Biometrics startups, scaleups navigate expanding digital trust applications
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# Biometrics startups, scaleups navigate expanding digital trust applications
Oct 11, 2025, 10:42 am EDT | Chris Burt
Categories Biometrics News | Industry Analysis
Biometrics adoption is driving revenues and growth in applications from security to civil ID, and may soon be the foundation of trust for any digital interaction, with reusable digital identity networks coming online. The top stories this week on _Biometric Update_ illustrate each of these trends, along with the complexity of scaling companies and funding projects on the cutting edge of technology. RazorPay, NexG, deverium and Proof all have new reasons to be optimistic about their position in growing markets.
## Scaling security and trust
Facial recognition on Ring cameras, the analytics and AI tools offered through GovCloud and an August agreement with the GSA all bring Amazon further into the U.S. law enforcement surveillance ecosystem. Many startups in America’s surveillance sector have been introduced to law enforcement customers by AWS, offering everything from data fusion to biometrics.
Payment authentication with on-device biometrics, PIN resets with Aadhaar face biometrics and cash withdrawals from micro ATMs have been added to the UPI by India’s Ministry of Finance in the wake of regulatory changes from the RBI. RazorPay sees an opportunity for its biometrics-ready Access Control Server, which uses tokenization and passkey standards to enable payment authentication.
Datasonic has won a six-year, $173 million contract to modernize Malaysia’s national ID card infrastructure. The NexG subsidiary will design a new MyKad ID with forgery-resistant security features to enable biometric verification for banking and a wide range of other services.
Software developer deverium’s alongID platform is graduating from piloting to early validation, as it pursues the sizeable market opportunity for digital identity orchestration. The company launched at MWC earlier this year, and works with GBG, iProov,