Okta, Inc.

Okta, Inc. is an identity and access management company that provides a unified identity platform to securely connect people to any technology, application, or device. Founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest in a San Francisco apartment with a small team and originally named SaaSure Inc., the company works across identity and access management, authentication, cloud security, workforce identity management, customer identity solutions and access automation. Its stated mission is to reduce IT complexity and place identity at the heart of business security and growth; it describes itself as "The World's Identity Company".

The company operates two platforms. Okta provides workforce identity management, delivering secure access, authentication and automation for employees and partners. Auth0 provides customer identity solutions for secure access and authentication for end customers. Together they serve more than 18,000 organizations globally, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, spanning enterprise technology, cloud applications and services, and cybersecurity. The platforms support over 7,000 integrations and handle millions of authentications daily.

Okta is headquartered in San Francisco, its founding location, and maintains a global presence. Its work sits at the intersection of security architecture, distributed cloud systems and large-scale authentication infrastructure, problems where correctness, integration breadth and operational scale are the measures that count.