Salt Security YC Application
Salt Security went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Winter 2016
- Industry
- B2BSecurity
- Team size
- 200
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2015
Founders
Roey EliyahuFounder/CEO
What Salt Security does
Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Its patented API Protection Platform is the only API security solution that combines 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 with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and shift-left practices. Deployed quickly and seamlessly integrated within existing systems, the Salt platform gives customers immediate value and protection, so they can innovate with confidence and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. Salt pioneered API security and is the industry leader for API security with a proven record of success. You can watch a 90-second overview video of the Salt Security API Protection Platform here:
Salt Security's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Salt Security, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Salt Security
API security to stop breaches
We built an API Protection Platform that uses cloud-scale data and machine learning to detect and stop attacks on APIs. It watches millions of API calls over time, finds threats other tools miss, and prevents breaches by giving security teams real-time, actionable insights.
We live and work in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel. After YC, the company will be based in Palo Alto and maintain engineering in Tel Aviv.
Palo Alto gives us proximity to enterprise customers and investors in the US, where many of our users are. Tel Aviv is home to strong cybersecurity engineering talent and where we started the company.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Salt Security YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Salt Security's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Salt Security would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Salt Security in?
Salt Security was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 batch.
Who founded Salt Security?
Salt Security was founded by Roey Eliyahu.
What does Salt Security do?
Protects organizations from getting breached through their APIs.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Salt Security's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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