BOULDER - With its first significant "outside" investment, Symplified can move forward with sales, marketing and operation plans.

The Boulder-based identity-management company announced today it received $6 million in Series A financing.

California-based Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital were the primary venture capital firms involved, and members of the firms will join Symplified's board of directors.

"Managing electronic identities and credentials remains costly and complex for even the most technically savvy organizations," Eric Olden, founder and chief executive officer for Symplified, said in a press release. "Symplified was created to erase the barriers hindering the adoption of cloud computing."

Symplified plans to announce its "revolutionary" way to manage Web access at a conference later this month.

Symplified is a software as a service, or SaaS, company working to produce simple, affordable and effective management software led by the same team that created Securant, an identity-management company purchased by RSA Security in 2001.