ForgeRock was founded in 2010 on a mere $40,000 in seed capital and the vision of five friends.
The frontman of the open identity stack, ForgeRock — backed by Accel Partners — powers the world's largest companies and government organizations with the most disruptive identity solutions. Our goal is simple: to deliver the best open source identity stack for securing anything, anywhere, on any device.
Developing solutions is what we do. What drives us is a different story.
Innovation
We are dedicated to open source because it drives innovation and fuels the information economy.
People
We believe a great band can jam wherever they are with a healthy work-life balance empowered by full family support.
Passion
ForgeRock is the result of an overdose of can-do attitude.
Naming the Band
Forge. As a noun, a forge is used by craftsmen to create strong, durable metal. As a verb, it means to build something with great effort, whether it be metal or a relationship built on trust. It's also the name of the pub in London where we drank Steve Ferris into a partnership.
Rock. Two of our passions: music and Kjerag, a Norwegian mountain near the company's founding headquarters where a boulder sits wedged between two rocks thousands of feet in the sky above water. This boulder inspired the ForgeRock logo and is a metaphor for the founding of the company: BASE jumpers from all over the world come here to take a chance and dive off the high cliffs.