CA-based Clerk secures $30million in series B round funding. This round was led by CRV, with participation from Stripe, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Madrona. They will use this capital to expand their service beyond authentication, which identifies who a user is, and into authorization, which determines the permissions a user has.
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To build their authorization service, they are partnering with Stripe to tightly integrate Stripe Billing. Together, they will create the easiest way to subscribe users to plans and grant access to features based on the plan that was purchased — all with no webhooks required.
Their Series B was led by Reid Christian at CRV, who they have been trading notes with for years. Reid and CRV are no strangers to modern developer tools, having invested in Vercel in 2015, during the earliest days of Next.js. they were thrilled to be working with him for this next phase of Clerk and beyond.
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Their mission is to simplify the way you keep your users and their data safe, without forcing you to sacrifice high-quality user experience. They have been stalwart in their commitment to that mission for authentication, and you can be confident they will maintain their principles as they expand into authorization.
About Clerk
The goal of Clerk’s aim is to permanently resolve user management. Their crew is spread all throughout the globe and committed to giving developers the greatest possible experience, paying meticulous attention to every little detail.
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