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Validity gets $10M in investor financing

Friday, March 13, 2009

Validity Sensors, a biometrics developer specializing in fingerprint authentication, has announced that it has received a commitment for up to $10 million in financing from its current investors.

The investment was necessary to expand to Validity’s 2008 release of the VFS201 fingerprint readers that were embedded in many HP and Acer notebooks. Now the company is able to add new features to their sensors including custom colors and backlit LED options as well as look into expanding into new markets. [end] 

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