Aikido Security Hits $1 Billion Valuation With $60 Million Series B to Advance Autonomous Software Security

New updates have been reported about Aikido Security.

Aikido Security has raised $60 million in Series B funding at a $1 billion valuation, positioning the Belgium-based cybersecurity company as one of Europe’s fastest-growing security “unicorns.” The round was led by DST Global, with participation from PSG Equity and existing backers Notion Capital and Singular, and follows a year in which Aikido’s revenue grew fivefold and its customer base nearly tripled. The company’s unified platform secures the full software lifecycle—covering code, cloud, and runtime—and is already used by more than 100,000 teams globally, including enterprise customers such as the Premier League, Niantic, Revolut, and SoundCloud. Aikido’s model replaces fragmented point tools with a single system that automatically detects, prioritizes, and remediates vulnerabilities, aiming to alleviate the overload of alerts and false positives facing development teams.

Management plans to deploy the new capital to accelerate its roadmap for “self-securing software,” enabling software to autonomously discover, validate, and fix vulnerabilities as it is built and deployed. A key step in this strategy is Aikido Attack, a recently launched AI-driven penetration testing product that uses hundreds of specialized agents to probe applications like real-world attackers, confirm exploitability, and provide remediation guidance. The company is targeting the structural shift in software development driven by AI-generated code, autonomous agents, and continuous deployment, which has outpaced traditional, manual security processes and increased both the volume of vulnerabilities and the sophistication of AI-enabled attacks. CEO and co-founder Willem Delbare said security must become continuous, adaptive, and autonomous as build cycles compress from months to minutes. Backer DST Global highlighted Aikido’s engineering-first approach, framing security as an integrated function rather than an afterthought. For executives and investors, the funding underscores growing demand for automated, developer-centric security platforms and provides Aikido with resources to expand product capabilities, scale go-to-market, and extend its lead in AI-driven application security across global markets.