--- title: "Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI" url: https://daily.dev/posts/aikido-buys-israel-s-root-to-patch-open-source-with-ai-898lhu9ih source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/aikido-acquires-root-open-source-ai-patching type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-07-01T13:32:33.703Z updated: 2026-07-01T13:44:32.981Z tags: ["security", "open-source", "ai-agents"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Aikido Security, the Belgian cybersecurity unicorn, has acquired Israeli startup Root for an estimated $70–100mn. Root's platform uses swarms of AI agents to research, write, test, and ship patches for open-source vulnerabilities in 15–40 minutes, targeting the exact version a company already runs to avoid risky upgrades or migrations. In over 80% of cases, no code changes are needed. Aikido is integrating Root's technology as a feature called Aikido Libraries — one customer cleared over 1,000 vulnerabilities in two weeks. Notably, Aikido also committed to backporting fixes for critical, actively exploited open-source vulnerabilities to the wider community rather than keeping them behind a paywall. Root was formerly known as Slim.AI, the company behind the Slim Toolkit container tool, and had raised $37.6mn before the acquisition. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Aikido acquires Root to backport open source fixes without forcing upgrades](https://daily.dev/posts/aikido-acquires-root-to-backport-open-source-fixes-without-forcing-upgrades-yowycekxm) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Aikido acquires Root to secure the supply chain](https://daily.dev/posts/aikido-acquires-root-to-secure-the-supply-chain-hqe9tnabd) · Aikido Security · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido becomes unicorn](https://daily.dev/posts/belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-becomes-unicorn-19sgxisrg) · The Next Web · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Aikido Security bets on AI to make software secure itself](https://daily.dev/posts/aikido-security-bets-on-ai-to-make-software-secure-itself-4moazd3km) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/aikido-buys-israel-s-root-to-patch-open-source-with-ai-898lhu9ih)