Aikido secures $60 million in Series B funding.

A sector update highlights $115M raised across six deals in five countries, including rounds for Aikido ($60M Series B), Project Eleven ($20M Series A), Zepo Intelligence ($15M seed), CloudSEK ($10M Series B2), Fencer ($5.5M seed), and Asymmetric Security ($4.2M seed). Ten M&A transactions span Infoblox–Axur, Delinea–StrongDM, OneSpan–Build38, Diligent–3rdRisk, Usercentrics–MCP Manager, Thinkst Canary–DeceptIQ, inherent group–Inovacom, Sole Source Capital–Brite, NuView–Beyond Secure, and Aurex–Alpha 2; executive moves include RSAC appointing Jen Easterly as CEO and leadership changes at Claroty, Trulioo, ID Dataweb, Cyderes, Doppel, and XBOW.