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Stytch
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Privacy
- API
- Cyber Security
- Identity
- South Beach, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To eliminate friction on the internet while improving security.
Our take
Passwords don’t typically offer the levels of security they once did, and we need more of them than ever - leading to poor security practices and a huge volume of subsequent data breaches. Some startups have emerged to help manage them; Stytch, however, is part of a growing cohort looking to cut them out entirely.
The idea is to make navigating digital space frictionless. To this end, Stytch has developed an out-of-the-box, easy-to-deploy version of about a dozen passwordless authentication solutions. It has seen a sharper increase in users and funding than rival startups like Magic, which it puts down to an API-first product, which is less limiting in its application than the widgets we’ve seen developed by earlier entrants to the space.
That alone, however, won’t be enough to push it ahead of other highly successful innovators in the space. Transmit Security has received record-breaking backing for its biometrics-led approach. This goes to show how far the market is betting on a passwordless future, and whilst Stytch’s line of attack is successful, it will nevertheless need to remain sharp in its development of new solutions.
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Benefits
- Unlimited PTO - With a 3 week minimum, and at least one full week taken off per year
- Lunches & dinner in-office - Because clever brains need feeding
- Parental leave - There's more than one way to be a parent. That's why we offer 12-16 weeks paid parental leave, whether birthing, adopting, or fostering
- Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance - Did we miss anything? Your health matters, more than anything else
- Commuter benefits in SF & NYC - We’ll help you get from A > B when traveling to our offices
- And then some - Recurring wellness, professional development, music streaming + WFH + office supply stipends, company offsites, and regular hackweeks. Phew!
Company values
- Are we thinking big enough yet?
- Fail fast
- Own it
- Constytchuents make each other & Stytch better
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$90m
SERIES B
Jul 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $126m
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Leadership
Previously an Associate Consultant with Bain & Company, before moving into a Product Manager role at Plaid.
Julianna Lamb
(CTO)A Stanford Computer Science grad, who went on to work as a Software Engineer at Strava and Plaid before becoming a Very Good Security Product Manager.
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