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Twosense, Inc. is a technology company.
Twosense Inc. develops a Continuous Authentication Platform utilizing passive biometrics and machine learning to automate user identity verification. This software-only solution continuously verifies users, eliminating the need for traditional passwords and securing environments like shared workstations. Its technical approach focuses on replacing human-centric authentication efforts with automated processes, thereby enhancing security and reducing friction in multi-factor authentication.
Founded in 2015 by Dawud Gordon, John Tanios, and Ulf Blanke, Twosense originated from the belief that user authentication should be effortless, automatic, and inherently secure. The founders, combining backgrounds in machine learning research, enterprise application development, and cybersecurity leadership, set out to redefine identity security by shifting away from methods prone to human error and manual intervention.
The company initially gained traction with the United States Department of Defense and has since broadened its reach to enterprise clients, addressing employee identity needs across industries such as healthcare, contact centers, and business process outsourcing. Twosense’s overarching vision centers on shaping the future of identity security through continuous authentication, aiming to render conventional authentication practices obsolete.
Twosense, Inc. has raised $4.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Twosense, Inc. has raised $4.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Twosense, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in behavioral multi-factor authentication (MFA) through continuous authentication using passive biometrics like typing patterns and mouse movements.[1][2][3][4] It builds a software-only platform that creates user behavior profiles to automate over 95% of MFA challenges invisibly, flagging unauthorized access in seconds, and serves sectors including BPO contact centers, healthcare, enterprises, and government—starting with the US Department of Defense (DoD).[1][3][4] The solution solves mistaken identity fraud, which accounts for 50% of cybercrime damages, by providing phishing-resistant, PCI-compliant verification without hardware, phones, or cameras, reducing failed logins by 89% and help-desk tickets by 79% in deployments like a top US health system securing 17,000 users across shared workstations.[2][3][4]
Growth momentum includes a $2.42 million DoD contract for AI-driven behavioral biometrics, expansion from DoD to enterprise customers, and funding from Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.[2][3]
Twosense was founded in 2014 (with some sources noting 2015) in Brooklyn, New York, by Dawud Gordon (CEO, Co-Founder; PhD in Computer Engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, background in AI and wearable tech) and John Tanios (CTO, Co-Founder; experienced full-stack developer with expertise in systems design, deep learning, and data science from CUNY College of Staten Island).[1][2][3] Ulf Blanke (PhD, Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich, co-founder of antavi) serves on the advisory board.[2] The idea emerged from Gordon's research in mobile behavioral biometrics to combat $1 trillion in annual cybercrime damages, particularly mistaken identity in mobile payments and e-commerce, launching initially with the US DoD as its first customer before expanding to enterprises and contact centers.[1][2][3]
Twosense rides the passwordless authentication trend in cybersecurity, addressing rising identity-based attacks amid $170 billion industry growth driven by mobile fraud and zero-trust mandates.[2][4] Timing aligns with healthcare's shared workstation challenges, regulatory pressures (e.g., PCI, HIPAA), and DoD's push for AI biometrics post-high-profile breaches, where traditional MFA fails 50% of mistaken identity cases.[1][2][3] Market forces like escalating cybercrime ($1Tn damages) and demand for frictionless security favor its invisible, scalable model, influencing the ecosystem by pioneering behavioral biometrics in regulated verticals and enabling broader adoption of continuous monitoring over static credentials.[2][4]
Twosense is poised to expand its Continuous Authentication platform beyond healthcare and DoD into more enterprises, leveraging AI advancements in behavioral signals for fully automated identity security.[1][4] Trends like zero-trust architecture, rising AI-driven threats, and passwordless mandates will accelerate growth, potentially through larger government contracts and integrations with clinical apps. Its influence may evolve by setting standards for hardware-free MFA, reducing human error in high-compliance sectors and capturing share in the booming continuous auth market—transforming cybersecurity from reactive to invisible and proactive, much like its core promise of automating authentication out of existence.[2][3][4]
Twosense, Inc. has raised $4.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $3.0M Seed in May 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2021 | $3M Seed | Preface Ventures, Atypical Ventures | B Capital Group, Glasswing Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Jacob Conger, Inovia Capital, Mindset Ventures, Panache Ventures, Predictive VC, Spero Ventures, Stellar Capital, Techstars Impact Fund, Tribe Capital, Bart Swanson, Justin Label, Moshe Lifschitz, RON Pragides, Jonathan Cogley, Josh Lospinoso, Marc JAY Weiss, Brand NEW Matter, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator | Announced |
| Jan 1, 2017 | $1M Seed | — | DMV Capital, Kewpie Associates | Announced |
Twosense, Inc. has raised $4.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Twosense, Inc.'s investors include Preface Ventures, Atypical Ventures, B Capital Group, Glasswing Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Jacob Conger, iNovia Capital, Mindset Ventures, Panache Ventures, Predictive VC, Spero Ventures, Stellar Capital.