Fast will put the funding into recruitment and the international roll-out of its rapid e-commerce login and checkout system.

Digital payment technology provider Stripe has led a $20m series A round for Fast, the US-based developer of a rapid login and checkout system for e-commerce transactions.

Venture capital firms Index Ventures and Susa Ventures also took part in the round, having previously contributed to a $2.5m seed round led by angel investor Jon Hammer and also backed by VC firms Kleiner Perkins and Global Founders Capital.

Fast has created a system that combines a login mechanism that eschews passwords…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.