Good Technology
Enterprise securityUSA
New to Unitard
π€ Acquired
PeakΒ $1.1 BillionToday
-61%
from peak
- π¦Became a unicornSep 2014
- πPeak valuation$1.1 Billion β14
- πBecame a UnitardSep 2015
- πΈLast valuation~$429M
Current status
Acquired Β· ~$430M
The rise & fall
6 moments Β· 1996β2015The key moments.
1996
1996
Founded as Visto
The mobile-email pioneer later buys the Good name from Motorola and takes it as its own.
Wikipedia
2009
2009
A patent payday and a new name
BlackBerry maker RIM pays Visto $267.5M to settle patent suits; the same year Visto buys Good Technology from Motorola and takes the name.
Reuters
Sep 2014
Sep 2014
The peak: a $1.1B unicorn, S-1 on file$1.1B
A late round crowns the enterprise mobile-security firm at ~$1.1B while its IPO paperwork sits with the SEC.
GlobeNewswire
2015
2015
The IPO that never came
Weak financials force Good to shelve the offering and quietly shop itself instead.
NYT
Sep 2015
Sep 2015
Acquired by BlackBerry for ~$425M$425M
Less than half the peak β instantly the textbook example of a marked-down unicorn, with preferred investors paid ahead of employees holding common stock.
GlobeNewswire
How it happened
Good Technology was a U.S. enterprise mobile-security firm that reached a ~$1.1B valuation in 2014 and filed to go public. Weak financials forced it to abandon its IPO, and it was acquired by BlackBerry in 2015 for about $425M-$430M, less than half its peak private valuation, a widely cited example of a marked-down unicorn.
Source: GlobeNewswire; BlackBerry acq. $425M, 2015
Who ran it
Current roles as self-reported on LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-08-19. See our methodology.
