{"id":8154,"date":"2026-09-10T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldeneggcheck.com\/golden-egg-check-joins-leotraces-e1-7m-pre-seed\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:29:13","slug":"golden-egg-check-joins-leotraces-e1-7m-pre-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldeneggcheck.com\/en\/golden-egg-check-joins-leotraces-e1-7m-pre-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Egg Check joins LeoTrace\u2019s \u20ac1.7M pre-seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leotrace.io\/\">LeoTrace<\/a> announces its \u20ac1.7M (\u00a31.45M) pre-seed round to secure code written by AI coding agents.<\/p>\n<p>Every security tool in use today was built for a world where humans wrote the code. Find the flaw, file the ticket, fix it next sprint. That model was already straining. Agents broke it: they write more code, far faster, and they copy whatever weaknesses already exist in the repo. Across 10,000 sessions where an agent touched code, 26% needed a security fix, and that share doesn\u2019t fall as the models improve. It scales with how much code they write.<\/p>\n<p>LeoTrace\u2019s answer isn\u2019t to detect faster. It\u2019s to make the agent produce secure code in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>LeoPrevent plugs into the coding agent. The moment the agent tries to hand work back, LeoPrevent catches the flaw and sends it back to fix it. Two seconds. Nothing else in the workflow changes. Teams move at the speed of AI without taking on the risk. In independent testing, it cut the share of tasks that shipped a security flaw by a third.<\/p>\n<p>And it compounds. Every session teaches it how these agents fail in this codebase. Day 100 is sharper than day 1. Detection tools start every morning exactly as clever as they were the last one.<\/p>\n<p>Florian Walter and Boy Baukema built and secured some of the most critical systems on the planet, then spent their careers breaking them. Florian as an ethical hacker, so he knows which flaws actually get exploited and which are noise. Boy, 19 years securing applications, nine of them at Veracode building the research and controls the industry\u2019s scanners still run on today. Patrick Rycroft sold that generation of tooling into global enterprises and watched it fail the same way every time: the tool finds the problem, the organisation can\u2019t absorb the work. LeoTrace is the three of them fixing that.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Golden Egg Check is proud to have joined LeoTrace\u2019s round from its second fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeoTrace announces its \u20ac1.7M (\u00a31.45M) pre-seed round to secure code written by AI coding agents. 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