Salt Security · Jun 2026
Introduced Salt Code to enforce policy inside AI coding assistants such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Codex and Gemini CLI, extending Salt's Agentic Security Platform into the development lifecycle.
Protects organizations from getting breached through their APIs.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Salt Security is a Palo Alto / Tel Aviv cybersecurity company that pioneered API security and now sells the Salt Illuminate Agentic Security Platform, which discovers, governs, and protects APIs, MCP servers, and AI agents across code, cloud, and runtime.
Primary product
Salt Illuminate (Agentic Security Platform)
Founded
2018
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Team size
150-200
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Sub-industry
API Security / Agentic Security
Offices
8 jobs at Salt Security
Business model
Stage
late-stage venture / strategic
Total raised
$281M
Latest round
Strategic investment (CrowdStrike Falcon Fund) · Sep 2022
Sep 2022 · CrowdStrike Falcon Fund
Feb 2022 · CapitalG
May 2021 · Advent International
Dec 2020 · Sequoia Capital
Jun 2020 · Tenaya Capital
Jan 2019 · S Capital
Mar 2016 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Roey Eliyahu
CEO, Co-Founder
COO, Co-Founder
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Iko Azoulay
Executive VP of Technologies
VP of Product
VP of Global Solutions Engineering
Bill Thrash
VP of Customer Experience & Operations
VP of Human Resources
VP of Sales Americas
Investors
Customer-centric, collaborative, positive, fast-moving, and solution-oriented; public culture signals emphasize flexibility, teamwork, simplicity, and a strong focus on solving customer problems.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public signals indicate competitive compensation, equity, and an ESPP, but no public salary bands or visa policy were found.
Benefits
Pricing
Sales-led, quote-based enterprise pricing with demo / contact-sales motion.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$40M-$50M
Estimated monthly visits
40K
Traffic estimate as of Jan 2026
Salt Security · Jun 2026
Introduced Salt Code to enforce policy inside AI coding assistants such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Codex and Gemini CLI, extending Salt's Agentic Security Platform into the development lifecycle.
Salt Security · Apr 2026
Research report said 92% of organizations lack advanced security maturity for AI-agent environments and framed the 'Agentic Security Gap'.
Salt Security / PRNewswire · Mar 2026
Announced a platform to secure the agentic security graph across LLMs, MCP servers and APIs with posture management and detection/response capabilities.
Salt Security / PRNewswire · Dec 2025
Launched a natural-language interface for querying API inventory, risks, and posture gaps using AWS Bedrock.
Salt Security / PRNewswire · Nov 2025
Added GitHub Connect to discover shadow APIs and MCP risks in source code before deployment and tie code-level findings to runtime risk scoring.