ToothPic

company

About

ToothPic provides solutions on technologies for the recognition of photographic devices.

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Details

Last Funding Type
Seed
Last Funding Money Raised
€300K
Industries
Cyber Security,Image Recognition,Information Technology,Software
Founded date
Dec 6, 2016
Number Of Employee
1 - 10
Operating Status
Active

ToothPic provides solutions on technologies for the recognition of photographic devices.

ToothPic’s mission is turning every smartphone into a secure and user-friendly key for user authentication. ToothPic is an official university spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, a major engineering school in Italy and Europe, and is incubated in the university incubator I3P, recently recognized by UBI Global as the best public incubator worldwide.

ToothPic was founded by a team of 4 researchers and professors from Politecnico di Torino, and in 2018 received a seed from VV3TT, an Italian Venture Capital fund dedicated to Technology Transfer from public research. ToothPic technology is protected by 4 patents, and won several prizes in competitions dedicated to startups and twice the Seal of Excellence issued by the European Commission.

ToothPic’s target is the market of authentication systems. Its technology recognizes the unique pattern of invisible imperfections that characterize smartphone cameras to protect cryptographic keys stored on devices, that are commonly used for user authentication, digital signature, blockchain related applications. The additional layer of security represented by this random unclonable feature can be obtained with no additional hardware and related costs.

A Software Development Kit has been developed for Android and iOS. It can be integrated into existing third-party apps and authentication systems, allowing the device possession verification by (de)obfuscating asymmetric cryptographic keys. Users’ credentials are not stored in a centralized service provider server - representing a single point of failure exploitable by an attacker, but they are distributed on users’ devices. Hence, an adversary willing to violate those credentials should target each single user device, facilitating for service providers the migration from an on premises architecture to the cloud, because they don’t need to manage sensitive users credentials, but only their public key.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
2
€1.11M
ToothPic has raised a total of €1.11M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 19, 2021 from a Series A round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Jan 19, 2021 Series A €810K 1 Detail
Apr 23, 2018 Seed €300K 1 Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
1
ToothPic is funded by 1 investors. Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer Series A