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Okta
Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2009 · IPO 2017 Unicorn
Access and identity management solutions for businesses
Okta mafia
Startups founded by Okta alumni
Former Okta employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Paul QuernaUnited States
Tawfeeq Abdul GaffoorCanada
Jared HansonCanada
Bill Fitzgerald.United States
Aaron McReynoldsUnited States
Kevin SappUnited States
Mikhiel TareenUnited States
Michelle KimUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Okta has talent and traffic
(38 of 7,396 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$48M patent portfolio · 89 active families
Where Okta concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Okta and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Okta's 61 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Okta appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
61 deals across Okta's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Okta's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Okta
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Okta on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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