Ethiopian Startup Better Auth Secures $5M Seed Funding for Authentication Framework Expansion

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Better Auth, an Ethiopian startup created by self-taught developer Bereket Engida, has secured $5M in seed funding to expand its authentication framework.

TypeScript-based platform with over 150K weekly downloads and 15K GitHub stars has raised a $5 million seed round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA), with participation from Y Combinator, Chapter One, P1 Ventures, among others.

This funding fuels the next phase of Better Auth which aims to allow developers to own their auth. The firm says that it aims to democratize high quality authentication and allow developers to roll out their own auth.

It started with building the framework. Since then, weve seen incredible growth and support from the community. Thank you everyone for being part of this journey. Its still early days, and theres so much more to build. This funding will allow us to have more people involved and to push the boundaries of whats possible, said the founder Bereket Engida.

The firm is also building the infrastructure to cover the gaps it couldnt cover in the framework such as a  unified dashboard to manage users and user analytics, enterprise-grade security: bot, abuse, and fraud protection, authentication Email and SMS service, fast, globally distributed session storage and many more.