AIKO

What AIKO does

AIKO (legal entity AIKOCORP, Inc., Delaware) is a private cybersecurity and AI company founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco. The company develops an AI-driven autonomous penetration testing platform combined with adaptive real-time API monitoring, targeting startups and engineering teams that lack dedicated security staff. Its core technology deploys autonomous AI agents that find and exploit web application vulnerabilities (including XSS, pickle deserialization, and padding oracle attacks) within customer-configured scope, and produces detailed exploitation traces and remediation reports; the company reports outperformance versus other publicly available AI pentesting tools on XBOW benchmarks across 104 labs. Its Real-time API Monitoring product learns traffic patterns without manual configuration to surface security-relevant events such as credential guessing attempts and abnormal usage spikes, and an upcoming Dashboard Generation feature will extend the platform into configurable, shareable security dashboards.

The business operates as a self-serve, product-led growth SaaS with a publicly listed pricing page: a $20/month base subscription includes 1M monitor events and 50 monitor projects, with additional event storage at $10 per 1M events above the included volume, and a 7-day free trial grants full product access. Customer acquisition runs through direct website sign-up, content marketing via technical blog posts (benchmark results, exploitation deep-dives), and customer testimonials; named reference customers are startups including Lovable, Supermaven, Spellbrush, Mailinblack, Torbox, and twocents. A 'Contact Sales' path and a SOC 2-oriented reviewer-validation option in the terms of service signal intent to extend upmarket beyond pure self-serve startups. The company has raised $1.6M in seed funding from byFounders (February 2024) and operates with a 1-10 person team, placing it firmly at the early commercialization stage.

Name

AIKO

Legal name

AIKOCORP, Inc.

Website

https://aikocorp.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AIKO is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity AI company offering autonomous penetration testing and adaptive real-time API monitoring as a self-serve SaaS platform, primarily serving startups and engineering teams that lack dedicated security staff.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI-driven Application Security Testing

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Model Security Testing & Red Teaming (adversarial ML, jailbreaks) (HDAAAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Safety & Alignment Evaluation (red-teaming, harmful capability testing) (HDAAAMAL), Enterprise AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Platforms (Model Risk, Audit, Policies) (HDAEANAE)

Keywords

• Autonomous penetration testing
• API security monitoring
• AI cybersecurity platform
• Application vulnerability scanning
• Security testing for startups

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription + Usage-based: Base subscription of $20/month with 1M included monitor events and 50 monitor projects. Additional event storage charged at $10 per 1M events above the included volume. 7-day free trial with full product access.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

AIKO sells a SaaS cybersecurity platform that performs autonomous, on-demand penetration testing of web applications and provides adaptive real-time API traffic monitoring. Customers configure targets, scope, and stop conditions; AI agents execute security tests and produce detailed vulnerability reports with exploitation evidence. The platform also learns from API traffic patterns to surface security-relevant events without manual configuration and exposes findings via an in-app chat interface. Pricing is a $20/month base subscription with metered usage on additional monitor events.

Product overview

AIKO is a cybersecurity x AI company offering autonomous penetration testing and real-time API monitoring as its core products for startups and development teams. The platform combines AI-driven security testing (AI Penetration Testing) with continuous API surveillance (Real-time API Monitoring) to help companies identify vulnerabilities and monitor traffic for security threats. An upcoming Dashboard Generation feature will enable customizable visualizations of monitored activity. The company positions itself as solving security issues both as attackers (penetration testing) and defenders (API monitoring).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Penetration Testing Autonomous, on-demand penetration testing service in which AI agents find and exploit security vulnerabilities in web applications within a customer-configured target, scope, time window, and stop condition. Produces detailed vulnerability reports with exploitation traces. Optional SOC 2 mode assigns a human penetration tester to validate findings in-platform.
• Real-time API Monitoring Adaptive API traffic monitoring that continuously analyzes activity to surface security-relevant events such as credential guessing attempts and abnormal usage spikes. Learns traffic patterns automatically without manual configuration, and findings can be queried through an in-app chat interface.

Quantifiable outcome

• AIKO outperforms other AI pentesting tools on XBOW benchmarks, especially on hard-difficulty labs requiring complex exploitation chains
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AttackIQ: Automated security control validation platform built on the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Comparable to AIKO on autonomous security validation, though positioned to enterprise security operations buyers.
• SafeBreach: Provides a breach and attack simulation platform that validates security effectiveness through automated adversary playbooks. Closely comparable to AIKO on continuous automated security testing.
• Pentera: Automated security validation platform that continuously emulates attacks against enterprise environments. Competes head-to-head with AIKO's autonomous pentesting capability, though typically aimed at larger enterprise buyers.
• Cymulate: Breach and attack simulation platform that runs automated attack scenarios to validate security controls. Overlaps with AIKO on the 'automated offensive security testing' category and competes for the same buyer persona.
• Detectify: Automated web application and external attack surface scanning SaaS for AppSec teams. Comparable to AIKO on automated vulnerability discovery for web apps, with a more enterprise/SMB scanner heritage.
• Horizon3.ai: Offers NodeZero, an autonomous penetration testing platform that finds and exploits vulnerabilities without agents. Most direct competitor to AIKO's AI Pentest offering, with similar on-demand autonomous testing value proposition.
• XBOW: AI-driven penetration testing platform and the operator of the XBOW benchmark that AIKO uses to demonstrate performance. Direct peer on AI-powered pentesting with a research-oriented positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Snyk: Developer security platform spanning SAST, SCA, container, and IaC scanning. Broad incumbent in application security with an AI Pentest-style offering added to its portfolio; comparable buyer base of engineering teams and startups.
• Veracode: Enterprise application security testing suite (SAST, DAST, SCA). Adjacent incumbent that competes for AppSec budgets and is now layering in AI-driven testing features comparable to AIKO's pitch.

Emerging players

• Vicarius: Vulnerability prioritization and remediation platform with an AI-assisted approach. Adjacent to AIKO on autonomous vulnerability management, though focused more on prioritization and patching than active exploitation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aikocorp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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