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Alex Salazar Is Building the Permission Layer for AI's Hands
Before Arcade could help AI agents act, its founders had to let their first idea fail. Alex Salazar's career explains why the useful product was hiding in the permissions underneath.
Sagi Rodin
Sagi Rodin is the CEO and co-founder of Frontegg, a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for B2B SaaS companies. He started coding at 14, served as a database instructor in the Israeli army, earned a computer software engineering degree from the Technion, and led cloud security work at Check Point before spinning the idea for Frontegg out of a problem he kept hitting: every new app needed the same login, user management, and admin plumbing built from scratch. Founded in 2019 with CTO Aviad Mizrachi, Frontegg has raised roughly $70 million and gives developers plug-and-play identity infrastructure so they can focus on their core product.
Oren Harel
Oren Ohayon Harel is the CEO and co-founder of PlainID, the Tel Aviv- and New York-based authorization company that turned policy-based access control (PBAC) from an XACML white paper into a category. He founded PlainID in 2014 with Gal Helemski and Dmitry Tuchinsky after a decade spent inside Israeli banking security, most recently as Deputy CISO at Bank Hapoalim. He raised a $75M Series C led by Insight Partners in December 2021, bringing PlainID's total funding to roughly $100M.