Aikido Technologies
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| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
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* | $4.0m | Seed | |
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Aikido Technologies, registered as Aikido Security, offers a developer-centric software security platform designed to consolidate multiple security tools into a single interface. The company was founded in Ghent, Belgium, in 2022 by Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue, and Felix Van de Walle. Delbare, serving as CEO, has a background as a serial entrepreneur and CTO, having previously co-founded and sold Teamleader, a work management software company. This experience in scaling a SaaS company informed the creation of Aikido, which aims to address the common pain points of developers who find traditional security alerts to be noisy and overwhelming.
The platform targets developers and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), offering a freemium model that allows for easy adoption. Aikido integrates with existing development workflows, such as GitHub, and scans source code and cloud environments for security vulnerabilities. It combines functionalities like dependency scanning, static application security testing (SAST), and infrastructure as code (IaC) security, presenting only the most critical issues to developers to avoid alert fatigue. The business generates revenue through tiered subscription plans, with pricing based on the number of contributors and the inclusion of premium features. The free tier is designed to be accessible to individual developers and small teams, while paid tiers cater to growing businesses with more extensive security needs.
A significant milestone for the company was securing a $17 million Series A funding round in May 2024, led by Singular.vc with participation from Notion Capital and Connect Ventures. This followed an earlier seed round of $5.4 million. The platform's key differentiator is its focus on ease of use and its ability to triage and prioritize security vulnerabilities automatically. By focusing on genuine, reachable issues, Aikido helps developers manage security without requiring them to become security experts, thereby streamlining the development process. Keywords: application security, developer security, SAST, code scanning, vulnerability management, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, freemium, SaaS, cloud security