Aikido Security has reached unicorn status following a significant new funding round totalling $60m.
The company hit a $1bn valuation following investment, which was led by DST Global, followed by PSG Equity, with continued participation from existing backers Notion Capital and Singular.
Founded in 2022, Aikido Security was created in response to fundamental shifts in how software is built and deployed. The rapid rise of AI-generated code, autonomous agents and continuous deployment has increased both the speed and complexity of software development, leaving many traditional security tools struggling to keep pace. Aikido aims to address this gap by embedding security directly into the software lifecycle, rather than treating it as a separate or reactive process.
The company offers a unified platform that secures applications from code to cloud to runtime, replacing fragmented point solutions with a single system. Its technology is designed to help developers automatically detect, prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities, reducing noise, false positives and manual intervention at a time when development cycles are accelerating dramatically.
Aikido said the new capital will be used to further enhance its unified security platform and to advance its vision for autonomous, self-securing software. This includes continued investment in products that can discover, validate and fix vulnerabilities without constant human oversight, keeping pace with software that is continuously changing.
The funding round follows a period of rapid growth for the business. Over the past year, Aikido reported 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 globally using the platform. It said this momentum has made Aikido the fastest-ever European cybersecurity company to reach unicorn status.
Aikido co-founder and 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.”
The company said the funding will also accelerate the rollout of new products, including Aikido Attack, its AI-powered penetration testing solution, as part of a broader roadmap towards continuous, autonomous security across every software release.
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