ValiMail, a startup with a cloud service for authenticating email, is coming out of stealth mode today and revealing a $1.5 million seed round.

The startup is built around ensuring that companies only send out verified emails, so that employees, partners, and end users don’t end up receiving illegitimate messages. Rather than leaving companies to implement old authentication protocols — like the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), or the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) that builds on those two — ValiMail takes care of all that and offers users a simple web-based interface to work with, for an annual fee.