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 Headquarters at100 First Plaza in San Francisco | |
| Formerly | Saasure Inc. (2009–2010) |
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| Company type | Public |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | January 2009; 17 years ago (2009-01) |
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| Headquarters | 100 First Plaza San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Products | Single Sign-On |
| Revenue |  US$2.61 billion (2025) |
 US$−74 million (2025) | |
| US$28 million (2025) | |
| Total assets | US$9.44 billion (2025) |
| Total equity | US$6.41 billion (2025) |
Number of employees | 5,914 (2025) |
| Website | okta |
| Footnotes / references Financials as of January 31, 2025[update].[1] | |
Okta, Inc. (formerlySaaSure Inc.) is an Americanidentity and access management company based inSan Francisco.[2] It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[3] It was founded in 2009 and had its initial public offering in 2017, reaching a valuation of over $6 billion.
Okta sells six services, including asingle-sign-on service that allows users to log into a variety of systems using a single centralized process. For example, the company claims the ability to log intoGmail,Workday,Salesforce andSlack with one login.[4][5] It also offersAPI authentication services.[6]
Okta's services are built on theAmazon Web Services cloud.[7]
Okta runs an annual “Oktane” user conference, which in 2018 featured formerUS PresidentBarack Obama as a keynote speaker.[8][9][10]
Okta was co-founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest, who previously worked together atSalesforce.[11]
In 2015, the company raised US $75 million in venture capital fromAndreessen Horowitz,Greylock Partners, andSequoia Capital, at a total initial valuation of US$1.2 billion.[12]
In 2017, Okta held itsinitial public offering (IPO), opening onNasdaq at $17.00 per share, trading up on its first day, to raise an additional US$187 million.[13][14] At the time of its IPO,Sequoia Capital was the biggest shareholder, with a 21.2 percent stake.[15]
In January 2019, Okta reported over 100 million registered users.[16]
In March 2021, Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Auth0 for $6.5 billion.[17] The deal closed in May 2021.[18] In August 2021, Okta acquired atSpoke for $90 million.[19] In December 2023, Okta acquired security firm Spera for approximately $100–130 million.[20]
On March 9, 2021, hacking collective "Advanced Persistent Threat 69420" breached an Okta office network through a security failure in the company'sVerkada camera setup.[21] They were able to download security footage from the cameras.[22] One member of the group,Maia Arson Crimew, also revealed that the group had gainedroot shell access to the network.[23] In a blog post the next-day, OktaChief Security Officer David Bradbury minimized the root shell as an "internal support tool" of the camera manufacturer Verkada.[22] However, the shell would have given the hackers full access to execute any commands on the network, andCloudflare admitted that a similar hack by the group on that company's network provided them with the same level of access.[24] Bradbury also said that the threat was contained to an isolated network.
On March 22, 2022, the hacking groupLAPSUS$ posted screenshots claiming to be from Okta internal systems.[25] The next day, Okta concluded that a maximum of 366 of their customers data may potentially have been impacted, further stating that the breach originated with a computer used by one of Okta's third-party customer support engineers to which the hackers had access.[26]
In December 2022, Okta's source code was stolen when a hacker gained access to theirGitHub repository.[27]
In early October 2023, Okta was notified of a breach resulting in hackers stealing HTTP access tokens from Okta's support platform byBeyondTrust. Okta denied the incident for a number of weeks, but later recognized that a breach had occurred.[28] Customers impacted by the Okta breach includedCaesars Entertainment,MGM Resorts International,1Password and Cloudflare.[29][30][31] On November 29, 2023, it was known that the security incident affected all Okta customers.[32][33]