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Cybersecurity

Authy

Authy provides strong authentication for the connected world, protecting people and the enterprise against malicious attacks. Our two-factor authentication (2FA) security solution enables organizations to minimize risk while enhancing the user experience. Authy 2FA provides a fast-to-implement, highly scalable and proven 99.999 % reliable alternative to passwords. Used by 11,000+ websites serving 2 million consumers worldwide, it's designed to give users the ability to self-service or easily man

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
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Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
competitors
6
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last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3342

Authy provides strong authentication for the connected world, protecting people and the enterprise against malicious attacks. Our two-factor authentication (2FA) security solution enables organizations to minimize risk while enhancing the user experience. Authy 2FA provides a fast-to-implement, highly scalable and proven 99.999 % reliable alternative to passwords. Used by 11,000+ websites serving 2 million consumers worldwide, it's designed to give users the ability to self-service or easily man

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Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #87
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High Signal interpretation

Authy is classified as Cybersecurity from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
two-factor authenticationAuthy 2FAstrong authenticationenterpriseorganizationsAuthypeople2FAusersuser experience11,000+ websites serving 2 million consumers worldwide
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Authy

Cybersecurity · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Evolve (makers of Podcast App & Rest)

match 63

Evolve builds consumer apps used by millions. We're a YC W18 company with two products. Rest (getrest.app) is an AI sleep coach for people tired of bad nights, whether that's lying awake for hours or waking up at 3am. It's built on the principles of CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia), the method sleep clinicians recommend first, and turns them into a daily program with a coach you can talk to at any hour. No appointments, no waitlists. People use it to sleep well again without lea

shared extracted concepts: people; shared product terms: people, two, used, million; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Fortyx

match 57

AI email security assistant that protects people against email cyber attacks

shared extracted concepts: people; shared product terms: protect, people, against, attack; shared product theme: security and compliance

Humane Genomics

match 53

Humane Genomics has developed a platform to engineer cancer killing viruses. We have taken a first principles approach to design and make oncolytic viral therapies. Using a highly lytic RNA virus engineered with "2 factor authentication" (using selective infection and selective replication) they have an on-target to off-target kill ratio > 1000. We are working on our first indication, pediatric liver cancer (hepatoblastoma), with our partners at Texas Children's Hospital, who are world leading e

shared extracted concept terms: factor, authentication; shared product terms: design, highly, factor, authentication; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Regbase

match 27

Automating Corporate Compliance, Worldwide

shared extracted concept terms: worldwide; shared product terms: worldwide; shared product theme: security and compliance; same category: Cybersecurity; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

New Incentives

match 25

New Incentives implements cash transfer programs that save lives. We encourage Nigerian mothers to immunize their infants to protect them against deadly diseases.

shared product terms: implement, protect, against; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Aztec

match 6

Other company.

shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort