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Aikido Security Raises $60M at a $1B valuation<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.aikido.dev\/blog\/aikido-funding-series-b<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-14 13:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.aikido.dev<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Today, we\u2019re excited to announce Aikido has raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation, led by Tom Stafford at DST Global, with participation from PSG Equity, Singular, Notion Capital, and others.It\u2019s a big milestone for Aikido. And a meaningful one for Europe; we\u2019re one of the fastest cybersecurity companies to reach unicorn status globally, and the fastest ever in Europe. Check out our video announcement here.From “No Bullsh*t Security” to $1B in 3 yearsWe didn\u2019t start Aikido because we thought the world needed another security product. We started it because we were developers ourselves, and we were tired of security being something that happened to us instead of something that helped us.\u00a0We were tired of tools that created noise instead of clarity, complexity instead of progress, and process instead of outcomes.As Willem reminds us every day, \u201cDevelopers just want to get back to building fun features.\u201d But too often, they can\u2019t.Instead, they\u2019re forced to wade through a haystack of alerts, dashboards that look like the inside of an F-16 cockpit, and a barrage of four-letter acronyms developers are somehow expected to care about.\u00a0SAST. SCA. DAST. CSPM. CNAPP. IAC. RASP. ADR.The list goes on. So do the vulnerabilities.And the pressure keeps rising. Ship faster. Fix faster. Don\u2019t break prod. Don\u2019t ship risk. One day it\u2019s worms in npm. Next it\u2019s \u201cvibe coding.\u201d Then right on cue, Gartner invents another four-letter acronym your CISO suddenly has to worry about (and purchase).Essentially, this is how engineers experience security today:\u200d(Yes, this is an actual slide from our Series B pitch deck.) Somehow, we\u2019ve collectively accepted this as normal. We couldn\u2019t. Somewhere along the way, security drifted away from how software is actually built and operated\u2013 abstracted into quadrants, point tools, and snapshot reports that live far outside the reality of modern engineering teams. That disconnect is the real problem. Today, organizations spend billions on disjointed products that can\u2019t talk to each other. Risk correlation becomes impossible; noise becomes the only consistent outcome. As vendors and analysts chase the next four-letter acronym, vulnerabilities that matter slip by unpatched or unseen entirely.Why Aikido ExistsWe built Aikido around a simple truth: Security begins and ends with better engineering.\u200dThat requires one unified platform to secure the entire software lifecycle, built for the people who actually ship software. That means bringing code, supply chain, cloud, runtime, and testing together so teams don\u2019t need five vendors to answer one question: \u201care we actually at risk?” Detection matters. But it\u2019s not enough to get developers back to building. The magic comes when we close the loop. With full code and application context, Aikido automatically triages and remediates issues from the moment that vulnerabilities are generated to discovered in production.Why Now: More Code, More Attacks, More pressureSoftware is being built at a speed that would\u2019ve felt impossible a few years ago. AI-generated code is the norm. Autonomous agents are writing and even changing systems faster than humans can review. The old model of \u201cscan, alert, hope someone has time\u201d was flawed already, and is now it is breaking in real time.All the while, cyber attacks keep increasing (another up-and-to-the-right graph!), and regulations keep piling on. Security hasn\u2019t been optional for a while, but now, neither is moving away from the old way of doing it.As engineering evolves, security has to evolve with it. That\u2019s why the next chapter matters.Introducing Self-Securing Software The next chapter is about self-securing software. Not security as a reactive activity with dashboards and manual weeks long testing. Rather, software that can secure itself on demand.Our first major step towards this future was the recent release of Aikido Attack, AI penetration testing that delivers hacker creativity at machine speed. Aikido Attack works by deploying hundreds of specialised agents on demand to hunt vulnerabilities, validate exploits, and provide built-in remediation and retesting of findings to ensure fixes hold.And yes, you can monitor it happening in real time:Over time, this will evolve into continuous, autonomous testing built into every feature release, as part of the development lifecycle itself. Together, we will close the ship-test-and-fix loop, and free developers to get back to building entirely.Aikido\u2019s Unicorn Era (&\u00a0a Big Moment for Europe!)Today, Aikido is used by 100,000+ teams globally, including customers like the Premier League, SoundCloud, Niantic, and Revolut. Over the past year, we grew revenue 5x and more than tripled our customer base.\u00a0And we\u2019re especially proud of what this milestone represents in Europe. In an industry dominated by Palo Alto and Tel Aviv heavyweights, Aikido shows that Europe can build a world-class software security company and win globally.Because if we\u2019re being honest: everything about Aikido \u201cshouldn\u2019t have worked.\u201d European team. Based in a village. No cyber pedigree. Bottom-up model. Platform play. No CISO network.But when you haven\u2019t learned the industry rules, it\u2019s easier to break them. And that outsider mentality is still our advantage. With no network to sell into in the industry, we had no choice but to grow via inbound alone. With limited budget and heavy weight incumbents, we had to figure out how to counterposition or die trying. With a freemium, developer-led GTM, we had to deliver real value to thousands of users every day, or else. Internally, we\u2019ve built a team that reflects that same mindset: 180 people, 21+ former founders, deploying 60+ times a day.And on that note, none of this happens without the thousands of teams who trusted us with their security and pushed us to build something better. Thank you.We have a lot left to build. And we\u2019re going to keep pushing until security finally works at the speed software demands \u2013 and developers deserve. So, LFG. – Aikido.\u200d\u200dA thank you to our investors:This next chapter wouldn\u2019t be possible without the continued support of our existing investors, including Notion Capital, Singular.vc, Syndicate One, Entourage, Connect Ventures, Inovia Capital, and the individuals who backed us early and stayed close along the way, including Christina Cacioppo (Vanta), Gilles Mattelin and Jorn Vanysacker (Henchman), Pieterjan Bouten (Showpad, Entourage), Louis Jonckheere (Wintercircus, Showpad), and Matthias Geeroms (Lighthouse).We\u2019re also excited to welcome new investors who are joining us for this chapter, including Nik Storonsky (Founder & CEO, Revolut), Mark Coucke and Alychlo, Joris Van Der Gucht (Silverfin), Ian Thiel (Sublime Security), Lorenz Bogaert (StarApps), Hendrik Isebaert (Showpad), VDK Bank, Dovesco, and PSG Equity.Thank you for the trust, the challenge, and the long-term belief in what we\u2019re building.Want to join us? We’re hiring. Check out our open roles here.\u200d\u200d\u200d\u200d
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