Clerk provides user management and authentication solutions specifically designed for web applications. Its main products are a set of APIs that allow developers to easily integrate sign-in, sign-up, and user profile features into their applications. This makes it simpler for businesses to manage user accounts and authentication processes. Clerk stands out from its competitors by focusing on a developer-first approach, ensuring that its tools are not only powerful but also easy to implement, which helps clients save time and resources. The company aims to offer scalable solutions with a transparent pricing model based on the number of users, making it suitable for both startups and larger enterprises.

Fathom Capital

South Park Commons

S28 Capital

Andreessen Horowitz

Mango Capital

Madrona Venture Group

Guillermo Rauch

Dave Wilner

Stripe

Charles River Ventures

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clerk, the drop-in authentication and user management solution for React, announced today that it has closed a $6.2m seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Existing investors S28 Capital, Fathom Capital, and South Park Commons also joined the round. This new funding will allow Clerk to expand its suite of authentication and user management tools, and create new tools to help B2B SaaS companies manage both user accounts and business accounts. Clerk empowers React developers to build sign-up and sign-in flows as well as user profiles without the assistance of backend developers. The solution comes complete with security essentials like multi-factor authentication and active device management. The beautifully designed React components can be customized to match any company's branding. By providing a full stack solution, Clerk minimizes the time engineers need to spend on authentication, freeing up development resources to focus on the core of their business

Clerk Announces $6.2M Seed Funding To Build Authentication And User Management Tools For React

Clerk, a startup creating a suite of embeddable UIs, APIs and admin dashboards that app developers can use to authenticate and manage users, has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by CRV with participation from Stripe, Andreessen Horowitz and Madrona.The proceeds bring Clerk’s total raised to $55.5 million, and co-founder and CEO Colin Sidoti says that they’ll be put toward expanding Clerk’s service beyond authentication and into authorization — i.e. determining the permissions a user has versus simply identifying who they are.“Authorization has always been part of our product vision, but we needed a successful authentication product to build atop,” Sidoti told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Clerk’s authentication service had phenomenal growth in 2023, and now there’s a backlog of customers asking for authorization.”Clerk was founded in March 2019 by Sidoti and his brother, Braden. Both are engineers — Colin has a degree from MIT, while Braden graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and previously worked at Uber and Inspirato.Clerk builds developer tools for authentication, offering drop-in components coded in React, the open source frontend JavaScript library. Clerk attempts to detect malicious activity, like bots, while managing user data on behalf of customers.“Despite authentication and authorization being ubiquitous challenges across every software company, they have been exceptionally slow to become outsourced,” Colin said

Clerk, The Authentication Startup, Lands $30M And Inks A Strategic Deal With Stripe

Payment processor Stripe’s value has reached $65 billion following a share sale deal with employees. The deal will see Stripe and some of its investors purchase more than $1 billion in stock from current and former employees, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Feb. 27), citing sources familiar with the matter. The report notes that the $65 billion valuation — up from the $50 billion figure it reached last March — is still lower than the $95 billion valuation it attained in 2021 after bringing in $600 million in funding

Stripe Valued At $65 Billion After Share Sale Deal

Clerk raised a $4 million seed round led by S28 capital with Andrew Miklas (cofounder, PagerDuty) joining our board.

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