Salt Security: Raises $140M in Series D Funding; at $1.4 Billion Valuation

Salt Security Raises $140M in Series D Funding; at $1.4 Billion Valuation

• Salt Security, a Palo Alto, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel-based API security company, raised $140m in Series D funding
• The round, which brings total funding to $271 million and the valuation to $1.4 billion, was led by CapitalG, with participation from all existing investors
• The company will use the additional capital to expand R&D investment, fuel sales and marketing, and grow its international operations to address the growing number of cyber threats targeting APIs
• SaltSecurity protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application
• Its API Protection Platform is a patented solution preventing API attacks, using machine learning and AI to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs
• Deployed in minutes, the platform learns the granular behavior of a company’s APIs and requires no configuration or customization to pinpoint and block API attackers