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Auth0 Raises $2.4M

Auth0, an identity-as-a-service solution, has secured $2.4 million in seed funds led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from K9 Ventures, Portland Seed Fund and NXTP Labs. The Auth0 solution allows any application or API running on any device, OS or software stack to authenticate with any identity provider. The company’s service is in use in 124 countries by more than 8,000 developers and IT managers in both small and large enterprises in the software, financial, media, security and consumer sectors, says Auth0.

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