Financial Services Group, a payment affiliate of Alibaba and operator of Alipay, according to a press release on EyeVerify’s website. Although the amount was not publicly disclosed, Bloomberg is reporting from an anonymous source the deal was for around $70 million. Update: Startland News reports from an anonymous source the […]
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Latest version makes EyeVerify’s scanning software even simpler
KANSAS CITY—On Monday Kansas City-based EyeVerify announced users will be able to look ahead—literally—with its latest software update to EyePrint ID…
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Dewsly, EyeVerify named to Dell for Entrepreneur’s Founders 50 fall class
Last week Dell for Entrepreneurs announced the second class of its Founders 50 program, which selects companies disrupting their respective industry and equips them with resources like quality mentorship and marketing firepower, to name a few. While the list named companies from five different countries, two members of the Founders 50 class hail from a little closer to home. Kansas…
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EyeVerify lands spot in Wells Fargo accelerator, part of $6M round
KANSAS CITY—It looks like we now know who the “undisclosed banking institution” was from EyeVerify’s $6 million round in July. Wells Fargo announced Wednesday that the Kansas City-based startup will be part of its inaugural six-month accelerator class for companies looking to pioneer financial services technology.
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Weekly Recap: EyeVerify in WSJ, Omaha a startup city, Let it Goat
Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read as well as SPN’s most-read stories over the last week…
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EyeVerify lands $6M from Sprint, Samsung, Chinese security firm
EyeVerify made big news Thursday, announcing a $6 million round with large backers they want in their corner: Sprint, Samsung, an undisclosed banking institution and a Chinese security firm, one of the largest in the world. Toby Rush, CEO of the Kansas City-based eye print ID/biometric security startup said the investment was a testament to […]
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Weekly Recap: Hudl in the NY Times, EyeVerify on Fox, a blog on pivots
Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read as well as SPN’s most-read stories over the last week…
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EyeVerify wins innovation award from Angel Capital Association
EyeVerify last week won the Angel Capital Association‘s 2014 Luis Villalobos Award, which recognizes the most ingenious and innovative idea recently financed by angel groups that are ACA members. Winners are chosen based on innovation, creativity and ingenuity of their product, service or solution and their ability to clearly communicate the problem it addresses. EyeVerify […]
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EyeVerify CEO Toby Rush’s journey from farmhand to founder
Roughly an hour and a half from his office in the Kansas City Startup Village, EyeVerify CEO and founder Toby Rush was trained in the art of entrepreneurship. It wasn’t in a classroom or under the wing of a seasoned business icon, but in the fields of his family’s farm in Severance, Kan. …