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Illuma
Illuma (Illuma Labs) is a Plano, Texas fintech that secures phone conversations for credit unions and community banks. Its flagship product, IllumaSHIELD, uses AI-powered passive voice biometrics to verify callers in seconds - replacing security questions and PINs - while a dedicated deepfake-detection engine and layered multifactor checks defend contact centers against synthetic-voice and social-engineering fraud.
Lawrence Chen
Lawrence Chen (Chen Haoliang) is the founder and CEO of SpeakIn Technologies, a Shenzhen-based voiceprint recognition company he started in 2015. An MIT dropout who previously worked on Google Glass's human-machine interaction program, Chen built SpeakIn to verify identities through voice rather than passwords, claiming 99.5% accuracy and selling into Chinese banks and public security bureaus. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2018.