Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Solo.io is a privately held cloud-native infrastructure company that helps enterprises securely connect, observe, and govern applications, APIs, services, and AI workloads across Kubernetes, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Its strategy increasingly centers on AI-ready application networking and open-source infrastructure.
Primary product
Gloo Platform, an enterprise application-networking platform spanning API gateway, service mesh, ingress, egress, security, observability, traffic management, and AI/agent connectivity. Related open-source projects include kgateway, Istio integrations, kagent, and Agentgateway.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
222 Third Street, Suite 3300, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
Team size
100-150
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cloud-native application networking, API management, service mesh, and AI infrastructure
Offices
Business model
Leadership
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Product Officer
VP, Global Field CTO
VP of Sales
William Krause
Vice President of Customer Success
Denis Jannot
VP, Product Excellence
Head of GTM Strategy & Operations
Director, Worldwide Revenue Operations
Public materials emphasize open-source contribution, cloud-native engineering, customer focus, community-led adoption, and distributed international work. The CEO has publicly discussed restructuring the company after acknowledging earlier leadership and hiring mistakes. Third-party employee-review data reports a 3.0/5 overall rating from 35 reviews, with culture rated 2.8/5; this is directional rather than verified company policy.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
No reliable public company-wide compensation bands were found. Third-party employer-review data reports compensation at 3.6/5. Job postings and public profiles indicate distributed and remote roles, but do not establish consistent salary ranges or visa policy.
Pricing
Enterprise quote-based pricing; open-source components are generally available without license fees, while commercial Gloo Platform capabilities, support, and enterprise features are sold through a sales process.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M annually; one third-party estimate is approximately $6M
Estimated monthly visits
140.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Solo.io raised a $135 million Series C at an approximately $1 billion valuation. The large round creates a high private-market valuation and associated growth-expectation risk, although no later write-down or down round was found.
SourceCEO Idit Levine described a company-wide restructuring after acknowledging leadership and hiring mistakes, including changes beginning with the sales organization. The source does not characterize this as a formal layoff event.
SourceSolo.io donated Agentgateway to the Linux Foundation. This is not a shutdown; it shifts governance of a strategic open-source project to a neutral foundation and may reduce direct product control.
SourceThe Register · Aug 2025
Interview with CEO Idit Levine covering the company's $135 million Series C, roughly $1 billion valuation, leadership mistakes, restructuring, and the company's evolution toward AI infrastructure.
SiliconANGLE · Aug 2025
Solo.io donated Agentgateway to the Linux Foundation, with support from contributors including AWS, Cisco, Huawei, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Akamai.
VentureBeat · Jul 2025
Coverage of Solo.io's 2025 award and reported traction for Kagent Studio, including more than 100 contributors and over 1,100 GitHub stars at the time of publication.
The New Stack · Apr 2025
Solo.io announced the donation of kagent to the CNCF and introduced an MCP Gateway, alongside additional open-source and ambient-mesh announcements.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Feb 2025
CNCF described Solo.io's donation and renaming of Gloo Gateway to kgateway, the move to CNCF sandbox governance, and plans to deprecate the legacy Gloo open-source repository over time.
5 jobs at Solo.io