FusionAuth

FusionAuth is an open source, developer-focused identity and access management platform. Founded in 2018 by Brian Pontarelli and Daniel DeGroff. It span out of CleanSpeak - a profanity filter and moderation platform. Today FusionAuth has around 30 employees and seven-figure revenue and recently raised $65mn after being bootstrapped for years.

Type
Identity and Access Management
Founded
2018
Funding
$65,000,000
Location
Colorado/Remote
Key Growth Strategies
  • Not an OSS product, but "free as in beer" w/o being overly restricted
  • Docs investment
  • Comparison/migration docs/pages to market leaders
  • Advertising (newsletters)
  • Content marketing: non-vendor content (/articles) e.g. sponsoring Screaming Into The Cloud
  • Use forums instead of Slack
Interview with Dan Moore, Head of DevRel at FusionAuth
  • Don't use Slack, use a forum.
More on FusionAuth
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