WSO2

WSO2 LLC
Company type
Private
IndustryMiddleware
FoundedAugust 4, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-08-04)[1]
Founders
Headquarters
Colombo
,
Sri Lanka
Number of locations
11 (2023[2])
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
OwnerEQT Private Capital Asia
Number of employees
900+[3]
Websitewso2.com Edit this at Wikidata

WSO2 is a global technology company that develops foundational platforms for enterprises to meet their agentic needs. Founded in 2005, the company provides tools that enable organizations to build, connect, and manage digital services and systems across cloud and on-premises environments.

WSO2’s product offerings include platforms for integration, identity and access management, and API management, as well as tools that support the development and deployment of applications and services.

The company is headquartered in Sri Lanka and operates internationally, serving enterprise customers across multiple industries. WSO2’s software is distributed under open-source licenses and is designed to support open standards and interoperability.

History

WSO2 was founded by Sanjiva Weerawarana, Paul Fremantle, and Davanum Srinivas in August 2005, backed by Intel Capital, Toba Capital, and Pacific Controls. Weerawarana[4] was an IBM researcher and a founder of the Web services platform.[5][6] He led the creation of IBM SOAP4J,[7] which later became Apache SOAP, and was the architect of other notable projects. Fremantle was one of the authors of IBM's Web Services Invocation Framework and the Web Services Gateway.[8] An Apache member since the original Apache SOAP project, Fremantle oversaw the donation of WSIF and WSDL4J to Apache and led IBM's involvement in the Axis C/C++ project.

Fremantle was WSO2's chief technology officer (CTO) from 2008-2020,[9][10] and was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs his first year in the role.[11] Currently, Fremantle serves as a consultant for multiple technology companies, including WSO2.[10] In 2017, Tyler Jewell took over as CEO [12] while Weerawarana focused on the Ballerina open-source project.[13][14] In 2019, Vinny Smith became the Executive Chairman.[15] Weerawarana returned to the role of CEO in 2020.[14]

A subsidiary, WSO2Mobile, was launched in 2013, with Harsha Purasinghe of Microimage as the CEO and co-founder.[16] In March 2015, WSO2.Telco was launched in partnership with Malaysian telecommunications company Axiata,[17] which held a majority stake in the venture.[18] WSO2Mobile has since been re-absorbed into its parent company.

EQT AB's Asian private fund EQT Private Capital Asia acquired the company for over $600 million in May 2024.[19] The acquisition was completed three months later.[20]

Financial

In 2006, Intel Capital invested $4 million in WSO2,[21] and continued to invest in subsequent years. In 2010, Godel Technologies invested in WSO2 for an unspecified amount,[22] and in 2012 the company raised a third round of $10 million.[23][24] Official WSO2 records point to this being from Toba Capital, Cisco, and Intel Capital.[25] In August 2015, a funding round led by Pacific Controls and Toba raised another $20 million.[26][27] In November 2021, WSO2 obtained $90 million in financing from Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit.[28] In May 2022, WSO2 completed its Series E funding with an additional $93 million investment from Info Edge.[29]

Open-source engagement

Historically, WSO2 has had a close connection to the Apache community, with a significant portion of their products based on or contributing to the Apache product stack.[30] Likewise, many of WSO2's top leadership have contributed to Apache projects. In 2013, WSO2 donated its Stratos project to Apache.[31][32]

WSO2 first introduced Ballerina, an open-source, general-purpose concurrent and strongly typed programming language with both textual and graphical syntaxes, optimized for integration in 2017.[33] General availability of Ballerina 1.0 at https://ballerina.io was then announced in 2019.[33][34] In a March 2023 product review, InfoWorld rated Ballerina 2201.4.0 (Swan Lake) 4 stars (out of a possible 5).[35]

Products

WSO2 provides a range of software platforms focused on API management, integration, identity and access management, agent management, and platform engineering. These offerings are intended to support organizations in modernizing existing IT systems by enabling interoperability between legacy infrastructure and cloud-based environments. The platforms facilitate the integration of disparate systems, management of digital interactions, and incremental adoption of artificial intelligence capabilities, including support for agent-based architectures.

WSO2 emphasizes the use of open-source technologies and supports multiple deployment models, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, allowing organizations to align implementations with regulatory, operational, and regional considerations such as data sovereignty and infrastructure control.

  • Agent Platform - An open platform for enterprise AI agents
  • API Platform - An open platform to control APIs, AI, and MCP to ship, govern, monetize APIs, AI and MCP across any cloud or gateway
  • Integration platform - A platform that connects the agentic enterprise with the building of AI agents, and any type of integration with complete deployment flexibility and data sovereignty
  • Identity platform - One API-first platform to orchestrate identity for humans and AI agents, securing organizations with the flexibility of open source software
  • Engineering platform - An AI-native foundation for enterprise platform teams, delivering modular golden paths with built-in CI/CD automation, deep observability, and governance-by-design to accelerate developer and agent delivery

Operations

As of 2023, WSO2 has offices in: Mountain View, California; Austin, Texas; London, UK; São Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; Munich, Germany; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Mumbai, India; Singapore, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. The bulk of its research and operations are conducted from its main office in Colombo.[36]

References

  1. ^ "Happy 19th Birthday WSO2! - Sanjiva Weerawarana". Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  2. ^ "WSO2: Contact Us". Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  3. ^ "about WSO2". WSO2. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  4. ^ "WSO2 Ten Years: It Takes Two to Tango! | The Source". wso2.com. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  5. ^ "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1" (PDF). W3C.
  6. ^ "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language" (PDF). W3C. 27 February 2006.
  7. ^ Weerawarana, Sanjiva. "10 years of SOAP!". Retrieved 2020-05-12.
  8. ^ "Workshop: WSO2 Integration Platform Discovery". wso2.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  9. ^ "Sanjiva Weerawarana's Blog: Paul becomes CTO of WSO2". sanjiva.weerawarana.org. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  10. ^ a b "Paul Fremantle LinkedIn profile".
  11. ^ "The best CTOs of 2008". InfoWorld. 2 June 2008. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  12. ^ "Time for a CEO change in WSO2". medium.com. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
  13. ^ "Ballerina - Announcing Ballerina 1.0". blog.ballerina.io. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  14. ^ a b "Sanjiva Weerawarana LinkedIn Profile".
  15. ^ "WSO2 Update: Goodbye Tyler, Hello Vinny!". wso2.com. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  16. ^ "WSO2 Launches WSO2Mobile Subsidiary to Focus on Enterprise Mobile Applications and Device Management". wso2.com. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  17. ^ "WSO2, Axiata Group partner to launch open source API platform | Daily FT". www.ft.lk. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  18. ^ "Axiata to invest $2.6m in US-based WSO2 Telco Inc for 70% stake". DealStreetAsia. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  19. ^ Sawers, Paul (2024-05-02). "EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M". TechCrunch.
  20. ^ "EQT Completes Acquisition of WSO2". WSO2. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  21. ^ "WSO2 | Success Stories". www.intelcapital.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-27. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  22. ^ "GODELTECH INVESTS IN WSO2- Godel Technologies | WSO2 Inc". wso2.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  23. ^ "SEC FORM D". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  24. ^ "Funding Daily: A truly black Friday". VentureBeat. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  25. ^ "WSO2 Attracts $10 Million in Funding Following 220% Year Over Year Growth in New Customer Adoption of WSO2's Cloud and Enterprise Middleware | WSO2 Inc". wso2.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  26. ^ "SEC FORM D". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  27. ^ "Open Source Cloud and Middleware Company WSO2 Attracts $20 Million in Funding Led by Pacific Controls, Global Provider of Internet of Things Managed Solutions". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  28. ^ "Goldman Sachs Injects $90 Million Into Low-Code Software Maker WSO2". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  29. ^ "WSO2 completes $93 mn series E funding with investment from Info Edge". www.business-standard.com. 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  30. ^ "WSO2 and the Apache Way | WSO2 Inc". wso2.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  31. ^ Avram, Abel (24 June 2013). "WSO2 Donates Stratos to the Apache Foundation". InfoQ. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  32. ^ Mayer, Chris (25 June 2013). "WSO2's DIY cloud Stratos welcomed into Apache Incubator". jaxenter. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  33. ^ a b "Ballerina - Ballerina Home". ballerina.io.
  34. ^ Hall, Susan (2019-09-11). "Ballerina Programming Language Revamped, at 1.0". The New Stack. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  35. ^ Heller, Martin (2023-03-08). "Ballerina: A programming language for the cloud". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  36. ^ "Contact". wso2.com. Retrieved 2023-05-31.

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