This 2022 Masschallenge program received over 1,000 applications from around the world and Miami-based high-tech startup Hummingbirds AI was chosen to join the more than 200 startups invited to participate this year.
By joining this accelerator program, Hummingbirds AI will receive unrivaled access to a global network of partners, experts, and mentors; residency options; market access opportunities.
Hummingbirds AI uses computer vision to make authentication, passwordless, autonomous and continuous.
Hummingbirds AI stood out for its strong business model and privacy-first biometric authentication technology, maximizing workforce productivity, while keeping the devices secure, making authentication passwordless, safe and continuous.
Just last month Hummingbirds AI won the Vision Tank Competition 2022, committed to developing the most advanced computer vision technology to change the world so that employees’ life can unfold to their best. With this aim in mind, Hummingbirds AI has developed GuacamoleID, the only privacy-first facial biometric tool to eliminate repetitive MFA during an active session, and welcomes a passwordless re-authentication that is time-saving and frictionless.
Questioned by Forbes about the future of cyber solutions in a systemic risk context, Hummingbirds AI CEO Nima Schei puts it this way: “cyber risk is an exponential risk, with real-world consequences, but it is treated as a linear risk. The gap between our needs and our resources is exponentially getting wider and wilder.” To bridge this gap, Hummingbirds developed GuacamoleID.

GuacamoleID is the first continuous video-based biometric authentication app to address the most common entry point of systemic risk into complex digital systems: the human interface. GuacamoleID applies real-time facial biometric technology to continuously confirm the identity of the person using the device, which strengthens the authentication process by making it real-time, accurate, user-friendly, and persistent.
For CEO Nima Schei, serial tech entrepreneur and founder of Hummingbirds AI, GuacamoleID is the key to painless authentication that protects devices seamlessly when the user is not around.
About MassChallenge: MassChallenge is the global network for innovators. Headquartered in the United States with eight locations worldwide, it is the nonprofit's mission to help bold entrepreneurs disrupt the status quo and create sustainable change. Since launching in 2009, MassChallenge has run programs in 18 countries, supported more than 3,000 startups from around the world, and awarded over $17M in equity-free cash and prizes.