Enterprise security solution provider, Uniken has raised investment from Nexus Venture Partners. According NextBigWhat, the company plans to use the funds (Rs 30 crores) to expand its operations to international markets like USA and Israel. Founded in 2003 by Sanjay Deshpande, Nanjundeshwar Ganapathy, Prakash Salvi and Nilesh Dhande, Uniken is headquartered in Odessa, Florida with its Innovation Center based in Pune, India. Uniken provides security solutions to banks and financial institutions, and currently claims to have over a million users on its flagship REL-ID platform. REL-ID, a secure digital platform developed at the Uniken Innovation Center, is a plug and play solution which provides security across various platforms and devices. REL-ID includes solutions such as REL-ID personal banking, corporate banking, partner access, print, employee access and collaborate. The platform provides biometric access, enterprise mobile solution, collaboration platform and remote branch operations for employees while the platform provides VPN-less access and bulk printing to vendors. On the customer end, the platform provides quick apps to secure all customer activities. The company also provides research and innovation services to its clients which include product engineering and enterprise computing in network security, identity & authentication and intelligent software systems. In November 2013, Oracle announced that it had acquired Bitzer Mobile to address the security needs created by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement.
