XIX.ai

XIX.ai -, American startup developing cloud service for authentications Entry face geometry. The platform allows you to login to the site or application by biometrics face using a camera and without entering a password.

The company was founded by Emil Mikhailov and Roman Trusov. By October 2021, the team includes engineers, IT specialists, experts in the field of machine learning, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, most of whom are from Russia.

History

2021: Raising $500K

On October 18, 2021, it became known about investing $500 thousand in XIX. The president of the RBI development group Eduard Tiktinsky and co-founder of the Muzlab streaming service Viktor Khristenko invested in the startup.

Taking into account this amount, the total amount of funds raised by the company XIX reached $3.8 million. Earlier, Cabra VC, as well as Ian Goodfellow (Apple), Oleg Roginsky (People.ai), Bharat Mediratta (Coinbase) and others invested in the company.

The facial geometry authentication service founded by Russians XIX.ai raised $500 thousand.

There are almost no such products on the market that would make it possible to authorize the user on face geometry, without a special sensor, using only a camera, and without installing the product on its device - simply "from the cloud." Given how cybersecurity technologies are developing and becoming more in demand, this is a very promising solution, "said Eduard Tiktinsky, commenting on investing in the XIX century.

General Director XIX Emil Mikhailov, in turn, noted that the attracted investments will strengthen the marketing team of the project in order to "offer customers a qualitatively better product." The target audience of the product is the owners of sites and applications, as well as private users.

XIX cooperates with the DeliverFund Foundation, which is engaged in combating human trafficking. Artificial intelligence helps save victims of this trade by comparing photos of missing people with databases on "shadow" sites.^[1]

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