Aikido Just Raised $60 Million Series B

Aikido, securing your code, cloud, and runtime in one central system, led by Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue, Felix Garriau, and others, has secured $60 million in Series B at a $1B valuation, led by Tom Stafford at DST Global, with participation from PSG Equity, Singular, Notion Capital, and others.

Aikido was created to fix a core problem in security: developers were being burdened, not supported. Traditional tools generated noise instead of clarity and complexity instead of progress, burying teams under endless alerts, dashboards, and acronyms.

SAST, SCA, DAST, CSPM, CNAPP, IAC, RASP, ADR: new terms appear constantly, yet vulnerabilities continue to grow. Meanwhile, pressure mounts to ship faster, fix faster, avoid outages, and eliminate risk. From supply-chain issues in npm to emerging trends like “vibe coding” and the latest acronym from Gartner, developers are routinely pulled away from what they actually want to do: build features.

The industry has treated this chaos as normal, but the real issue runs deeper. Security drifted away from how software is actually built, fragmented into quadrants, point tools, and static reports that don’t match the reality of modern engineering. Organizations now spend billions on products that can’t communicate with one another, making meaningful risk correlation impossible and noise inevitable. As vendors chase the next acronym, critical vulnerabilities slip through unpatched or unnoticed.

That means one unified platform that secures the entire software lifecycle, designed for the people who actually ship software. Code, supply chain, cloud, runtime, and testing all live in one place, so teams don’t need five tools to answer one question: “Are we actually at risk?”

Detection is essential, but not enough. The real value comes from closing the loop. With full code and application context, Aikido automatically triages and remediates issues, from the moment they appear in development to the moment they surface in production, so developers can stay focused on building.

Software is being built faster than humans can review, driven by AI-generated code and autonomous agents. Meanwhile, attacks and regulations keep rising. The old “scan and alert” model can’t keep up; security must evolve with engineering.

The future is software that can secure itself. Aikido’s first step is Aikido Attack, AI-driven penetration testing that deploys hundreds of agents to find, validate, fix, and retest vulnerabilities automatically, in real time.

Aikido is now used by more than 100,000 teams worldwide, with revenue growing 5× over the past year and the customer base more than tripling. This milestone highlights a significant moment for Europe, demonstrating that a world-class software security platform can emerge from a small village and compete globally against long-established industry hubs.

Despite lacking traditional advantages, no cyber pedigree, no CISO network, a bottom-up model, and a platform-first strategy, the company achieved rapid adoption through inbound momentum and consistent product value delivered at scale. A team of 180 people, including more than 21 former founders, now ships updates over 60 times per day.

Much remains ahead as the mission continues: enabling security that finally operates at the speed modern software requires.