# Aware, Inc.

> Aware, Inc. is a publicly traded biometric identity software company that supplies the algorithms, SDKs, workflows and cloud services used to enroll, identify and authenticate people by face, fingerprint, iris and voice. Its roots are in government-scale identification, while its newer strategy centers on the Awareness Platform, a SaaS control plane intended to connect multiple biometric vendors and turn fragmented identity checks into configurable, real-time decisions for government agencies and commercial enterprises.

- **Founded:** 1986
- **Headquarters:** Burlington, United States
- **Founders:** Howard L. Resnikoff (Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 64 employees; LinkedIn lists the company in the 51-200 employee range.
- **Products:** Awareness Platform, Intelligent Liveness, AwareID, AwareSDK, AwareABIS
- **Notable:** Listed on Nasdaq under the ticker AWRE after going public in 1996., Contributed to the FBI's WSQ fingerprint-image compression work used in early large-scale digitization., Built a multimodal portfolio spanning fingerprint, face, iris and voice recognition.

## Products & services

- **Awareness Platform** — A SaaS-based biometric orchestration and identity platform for designing, running and optimizing enrollment, verification, authentication and identification workflows across multiple vendors.
- **Intelligent Liveness** — Machine-learning liveness detection that combines passive and active techniques to identify spoofing while keeping capture fast and low-friction.
- **AwareID** — Cloud-based SaaS tools and APIs for face, voice and document capture, registration, authentication and re-registration.
- **AwareSDK** — The mobile biometric framework formerly branded Knomi, providing on-device capture plus server components for passwordless, multifactor authentication.
- **AwareABIS** — A configurable automated biometric identification system for large-scale civil or criminal fingerprint, face and iris search.
- **BioSP and Astra** — Workflow, integration and cluster-computing infrastructure for connecting biometric services and searching very large identity galleries.
- **Nexa biometric SDKs** — Matching engines and developer components for fingerprint, face, iris and voice recognition, designed for integration into larger identity systems.
- **Professional services and maintenance** — Project management, software engineering, implementation support and ongoing maintenance for large or specialized deployments.

## Achievements

- Listed on Nasdaq under the ticker AWRE after going public in 1996.
- Contributed to the FBI's WSQ fingerprint-image compression work used in early large-scale digitization.
- Built a multimodal portfolio spanning fingerprint, face, iris and voice recognition.
- Earned FIDO Alliance face-verification certification in 2025.
- Reported independent ISO/IEC-aligned liveness and bias testing and ISO 27001 security certification in 2025.
- Placed among the stronger performers in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's 2025 Remote Identity Validation Rally, according to the company.
- Named a Luminary in the 2025 Prism Project report.
- Deployed its first mobile biometric solution within a U.S. federal agency in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Announced expanded Awareness Platform orchestration and decisioning capabilities with planned Mitek and ROC integrations; general availability was targeted for Q3 2026.
- **2026-04** — Published company-sponsored research reporting that 98% of surveyed organizations already using biometrics were interested in orchestration and used three biometric vendors on average.
- **2026-03** — Reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $17.293 million, roughly flat year over year, alongside a $5.9 million net loss.
- **2025-10** — Earned FIDO Alliance face-verification certification after launching Intelligent Liveness the previous month.
- **2025-02** — Appointed identity-industry executive Ajay Amlani as chief executive officer and president.

## Links

- Website: https://www.aware.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aware-inc.
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AwareBiometrics

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Last updated: 2026-08-10