BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aikido Security has raised $60 million USD in a Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, led by DST Global, followed by PSG Equity, and with continued participation from Notion Capital and Singular. The funding will be used to further enhance Aikido's unified platform for code, cloud, and runtime security and introduce autonomous self-securing software.

Aikido's milestone comes as cybersecurity faces mounting pressure from a structural shift in how software is built. AI-generated code, autonomous agents, and continuous deployment have significantly increased the pace and frequency of change, while many security systems still rely on manual review and workflows designed for slower development cycles.

As software evolves continuously, vulnerabilities are introduced and exposed at a pace that human-driven security processes struggle to manage, creating an overwhelming volume and false positives for development teams. At the same time, malicious threat actors are turning to AI to execute increasingly frequent and complex attacks. Security -- which is often treated as a noisy bottleneck or a slow-moving, reactive function -- is not equipped to mitigate these challenges facing organizations.

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