1Password's ARR Surpasses $500 Million and Accelerates IPO Preparation
1Password announced that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has exceeded $500 million, a significant increase from approximately $400 million at the end of 2025. The net new ARR grew by about 60% in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026, with a year-over-year increase of about 90% in the third quarter.
The growth is primarily driven by the adoption of developer and AI security tools, with monthly active human users increasing by 200% year-over-year and non-human identity users growing by 500%. These tools are currently used in 16% of enterprise accounts, with the related customer ARR growth rate being about five times that of other customers.
The company has over 200,000 enterprise customers, including 85% of those on the Forbes AI 50 list. Enterprise customers contribute over 75% of ARR, with customers spending over $100,000 annually growing by more than 40% year-over-year. The gross retention rate remains above 90%, while maintaining a double-digit free cash flow profit margin.
Founded in 2005, 1Password initially served as a consumer password management tool. After approximately 14 years without external financing, it completed its first round of $200 million funding in 2019, followed by a $620 million Series C round in 2022 at a valuation of $6.8 billion. CEO David Faugno previously stated that the company was already IPO-ready at $400 million ARR and is currently preparing for an IPO, with a path to reach $1 billion ARR in the coming years.
The company is expanding from traditional password vaults to a unified access platform and agent-facing products, allowing AI agents to securely use passwords and keys without directly viewing or storing credentials. It collaborates with labs and cloud vendors such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and NVIDIA to embed identity layers into agent workflows.
Funding is focused on existing high-retention enterprise customers and new AI security demand. 1Password charges subscription fees by providing dynamic access control and agent identity governance. Platforms that manage trusted credential infrastructure benefit, while simple copycat password management tools face customer switching costs and trust barriers.
The company also launched the 1Password for Agents platform, enabling personal AI agents to log in and operate securely, further shifting its product positioning from static credential storage to dynamic access governance for people, agents, and machines.
Source: Public Information
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1Password was founded in 2005 by AgileBits and has operated profitably through self-funding until accepting its first round of external funding led by Accel in 2019. It subsequently completed a Series C round led by ICONIQ Growth in 2022, achieving a valuation of $6.8 billion. The path shows that it first established customer trust and cash flow before scaling.
Capital is primarily directed towards the development and sales of enterprise identity security products and AI agent-related tools. The company is shifting resources from consumer password storage to providing dynamic access control for enterprises, developers, and agents, embedding identity layers into workflows through collaboration with leading labs, motivated by the new credential and permission governance needs arising from agent scaling.
This is similar to the paths of early companies like Dropbox and Slack, which expanded from personal tools to enterprise collaboration platforms, and resembles Okta's establishment of barriers in the identity authentication field through enterprise integration. The current stage represents an expansion from single-point password management to agent-native identity infrastructure, rather than remaining at the simple tool level.
Essentially, this is a reconstruction of the industry chain: AI agents extend "who is operating" from humans to non-human identities, shifting value from storing static passwords to real-time authorization, revocation, and auditing. 1Password captures control points in this layer through its existing trust network and high-retention customer base, making pure functional replication face higher integration and trust thresholds.
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