5/16/2023 0 Comments Figleaf beta reviewsThe Basic plan also is covered by Aura’s $1,000,000 identity theft and fraud insurance policy. It desires to make a more consumer-friendly password manager that encourages users to turn on and use 2FA for accounts and logins. The second half of the year will feature a password manager to manage the 90+ accounts better that consumers have on average. Aura also uses services like DarkWebIQ to monitor and check for compromised accounts and passwords. It will also tell you if another person used your SSN or ID to open a line of credit. It has personal information and ID monitoring that allows the user to be notified of compromised personal information. The Basic plan includes most of the features that protect against Identity theft. AuraĪura has three plans for different levels of security and protection. Aura’s UI has a new modern look and comprehensive with low friction to the user.Īura’s Basic plan provides device protection for one device, its Total plan provides for 5 devices. Aura has financial transaction monitoring, credit scores and reports, lost wallet recovery, Dark web Scans, Data Clean-Up, Wifi Security VPN, Multi-device Protection, and Antivirus software. Aura launched its services back in June, and although I will be running through its offerings, I will not be reviewing them since some of its offerings are not out until later this year. After its most recent funding round, Aura is valued at over $1 billion, thanks to investors from WndrCo’s Sujay Jaswa and Jefferey Katzenberg.Īura’s offerings are built on three general principles: personal identity, financial identity, technology, and devices, with the core of these principles being financial loss. The company announced a $150 million Series E funding round led by Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth equity firm, back in June. All of these acquisitions and mergers pull in years of experience and services that already have customer backings.Īura’s Founder and CEO Hari Ravichandran AuraĪura has raised over $450 million from investors and its projected $220 million in annual revenue, and its already 1.7 million customers. PrivacyMate is a subscription service that monitors and prevents the collection, sale, and widespread dissemination of private personal information. Figleaf is a Privacy Control service that helps people be private online. Pango is a privacy and security company with premium subscription services, including Hotspot Shield, 1Password, and Robo Sheild. The following year in July of 2020, Aura acquires Pango, FigLeaf, and PrivacyMate. iSubscribed is the company that Hari Ravichandran, now CEO and Founder of Aura, founded after his experience with identity theft in 2014. Identity Guard has protected over 47 million customers and resolved 140 thousand cases of identity fraud and has teamed up with IBM Watson to help detect threats more efficiently. Intersections have been around since 1996 and were one of the first companies to provide identity theft protection with its solution, Identity Guard. and iSubscribed combined its services and renamed itself Aura. You can read hereabout iSubscribed and Intersections rebranding. Aura is 2 years old with 20 years of experienceĪura is the product of five companies acquired and merged in the past year and a half.
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