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Fingerprint, a device intelligence API, helps developers build security solutions using information from hardware accessing a website. The primary goal is to help prevent fraud.Today, the Chicago-based company announced a $33 million Series C investment ​​led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures.Dan Pinto, the company’s co-founder and CEO says what his startup does really well is identifying devices on the internet, whether through a browser like Chrome, Safari or Firefox, or through a mobile operating system via a native app on your phone. He argues that the methods of tracking devices like cookies and IP addresses don’t really work anymore with changes in browser technology, especially with the ability to hide who you are using a VPN.“Fundamentally being anonymous on the internet means that you can do bad things,” Pinto told TechCrunch.“We provide our [fingerprinting] service to high scale businesses in order to uniquely identify devices and prevent things like people logging into other people’s accounts they’re not supposed to, using stolen credit cards across multiple fake accounts and things like that.”They do this via an API, enabling developers to link to their service to help prevent fraud on their websites. He says they look for things like things like what fonts are installed on the device, the screen resolution all the way to really deep technical things like how the device completes an SSL handshake with the server. The company’s technology is based on an open source library called Fingerprint.js, created by co-founder and CTO Valentin Vasilyev.Pinto met Vasilyev at his previous startup, Machinio, when he hired him as one of the company’s first software engineers. By that time, Vasilyev had already created the open source Fingerprint.js project and it was gaining in popularity