Kela
Defense AI
$299Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
28open roles
$200Mlatest round · Venture round · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
1backers · Ground Up Ventures
Overview
Kela is a secure, open platform for defense technology that enables rapid integration of commercial and military systems for Western defense forces. The company was designed by Israeli engineers and hires technical program managers, mechanical design engineers, hardware engineers and quality engineers. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
How Kela hires
Truth index
A 100/100
Median time to fill
21 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
4%
Reposted roles
4%
Kela scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 24 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 4% have gone stale and 4% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 21 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$299M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$200M
Venture round · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
33
+8 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Ground Up Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
45/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 5
Raised a round Venture round $200M · Globes
May 13, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $60M · ctech
Apr 2, 2025
Launched KELA Launches Brand Control to Proactively Protect Organizations from Phishing, Impersonation and Brand Abuse · PRNewswire
Mar 17, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $39M · Globes
Jun 10, 2024
Launched KELA Launches Intelligence Driven Third-Party Cyber Risk Scoring Solution to Enhance Cybersecurity Posture · PRNewswire
Nov 1, 2022
Partnership KELA Announces New Partnership With CYWARE to Deliver Data and Intelligence From Its Unique Security Data Lake · newswire.com
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Web presence
top 8%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$300k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Hardware Engineer
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
33
8 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
12 days
faster than 73% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
20% ▲
DevOps
9% ▼
Product
9% ▼
Leadership
7% ▲
Finance
7% ▼
Solutions
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+7 jobs in a week
Nov 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Nov 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack
Nov 2026
Added PCI DSS to stack
Nov 2026
Added Google Drive to stack
Nov 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Nov 2026
Added Crowdstrike to stack
Nov 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Nov 2026
Added GCP to stack
Nov 2026
Added FinOps to stack
Nov 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Nov 2026
Added Agile to stack
Nov 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Kela over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
62
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python40%
Bash24%
C++16%
Rust12%
Frameworks & libraries
Embassy4%
NumPy4%
PyTorch4%
Databases
Google BigQuery4%
Snowflake4%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes32%
Linux28%
GitHub16%
AWS16%
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News
KELA Enters into Cybersecurity Partnership Agreement with Hitachi Solutions
KELA and Hitachi Solutions combine cyber threat intelligence with integration and managed services to accelerate Active Cyber Defense in Japan.
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KELA and Fujitsu Enter into Cybersecurity Collaboration Agreement
Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- KELA K.K., the Japanese entity of cyber threat intelligence company KELA Inc. (Head Office:...
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KELA and Fujitsu Enter into Cybersecurity Collaboration Agreement
KELA and Fujitsu combine global cyber threat intelligence with Fujitsu's managed services to accelerate Active Cyber Defense in Japan. Read the announcement.
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KELA research leads to alleged TeamPCP Members Arrested
Intelligence naming the individuals behind the aliases, and mapping the infrastructure and victims, went to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Western Australia Police Force (WAPF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in March and April 2026
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Israeli startups Kela and eyesAtop to power IDF's autonomous attack drones
The two companies will build the autonomous command-and-control platform for the military's next-generation attack drone fleet after defeating U.S.-based rival Ondas.
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Steamhouse raises Rs 50 crore in pre-IPO funding from Madhusudhan Kela-backed funds, Niveshaay- Moneycontrol.com
In a public announcement on Thursday, the company said it has allotted 68,49,315 equity shares at an issue price of Rs 73 apiece, raising an aggregate Rs 49.99 crore through a private placement.
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The Next Defence Primes: Kela, Dominion Dynamics and Terra Leaders Join Resilience Conference London
Who will build the next defence primes? The defence industrial base is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation. A new cohort of
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India must move from research papers to real-world innovation: Dr Ajay Kela, CEO & Board Member, Wadhwani Foundation
Dr Ajay Kela, CEO & Board Member, Wadhwani Foundation, speaks to ETEducation on AI in higher education, employability, translational research, academia-industry collaboration, continuous skilling, innovation ecosystem, research commercialisation, Wadhwani
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/C O R R E C T I O N -- Kela Technologies/
Kela Technologies, a defense company building the open, modular platform that allied militaries use to win software-defined warfare, and Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading supplier of high-performance, automot
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Kela raising $200 million at $1 billion valuation with backing from Bill Ackman and Eric Schmidt
The Israeli defense startup is building an operating system to integrate modern military systems.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Israel
HQ
25 open roles 33 posted in 90 days 32% engineering 200-500 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Operations, Industrial Engineering