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Application security startup Pixee raised a $15 million seed round to help enterprises keep up with the explosion of so-called vibe coding.

Why it matters: Developers using AI assistant tools are coding more software than ever while security teams struggle to secure all of it.

How it works: Pixee's application security platform integrates into developer workflows and uses a combination of agentic AI and modeling techniques to deliver automatic code fixes.

State of play: Vibe coding — using AI assistants to help code — has taken off with developers and is now sparking dealmaking.

Just last week, Databricks said it would buy cloud-based database software vendor Neon for approximately $1 billion. Neon's Postgres database is popular with developers and AI agents.

OpenAI also recently agreed to pay $3 billion to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence tool for coding help.

What they're saying: "The influx of AI-driven coding is in perfect alignment with what we are doing," Surag Patel, co-founder and CEO of Pixee, tells Axios. "Security is 10 times the problem with this volume of coding now."

Zoom in: The round was led by Decibel and Wing VC, and included participation from TEDCO, PrimeSet and other strategic investors. No valuation was disclosed.

What's next: "With the way the business is going, we could raise a Series A in less than 12 months," says Patel, adding the company could start to raise before the end of the year.

Exclusive: Pixee lands $15M to automate code security

Pixee tries to help companies keep safe vibe coding.

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Application security startup Pixee raised a $15 million seed round to help enterprises keep up with the explosion of so-called vibe coding.Why it matters: Developers using AI assistant tools are coding more software than ever while security teams struggle to secure all of it.

Exclusive: Pixee lands $15M to automate code security

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