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Janrain, sometimes stylized as JanRain, is a customer profile-management provider based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. It was established in 2005. ==History== Janrain was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2005 by Larry Drebes, who continues to serve as the company's chief executive officer (CEO). The firm, whose name "references a wet January in Portland",〔 has been described as a "leading provider of customer profile and identity management". According to ''Forbes'', Drebes recognized the value of social media in 2004 and predicted the need for users to manage their online identities. He 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.〔 The privately held company has grown steadily since its inception. In December 2009, the startup raised a $3.25 million Series A round of funding from three American venture capital firms: DFJ Frontier, RPM Ventures, and Anthem Venture Partners. According to TechCrunch, the firms invested in Janrain's ability to "effectively mass market and sell authentication systems to website publishers based on OpenID and other online identity technologies".〔 ''The Oregonian'' and VentureBeat have reported that Janrain had 60 employees by mid-2011.〔 In August 2011, the company announced a $15.5 million funding round led by Emergence Capital Partners. The money was used to hire additional staff and enhance marketing efforts. Emergence founder Brian Jacobs also joined Janrain's board of directors. Funding to date totaled $18.7 million from the four aforementioned venture capital firms plus Timothy C. Draper and Drebes.〔 Janrain's sales "more than doubled" in 2012,〔 and the company expected an even faster sales growth rate for 2013.〔 Janrain had 170 employees by January 2013. That month, the firm received $33 million in new investment,〔 marking one of the largest venture capital rounds for an Internet company in Oregon.〔 Funding was led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with additional participation by the aforementioned DFJ Frontier and RPM Ventures, existing investors Emergence Capital and Anthem Venture Partners, plus Epic Ventures, Salesforce.com, and Split Rock Partners.〔〔 Including the 2013 investment, which was more than twice the amount of any venture investment in Oregon in 2012,〔 Janrain had raised $52–53 million and was noted as one of the "best-funded young technology" businesses in the state.〔〔 The company reportedly planned to use the money to expand its sales force and team of engineers, enhance its technology, and "take more chances by adding new features to its software and tackling new markets abroad".〔〔 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". 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" prior to the acquisition.〔 According to ''Advertising Age'', Janrain had grown to 160 employees, and Drebes said there would be no executive changes for Arktan's five employees.〔 ''Inc.'' reported that Janrain earned $14.3 million in revenue in 2014, had a three-year growth rate of 294%, and employed 135 people, 44 more than the year prior.〔 In 2015, the firm expanded its international reach by building a new data center in China. In September 2015, ''Portland Business Journal'' said Janrain's employee count was "around 120, most of them in Portland". The journal also said Janrain had raised $52.8 million to date from investors.〔 The company's headquarters are housed within the Dekum Building (519 Southwest Third Avenue) in downtown Portland.〔 Janrain moved into the building in 2009, occupying the sixth floor. The company moved out of the sixth floor and into three others in February 2013.〔 ((Thumbnail 13 ))〕 According to ''Portland Business Journal'', much of the office space's "funky" modern and Romanesque architecture existed previously,〔 ((Thumbnail 5 )).〕 though some updates were made when the company relocated.〔 ((Thumbnail 1 )).〕 The space has an open design, with glass walls for offices, a game room,〔 ((Thumbnail 9 )).〕 a spiral staircase connecting the two floors, and an atrium extending up to an eighth floor skylight.〔〔 ((Thumbnail 3 ))〕 It also has quiet, private spaces for nursing mothers, phone calls, or work rooms.〔 Conference rooms on one floor are named after mountains in the Pacific Northwest, while those on another level are named for Portland's bridges.〔 ((Thumbnail 4 ))〕 Janrain turned the basketball court on the building's fourth floor, left by the previous occupant Wieden+Kennedy,〔 ((Thumbnail 2 )).〕 into a conference room and meeting space.〔 ((Thumbnail 6 )).〕 Janrain is open to telecommuting, which the ''Portland Business Journal'' said is unique in Portland, where many growing technology companies are less open to employees working remotely.〔 ((Thumbnail 8 )).〕 The company has satellite offices in Frankfurt, London, and Paris.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://janrain.com/about/contact-us/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janrain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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