Mary Haskett

Founder in Austin, Texas

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I'm the founder of Blink Identity, an Austin, Texas based company specializing in facial recognition technology that identifies people at a full walking speed, providing next generation access control for a wide variety of industries. I've completed the Techstars accelerator program twice - once in 2013 in Seattle and in 2018 in Los Angeles (two different companies).

My first company, HCI Training, developed high-end custom training. I grew that company to profitability without outside funding and then sold to a defense contractor. Before that, I was a skydiving instructor and ran a skydiving school for many years, which was a great way to learn about business. I competed at the collegiate level and at the national level. I made my own parachute (and jumped it in competition) with my mother's 1960's era Singer sewing machine.

I had a "real job" briefly after graduate school, but it didn't take.