YOU

Clear Secure, Inc.

A biometric identity company that lets travelers skip the ID-check line at airport security: CLEAR+ members verify their face and fingerprint at a pod or eGate, then an ambassador walks them straight to bag screening. It also sells identity-verification tools to healthcare, workforce, and government clients, and enrolls people in TSA PreCheck at airports and stores. The modern company was born in 2010, when investors Caryn Seidman-Becker and Ken Cornick bought the assets of a bankrupt biometric venture for a few million dollars and relaunched it as CLEAR — a "second act" that later went public on the NYSE under the ticker YOU.