{"id":230379,"date":"2026-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face-without-sacrificing-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:25:13","slug":"alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face-without-sacrificing-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face-without-sacrificing-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcatraz Raises $50 Million to Replace the Badge With Your Face &#8212; Without Sacrificing Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face--without-sacrificing-privacy-302732431.html\">Alcatraz Raises $50 Million to Replace the Badge With Your Face &#8212; Without Sacrificing Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face--without-sacrificing-privacy-302732431.html\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face&#8211;without-sacrificing-privacy-302732431.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.prnewswire.com\">www.prnewswire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prntac\">The Cupertino startup securing the largest AI data centers, major airports, and Fortune 100<br class=\"dnr\"\/>companies just closed its Series B. Its edge: the only biometric system that authenticates<br class=\"dnr\"\/>employees without ever storing their face.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">CUPERTINO, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">April 2, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0A Cupertino-based startup founded by a former Apple Face ID engineer has built the new standard for physical security \u2014 and today announced a $50 million raise to bring it to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Alcatraz, which makes an AI-powered physical access control system that authenticates employees without collecting personal data, has closed a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing total capital raised to more than $100 million. The round was led by BlackPeak Capital, Cogito Capital, and Taiwania Capital, with participation from existing investors Almaz Capital, EBRD, Ray Stata, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s customers already include the world&#8217;s largest AI data centers, major U.S. airports, energy companies, NFL teams, major universities, and Fortune 100 companies. In 2025, Alcatraz reported more than 300% year-over-year growth in data center adoption, 200% growth in new enterprise customers, and a fivefold expansion across Fortune 500 deployments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are the Face ID of securing physical spaces,&#8221; says Tina D&#8217;Agostin, CEO of Alcatraz. &#8220;The world&#8217;s largest airports, energy companies, and the world&#8217;s most critical data centers all trust Alcatraz. Our technology is AI-powered and completely anonymized. For the workplace of today, badges and passcodes inherently invite too much risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Problem: Legacy Security Was Built for a Different Era<\/p>\n<p>Badges get lost. PINs get shared. Legacy biometric systems often fail under real-world conditions. But the deeper problem, the one the physical security industry rarely talks about, is surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Every other facial biometric security system currently on the market is built on technology rooted in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alcatraz-raises-50-million-to-replace-the-badge-with-your-face--without-sacrificing-privacy-302732431.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcatraz Raises $50 Million to Replace the Badge With Your Face &#8212; Without Sacrificing Privacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2948715\/Alcatraz_logo.jpg?p=facebook","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230381,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230379\/revisions\/230381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}