Okta, Inc.

Okta, Inc. is an identity platform company founded in 2009 that securely connects people to technology, providing workforce and customer identity management, authentication and access automation. Its technical work spans identity and access management, customer identity and access management (CIAM), authentication, single sign-on, cloud security and identity automation. The company was started by a small team in a San Francisco apartment, with a stated mission of addressing the complexity and insecurity of cloud access.

The product line comprises Okta Workforce Identity, a workforce identity management platform covering secure access, authentication and automation for employees and partners; Auth0, which provides customer identity solutions for secure access and authentication; and the Okta Integration Network, a catalogue of pre-built integrations connecting Okta to apps and services, of which there are more than 7,000.

Okta serves over 18,000 organizations globally and handles millions of authentications daily. Its customer base ranges from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, across enterprise technology and cloud applications. The company's geographic presence is described as global, with its origins in San Francisco.