Who are we?
Prefactor was built because the problem of authenticating and authorizing users continues to be a battle engineers face globally.
Existing identity providers have focused on the problem of how users log in by copying the go to market and technical innovations of their peers.
This commoditisation of customer identity has failed to address the biggest question engineers face: why does it take so much time and money to build or integrate identity solutions?
We believe innovation in this space is possible, and necessary. That's why Prefactor exists today.
Join us in shaping the future of User Management
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Prefactor's journey
Prior to writing a line of code, we spoke with over 100 companies from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, USA and Canada from day 1 startups through to global, listed businesses.
Through validation we discovered:
50% of B2B software companies build their own user authentication
95% of B2B software companies build their own authorisation tools
As we refined our thesis it became clear that now was the time to build a platform tackling the problem of building a unified solution enabling seamless, highly customisable authentication and authorization flows for engineers.
Armed with this feedback and commitment from several international design partners and over 10 letters of intent, Prefactor were one of 8 investments Antler Australia made in the Aus12 cohort.
Prefactor launch the first iteration of the platform via a closed beta.
Our founders
CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
Matt Doughty
Matt is the CEO and co-founder of Prefactor. With 15 years of experience in sales and post sales at companies like Procore Technologies and Patsnap, he has been responsible for over $35m revenue across North America, Europe and APAC.
With a young family, Matt is regularly found in the great outdoors running after his two boys or drinking a coffee to recuperate.
CTO AND CO-FOUNDER
Simon Russell
Simon is the CTO and co-founder of Prefactor. His experience working with businesses including GreenSync, Dokio and iFlix has seen Simon lead technology organisations from the ground up. His design first principles and leadership has contributed to multiple venture backed rounds.
On the weekends, you'll most likely find Simon cycling in and around Melbourne, enjoying the natural beauty the area has to offer.
