Overview
Willem founded Aikido Security in Ghent with the mission to make application security accessible and automated for software development teams. The company has gained traction in the developer security space.
As CEO of Aikido Security, Willem leads the company's growth, product vision, and commercial strategy. He is active in the Belgian Cybersecurity and startup community.
Career history
- CEO & Co-founderNov 2022 - PresentAikido Security
- Co-founderJun 2016 - Dec 2022FutureproofedCitiesacquired by Sweco
- Co-founderMay 2017 - Nov 2022Officient
- CTO & Co-founderJan 2012 - Jan 2016Teamleader CRM
Education
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science2007 - 2012Ghent University
LinkedIn Voice
Posting style: Milestone-only poster. Extremely concise "TL;DR" format. Posts only for major announcements. Massive engagement per post. Key themes: Aikido Security milestones (Unicorn valuation, fundraising), open source security, climate tech via Futureproofed acquisition Avg engagement: 525 likes, 50 comments Notable post: Aikido $1B valuation announcement, 1,070 likes and 119 comments.
In the news
- Have you ever heard the sound of AI ❓ It roars like a jet engine! I could hear it in Ghent, visiting Aikido Security’s office: a server packed with Nvidia chips, running at full power, using AI to test how well a system stands up to cyberattacks. The engineer showing me around, Selim Decamps, comes from Mons and was hired after selling his company to Aikido. Yet, what struck me much more than the "sound of AI", was the level of ambition at Aikido: your vision of building a world-class champion in AI & cybersecurity in only a few
- A year ago I moved across the country to Ghent. This month I moved back to my hometown in Limburg. Why? Two reasons: 1️⃣ Money. I'm living with my parents again, so my monthly costs are close to zero. And Hotel Mama comes with free meals 😅 2️⃣ The people. Even while I lived in Ghent, I came back to Limburg about once a month to work from Corda Campus. The entrepreneurs I met there have become close friends. We regularly work until late at night and we're all a bit too obsessed with AI 😄 That energy kept pulling me back. I'm really
- This one is for the techies... SereneDB is live on Product Hunt today. Alexander Malandin and Andrey Abramov assembled their first build server in Andrey's apartment 17 years ago. Twelve years of development later, they're shipping 'Krummelanke' - the first named release of an open-source engine that does ultra-fast full-text search and fast analytics in one place. Postgres- and Elastic-compatible: keep your SQL, your drivers and your Elastic clients, and drop the second system plus the ETL between them. In their public benchmark
- Introducing Altar-1, Aikido’s first frontier-grade cyber security model. 🚀🤖🖤 Closed frontier models mean your code leaves your network. That's not a trade-off many companies are willing or allowed to make. Yet capable open-weight models remain difficult to deploy at production scale. So we developed Altar, a frontier-grade open-weight model built to perform inside your own infrastructure. Altar allows Enterprises to own their own security intelligence. This is just the beginning of Aikido Security Labs, our applied AI lab. Our
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