# Teleport

> Teleport is the infrastructure identity company. Its open-source Access Platform replaces shared secrets, VPNs, and long-lived credentials with short-lived cryptographic identities for humans, machines, and AI agents accessing servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, applications, and Windows desktops.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Oakland, California, United States
- **Founders:** Ev Kontsevoy (Co-Founder & CEO), Alexander Klizhentas (Co-Founder & CTO), Taylor Wakefield (Co-Founder & COO)
- **Team size:** ~250
- **Products:** Teleport Access, Teleport Identity, Teleport Policy, Teleport Machine & Workload Identity
- **Notable:** Reached $1.1B valuation in May 2022 after $110M Series C, Open-source project with 17,000+ GitHub stars and active community contributions, Adopted by some of the world's largest financial institutions and crypto exchanges

## Products & services

- **Teleport Access** — Single sign-on and short-lived certificate-based access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, web apps, and Windows desktops.
- **Teleport Identity** — Identity governance with access requests, just-in-time approvals, and access lists - eliminates standing privileges.
- **Teleport Policy** — Visualizes and manages access policies across cloud and on-prem infrastructure; surfaces hidden over-privilege.
- **Teleport Machine & Workload Identity** — Issues cryptographic identities to CI/CD jobs, microservices, and AI agents - replaces static API keys and secrets.

## Achievements

- Reached $1.1B valuation in May 2022 after $110M Series C
- Open-source project with 17,000+ GitHub stars and active community contributions
- Adopted by some of the world's largest financial institutions and crypto exchanges
- Recognized in Gartner research on Privileged Access Management modernization

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Refreshed brand and logo, rolled out across product and marketing.
- **2024-09** — Launched Teleport Identity Security to detect hidden privilege and identity sprawl.
- **2025** — Expanded Machine & Workload Identity to cover AI agents and MCP (Model Context Protocol) access.

## Links

- Website: https://goteleport.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-teleport
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/gravitationalco
- GitHub: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Goteleport
- Facebook: https://business.facebook.com/gravitationalinc

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Last updated: 2026-05-23