Salt Security

Salt Security is a cyber security startup founded in 2018, based in the United States. The company focuses on providing end-to-end API security, allowing businesses to innovate safely and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Salt Security's patented API Protection Platform harnesses the power of cloud-scale big data and time-tested ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks. By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context and actionable intelligence with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and shift-left practices. The company has received a total funding of $271 million and boasts a valuation of $1.4 billion. Its latest $140 Series D round, led by CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, included participation from existing investors such as Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, Advent International, Alkeon Capital, and DFJ Growth. The most recent venture round investment was led by Crowdstrike, a significant milestone for Salt Security's growth and development. Salt Security's unique API Context Engine (ACE) architecture provides design analysis in pre-production, discovers all APIs, pinpoints and stops API attackers, and offers remediation insights. The company holds the only granted patent for using AI to identify and prevent API attacks and is the only solution that automatically and continuously discovers all APIs. The Salt API security platform leads the market with the simplest, most comprehensive, and most effective API security offering, making it an attractive investment opportunity in the cyber security industry.