TeleSign
TeleSign Corporation is a Communications Platform as a Service company, founded on security, based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2005, by Darren Berkovitz, Ryan Disraeliand Stacy Stubblefield, the company mainly provides Two-factor authentication services, a secure supplementary method of preventing illicit access to online accounts used by many companies like iTunes, Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, Twitter, Facebook, Bank of America, Chase, Discover, PayPal, Etsy, Salesforce, and more. The company also offers a variety of cloud communications APIs via a self-service portal. Ryan Disraeli is the current CEO of the company. Along with his co-founders Disraeli, Stubblefield and Berkowitz were named as USC alumni entrepreneurs of the year. TeleSign was an early project of the technology incubator Curious Minds.
, the company had raised $49 million in funds.
In April 2017, Telesign announced that it is being acquired by BICS, a Belgium-based company for $230 million.
