独角兽俱乐部新添一员，身份管理平台Okta融资7500万美元据国外媒报道，旧金山科技初创公司Okta宣布了新一轮7500万美元的融资，本轮融资的领头者包括安德森·霍洛维茨基金、Greylock Partnersh和红杉资本等。Okta联合创始人及首席执行官托德麦金农（Todd McKinnon）表示本轮融资对该公司的估值接近12亿美元。Okta已累计筹集资金2.3亿美元。
Okta是一款基于云端的 app，可以帮助其他基于 Web 和云端的 app 管理员工的账户和登陆信息。企业使用Okta可以让员工和登陆并使用各种网络服务、远程访问企业信息，而不会导致企业的敏感信息外泄。并且可以在员工离开公司的时候关闭其登陆权限。
该公司称其共有600余名员工以及2500余名客户，其中包括职业社交网站LinkedIn、赌场运营商米高梅集团（MGM Resorts International）和汇款公司西联（Western Union Co.）等。
Okta的竞争对手包括onelogin, Ping Identity,Centrify等初创公司，另外甲骨文，微软、saleforce.com也是其强劲的对手。
除了身份管理，Okta还希望进入安全、移动设备管理、双因素认证等领域。
Okta, the cloud identity management company, announced a $75 million round
Okta, the cloud identity management company, announced a $75 million round. Okta was valued at $1.2 billion in this deal, meaning it has entered the hallowed halls of the Unicorn club, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the deal.
CEO Todd McKinnon told TechCrunch that actual price is a tad below that reported figure at $1.175 billion.
While being a Unicorn isn’t what it once was, it still is meaningful and a big step for Okta, which has been trying to move beyond pure identity management into areas like security, mobile device management and two-factor identification.
Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital led the round. Khosla Ventures, Altimeter, Glynn Capital and other unnamed investors also participated. Today’s investment brings the total raised since the company launched in 2009 to $230 million.
Okta scored an identical $75 million round last June. At the time McKinnon told TechCrunch he was looking at IPOing in the “next couple of years.” Today, he was more specific saying it would likely be in the next 12-18 months, depending on market conditions.
In spite of the current public market conditions, McKinnon said one of the chief reasons his company went back to the well so soon, was that the conditions for this money were so favorable.
“We had offers, but the [existing investors] were so excited about what we are doing and gave us the best deal in terms of valuation and more importantly tons of flexibility to go public with no provisions of blocking the IPO or penalizing us for having our valuation drop [if conditions changed],” he said.
More importantly, this money gives the company the flexibility to control its own destiny moving forward. “We don’t have to go public to raise capital. We don’t have any provisions to block us from going at a certain price or timeline,” he said.
The company has been growing 100 percent year over year and as such they were burning through cash. This puts money in the bank and allows them to buy small strategic companies if they become available, he explained.
Okta reports it has over 600 employees and 2500 customers and just last week it opened a new datacenter in the EU to comply with EU data privacy laws.
Source：TC
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身份管理公司OKTA大会发布面向开发者和企业移动管理解决方案
旧金山联合广场对面的Westin酒店，为期两天的OKTANE14年会今天圆满闭幕。
本次会议中，OKTA正式公布了面对开发者的开放平台和针对企业服务的移动管理解决方案，其中纳入了设备的管理。业内专家谈到OKTA目前推出的面向开发者的平台，目的是为建立和丰富自己的生态圈，究竟这个生态圈能否建立起来，取决于其针对开发者的政策和其目前庞大的客户群，没有这些作为基础，构建生态圈的难度可不是一般的大！
同时在本次大会上Adobe公司成为其身份认证和管理的重要客户和联盟，Adobe的产品都将采用OKTA的身份管理认证解决方案；目前LINKEDIN 也是其客户。
OKTA是由前Saleforce.com的副总裁Todd McKinnon创办，发展非常迅猛，在企业云端身份认证管理方面技术简洁清晰高效！目前与其竞争的同行比如onelogin, Ping Identity,Centrify等，另外从传统行业的甲骨文，saleforce也是强劲的对手。
类似OKTA这样的为企业提供一站式员工身份认证管理的企业还没有，更多原因在于国内企业对系统的需求以及国内应用数量和标准的不统一，但在未来的2-3年，这个情况会发生巨大的变化。
10月刚结束的saleforce 的dreamforce 会议中，也明确提出了开放平台及开发者扶持计划，同样的故事也发生在workday 身上。关于身份认证管理的战争才刚刚开始，在大陆硝烟的味道还远未闻道。国内新兴企业HRday.com 或许是最先问道硝烟的企业，我们也非常期待国内的优秀企业加快步伐进入到这场事关未来的入口战争。
HRTechchina.com前方记者发自OKTA会议现场。（photo by Chris England）
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2014年11月13日
Okta
身份管理平台Okta估值6亿，已完成上市前最后一笔融资
Okta首席执行长Todd McKinnon
当Todd McKinnon第一次在2003年加入Salesforce.com,他的工程团队15人。到2009年,已经增长到了250名工程师。
McKinnon爱他的Salesforce的工作。他是高级工程副总裁,被认为是Salesforce.com的CEO Marc Benioff的门徒之一。
但McKinnon在云密码管理方面看到一个巨大的商机,他不能放弃。所以在2009年McKinnon离开Salesforce.com，推出自己的启动名为Okta，基于云的软件供应商管理用户账户和登录的Web应用程序。
Benioff显然不喜欢它。当McKinnon 想让他成为天使投资人时,Benioff夫拒绝了他。Salesforce工程师压力都很大,他们中有一些人后来加入了Okta。
但没多久McKinnon找到其他投资者。Andreessen Horowitz是其早期的投资者之一,首次在Okta云投资。到目前为止,Okta筹集了1.55亿美元从红杉资本等顶级风投,给予合作伙伴,科斯拉风险。现在价值约6亿美元。
现在1500多家公司使用Okta的服务,在过去一年销售增长了200%。尽管实际McKinnon拒绝透露销售数字,但他说Okta在明年有望扭亏为盈。
Okta庞大的增长实际上已经促使一些大公司,包括Salesforce和微软,创建类似的产品。“我们定义这个市场,但现在我们必须保持在最前沿,因为微软和Salesforce山寨产品,发布“麦金农告诉商业内幕。“在某种程度上,这些大公司都是验证我们创造了什么。”
当被问及他与Benioff的关系,麦金农说他们好聚好散。事实上,现在他开了自己的公司后,McKinnon说他慢慢正在理解Benioff。
Okta 6月筹资7500万美元,McKinnon说这将是最后的上市前融资。伴随着行之有效的商业模式，有了稳定收入,Okta上市可能不是太远,虽然McKinnon表示,它将不会发生在明年。”
上市是一个复杂的过程,比起IPO，McKinnon似乎更专注于更大的目标。“你可以有一个蹩脚的经验与60个不同的密码,或者我们可以给你一个好经验,”他说。“这是一个过时的做事的方式。密码真的需要现在就‘死’。”
以下是英文原文：
The Man Who Left Salesforce.com To Build A $600 Million Startup Takes It Personally When Employees Leave His Own Company
When Todd McKinnon first joined Salesforce.com in 2003, his engineering team had 15 people. By 2009, it had grown to 250 engineers.
McKinnon loved his Salesforce job. He was senior VP of engineering, and was considered one of the proteges of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.
But McKinnon saw a huge business opportunity in cloud password management that he couldn’t pass up. It was an idea he knew was going to blow up, and he didn’t want to be that guy sitting there and watching it happen.
So in 2009, McKinnon left Salesforce.com to launch his own startup called Okta, a cloud-based software provider that manages user accounts and login for Web applications.
Benioff apparently didn’t like it. When McKinnon asked him to be an angel investor, Benioff turned him down. There was a lot of tension around Salesforce engineers, as some of them would later join him at Okta.
But it didn’t take long for McKinnon to find other investors. Andreessen Horowitz was one of its early investors, and made its first cloud investment in Okta. So far, Okta has raised $155 million from top VCs such as Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Khosla Ventures. It is now valued at roughly $600 million.
More than 1,500 companies use Okta’s service now, and sales have grown 200% over the past year. Although McKinnon declined to disclose actual sales figures, he said Okta is on track to turn profitable by next year, a feat a lot of cloud software companies struggle to achieve.
Okta’s massive growth has actually spurred some of the big companies, including Salesforce and Microsoft, to create similar products. “We defined this market, but now we have to keep it on the cutting edge because Microsoft and Salesforce released copycat products,” McKinnon told Business Insider. “In a way, these big companies are really validating what we’ve created.”
When asked about his relationship with Benioff, McKinnon said they’re on good terms. In fact, now that he’s running his own company, McKinnon says he’s come to understand Benioff better.
“I didn’t understand it as much at the time as I do now, but founding a company and being the CEO is very personal. You take it personally when people leave,” McKinnon said. “I take it personally when people leave Okta, and I’m sure Marc felt the same way, to some degree with me.”
But McKinnon reiterated he’s never been in a bad relationship with Benioff. If anything, it’s just their competitive nature. “Marc’s passionate about what he’s doing,” McKinnon said. “But competition is very motivating for us, it just fires us up. And we want to win. We want to be the top player in this space.”
When Okta raised $75 million in June, McKinnon said it would be its last funding before going public. With a proven business model that’s generating recurring revenue, Okta may not be too far away from going public, although McKinnon said it would not happen “in the next year.”
Going public is a complicated process, and with millions of dollars in the bank, McKinnon seems more focused on far bigger goals than an IPO. It’s about killing the password at the workplace. “You can have a crappy experience with 60 different passwords, or we can give you a good experience with one,” he said. “It’s an outdated way of doing things. Passwords really need to die now.”
【文章来源：YAHOO FINANCE】
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