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For $209 a year—chump change for many frequent fliers—Clear allows travelers to skip the TSA line. That’s made the 16-year-old company a profitable terminal mainstay, raking in $900 million in revenue and $168 million in net income in 2025.
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“I think people continually underestimate how hard traveling is and how much people want help in travel,” says Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker, 53, who bought the company’s assets and 190,000 people’s fingerprints for $6 million when it went bankrupt during the financial crisis. Today you can use it at 60 airports across the U.S. The New York City-based firm, which went public in 2021, now has a market cap of $7.6 billion, translating into a more than 1,000% return for Seidman Becker and her initial investors. Her 14.5% stake is worth $1.1 billion, making her one of America’s 44 self-made female billionaires.
But Clear has limits: There are only so many people in the U.S. who travel enough to justify paying for it. Its active airport memberships grew just 6% in 2025. And the business is predicated on government incompetence. The TSA could get privatized or, heaven forbid, better at moving people through the line.
So Seidman Becker is now gunning to help any industry that needs people to verify that they indeed are who they say they are, from sports venues to its biggest new target—healthcare. Clear is now rolling out to hospitals across New York, New Jersey, Georgia and Louisiana, and even Medicare is on board.
Why It Matters
“With the disturbing growth of identity fraud, businesses increasingly need to make sure that both their customers and the people they hire aren’t out to scam them, and that the people logging into their work systems are actually employees,” says Forbes assistant managing editor Katharine Schwab. “Thanks to the trust it’s built from 16 years of checking IDs at the airport, Clear is now bringing its identity-verification tech to enterprises of all kinds, from hospitals and LinkedIn to T-Mobile and baseball stadiums.”
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