FinovateSpring 2023 / 1Kosmos
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: 1Kosmos enables passwordless access for workers, customers and citizens to securely transact with digital services. By unifying identity proofing and strong authentication, the BlockID platform creates a distributed digital identity that prevents identity impersonation, account takeover and fraud, while delivering frictionless user experiences. BlockID is the only NIST, FIDO2, and iBeta biometrics certified platform that performs millions of authentications daily for some of the largest banks, telecommunications, and healthcare organizations in the world.
How they describe their product/innovation: We’re presenting our modern approach to account origination applicable to both workforce and customer workflows. Illustrating our live facial biometrics matched to government issued credentials with +99% accuracy without race or gender decisioning bias. We’re showcasing how we use onboarding to deliver the workforce a powerful passwordless MFA to verify user identity at each login and customers a portable, private, reusable digital wallet for secure access to all of their online services.
Product distribution strategy: B2B, Licensed
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Jens Hinrichsen (SVP, N.A. Sales), jens.hinrichsen@1kosmos.com, 585-766-2227
Press: Marc Gendron, marc@mgpr.net
Website: 1kosmos.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/1kosmos
Twitter: @1KosmosBlockID
HQ: East Brunswick, NJ, US
Founded: February 2021
Product Demoed: 1Kosmos BlockID
Metrics: $35M USD funding to date. We employ a staff of roughly 130 professionals.
Presenters: Jens Hinrichsen, SVP, North American Sales | Robert MacDonald, VP Product Marketing
- Key Executives
Hemen Vimadalal (Founder & CEO), Rogan Pinto (Co-Founder & CTO), Mike Engle (Co-Founder & CSO), Huzefa Olia (COO), Michael Cichon (CMO)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
Hemen Vimadalal (Founder & CEO), Alberto Yepez (Co-Founder & MD, Forgepoint Capital)
- Key Investors
Forgepoint Capital, Gula Tech Adventures
- Key Advisory Board Members
Mike McConnell (Retired Director NSA, Retired Vice Chairman BAH), Art Money (Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence), Kirstjen Nielsen (Former Secretary at U.S. Dept of Homeland Security), Peter Carroll (Partner, Oliver Wyman), Chris Perry (President, Broadridge), Ramin Safai (CISO & CTO, Jefferies), Patrick Gorman (Former CISO BOA, Former CSO Bridgewater), Jim Ducharme (GM, Anti-Fraud Business Unit, RSA Security), Kemp Ensor (Former Director of the Office of Security and Counterintelligence, NSA), Steve Weinreb (Senior Executive Partner, Gartner), Suhit Gupta (CIO, General Atlantic), Bob Rose (Member of the DHS Homeland Security Advisory Council), Chris Bell (Co-Founder & CEO, Opora), Mike Yoder (Director, DTCC), Brandon Swafford (BISO, Citadel), Chris Day (VP, Tenable), Millin Desai (CEO, Sentry), Frank Cilluffo (Director, McCrary Institute for Cyber & Critical Infrastructure Security), Nandkumar Saravade (Founding CEO, ReBIT), Vanessa Neumann (CEO, Asymmetrica), Jim Pirnik (Identity, Access & Security Portfolio Manager, Shell)
- Key Partners
Cognizant, Composure, Deloitte, EY, Hitachi, IC Consult, Infosys, OneSpan, Outseer, Simeio, Verizon
- Key Customers
Jefferies, Kotak Bank, Netsmart, Union Digital, Vodafone, Indostar, Fuji Films