Aikido Security has reached a major growth milestone with a fresh funding round that values the business at $1bn.
The company has raised $60m in a Series B funding round led by DST Global, with participation from PSG Equity and continued backing from existing investors Notion Capital and Singular.
Founded in 2022, Aikido Security was built to address the growing complexity of modern software development, where applications are continuously updated and increasingly shaped by AI-generated code and autonomous systems. The company has developed a single, integrated platform designed to replace fragmented security tools, enabling development teams to detect, prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities automatically across the entire software lifecycle.
Aikido’s platform embeds security directly into how applications are built, deployed and run, helping organisations move away from manual reviews and alert-heavy workflows that struggle to keep pace with rapid deployment cycles. By unifying security from code to cloud to runtime, the platform aims to reduce noise for developers while improving protection against increasingly sophisticated AI-driven attacks.
The new funding will be used to further enhance Aikido’s unified security platform and accelerate the company’s vision for autonomous, self-securing software. This includes expanding capabilities that allow vulnerabilities to be discovered, validated and fixed automatically as part of continuous development and deployment processes.
The investment comes amid mounting pressure on cybersecurity teams as software build cycles shrink from months to minutes. As development velocity increases, vulnerabilities are introduced more frequently, overwhelming traditional, human-led security processes and creating growing risk for organisations across sectors.
Aikido has seen rapid commercial traction over the past year, reporting five-times revenue growth and nearly three-times customer growth. The company now counts organisations such as the Premier League, Niantic, Revolut and SoundCloud among its customers, with more than 100,000 teams using the platform globally. This momentum has made Aikido the fastest-ever European cybersecurity company to reach unicorn status.
Aikido Security CEO Willem Delbare said, “How software is built today looks nothing like it did even a few years ago, but most security tooling is still anchored to the past. As build cycles collapse from months to minutes, security needs to evolve. It must be continuous, adaptive, and autonomous, securing software as a dynamic system.”
DST Global co-founder and managing partner Tom Stafford said, “AI is transforming how software is created and Aikido is building the security platform aligned with this new paradigm. The Aikido team combines security expertise with a clear engineering-first mindset – treating security as engineering, not an afterthought. Aikido enables its customers to secure their code, cloud and runtime in one central system, whilst finding and fixing vulnerabilities automatically. We are excited to partner with Willem and the Aikido team.”
As part of its roadmap, Aikido recently launched Aikido Attack, an AI-powered penetration testing product that deploys specialised agents to identify vulnerabilities, validate exploitability and provide built-in remediation. The company plans to roll out additional autonomous testing and remediation capabilities over time, embedding self-securing loops into every software release.
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