17 Facts About Janrain

Janrain, sometimes styled as JanRain, is a customer profile and identity management software provider based in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Janrain was founded in Portland in 2002 by Larry Drebes, who as of 2016 is the company's chief technology officer, and former chief executive officer .

Janrain helped create the OpenID protocol, which has been called a "decentralized authentication method for the new Web".

Janrain was a founding member of the OpenID Foundation and has advocated for OpenID.

In February 2013, the Austin, Texas-based company Umbel announced its partnership with Janrain to combine the former company's "real-time audience insights" technology with the latter's "User Management Platform, providing actionable intelligence from rich social data, in real-time".

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In December 2014, Janrain acquired the startup company Arktan for an undisclosed amount.

Janrain began offering data services developed by both companies, which had worked together for "several years" before the acquisition.

In September 2015, Portland Business Journal said Janrain employed "around 120, most of them in Portland", and had raised $52.

Janrain moved into the building in 2009, occupying the sixth floor, which it vacated and moved into three others in February 2013.

Janrain turned the basketball court on the building's fourth floor, left by the previous occupant Wieden+Kennedy, into a conference room and meeting space.

Janrain is open to remote work, which the Portland Business Journal said is unique in Portland.

In December 2009, TechCrunch reported that Janrain's technology was being used for the websites of EMI Music, Fox News, Kmart, Sears, and Universal Music Group.

Janrain hired technology attorney Lewis Barr to serve as vice president for "legal and privacy matters", and to inform clients about the appropriate and legal collection of digital information.

Arktan, which Janrain acquired in 2014, developed technology that analyzes Facebook data and enables comments, polls, reviews, and other services.

In January 2014, Janrain was named a winner of the CRM Watchlist 2014, which was compiled by Paul Greenberg for his ZDNet blog, "Social CRM: The Conversation".

Janrain was ranked number 73 and number 252 on Deloitte's "Technology Fast 500" in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

In 2015, Janrain was a finalist in the "Growth Stage" category at the annual Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards, which are presented by the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network.