- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- wink.cloud
- Total Funding
- $5.8M
- Last Round
- $3.0M SeedFeb 2023
- Rounds
- 2
- Acquisition Date
- Apr 2025
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About
Wink is a multimodal biometric identity and payments platform that enables merchants to verify customers and process transactions using face, palm, and voice recognition — eliminating passwords and card swipes at checkout. The platform combines identity verification, AI-powered fraud detection, payment orchestration across 200+ gateways, and chargeback protection into a single modular stack, deployed on major POS hardware partners including PAX, SUNMI, Elo, and Clover. Serving over 220,000 merchants and processing $4.8B+ in annual transactions, Wink targets retail, QSR, e-commerce, stadiums, and financial services with biometric-first commerce experiences.
Summary
Wink is a Retail company based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $5.8M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $3.0M Seed round in Feb 2023. Investors include CerraCap Ventures, GGV Capital and Plug and Play.
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Funding & Exit History
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