Best Workplaces for Innovators 2025: Innovation Team of the Year
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Best Workplaces for Innovators 2025: Innovation Team of the Year
"Cofounded by Tina P. Srivastava and Charles Herder, cybersecurity startup Badge aims to revolutionize biometric authentication with its trademarked Identity Without Secrets system, which eliminates the need to store user credentials. The company's cryptography team worked with a CISO Council of outside experts to reduce the time for user authentication from multiple seconds to 22 milliseconds, a latency reduction that not only enhances user experience but also places less stress on computer resources."
"Hebbia's engagement team is redefining what it means to serve enterprise customers in the age of AI. The team helps customers scale usage across functions and regions, customizing AI strategy from the ground up. Operating a portfolio of dating sites (including Tinder, Match, OkCupid, and Hinge), the company combines design and technical experimentation in its Art x Science Lab, innovating everything from prototyping systems to user games."
The Innovative Team of the Year award recognizes employee groups driving major workplace innovations. Badge, cofounded by Tina P. Srivastava and Charles Herder in Lewes, DE, developed the trademarked Identity Without Secrets system that eliminates the need to store user credentials. Badge's cryptography team collaborated with a CISO Council to reduce authentication latency from multiple seconds to 22 milliseconds, secured more than 15 patents since 2024, and achieved adoption by Microsoft, Cisco, Okta, and Ping Identity. Finalists include Hebbia's engagement team, which customizes and scales enterprise AI strategy, and Match Group's Art x Science Lab, which experiments across dating products.
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