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Alesis Novik of AimBrain on Using Biometrics to Kill the Password
AimBrain founder Alesis shares his learnings from building the biometric Identity-As-A-Service platform, from dropping out of his PhD to join EF, to now.
Posted: 4 January, 2019
Alesis Novik is the co-founder of AimBrain, a Biometric Identity as-a-Service platform for global financial institutions.
Alesis and his co-founder Andrius were on EF3 and are effectively replacing standard passwords and pins with voice, facial and behavioural recognition systems that can be used in isolation or in combination with each other.
Alesis gained a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Edinburgh and completed three years of PhD work before dropping out to start AimBrain and join EF.
In this conversation we dive into Alesis’s personal story, everything he’s learned about finding product market fit, hiring and funding in the process of building AimBrain and what he’s learned about himself along the way.
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