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News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$34M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$23M
Series B · Oct 2020 · 6 yr ago
Team
106
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Oct 2025 · +2% in a year
Hiring now
6
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Redpoint Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
72 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, in the news, rising traction
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
Mar 25 Launched Solo.io Launches agentevals Open Source Project, Contributes agentregistry to CNCF · Cloud Native Now Jul 11, 2025 Launched Solo.io unveils Kagent Studio for Kubernetes · Venturebeat Feb 18, 2021 Launched Solo.io launches its enterprise service mesh platform into general availability · SiliconANGLE Oct 1, 2020 Raised a round Series B $23M · SiliconANGLE Dec 10, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $11M · TechCrunch 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
12 public repositories · +1%
Hacker News stories
30
best: 41 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Oct 2020 $23M — SiliconANGLE
Venture round Dec 2018 $11M — TechCrunch
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How Solo.io hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Solo.io scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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

Overview

Solo.io is an enterprise cloud-native application networking, API management, and service mesh platform headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2017 by CEO Idit Levine, the Series C unicorn has raised $175 million in total venture funding - reaching a $1 billion valuation backed by Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and True Ventures.

News

News YahooFinance 1 month ago
Solo.io Extends Agentic Governance to Any Environment with Solo Enterprise for agentgateway
Enterprise identity, policy, and observability for agentic traffic, now available anywhereCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Solo.io, the leading provider of cloud native connectivity and AI-ready infrastructure, today announced a standa
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News Techstrong.ai 1 month ago
Solo.io Pushes Agentic AI Governance to the Desktop with Open-Source agentdesktop
Agentdesktop aims to give enterprises visibility, policy controls, and identity management for Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-agent tools.
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News markets.businessinsider.com 1 month ago
Solo.io Extends Agentic Governance to the Desktop with agentdesktop
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Solo.io, the leading provider of cloud native connectivity and AI-ready infrastructure, tod...
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News LifeInsider 2 months ago
Taking solo birthday trips abroad taught me that I don't need company to do something meaningful
At first, celebrating my birthday alone in a foreign country felt strange. Now I can't stop taking annual trips by myself.
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Award US News & World Report 3 months ago
Solo Vacations: 33 Best Places to Travel Alone for 2026-2027
Expect plenty of culture, beautiful scenery, friendly locals and excellent food on these solo trips.
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Award Forbes 4 months ago
The 36 Best Places For Solo Female Travel, Chosen By Experts
From Japan and Morocco to Ireland and Bali, six travel experts share their favorite destinations for women traveling alone, plus practical tips.
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News Virtualization Review 6 months ago
KubeCon 2026 EU Day 1 Recap -- The World
KubeCon EU 2026 drew a record 13,500 attendees to Amsterdam -- the largest open-source software meetup in history. Day 1 keynotes centered on AI infrastructure: NVIDIA joined CNCF as a Platinum member and donated its GPU driver as a standard reference for
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News InfoWorld 7 months ago
How to build an enterprise-grade MCP registry
MCP registries are emerging as the new integration catalog for AI agents. Building one for the enterprise requires semantic discovery, strong governance, and developer-friendly controls.
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News Cloud Native Now 7 months ago
Istio Weaves 'Future-Ready' Service Mesh for AI
At KubeCon 2026, Istio unveils Ambient Multicluster and the Gateway API Inference Extension to simplify AI infrastructure.
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News heise online 7 months ago
KubeCon EU 2026: Solo.io bringt Observability für KI-Agenten-Workflows
Agentevals macht KI-Agenten messbar: Das neue Tool von Solo.io nutzt Telemetriedaten und eigene Metriken, um Qualität und Effizienz zu bewerten.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Solo.io over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
68/100AI adopter
Languages
Bash
Go
Python
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
Linux
Istio
API Gateway
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Solo.io tech stack 18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
6
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
42 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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.
Solutions
50% ▲
Sales
33% ▼
Product
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Sep 2026
Added API Gateway to stack Sep 2026
Added A2A to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
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Cambridge United States
HQ
Cambridge
222 Third Street, Suite 3130, Cambridge, MA, 02142, US
careers board, company site
Boston United States
Regional office
Reimagining infrastructure for cloud & AI
68 Harrison Avenue Ste 605 PMB 581361, Boston, MA 02111, United States
opened 2020 company site

Jobs

≈ $131k – $246k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
A2A
DevOps
Cilium
Istio
Envoy
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Service Mesh
Gateway API
eBPF
API Gateway
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
Apply
≈ $132k – $275k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • United States
GraphQL
DevOps
Istio
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
eBPF
Linux
Apply
≈ $137k – $256k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
Bash
GraphQL
DevOps
Istio
Envoy
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
eBPF
Linux
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$34M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2020 $23M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $11M Details