Wink - About the company
Wink is a seed company based in Plano (United States), founded in 2019 by Deepak Jain. It operates as a Provider of a platform offering biometric-based checkout solutions. Wink has raised $8.33M in funding from CerraCap Ventures and Carneros Bay. The company has 2260 active competitors, including 397 funded and 247 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like BitGo, Scandit and Kairos.
Company Details
Provider of a platform offering biometric-based checkout solutions. It provides users with omnichannel checkout solutions by face- and voice-recognition payments acceptance platform. It also enables three-factor biometric authentication that combines facial recognition, digital voice printing, and payment technologies which also prevents compliance and fraud prevention.
- Website
- wink.cloud
- Email ID
- *****@wink.cloud
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2019
Location
Plano, United States
Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$8.33M in 4 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Investors
Ranked
40th among 2260 active competitors
Employee Count
43 as on Jan 05, 2026
Legal entities associated with Wink
Wink is associated with 1 legal entity given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Payfave Inc CIN: 870860954 , United States, Active | Dec 31, 2018 | - | - | - |
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Wink's funding and investors
Wink has raised a total funding of $8.33M over 4 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jan 2022. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on Feb 01, 2023 for $*****. 2 investors participated in its latest round. Wink has 5 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Wink:
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Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 01, 2023 | 6086606 | Seed | 4587068 | 2233261 | 3664084 | 8180101 |
Dec 23, 2022 | 1052762 | Seed | 3647883 | 3711702 | 3030710 | 8118253 |
May 10, 2022 | 1737822 | Seed | 1731592 | 8896410 |
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Wink's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Wink is Deepak Jain. Deepak Jain is the CEO of Wink.
Here are the details of Wink's key team members:
- Deepak Jain: Founder & CEO of Wink. Contact Info: 1 email address
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Wink's employee count trend
Wink has 43 employees as of Jan 26. Here is Wink's employee count trend over the years:
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Wink's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Wink include BitGo, Scandit and Kairos. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Wink, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | BitGo 2013, Palo Alto (United States), Public | Platform that offers crypto based financial services | $170M | 81/100 | |
2nd | Scandit 2009, Zurich (Switzerland), Series D | Developer of smart data capture platform for various industry applications | $273M | 78/100 | |
3rd | Kairos 2011, Miami (United States), Series A | Provider of AI-powered identity verification, document authentication, and biometric solutions | $19.6M | 74/100 | |
4th | AI based identity verification and e-Signing solution provider | $13.8M | 72/100 | ||
5th | Clear 2010, New York City (United States), Public | Provider of expedited identity verification services for airport security and more | $135M | 71/100 | |
6th | Yoti 2014, London (United Kingdom), Series B | Provider of privacy-focused identity and age solutions | $210M | 71/100 | |
7th | Mantra Softech 2006, Ahmedabad (India), Series A | Biometrics-based security and surveillance solutions | $14.2M | 70/100 | |
8th | iProov 2011, London (United Kingdom), Series B | Platform offering digital identity verification services | $85.1M | 70/100 | |
9th | HYPR 2014, New York City (United States), Series D | Provider of passwordless multi-factor authentication, identity verification, and risk management | $131M | 69/100 | |
10th | Microblink 2013, London (United Kingdom), Series A | Platform offering card scanning apps-based consumer payments | $60M | 68/100 | |
40th | Wink 2019, Plano (United States), Seed | Provider of a platform offering biometric-based checkout solutions | $8.33M | 60/100 |
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Wink's Investments and acquisitions
Wink has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Wink
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News related to Wink
Media has covered Wink for a total of 2 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about partnerships.
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Clover Introduces Identity-Based Payments to Transform Everyday TransactionsBusiness Wire•Jan 07, 2026•Wink, Clover, Fiserv, Microsoft
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Wink's Deepak Jain Discusses Biometrics and Payments on BU PodcastBiometricUpdate.com•Sep 27, 2025•Wink, Phoenix Managed Networks
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Payments startup gets $2.85M in pre-seed for multi-biometric ID platformBiometricUpdate.com•May 11, 2022•CerraCap Ventures, PopID, FinGo, Tntra and 2 others
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