Identity Companies

Little Companies
These are all startup's that have a major focus on identity technologies that have planed a significant role in moving the technology forward.

Cordance
Cordance originally developed XRI/XDI (as XNS) and assigned the patents to XDI.org. It currently manages the top-level of the iNames registry.
 * Website: http://www.cordance.net,
 * Key person: Drummond Reed.
 * Date began in Identity:

JanRain
Runs myOpenID.com (OpenID provider), created Pibb (communications and reputation platform), and has created a number of widely-used OpenID libraries.
 * Website: http://janrain.com/
 * Key person: Larry Drebes
 * Date began in Identity:

NetMesh
Netmesh's Infogrid enables people to manage their information flow through a strong sense of identity.
 * Website: http://netmesh.us
 * Key Person: Johannes Ernst
 * Date began in Identity:

ooTao
The enterprise guys who have built the systems that many iBrokers use. They have also developed Wingaa, a set of identity aggregation services for Registrars.
 * Website:http://ootao.com/
 * Key Person: Andy Dale
 * Date began in Identity:

Parity
Pariity's founders lead the Higgins project. Pariity is creating hosted tools to help relying parties and claim providers implement Higgins with a minimal amount of work.
 * Website: http://www.pariity.com
 * Key People: Paul Trevithick, Mary Ruddy, Drummond Reed
 * Date began in Identity:

Ping
Delivers secure Internet single sign-on software and services for over 150 customers worldwide and is a market leader in enterprise federated identity management.
 * Website: http://www.pingidentity.com
 * Key People: Andre Durand
 * Date began in Identity:

Sxip
Sxip is an early company in the identity space. Their current project is Sxipper, a Firefox plugin that accurately fills in forms, manages passwords and safely logs you in.
 * Website: http://www.sxip.com/
 * Key People: Dick Hardt
 * Date began in Identity:

Vidoop

 * Website: http://www.vidoop.com
 * Key People: Luke Sontang
 * Date began in Identity:

Big Companies
These companies began participating in the Idnetity Gang and contributing to projects around user centric identity. Their participation is described