Symbiotic Security announced it has raised a $10 million seed round and launched a new product is designed to make AI-generated code secure “by design,” aiming to remove one of the biggest blockers to enterprise adoption of AI coding assistants. The funding round was led by Alven and Drysdale, with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo, and Factorial Cap, according to the company. Symbiotic Security also named Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face co-founder) and Julien Launay (Adaptive ML CEO) as angel investors.
The company’s new offering, Symbiotic Code, is positioned as a secure code-generation agent that bakes security enforcement directly into the code-generation workflow, rather than relying on after-the-fact scanning and remediation. Symbiotic Security argues that while AI coding tools are now broadly used across development teams, security organizations remain wary of the hidden risk created when models generate vulnerable patterns at scale.
In its launch post, Symbiotic Security points to “nearly 75% of developers” using AI coding tools and cites academic research it says shows “state-of-the-art coding agents produce insecure code in 87% to 94% of cases,” even when users attempt “security-aware” prompting strategies. The company’s thesis is that this dynamic forces security teams into a gatekeeping role that slows shipping velocity, or leaves organizations accumulating security debt that becomes harder to unwind later.
Symbiotic Code is built to change that by ensuring security controls run before, during, and immediately after code generation. The product is described as a Terminal User Interface (TUI) tool that developers use from the first prompt, with a controlled workflow that includes: pre-generation guardrails based on company security policies, model-agnostic code generation, post-generation verification and automated remediation if vulnerabilities are detected, and a final validation step to ensure fixes do not break functionality.
Symbiotic Security says the model-agnostic approach supports multiple leading model providers, naming Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama as examples.
Symbiotic Security said the new capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand go-to-market efforts, and support the commercial rollout of Symbiotic Code to enterprise customers.
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“The timing for Symbiotic Code couldn’t be better. By solving the fundamental insecurity of AI-generated code at the moment of creation, they are providing the missing link for safe AI enterprise adoption.”
Victor Charpentier, a partner at Alven
