| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.06.2020 | Decentralized identity management platform Magic launches from stealth with $4M | For developers looking to quickly build identity management into their platforms, the most readily available options don’t stray far from the internet’s biggest, most data-hungry platforms.
Magic, a small SF startup building a decentralized... |
| 27.09.2017 | Amido Debuts in Econsultancy's Top 100 Digital Agencies List | News Facts:
Amido enters for the first time under technical digital agency for 2017
Econsultancy's Top 100 Digital Agencies list is the largest in the UK tailored to support clients and match business goals with relevant skills
London, U.K.... |
| 19.10.2016 | Social logins -- the convenience and the risks | Increasingly people are suffering from password fatigue, so when signing up to websites it's very tempting to use existing social media accounts.
However, according to a survey from customer identity and access management specialist Janrain... |
| 23.03.2016 | Tech Moves: Ossia hires new CEO; Avvo taps Spotify exec as CTO; and more | Didier Le Lannic
— Ossia, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that makes wireless charging technology, has appointed Didier Le Lannic as CEO. He will take on leadership of Ossia in its Bellevue offices and help the company bring its technology,... |
| 18.12.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Mazlo, Textio, Pixvana, Janrain, Innervate, Matcherino | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
‘Twas the week before Christmas,
And throughout the Northwest,
Tech companies scored funding,
For VR, e-sports, and being your best
Read on for details of new rounds for Mazlo... |
| 17.12.2015 | Janrain Receives $27M Series D Financing |
PORTLAND, OR, Janrain, the leading provider of Customer Identity Management Solutions, announced today that it has secured $27 million in Series D funding.
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| 17.12.2015 | Janrain Raises $27M in Series D Funding | Janrain, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of customer identity management solutions, raised $27m in Series D funding.
The round was led by HighBar Partners with participation from existing backers Millennium Technology Value Partners, Spli... |
| 16.12.2015 | Making ‘must have’ apps your customers can’t live without (webinar) | Join VB’s Mark Sullivan, Kahuna’s Doug Roberge and mCordis’ Michael Becker talk mobile app success. Watch their live and unscripted roundtable on-demand right here for free.
“If I’m the user, how is this going to make my life better?” This ... |
| 16.12.2015 | Janrain raises $27M for social log-in technology, landing Oregon’s largest venture round of 2015 | Janrain founder and CEO Larry Drebes.
More than 10 years after launching and three years after its most recent investment round, Janrain is raising a substantial amount of cash.
The Portland-based startup, which develops technology that let... |
| 16.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 16, 2015 | Slack revealed $80M fund; Digital Guardian bagged $66M; Springboard raised $1.7M
Education technology company Springboard (formerly known as SlideRule) today announced that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from a long list of inve... |
| 12.05.2015 | Gigya opens marketplace for connecting ID management to tools | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Gigya‘s identity management offering now has a ne... |
| 12.05.2015 | Gigya opens marketplace for connecting ID management to tools | Gigya‘s identity management offering now has a new toolbox.
It’s called the IDX Marketplace, where IDX stands for Identity Exchange. Instead of the previous manual and cumbersome process for integrating Gigya’s social sign-on data into othe... |
| 09.01.2015 | Google catching up to Facebook with social logins | Facebook has long been the social login of choice for many websites and apps. But it seems that Google is starting to climb the ranks, according to new data from Janrain.
You know when you use Facebook or Google to register or log onto anot... |
| 03.10.2014 | Opal raises $8M to help big brands manage social media campaign production | Opal Labs, a Portland-based startup that helps businesses streamline the production of social media campaigns, today announced a $8 million Series A funding round led by Seattle-based Madrona Ventures. Steve Giannini.
The fresh cash will he... |
| 30.05.2014 | Turn any business site into a social media hub for customers | User generated content is an important factor in getting consumers to trust online business. But not every enterprise has the time or the skills to build and manage a presence across multiple social media sites.
Customer profile management ... |
| 30.04.2014 | Google Tests Login Button That Drops The ‘+’ | Last year, Google launched Google+ Sign-In, a button that sites can use to let users login with their Google+ accounts, which are essentially their Google accounts.
Google is now testing a button that drops the “+,” encouraging users to sim... |
| 08.03.2014 | Mozilla Stops Developing Its Persona Sign-In System Due To Low Adoption | If you don’t know about Mozilla’s Persona sign-in and identity, you’re apparently not the only one. Citing low adoption rates, Mozilla has decided to give up on this project and is allocating its developer resources to different projects. M... |
| 26.02.2014 | Opal Labs raises $2.1M to help big brands streamline social media campaign production | Opal Labs, a Portland-based startup that helps businesses streamline the production of social media campaigns, today announced $2.1 million in seed funding. Opal Labs CEO George Huff. Photo courtesy of Opal Labs.
The round, led by Oregon An... |
| 30.12.2013 | Coming 2014: a smarter, interconnected you | As we enter 2014, four key trends are going to bring both opportunity and peril for entrepreneurs and investors. Here are the changes you’ll want to keep an eye on in the coming year.
1. The Social Web: Beyond Friends and Social Media
Socia... |
| 23.12.2013 | Deals of the Year: The top 28 venture capital investments we tracked in 2013 | Venture capital investing in Washington state started out with a whimper in 2013, but it is ending with a bang.
After the slow start, as evidenced by the chart above from CB Insights in which just $100 million was invested in the first quar... |
| 08.10.2013 | Amazon releases 'login and pay with Amazon' — can you feel PayPal sweating? | Amazon released a “login and pay with Amazon” service today that you can use to pay for online goods and services using your Amazon account information.
Amazon has 215 million active customer accounts. Online retailers can now invite those ... |
| 02.10.2013 | Google’s Social Sign-In Growth Slows In Q3 | Janrain, the popular user-management and social login provider, announced its latest social login trends report today. It looks like Google’s recent advances in getting people to use its social login solutions have hit a plateau. After a ye... |
| 09.07.2013 | Facebook leads social log ins, Google+ a strong second | Social log ins allow people to use a social network to log in to other websites
Facebook is the biggest social network in the world. I know, I know, that is not news, as it has been that way for years. But with social media having been so h... |
| 08.07.2013 | Google+ continues to dominate LinkedIn & Twitter, could catch up to Facebook | You may not be using Google+, but your friends probably are.
If they’re not hanging out and posting photos of cute puppies and sunsets, there’s a good chance they’re using Google+ to log in to various web sites — and increasingly, they’re a... |
| 08.07.2013 | Google+ continues to dominate LinkedIn & Twitter, could catch up to Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You may not be using Google+, but your friends pr... |
| 29.05.2013 | Amazon Web Services Launches Web Identity Service With Support For Google And Facebook | Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a web identity service with support for Google, Facebook and its own AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The service allows developers to grant temporary authorization to people using these three... |
| 08.04.2013 | Report: 46% Of Social Login Users Still Choose Facebook, But Google Is Quickly Gaining Ground | Since Google launched its Google+ sign-ins earlier this year, social logins have suddenly become a hot topic again. According to the latest data from social login provider Janrain, Facebook continues to be the most popular identity provider... |
| 02.04.2013 | Google Partners With Social Infrastructure Providers Janrain And Gigya To Bring Google+ Sign-Ins To More Sites | Google today announced a new partnership with social login providers Janrain and Gigya that will bring its Google+ sign-ins to thousands of new sites. In February, Google launched Google+ sign-ins to developers who can use it on the web and... |
| 29.03.2013 | Automattic and Janrain add social login to WordPress.com VIP blogs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Automattic, the company behind 63 million WordPre... |
| 29.03.2013 | Automattic and Janrain add social login to WordPress.com VIP blogs | Automattic, the company behind 63 million WordPress blogs, and Janrain announced a partnership this morning that will bring social login, profile storage, and user analytics to its premium blogging clients.
“A lot of WordPress’ biggest publ... |
| 06.02.2013 | Mobile marketing startup Urban Airship lands $25M | Urban Airship, the Portland mobile marketing startup that helps companies such as ESPN, Groupon, Waze and others with push messaging, has reeled in $25 million in fresh funding in a deal led by August Capital. Existing investors, including ... |
| 17.01.2013 | Symform, Tred, LikeBright, UIEvolution, and More Seattle Tech Deals | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Washington attracted 4 percent of VC investment in the fourth quarter of 2012—up from 2 percent a year earlier—and new deals are continuing to roll out for Northwest tech comp... |
| 15.01.2013 | Janrain Raises $33M |
PORTLAND, OR, Leading provider of user management solutions for the social web, today announced that it has secured $33 million in funding.
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| 15.01.2013 | Janrain Raises $33M in Funding | Janrain, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of user management solutions for the social web, has raised $33m in funding.
The round was led by Millennium Technology Value Partners, with participation from Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures an... |
| 14.01.2013 | Janrain lands $33 million for social sign-in technology | In what’s being described as one of the largest venture capital rounds in a Portland startup, Janrain has reeled in $33 million in fresh financing from the likes of Millennium Technology Value Partners, Salesforce.com, Epic Ventures, DFJ Fr... |
| 14.01.2013 | Funding Daily: I’m not Honey Boo Boo Child | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There were a couple memorable moments during last... |
| 14.01.2013 |
DFJ Frontier, Anthem Boost Janrain
| Two local venture capital funds here in Southern California have backed Janrain, a developer of user management software tools used by websites to better manage registration and site visitors. According to Janrain, it has raised $33M in fun... |
| 14.01.2013 | Janrain Raises $33M From Salesforce, And Others For Social Log-In Management Platform | Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures, Salesforce, as well as existing inve... |
| 04.10.2012 | Janrain Offers New Facebook Auto-Sharing Tool; Makes Reading TMZ Less Embarrassing | “Frictionless sharing,” the Facebook Open Graph mechanism which some news sites and video apps have poorly used to boost their own virality at users’ expense, has been one of the more controversial changes Facebook has made in recent months... |
| 05.09.2012 | Social Data: Gigya Launches User Management Platform To Put Marketers In The Driver’s Seat | Businesses understand the importance of implementing a social strategy in the Facebook Era — and not just because it’s cool, but because it can have a real effect on user engagement. Just ask Salesforce, which recently acquired Buddy Media ... |
| 04.05.2012 | Techlandia: Portland 100 Wants To Help Local Startups Grow To $100 Million | Portland, OR isn’t just a place where young people go to retire and hang out at urban wineries. The city also plays host to a fair number of prominent startups, including companies like Urban Airship, JanRain, Simple and Puppet Labs, as wel... |
| 03.08.2011 | Emergence Leads Janrain Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Mateo, CA-based Emergence Capital, an investment fund focused purely on Software-as-a-Service companies, is the lead investor in a $15.5 million Series B financing round a... |
| 03.08.2011 | Janrain Raises $15.5M in Financing | Janrain, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of social identity management solutions for businesses, has raised $15.5m in financing.
The round was led by Emergence Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Anthem Venture Pa... |
| 03.08.2011 |
Anthem, DFJ Frontier Back Janrain
| Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. Anthem Ventures, represented by Samit Varma, and DFJ Frontier, represented by David Cremin, are two of the investors i... |
| 02.08.2011 | R.I.P. OpenID: Janrain Raises Millions to Do Just the Opposite | What’s the difference between Live Free or Die style independence and acting like Lady Gaga posturing in a dress made of meat? It could be economic viability, if you’re a tech startup.
Long one of the most visible leaders of the open, feder... |
| 02.08.2011 | Janrain logs $15.5M to help log you in through social networks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
An increasing number of sites are letting visitor... |
| 01.08.2011 | Facebook keeping Google down as preferred login | Social login preference varies greatly from Facebook and Google to Twitter and Yahoo
Surprise, surprise: the number one social login preference for Q2 2011 was Facebook, according to data from social SaaS company Janrain.
It’s been awhile n... |
| 06.05.2011 | Janrain Engage Offers Social Login And Sharing For Android Apps | Software creator Janrain is bringing its social login SDK to Android phones today.
Janrain’s plug and play technology allows an app developer’s visitors to sign-in to the app with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo,... |
| 14.04.2011 | Janrain: Facebook Has Eclipsed Google As Most Popular Sign-In Choice | Janrain, a user management platform that enables third party sign-in with 18 different providers, including Facebook, Google, and Twitter; is releasing its Q1 2011 report today. Janrain’s report analyzes data from networks for social login ... |
| 14.12.2010 | Take that, Facebook: MTV signs up for Janrain’s social tools | Companies like Facebook and LinkedIn have been extending their reach with website login and sharing tools. But social login startup Janrain said it’s holding its own and has just announced a deal to handle logins across MTV’s network of sit... |
| 10.11.2010 | Ning Partners With Janrain To Offer Social Sign-Ins To Users | Ning is partnering with user management platform for the social web Janrain to offer Ning Creators the ability to add social login and invite friends features to their members
Ning will offer creators the ability to use Janrain Engage, whic... |
| 07.10.2010 | Janrain Engage Offers Social Publishing For The iPhone | OpenID software creator Janrain is launching a new iPhone SDK today, called Janrain Engage, which allows an app developer’s visitors to sign-in to the app with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn or other n... |
| 16.08.2010 | Q&A: Janrain’s CEO Discusses OpenID in the Federal Government | Janrain is a Portland company working with the federal government to replace login and registration blocks with an OpenID framework. The company is the only service provider that is working with the Apps.Gov site to provide OpenID-based log... |
| 16.06.2010 | LA Times and other big publications sign-in to Janrain’s authentication service | A growing number of publishers want to connect with their readers’ social network accounts, according to a startup called Janrain. The Portland, Ore. company just announced some major media companies as new customers for its product, Engage... |
| 26.04.2010 | Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter Together: Third Party Login Grows Rapidly in 2010 | This March has been a busy time for the leading architects of the social web. Twitter announced its @Anywhere at Chirp. Meanwhile, Facebook brought the Open Graph protocol to light the path of social sharing and separately announced support... |
| 05.04.2010 | JanRain Brings OpenID And Other Single Sign-On Options To iPhone Apps | The only thing more cumbersome than creating a new account at every Website you want to sign into is having to create a new account before you can enjoy an iPhone app. The Web is well on its way to solving this problem with OpenID, Facebook... |
| 26.02.2010 | Lady Gaga as the Killer App: Moving Identity into the Cloud | Protocols, protocols, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. OAuth, OpenID, UX, Shibboleth, SAML, XRI, FOAF, Facebook Connect, that is a small sampling of some of the technologies that have been invented to move Internet Identity forward forw... |
| 16.02.2010 | The Incredible Story of Scott Kveton: Linux, Firefox, Bacon & iPhones | Geekdom may be a land of big personalities, but some peoples’ stories are better known than others. One story you might not know yet is the tale of Scott Kveton’s young, unusual, accelerated and admirable career. Not yet 40 years old, Scott... |
| 14.01.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Portland | When asked what shapes Portland’s startup culture, Silicon Florist blogger Rick Turoczy named 3 defining aspects of the industry – hardware roots, open source projects and iPhone development. Turoczy has been in Oregon for the past 15-years... |
| 07.12.2009 | Can OpenID Be Commercialized? Investors Bet $3.25 Million On JanRain | JanRain has always been on the forefront evangelizing OpenID, the decentralized authentication method for the new Web, as a founding member of the OpenID Foundation. But the company is not a non-profit, and aims to turn the deployment of on... |
| 07.12.2009 |
DFJ Frontier, Anthem Venture Into Portland Firm
| Two Los Angeles-based venture firms, DFJ Frontier and Anthem Venture Partners, have invested in a Portland software firm developing online identification and single-sign in software. According to Portland's JanRain, it raised $3.25M in a Se... |
| 07.12.2009 | JanRain Lands $3.25M, Looks to Expand Web Identity Offerings, Push Social Publishing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It has been a busy fall for JanRain. The Portland, OR-based software startup is announcing today it has closed a $3.25 million Series A financing round led by West Coast firm ... |
| 07.12.2009 | JanRain Closes $3.25M Venture Capital Financing | JanRain, Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based provider of online identity technology and customer engagement services, has closed a $3.25m Series A round of venture capital financing.
The round was led by DFJ Frontier, with participation from RPM V... |
| 13.08.2009 | JanRain reins in $3 million for OpenID | Early round of funds likely to be used for expansion of company’s own OpenID platform JanRain, provider of OpenID business solutions, has just raised $3 million in a Series A round of financing, according to a release by peHUB posted yester... |
| 08.07.2009 | Google To Announce Major Identity Initiative for 1 Million+ Companies and Schools | Google plans to announce in coming weeks that it is turning each of the one million plus Google Apps customer domains into an OpenID provider, enabling millions of people to log in to OpenID-supporting websites with their work, school or or... |
| 09.04.2009 | JanRain Offers Universal Logins, Puts Portland at Center of Internet Identity Movement | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Are you tired of trying to remember 20 different passwords for all your online accounts? If so, Larry Drebes has a proposition for you. His Portland, OR-based company, JanRain... |
| 30.12.2008 | 2009 Web Predictions | It’s time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media.
Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! “The big I... |
| 10.12.2008 | JanRain Offers Distributed Social Options Galore, Interscope Geffen A&M Bites | It’s been quite the month for the world of distributed social networking. Both Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect – two services designed to help user manage a single profile across multiple sites – launched on the same day. Then, M... |
| 09.10.2008 | JanRain Promotes OpenID Adoption Through The Long Tail | JanRain, creator of some of the most popular OpenID software libraries and a forum-like communications tool called Pibb, has released a new SaaS offering for websites that want to become relying parties for OpenID.
We’re told that the servi... |
| 09.10.2008 | OpenID Gets SaaS-y: JanRain Works to Ease OpenID Adoption | OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing... |
| 13.08.2008 | Seattle VC firms Maveron and Voyager Capital venture southward | Two Seattle-based VC firms, Maveron and Voyager Capital, have recently brought on new partners to extend their reach to the south.
Maveron, which hit a homerun with an early investment in eBay, but has yet to match that success, has expande... |
| 21.04.2008 | OpenID Usability: Two Solutions That Could Take OpenID Mainstream | There’s big news in the OpenID world; new solutions are hitting the market that aim to solve probably the biggest problem the paradigm faces – usability.
JanRain, owners of MyOpenID.com, and ConfidentTechnologies are both making announcemen... |
| 05.02.2008 | Vidoop Hires OpenID Foundation Chair Scott Kveton | Tulsa, Oklahoma based authentication service Vidoop announced today that it has hired Scott Kveton, Chair of the OpenID Foundation, to be the company’s VP of Open Platforms and the Director of the company’s new West Coast office in Portland... |
| 01.12.2007 | Weekly Wrapup, 26-30 November 2007 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News
This week continued th... |
| 30.11.2007 | The Troubles With OpenID 2.0 | Portland, Oregon’s JanRain, leaders in the OpenID movement, put on a PR push this week to promote what they say is the imminent approval of OpenID 2.0’s final draft. Specifically, they say that they expect the final signatures to be penned ... |
| 17.05.2007 | CEO of JanRain, the creator of OpenID project for cross-site logins, leaves | The CEO of startup JanRain, the company that created OpenID, has left the company.
Scott Kveton, writing on his blog, cites his long commute to JanRain’s Portland office
Kveton was at JanRain for about a year. OpenID allows an Internet user... |
| 19.02.2007 | Make a Claim with OpenID on Jyte | Jyte is a new service that leverages OpenID to allow users to start a discussion on any “claim” they care to make. Other users can then vote and discuss those claims. Users can give each other credibility points regarding any topic by tag. ... |
| - | Janrain Closes $27 Million in Series D Funding Led by HighBar Partners | PORTLAND, OR, December 17, 2015 - Janrain, the leading provider of Customer Identity Management Solutions, announced today that it has secured $27 million in Series D funding led by HighBar Partners, with participation from existing investo... |
| - | Modern User Management Platform Frontegg Raises $25 Million | Frontegg — a modern user management platform for the product-led era — announced recently that it raised a $25 million Series A round of funding. These are the details.
Frontegg — a modern user management platform for the product-led era — ... |
| - | Identity Management Technology Firm Janrain Acquires Arktan To Lead Customer’s Digital Engagement Platform | The Portland-based customer identity management technology company Janrain, has acquired Arktan which provides innovative real-time social curation and customer engagement products to its customers. The amount of the deal was kept undisclos... |
| - | User Management Platform Company Frontegg Lands $40 Million In Funding | Frontegg recently announced it raised $40 million in funding. These are the details.
Frontegg – a leading user management platform for B2B apps – recently announced $40 million in series B funding co-led by Stripes and global software inves... |
