Aikido announced it has raised a $60 million Series B financing at a $1 billion valuation, marking one of the fastest reported paths to unicorn status for a European cybersecurity company. The round was led by DST Global’s Tom Stafford, with participation from PSG Equity, Singular, Notion Capital, and other investors.
The company positions itself as a developer-first security platform designed to reduce alert fatigue and tool sprawl throughout the software development lifecycle. In announcing the funding, Aikido argued that modern security programs have become fragmented across point solutions and acronym-heavy categories, making risk correlation difficult and leaving teams with high volumes of noise rather than actionable outcomes.
Aikido said its approach is to unify security capabilities spanning code, supply chain, cloud, runtime and testing, with an emphasis on automatically triaging findings and supporting remediation with full application context. The company also highlighted its recent release of “Aikido Attack,” which it describes as AI-driven penetration testing that deploys hundreds of specialized agents to hunt vulnerabilities, validate exploits, and support remediation and retesting.
Aikido reported that the platform is used by more than 100,000 teams globally, citing customers including the Premier League, SoundCloud, Niantic and Revolut. Over the past year, the company said it grew revenue 5x and more than tripled its customer base. Aikido also said it has grown to 180 employees and deploys product updates more than 60 times per day.
The company said proceeds from the Series B will support its next phase of product development centered on “self-securing software,” which it framed as moving security beyond periodic scans and manual testing toward more continuous, autonomous testing embedded into the development lifecycle.
