{"id":14430,"date":"2021-05-03T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/03\/okta-completes-acquisition-of-auth0\/"},"modified":"2021-05-03T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:00:00","slug":"okta-completes-acquisition-of-auth0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/03\/okta-completes-acquisition-of-auth0\/","title":{"rendered":"Okta completes acquisition of Auth0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Identity leaders combine developer and enterprise expertise, offering customers more flexibility                            <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE \u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 4 May 2021 &#8211;<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okta.com\/\">Okta, Inc.<\/a> <\/b>(NASDAQ:OKTA),&#13;<br \/>\nthe leading independent identity provider, today announced the successful&#13;<br \/>\ncompletion of its acquisition of Auth0, a leading identity platform for&#13;<br \/>\napplication teams. Together, Okta and Auth0 address a broad set of digital&#13;<br \/>\nidentity use cases, providing secure access and enabling everyone to safely use&#13;<br \/>\nany technology. The stock transaction, valued at approximately $6.5 billion,&#13;<br \/>\nwill accelerate Okta&#8217;s growth in the $80 billion identity market. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Auth0 will operate as an&#13;<br \/>\nindependent business unit within Okta, led by Auth0 Chief Executive Officer and&#13;<br \/>\nCo-Founder Eugenio Pace, reporting directly to Todd McKinnon, Chief Executive&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer and Co-Founder of Okta. Both Okta&#8217;s and Auth0&#8217;s platforms will be&#13;<br \/>\nsupported, invested in, and integrated over time \u2014 accelerating innovation and&#13;<br \/>\nmaking the Okta Identity Cloud even more compelling for the full spectrum of&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers and users. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Identity is one of the most&#13;<br \/>\nstrategic investments an organization will make today. A single, unified&#13;<br \/>\nidentity platform has the power to transform an organization by providing&#13;<br \/>\nseamless and secure access for both customers and employees,&#8221; said McKinnon.&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Okta and Auth0 have always shared a vision for the identity market. We&#8217;re also&#13;<br \/>\nboth cloud-first, customer-first companies. By joining forces, we&#8217;ll give our&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers more choice and flexibility, driving tremendous value and enabling&#13;<br \/>\nthem to accelerate innovation. Together, we will shape the future of identity&#13;<br \/>\non the internet, empowering developers to build with identity at the&#13;<br \/>\nfoundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Okta and Auth0 join&#13;<br \/>\nforces today, bringing together two exceptional companies, I&#8217;m more confident&#13;<br \/>\nthan ever that we will deliver on our shared vision to secure access for&#13;<br \/>\neveryone,&#8221; said Pace. &#8220;Auth0&#8217;s focus has always been on enabling&#13;<br \/>\nproduct builders to innovate, and now as one company with a shared vision and&#13;<br \/>\ncombined resources, that innovation will only increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Okta&#8217;s and Auth0&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ncomprehensive, complementary, and flexible identity platforms solve every&#13;<br \/>\nidentity use case, regardless of the audience or user. Okta pioneered&#13;<br \/>\ncloud-based identity, offering enterprise-grade reliability and world-class&#13;<br \/>\nsecurity while prioritizing customer success for organizations of all sizes.&#13;<br \/>\nAuth0 was built by developers for developers. Application builders around the&#13;<br \/>\nworld are loyal to Auth0 for its extensibility, ease of use, scope of&#13;<br \/>\ndocumentation, and developer-friendly experience. With combined expertise&#13;<br \/>\nacross developer communities and the enterprise, Okta and Auth0 will provide&#13;<br \/>\nenhanced depth and breadth of identity solutions and will be even better suited&#13;<br \/>\nto integrate quickly into the modern tech stack of today&#8217;s developers. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Kiva, we&#8217;re on a mission&#13;<br \/>\nto expand financial access to help underserved communities around the world&#13;<br \/>\nthrive. Identity plays an essential role in making that happen,&#8221; said Ken&#13;<br \/>\nLeung, EVP of Engineering, Kiva. &#8220;Today, we leverage Auth0 to provide&#13;<br \/>\nsecure authentication to Kiva&#8217;s partners and lenders, and Okta for workforce&#13;<br \/>\nidentity, giving our team access to the critical technologies they need to best&#13;<br \/>\nserve the millions of global entrepreneurs in our network.\u00a0 We trust both Okta and Auth0 to connect our&#13;<br \/>\npeople and technology, and are excited to see how they evolve and innovate&#13;<br \/>\ntogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Credence goes to those who&#13;<br \/>\ncan help us identify one another in a digital world,&#8221; said Jay Bretzmann,&#13;<br \/>\nProgram Director for Cybersecurity Products, IDC.\u00a0 &#8220;Okta and Auth0 provide the cloud-ready,&#13;<br \/>\ndeveloper-friendly tools to help in the fight. They&#8217;re building the platforms&#13;<br \/>\nand technology we&#8217;ll need to take the next steps. Simple, elegant, and&#13;<br \/>\ncustomer-centric.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Financial Outlook<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>With the completion of the&#13;<br \/>\nacquisition of Auth0, Okta intends to provide a combined financial outlook for&#13;<br \/>\nfiscal year 2022 in conjunction with the release of its first quarter 2022&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial results on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Okta will host a video webcast&#13;<br \/>\nthat day at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time (5:00 p.m. Eastern time) to discuss its&#13;<br \/>\nresults and combined company financial outlook. A webcast replay will be&#13;<br \/>\naccessible from Okta&#8217;s investor relations website at <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.okta.com\/\">https:\/\/investor.okta.com<\/a>. The press release will be accessible from&#13;<br \/>\nOkta&#8217;s investor relations website prior to the commencement of the event. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Advisors<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley &amp; Co. LLC&#13;<br \/>\nserved as financial advisor and Latham &amp; Watkins LLP served as legal&#13;<br \/>\ncounsel to Okta. Qatalyst Partners served as financial advisor and Perkins Coie&#13;<br \/>\nLLP served as legal counsel to Auth0.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Cautionary Language Concerning&#13;<br \/>\nForward-Looking Statements<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This press release contains&#13;<br \/>\nforward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans, and prospects&#13;<br \/>\nincluding statements relating to the anticipated benefits that will be derived&#13;<br \/>\nfrom this transaction, the expected acceleration of Okta&#8217;s growth as a result&#13;<br \/>\nof this transaction, the impact to the Okta Identity Cloud, expected synergies&#13;<br \/>\nresulting from the transaction and expansion of Okta&#8217;s customer base. These&#13;<br \/>\nforward-looking statements are based upon the current expectations and beliefs&#13;<br \/>\nof Okta&#8217;s management as of the date of this release, and are subject to certain&#13;<br \/>\nrisks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially&#13;<br \/>\nfrom those described in the forward-looking statements including, without&#13;<br \/>\nlimitation, the risk of adverse and unpredictable macro-economic conditions,&#13;<br \/>\nthe failure to achieve expected synergies and efficiencies of operations&#13;<br \/>\nbetween Okta and Auth0, the ability of Okta and Auth0 to successfully integrate&#13;<br \/>\ntheir respective businesses, the failure to timely develop and achieve market&#13;<br \/>\nacceptance of the combined business, the loss of any Auth0 customers, the&#13;<br \/>\nability to coordinate strategy and resources between Okta and Auth0, and the&#13;<br \/>\nability of Okta and Auth0 to retain and motivate key employees of Auth0.&#13;<br \/>\nAdditional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from&#13;<br \/>\nthese forward-looking statements are detailed from time to time in the reports&#13;<br \/>\nOkta files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in Okta&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nAnnual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2021. All&#13;<br \/>\nforward-looking statements in this press release are based on information&#13;<br \/>\navailable to Okta as of the date hereof, and Okta disclaims any obligation to&#13;<br \/>\nupdate these forward-looking statements.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-04\/76552\/okta-completes-acquisition-of-auth0\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity leaders combine developer and enterprise expertise, offering customers more flexibility SINGAPORE \u00a0&#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 4 May 2021 &#8211; Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA),&#13; the leading independent identity provider, today announced the successful&#13; completion of its acquisition of Auth0, a leading identity platform for&#13; application teams. 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