{"id":8079,"date":"2012-12-17T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2012-12-17T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:30:46","slug":"launchkey-startup-weekend-kima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/12\/launchkey-startup-weekend-kima\/","title":{"rendered":"Built at Startup Weekend, LaunchKey&#039;s $750K round includes KIMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8080\" alt=\"lkapp-launch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lkapp-launch-e1355701500859.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lkapp-launch-e1355701500859.png 250w, https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lkapp-launch-e1355701500859-229x300.png 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Paris-based KIMA Ventures has taken part in security startup <a href=\"https:\/\/launchkey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LaunchKey<\/a>&#8216;s $750K seed round, announced Sunday on <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.co\/launchkey-raises-750000-to-abolish-passwords-2012-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tech Cocktail<\/a>. The Las Vegas-based startup, which also received financing from Ludlow Ventures &amp; Prolific VC, with the round led by the VegasTechFund,\u00a0aims to secure your accounts online while abolishing passwords. The startup allows enabled websites to allow users to login through their smartphone &#8211; users type in their email\/username on LaunchKey-enabled websites, and the user receives a push notification on their phone, allowing them to verify the login. As Tech Cocktail put it &#8220;It takes a tad longer than entering a password, but aims to be many tads more secure.&#8221;<br \/>\nOriginally conceived as a Startup Weekend project, the startup hopes to provide more security to user&#8217;s password by taking the login off of third party website on putting it on your phone. While password are easy to hack, the security of logging in with a physical key is second to none &#8211; especially considering you can, in the case of theft, deactivate your phone&#8217;s ability to log you in from a second device (similar to &#8220;Find my iPhone&#8221; and other servies).<br \/>\nThe service is currently in private beta, and is running on a select set of websites; however, with plenty of people trying to solve the &#8216;password&#8217; problem, I&#8217;m keen to see how this develops.<br \/>\nAt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/LeWeb\/\">LeWeb Paris<\/a> earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/Xavier-Niel\/\">Xavier Niel<\/a> modestly boasted during an <a title=\"Xavier Niel interviews Nest founder Tony Fadell\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/12\/04\/xavier-niel-interviews-nest-founder-tony-fadell\/\">interview with Nest CEO Tony Fadell<\/a>, that through KIMA Ventures and his personal investments, he has made 800+ investments &#8211; it seems he&#8217;s keeping up with the pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-based KIMA Ventures has taken part in security startup LaunchKey&#8216;s $750K seed round, announced Sunday on Tech Cocktail. The Las Vegas-based startup, which also received financing from Ludlow Ventures &amp; Prolific VC, with the round led by the VegasTechFund,\u00a0aims to secure your accounts online while abolishing passwords. The startup allows enabled websites to allow users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[2624],"class_list":["post-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-kima-ventures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}