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Dashlane -- Fact Sheet
Express Login and Security Dashboard:
As a personal data assistant, Dashlane lets users securely store all of their logins and
passwords. The information can be organized to a user’s liking. Favorite websites can be
accessed by the app or through the browser plug-in, with Dashlane automatically logging the
user into the website using his or her favorite browser.
Dashlane allows the user to select automatic login for all or some of his or her favorite websites.
When there are multiple accounts on a site, Dashlane allows a user to choose which account
they want to be logged in with.
Dashlane also lets users easily save credentials for different sites, enabling them to manage
sites by type, e.g., shopping, banking, and entertainment. The app also features a security
dashboard that gauges the strength and, more importantly, the uniqueness of users’ existing
passwords, and enables strong and unique password upgrades to be set up in a few clicks.
Express Check-out:
Dashlane allows users to securely store billing and shipping addresses, as well as payment
information, enabling users to transact seamlessly and quickly across the web. Its patented
click-to-pay technology – no typing required! – allows consumers to make buying as easy as
possible, throughout the web.
Dashlane’s check-out product does not require a custom build or partnership with any website –
the process is controlled solely by Dashlane and its users, and can be deployed universally
across the web, reducing friction for consumers and increasing conversions for retailers. Unlike
other options out there, Dashlane’s check-out functionality does not require a custom build or
partnership with the retailer for it to work.
There are two levels of “speedy” Dashlane check-out processes. The first, called Dashlane
Check-Out, allows users to automatically fill out check-out fields enabling purchasing that would
normally take minutes to take place instead within seconds – without even touching a keyboard.
Dashlane Check-Out lets users save and sort all the information about their purchase for later
use; Dashlane also takes a screenshot of the final purchase screen for users’ records.
The second, even faster offering, called Dashlane Express Check-Out, is available on 500 of
the most popular e-commerce sites, which have an extra layer of optimization. Dashlane
Express Check-Out provides an assisted user-flow whereby Dashlane allows the user to preselect all of the information to be filled in upcoming screens at once at the start of the check-out
process. Even registration on a new site can be done in this one, simple step. Thereafter the
user merely has to verify that all screens are filled-out to his or her liking. The company plans to
optimize Dashlane Express Check-Out for many more e-commerce sites.
Smart Form Filling and Express Login & Registration:
Dashlane allows users to save and securely store personal data from addresses and phone
numbers to passport numbers and payment information. Dashlane uses this data to enhance
web navigation, for instance by enabling easy signups for new accounts that ask for a lot of
information, or for hard-to-remember information such as ID numbers. Dashlane automatically
fills out fields such as billing and shipping addresses, and can automatically generate a strong
password which can be saved.
Security Dashboard:
Dashlane gives users’ a complete report on how secure they are online. For each password
used, Dashlane gauges password security, for instance, if the password is used multiple times
across various websites. Dashlane allows users to easily upgrade their passwords – even autogenerating super-secure ones that users need not remember themselves. It saves that data to
be used going forward.
Unprecedented Privacy and Security:
All personal data entered into Dashlane is secured with strong AES-256 encryption. Users alone
have the key to their information. Not even Dashlane engineers can access it. The data is
encrypted before being written onto a user’s local hard drive. In addition, when a user syncs
Dashlane data on different devices, the data never leaves the user’s computer unencrypted.
The encryption key for a user’s data is derived from his or her Master Password, which only
they know – there is no way to access a user’s data without it. The Master Password is never
stored anywhere – neither on Dashlane servers or on the user’s own computer. The only
information that is stored on Dashlane servers are the AES-256 encrypted files for which no
encryption keys are available anywhere. Dashlane does collect technical and usage data in
order to improve the Dashlane product, but the data remains completely anonymous and cannot
in any way be linked to personal information – not even the email addresses used for Dashlane
registration.
Company History:
Dashlane is the second and only other company founded by Bernard Liautaud, whose
company, Business Objects, the first European software company listed in the US, was
acquired in 2007 by SAP AG for $6.8 billion -- the third-largest ever software acquisition at the
time. Business Objects is a business intelligence software which allows companies to securely
and efficiently manage and make use of their data. Liautaud’s idea for Dashlane was born of the
desire to create a product that could similarly benefit individuals with regards to their personal
data.
In December 2009, Liautaud started working with three students at France’s prestigious
engineering university, Ecole Centrale de Paris, to develop a prototype for the product that
would become Dashlane. The three co-founders are Alexis Fogel, Guillaume Maron, and Jean
Guillou. CEO Emmanuel Schalit, a computer science Ph.D. and an experienced digital and
media CEO, came on board in 2011.
By fall of 2011, the company was ready for institutional funding, and in September 2011 the
team raised $5 million in series A from New York-based venture firms Rho Ventures & FirstMark
Capital. With the funding came the move to headquarter the company in New York City, while
maintaining an office in Paris. In early December 2011, the Dashlane private beta was released
on an invite-only basis.