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DUST Identity Funding Round
DUST Identity, operating out of Framingham, secured $2.3 million in investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Angular Ventures and Castle Island Ventures.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
11/15/2018
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$2,300,000
Round
Seed
Investors
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Lead Investor) (Ilya Fushman)
Proceeds Purpose
The investment will be used to accelerate the research and development of its advanced, proprietary technology and product line-up, accelerate business development opportunities, and to double headcount over the next twelve months.
Company Information
Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Security
Mailing Address
1 Grant St. 200
Framingham, MA 01702
USA
Framingham, MA 01702
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
Email Address
Overview
DUST -- the Diamond Unclonable Security Tag -- is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object. An optical scanner and cloud-based infrastructure provides an interface to the object identity and provenance. DUST ensures that trusted data and verifiable products are used and traced across their full lifecycle.
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Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Ophir Gaathon
Co-Founder
Dirk Englund
VP - Bus. Development
Roy Solomon
VP - Engineering
Jonathan Hodges
VP - Marketing
Nicole Canulla
VP - Operations
Matthew Stoltz
VP - Product Management
Ori Spigelman
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