# Rami Tamir

> Rami Tamir is Salto’s co-founder and CEO and a software entrepreneur whose earlier companies include Pentacom, Qumranet and Ravello Systems, acquired by Cisco, Red Hat and Oracle respectively. His work spans networking, virtualization, cloud infrastructure and business application configuration.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Salto
- **Organizations:** Salto, Pentacom, Cisco, Qumranet, Red Hat, Ravello Systems, Oracle
- **From:** Nazareth, Israel
- **Education:** BSc in Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, MBA, Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University
- **Known for:** Co-founded companies acquired by Cisco, Red Hat and Oracle., Co-founded Qumranet, the company behind KVM; Red Hat paid approximately $107 million in cash for it in September 2008., Co-founded Salto, which announced funding rounds of $27 million in 2020 and $42 million in 2021.

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Co-founded Pentacom and led software development.
- **2000** — Pentacom acquired by Cisco; Tamir subsequently led engineering groups in high-end routing.
- **2005** — Co-founded Qumranet, where he served as president.
- **2008** — Red Hat acquired Qumranet; Tamir became a vice president of engineering overseeing virtualization development.
- **2011** — Co-founded Ravello Systems and served as CEO.
- **2016** — Oracle acquired Ravello; Tamir subsequently headed its product line as a vice president.
- **2019** — Co-founded Salto with Benny Schnaider and Gil Hoffer.
- **2020** — Salto launched publicly with a $27 million Series A.
- **2021** — Salto announced a $42 million Series B.

## Achievements

- Co-founded companies acquired by Cisco, Red Hat and Oracle.
- Co-founded Qumranet, the company behind KVM; Red Hat paid approximately $107 million in cash for it in September 2008.
- Co-founded Salto, which announced funding rounds of $27 million in 2020 and $42 million in 2021.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Discussed Salto’s customer validation, sales model, the 2023 pricing adjustment and outside interests on The SaaS Podcast, episode 440.
- **2025-04** — Published personal reflections on choosing software and repeatedly starting companies to solve problems.

## Links

- Website: https://www.salto.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramitamir/

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