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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|'''API-security company co-founded by Roey Eliyahu, a veteran of an elite IDF cyber-security unit; valued at $1.4bn in 2022'''}}<br />
{{Infobox company<br />
| name = Salt Security<br />
| type = Private<br />
| founded = {{Start date|2016}}<br />
| founder = [[Roey Eliyahu]], [[Michael Nicosia]]<br />
| industry = Cyber security (API security)<br />
}}<br />
'''Salt Security''' is a cyber-security company that protects application programming interfaces (APIs). It was founded in 2016 by [[Roey Eliyahu]], its chief executive, and [[Michael Nicosia]]. In February 2022 it raised $140 million in a Series D round led by [[CapitalG]], the growth fund of [[Google]]'s parent company Alphabet, at a valuation of $1.4 billion.<ref name="CtechSalt">Meir Orbach, [https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3929187,00.html Salt Security reaches $1.4 billion valuation in $140 million Series D], ''Ctech'', 10 February 2022, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><br />
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== Founders and the IDF ==<br />
A 2025 company blog post says that "In Roey’s years in one of the most elite cybersecurity units of the [[Israel Defense Forces]] (IDF), when his charter was offensive and defensive hacking of the government’s military and civilian systems, he found APIs the easiest way to break in."<ref name="SaltBlog">Salt Security, [https://salt.security/blog/salt-security-the-api-security-disruptor-and-globee-gold-winner API Security Disruptor and Globee Gold Winner Salt Security], ''Salt Security'' (company blog), 1 May 2025, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> The company does not name the unit.<br />
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== Funding ==<br />
Salt said the 2022 round brought its total funding to $271 million, $210 million of it raised in the previous twelve months.<ref name="SaltSeriesD">Salt Security, [https://salt.security/press-releases/salt-security-raises-140-million-series-d-round-led-by-capitalg-at-1-4-billion-valuation Salt Security Raises $140 Million Series D Round Led by CapitalG at $1.4 Billion Valuation], ''Salt Security'' (press release), 10 February 2022, accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> ''Ctech'' listed earlier investors as [[Sequoia Capital]], [[Y Combinator]], Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, [[Advent International]], Alkeon Capital and DFJ Growth.<ref name="CtechSalt" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Noname Security]]<br />
* [[Israel Defense Forces]]<br />
* [[Cyber and tech firms founded by ex Unit 8200 or occupation forces veterans]]<br />
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