Stormpath provides a Customer Identity API that lets developers implement user registration, password reset, authorization, user data storage, single sign-on and token authentication. Built for Web, Mobile, API and IoT use cases, the service centralizes authentication and authorization so engineering teams can focus on core product development. The company emphasizes system security and performance to support unpredictable customer workloads and claims to power identity infrastructure for thousands of web applications and services. Launched in 2011 and led by CEO Alex Salazar, Stormpath is positioning to support enterprise expectations for customer experience and security. Financially, Stormpath raised $15 million in a Series B to scale the business and meet rapidly growing customer demand. The funding will be used to expand support for additional programming frameworks and developer communities and to scale operations. Stormpath offers a developer-focused API and open-source SDKs that simplify user management, authentication, and access control for cloud applications. The service exited beta and launched general availability after onboarding more than 1,000 users. Its cloud service is designed to scale to millions of users and combines a free developer tier with premium, subscription-based features. Stormpath emphasizes reducing development and operations costs by offloading common identity workflows (authentication, account management, password resets) to its API. The company positions itself to address the growing identity-management market driven by cloud adoption and externally facing applications. Leadership includes CEO Alex Salazar and CTO Les Hazlewood. Stormpath provides an identity access control service for cloud and enterprise applications, building a console and APIs to manage user security both in the cloud and behind a firewall. The company was founded by CTO Les Hazlewood and CEO Alex Salazar and is based in San Mateo, CA. Its service enables developers to apply enterprise security practices, secure passwords, integrate with existing identity systems and set up fine-grain access control. The Stormpath team leads the Apache Shiro project, a security framework that simplifies authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management within an application. Stormpath is launching a private beta with a Java SDK and Apache Shiro integration. Spring integration and SDKs for Ruby, Python, .NET, and JavaScript are scheduled for release later this year. The company recently completed a seed financing to fund early product development and launch activities.

Total raised

$25M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Oct 2015