Company: Aikido Security
C-Suite: Willem Delbare (CEO & CTO), Roeland Delrue (COO & CRO) and Felix Garriau (CMO)
Website: https://www.aikido.dev/
About Aikido Security
Aikido Security launched in 2022 from Ghent, Belgium, with a simple premise: stop forcing developers to juggle multiple security tools that slow them down and create alert fatigue and. The answer was an all-in-one platform, built by developers for developers, that outperformed the best of every individual security tool.
Today, Aikido Security unifies code security, cloud security, runtime protection, and autonomous penetration testing in one platform. Their proprietary AI cuts noise by 95 percent, delivers one-click fixes, and saves developers over 10 hours per week. This is security chosen by developers, loved by security teams, and trusted by decision-makers. The results are there: more than 50,000 organizations worldwide now rely on Aikido, including Niantic, Visma, Montblanc, and GoCardless.
Growth has been exceptional. In 2025, Aikido became one of Europe’s fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies, hitting 20% month-over-month growth and double-digit millions in annual recurring revenue within two years. During Vivatech in June 2025, President Macron selected Aikido as one of just six startups to meet amongst 14,000 companies – recognition of its trajectory as a generational European company competing globally.
Another acceleration came through strategic acquisitions that transformed Aikido’s capabilities. In August 2025, Aikido acquired code quality company Trag, whose AI-native engine understands code the way AI writes it. This made Aikido the first platform capable of catching AI-generated vulnerabilities at machine speed – critical as AI code generation explodes across the industry.
September brought a double acquisition that redefined penetration testing. Aikido brought on Haicker, led by 2024’s top-ranked competitive hacker, and Allseek, the same team that manually pentested Aikido two years prior. Together, they are transforming the 6 billion dollar penetration testing market from weeks-long assessments into sub-hour automated testing, making security testing continuous instead of periodic.
Aikido has also become the industry’s early warning system. In September 2025, the team detected what may have been the largest NPM supply chain attack to date when a trusted maintainer account was compromised through sophisticated phishing, affecting 2 billion weekly downloads. Aikido Intel has discovered multiple critical NPM supply chain attacks before public disclosure, protecting the broader developer community when it matters most.
In April 2025, they had also detected the XRP Ledger node package manager compromise, preventing potential cryptocurrency theft from applications holding 80 million dollars in user deposits. Most notably, the team caught North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group hackers live-debugging their own malware on NPM, watching in real-time as they frantically attempted to fix broken exploits targeting crypto wallets and session tokens.
This research advances supply chain security methodology while proving that threat intelligence feeds using large language models can outpace traditional CVE databases. The findings spread rapidly through security communities, establishing Aikido as the trusted voice in developer security.
Perhaps most significantly, Aikido proves European cybersecurity companies can build generational platforms competing globally against established American players. The company demonstrates that security tools must work with developers, not against them – a philosophical shift backed by measurable productivity gains and genuine threat prevention capabilities.
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