Case Study: Simprints achieves mission-driven tech hiring success with Trakstar Hire

Simprints - Customer Case Study

Simprints is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that builds low-cost, rugged fingerprint scanners and open-source ID software to tackle the global “identification bottleneck” affecting 1.5 billion people without formal ID. The organization faces the dual challenge of solving a difficult biometrics problem for harsh frontline contexts while recruiting and retaining top tech talent on a shoestring budget against major tech employers.

Simprints prototyped and field-tested its scanners in Bangladesh, used that data to win a Gates Foundation “Saving Lives at Birth” grant, and persuaded NGOs, governments and corporates to partner and scale the work. By hiring mission-driven staff—bringing everyone to field sites to reinforce impact—and delivering accessible hardware and software, Simprints has deployed ID solutions, secured institutional support, and advanced toward making identification tools widely available.

Simprints

Sebastian Manhart

Director of Business Development