Aikido Security
Founded by Willem Delbare, Felix Garriau, and Roeland Delrue in Ghent, Aikido Security addresses a gap in the developer security market: most existing tools are built for security teams, not the engineers who write the code. Aikido's platform is designed to integrate cleanly into developer workflows, flagging vulnerabilities in dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code without generating overwhelming noise.
The company raised EUR 60M in a Series B led by DST Global in 2025, reaching a $1B valuation and joining the short list of Belgian unicorns. The round accelerates product development and international go-to-market. Aikido competes in the DevSecOps category alongside Snyk, Wiz, and other security tooling providers but with a stronger SMB and mid-market focus.
A Start it @KBC alumnus, Aikido was named Scale-up of the Year 2025. The company operates from Ghent and is part of a small but growing Cybersecurity cluster in the Belgian ecosystem alongside Guardsquare and Intigriti.
Stated facts & numbers
- Aikido Security reached a valuation of €1 billion roughly three years and four to five months after founding. (0:49:22, Ben's Mentors 2026-02-04)
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A chat with Roeland Delrue, co-founder and COO at Aikido Security.Roeland Delrue discusses Aikido Security as a software security startup that scans codebases, cloud environments, and web applications for companies with in-house developers. He explains that he and his co-founders created Aikido because they were frustrated as users of existing security tools, which they found difficult to use, prone to false positives, and expensive.
- AI Agents Are Creating a New Cybersecurity Crisis | with Roeland Delrue (Aikido Security)
Roeland Delrue discusses how AI-generated code is accelerating software development by 3-4 times, which increases the volume of vulnerabilities even if individual code quality remains the same or improves slightly. He explains that software security is becoming a bottleneck because security teams must now manage this dramatically increased code production rate, and he describes how developers and security teams will evolve into "orchestrators" rather than hands-on workers as AI agents take over more coding tasks.