• UAE-based digital authentication startup Nice to Meet You (NTMY), has raised a $1 million Seed round to hire new talent and improve its customer experience. 
• Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Baydoun, NTMY provides its clients with a set of tools to use when authenticating employees, customers, and members.

Across the Middle East, startups working to ease companies' transition to the digital realm are rapidly gathering pace. UAE-based digital authentication startup Nice to Meet You (NTMY), has raised a $1 million Seed round, according to a statement issued today on the company's website.

Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Baydoun, the startup aims to help business owners minimise physical contact within premises. The company initially started off as a business card exchange process. Now, NTMY provides its clients with a set of tools to use when authenticating employees, customers, and members. These include organisational IDs, access cards, membership cards, and insurance cards.

According to the statement, the new round will enable NTMY to hire new talent, enhance its tech stack as well as its customer experience.

A month earlier, FACEKI, a UAE-based facial recognition and identity verification platform also raised a pre-Seed round.