Biometric is a technological startup focused on facial recognition, biometric identification and financial scoring.
Our main source of income is a microfinance business leveraging smart ATMs, built with computer vision and face recognition technologies, and we do credit risk and pricing analysis experimentation to find profitable client pools.
Текущее состояние
Profitable business with monthly revenue of $50 000 and over 15 000 clients, looking to scale in other countries and regions.
We are also running pilot projects looking to apply our technology within banking sector, money transfer, money exchange, etc.
Рынок
Globally, the micofinance market is 139 million clients with $114 billion in loans with about 5.6% annual growth in total borrowers and 15.6% growth in loan portfolio.
60% of microfinance loans are in Asia, which is the region we are most interested in. Most of the market players are offline office locations dealing cash and we are looking to disrupt this market.
If we consider B2B market for selling the tecnhnology the clients are other microfinance companies, banks, money transfer and money exchange organizations.
Проблема или Возможность
We are looking to severely reduce the cost for two of the following processes:
1) Customer verification 2) Cash-in and cash-out operations
As it stands right now these usually require a human operator \ manager to verify customer's identity using an ID document. Instead business can use one of our ATMs to perform validation and cash operations.
Решение (Продукт или Услуга)
Smart ATM with facial recognition can compare a picture from an ID document against a person standing in front of the ATM. We can use information from the document to grab data from government database and social networks to perform financial scoring.
Using an ATM is much cheaper for business than paying salaries. ATM requires less physical space than an office. ATM can have 24\7 uptime.
Конкуренты
Currently people are using either offline microfinance organizations or online lending. The problem with online lendings is that funds are transferred to a credit card and you can't serve people who have no bank account.
We are trying to automate the offline process by providing cash in ATM with no need for a credit card, just your ID document,
Преимущества или дифференциаторы
Significantly cheaper operational cost for business. Quick process for client.
Бизнес-модель
Microfinance business models is simple - you loan people money and charge interest on top.
The exact numbers depend heavily on local country regulations and population's mindset. That's why we first run a "test" to fine tune our scoring algorithms in a new country.
In Kazakhstan we are regulated to charge up to 30% in 45 days in regular fees and up to 100% in penalties for failing to pay back on time.
Целевое назначение инвестиций
Scaling.
20% in hardware costs 15% setup costs - shipping, rent, etc 65% financial assets for microfinance business
