Teleport, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, California, operates as a globally distributed, remote-first company. It provides a cryptographic foundation for identity and access management, unifying human, machine, workload, and AI agent identities under a single security model. The platform is designed to eliminate credential sprawl in cloud-native infrastructure through zero trust architecture, just-in-time access privileges, and comprehensive audit trails.
The company's core technical domains include Identity and Access Management, Cryptography, Zero Trust Architecture, and Cloud-Native Infrastructure Security. Its primary product, also named Teleport, is an AI Infrastructure Identity platform that serves engineering teams working with cloud-native environments.
Teleport's customer base includes industry leaders such as Nasdaq, DoorDash, Accenture, and GitLab. The company was founded by engineers who experienced the problem of credential sprawl firsthand.
