Ping Identity

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Ping Identity
Company type Private
IndustryIT Software & Services
Founded2002;22 years ago (2002)
Founders
  • Andre Durand
  • Bryan Field-Elliot
Headquarters
Denver, CO
,
United States
Number of locations
11
Key people
Andre Durand (CEO)
Products
  • Single Sign-On
  • multi-factor authentication
  • directory
  • access security
  • API cybersecurity
  • data governance
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$299 million (2021)
Decrease2.svgUS$−79 million (2021)
Decrease2.svgUS$−64 million (2021)
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$1.18 billion (2021)
Total equity Increase2.svgUS$741 million (2021)
Owner Thoma Bravo
Number of employees
1,247 (2021)
Website pingidentity.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Ping Identity Corporation is an American software company established in 2002 by Andre Durand and Bryan Field-Elliot. It is headquartered in Denver with development offices in Vancouver, Tel Aviv, Austin, Boston and Edinburgh. [2] Ping also has European operations with offices in London, Paris, and Switzerland as well as offices in Bangalore, Melbourne, and Tokyo, serving Asia-pacific. It was a publicly traded company until getting acquired by Thoma Bravo and taken private in October 2022.

Contents

The company's software provides federated identity management and self-hosted identity access management to web identities via attribute based access controls, [3] similar to identity management system tools developed by Microsoft and Okta. [4] The Single Sign-On (SSO) option gives users a single set of credentials to access applications (web applications, apps on mobile devices, VPN, etc) that have company data. This is primarily done with identity providers such as Ping, Okta, and Microsoft Azure by leveraging open standards such as SAML and OAuth.

Ping Identity is a software company that specializes in identity management solutions, providing a suite of products including PingID for multifactor authentication, PingFederate for single sign-on capabilities, PingOne for cloud identity, PingAccess for access management, PingDirectory for identity storage, PingAuthorize for policy-based access control, and PingIntelligence for AI-powered cyber threat detection. Together with solutions from Okta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google, these constitute the "identity meta system" as defined in "Design Rationale behind the Identity Metasystem Architecture," which refers to an interoperable architecture for digital identity. [5]

History

Ping Identity Corporation is a software company established in 2002 by Andre Durand and Bryan Field-Elliot, in Denver, Colorado. [6] Ping Identity provides federated identity management and self-hosted identity access management (IAM) solutions to web identities and single sign-on solutions, being one of a number of organizations competing to provide standards to replace passwords for authenticating to web applications. [7]

Ping Identity has received a number of rounds of funding, beginning with a Series A on April 16, 2004. [8] Since then, it has received $35 million from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on September 18, 2014, [9] $44 million from DFJ Growth and W Capital Partners on July 16, 2013, [10] as well as $21 million from Silicon Valley Bank, Triangle Peak Partners on June 21, 2011, [11] and $13 million from Appian Ventures. [12]

Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm based in Austin, Texas, acquired majority ownership of Ping Identity in a leveraged buyout for $600 million on June 1, 2016. [13] At the time of the sale, Ping Identity had already taken $125 million in funding. [14]

In September 2019, Vista Equity Partners took the company public rather than selling it. [15] Goldman Sachs led Ping Identity's initial public offering (IPO). [16]

Ping Identity Holding Corp was initially listed on the New York Stock Exchange with 12,500,000 shares of common stock at $15.00 per share. [17] The value of the stock rose $5 in its first day and jumped to a 30% increase in the market debut. [18] This was the first organization that Vista Holdings took public. [19] Vista retained 80 percent ownership of the company. [20]

In August 2022, Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Ping Identity for $2.8 billion in an all-cash transaction. [21] The acquisition was completed in October 2022. [22]

On completion of Thoma Bravo's acquisition of ForgeRock in August 2023, the private equity firm announced that ForgeRock would be integrated into Ping Identity. [23]

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References

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