The Never-Ending Identity Story: Announcing Descope’s $53M Seed Funding
Blog post from Descope
Descope has secured $53 million in seed financing, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and GGV Capital, to create a seamless and secure authentication and user management service for application developers, whether they prefer no-code, SDKs, or API-first approaches. The founding team, with a history of successful ventures like Demisto and Sentrigo, aims to address the challenges of in-house authentication development, which often becomes a complex, ongoing project as companies scale. With the rise of identity-based attacks and the consumer shift towards passwordless solutions, Descope seeks to leverage standards like FIDO2 and WebAuthn to offer more secure and user-friendly authentication alternatives. The company is committed to making passwordless authentication intuitive for developers, aligning with the growing trend of device-native biometrics and the industry push by major companies like Apple and Google to phase out passwords over the next decade. Descope invites developers to try their service and is actively hiring to further its mission of simplifying authentication processes.
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