For the last two years, the software industry has been locked in a quiet but intensifying standoff. On one side, developers are rapidly adopting AI coding assistants to ship faster than ever before. On the other, security teams are watching the backlog of vulnerabilities explode, paralyzed by the fear of introducing invisible, AI-generated risk at scale.
We believe you shouldn't have to choose between speed and safety.
Today, we are proud to announce two major milestones that turn this belief into reality: Symbiotic Security has raised a $10M Seed Round led by Alven, and we are officially launching Symbiotic Code, the world’s first secure code generation agent.
The rise of AI in software development is undeniable, with nearly 75% of developers now using AI coding tools. However, the security reality is stark. Academic research consistently shows that even state-of-the-art coding agents produce insecure code in 87% to 94% of cases.
This happens even when developers use "security-aware" prompting strategies. The result? CISOs are understandably nervous. They are forced to act as gatekeepers, slowing down innovation to manually review AI output, or worse, accepting a massive accumulation of security debt.
Existing solutions have tried to patch this problem with reactive scanners or generic "training" that developers ignore. These tools are disconnected from the workflow, catching issues only after the code is written, committed, or deployed.
We built Symbiotic Code to change the fundamental physics of this problem.
Symbiotic Code is not just another scanner. It is an AI code generation solution built to produce secure code only.
Rather than treating security as a cleanup step, Symbiotic Code packages code generation and security into a single, unified solution. It operates as a Terminal User Interface (TUI) tool that developers use to generate code that is protected from the very first prompt.
Here is how our controlled, agentic workflow ensures security without slowing you down:
The result is AI-driven development without security tradeoffs. Developers keep their flow, and security teams get a hard guarantee that generated code is compliant and secure.
To fuel this mission, we have raised $10M in seed funding. This round was led by Alven and Drysdale, with participation from our existing partners Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo, and Factorial Cap.
We are also honored to be backed by prominent angel investors who are shaping the future of AI, including Thomas Wolf (Co-founder of Hugging Face) and Julien Launay (CEO of Adaptive ML).
As Victor Charpentier, Partner at Alven, noted:
"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."
We founded Symbiotic Security on the belief that security and development should grow together, not fight each other. With Symbiotic Code, we are moving from a world where security is a "gate" to a world where it is a "guide"—embedded, invisible, and helpful.
This funding will allow us to accelerate our product development, expand our go-to-market efforts, and support the commercial rollout of Symbiotic Code to enterprise customers who refuse to compromise.
If you are ready to unlock AI productivity without the risk, we invite you to contact us and see Symbiotic Code in action.
