Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Floodgate

Webb Investment Network is an investment firm that particularly in mobile, consumer Internet, and cloud applications. With its Affiliate Network, the firm draws not only from Maynard’s experience and insight but from those CEOs, CTOs, founders, and investors who make up the WIN Affiliate Network to provide our portfolio companies with on-demand advice and support.

Webb Investment Network

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs.  Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Khosla Ventures

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Altimeter Capital is a technology-focused investment firm based in Menlo Park, CA and Boston, MA.  Altimeter manages a long/short public equity fund and growth-stage private capital funds.

Altimeter Capital

Janus Capital Group is a global investment management firm managing $160 billion in global assets through product offerings across growth, mathematical, value and fixed-income. They work hard, think smart, and exist to create success for their clients.

Janus Capital Group

Glynn Capital Management focuses on investing in leading private and public technology growth companies. Glynn Capital Management seeks to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.

Glynn Capital Management

Okta

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is a digital technology that continues to transform our society, vital questions remain around privacy, online safety, and the security of our networks and data.

Okta is the provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud connects and protects employees of many enterprises. It also securely connects enterprises to their partners, suppliers, and customers. With deep integrations to over 5,000 apps, the Okta Identity Cloud enables simple and secure access from any device. Okta helps customers fulfill their missions faster by making it safe and easy to use the technologies they need to do their significant work.

<div><p>Okta is the provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud connects and protects employees of many enterprises. It also securely connects enterprises to their partners, suppliers, and customers. With deep integrations to over 5,000 apps, the Okta Identity Cloud enables simple and secure access from any device. Okta helpscustomers fulfill their missions faster by making it safe and easy to use the technologies they need to do their significant work.</p></div>

Ensuring the right people access the right resources at the right time

Identity & Access Management

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    Okta is the provider of identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud connects and protects employees of many enterprises. It also securely connects enterprises to their partners, suppliers, and customers. With deep integrations to over 5,000 apps, the Okta Identity Cloud enables simple and secure access from any device. Okta helpscustomers fulfill their missions faster by making it safe and easy to use the technologies they need to do their significant work.
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    FortifID is a software company that puts individuals back in control of their identity and directly connects individuals to institutions. The company building a network to power secure, trusted &amp; robust consumer data for the digital world, also enabling individuals to seize control over the use of their personal data.
    
    They solve the needs ofbusinesses that use, buy or sell personal data, as well as the privacy needs of consumers for business using personal data, for business selling personal data, and for individuals. Their vision is a data solution for the digital age using blockchain and next-gen concepts from MIT.
    
    FortifID was founded in 2017 and is based in Mountain View, California, USA.
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FortifID

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    OneWelcome is a cloud identity platform for enterprises to connect customers as well as business partners to their online services. OneWelcome's cloud-based platform features fraud detection, multi-branding, policy information point, consent Management, B2B delegation, and mobile identity.
    
    With an in-depth understanding of the Europeanidentity challenges and trusted by more than 100 customers mostly in regulated industries, OneWelcome expedites the combined vision of making access to online services for European organizations simple and secure.
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OneWelcome

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    Keycloak operates as an open source identity and access management solution.
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Keycloak

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    miniOrange is a cloud based platform which provides Single Sign-On (SSO), Two Factor Authentication (2FA), Fraud Prevention and Cloud/Network Security.
    
    miniOrange is founded by security architects and technology leaders who have extensive experience in solving complex security problems of the industry via technology using global deliverymodels. Their Differentiation lies in applying technical expertise and experience to unique Industry needs and challenges. The team at miniOrange brings extensive experience and expertise in Security Consulting and Product development.
    They take pride in partnering with their customers and bring forth their security domain expertise in Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management, Mobile Security, Vulnerability Management and have specific products and solutions in these areas.
    
    Their team includes security architects and information security professionals who have extensive experience in design, architecture and delivery of complex enterprise security products. They have built high performing teams in US and India and scaled them to support mid and large sized enterprises.
    
    Their team has multiple papers published on various security and engineering topics related to Strong Authentication, Access Governance, Vulnerability management, Mobile Security &ndash; Access Gateway, Cloud Security - IAM of a cloud stack, Agile adoption in distributed teams, Team collaboration etc. They are also a strong agile proponent and have successfully transformed teams doing waterfall into adopting agile/scrum methodologies. They have been responsible for leading a range of product releases, from a v1.0 to a flagship product generating millions of dollars in revenue.
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miniOrange

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    Identity Automation offers streamlined identity management software that improves organizational security, increases productivity, and reduces IT costs. Its flagship product, RapidIdentity, gives organizations the ability to provide employees and external users fine-grained time-based access to on-premises and cloud-based data and systems.
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Identity Automation

Companies offering IAM solutions offer their solutions under a B2B SaaS model

Certain customer IAM providers also offer biometric authentication solutions

IAM solutions enable personalization by tailoring user rights, roles, and access to services based on individual profiles

AI/ML in IAM help automate risk analysis, anomaly detection, and adapt access controls, improving security.

IAM solutions enhance transparency and accountability by controlling user access, monitoring activity, facilitating audits, and preventing unauthorized access, ensuring business data integrity

This is a key demand driver for IAM solutions as companies switch to a hybrid work environment, driving the increased need to manage user identity and access to organizational resources

Platforms that manage and maintain controls, policies, and systems that govern the entire lifecycle of an employee's access to company resources, systems, and data

Platforms that manage and secure the digital identities and access rights of customers or users across various applications, services, and resources of an organization

Okta

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