Several years ago, Noah Stanford teamed up with Michael Melone to found 0pass, a startup that aims to make it easier for companies to replace usernames and passwords with biometrics, like Touch ID and Face ID.
Relatively quickly, 0pass gained the attention of investors including Y Combinator, recently closing a $3.5 million seed round led by Brett Gibson at Initialized Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Box Group, 645 Ventures and angel investors.
Prior to starting 0pass, Stanford joined SpaceX as a security engineer, leading the identity and authentication team. After helping to roll out authentication across SpaceX, he sought to commercialize the tooling he’d built at his previous employer.
“The primary difference between 0pass and other passwordless solutions is that 0pass is able to address passwordless login for all systems under one umbrella rather than just a subset,” Stanford explained. “This means that 0pas...
