# Cyber Company Profiles: Aikido Security

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## At a Glance

- Website: [aikido.dev](https://www.aikido.dev)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/aikido-security
- Type: Application Security, Developer Tools
- Also known as: Aikido
- Market readiness: Established (30/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2022
- Funding: $85M total
- Last updated: 2026-08-25

## Executive Summary

Aikido Security sells development teams one platform that scans source code and cloud settings, tests running applications with AI agents, and blocks attacks from inside the application. It bought its way into part of that range. A Calcalist article records the Root acquisition as the latest in a series over the past year, after the code-review startup Trag and the pentesting companies Allseek and Haicker. A January 2026 round valued Aikido at 1 billion dollars on 24 million dollars raised before it. Its own pages count adopters several ways, from 15,000 organizations on one product page to 150,000 on the homepage, all of them company measurements. Reuters reported Niantic, Revolut and SoundCloud among the customers.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Unified application security platform that scans code and cloud for vulnerabilities, adds in-app runtime protection, and automates penetration testing with AI so development teams find and fix issues in one system. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2022 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | Ghent, Belgium | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $85M total | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series B, $60M at a $1B valuation (January 2026) | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Aikido Platform | Code and cloud scanning in one console covering dependencies, SAST, secrets, IaC, containers, cloud posture, and virtual machines, with auto-triage and AI-assisted fixes. |
| Aikido Attack | Automated penetration testing driven by AI agents, with authenticated DAST, API discovery and fuzzing, and attack surface monitoring that validates exploitability. |
| Aikido Protect | Runtime security line whose Zen in-app firewall blocks injection attacks and rate-limits APIs inside the application, alongside device and bot protection. |
| Aikido Device Protection | Endpoint agent for developer machines that checks packages, IDE plugins and browser extensions before installation, blocks known malware, and applies per-team allowlists and approval workflows. |
| Aikido Intel | Threat intelligence on open-source malware and vulnerabilities, published as a public feed and licensable for internal security operations through a commercial API. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| Devices | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |  |

The Aikido Platform scans code and cloud configurations, Aikido Attack runs automated penetration tests against running applications, and Aikido Device Protection checks packages and editor extensions on developer machines. These capabilities are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (30/40)**

Analyzed 2026-08-25. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 4/5 | Aikido names the development team as both buyer and user, and Reuters quotes its chief executive saying the product is meant for people who write software. Latio Tech's 2026 practitioner survey places developer experience ahead of the other tool selection factors with false positive rates next, records 84 percent of responses naming AI-generated code or supply chain malware as the 2026 concern. A BleepingComputer report on the September 2025 npm compromise lists hijacked packages carrying more than 2.6 billion weekly downloads. \[[s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | Two pieces of the scanning and runtime stack are open to inspection, the Zen in-app firewall and the LGPL-licensed Opengrep engine Aikido co-launched, and a BleepingComputer report on the September 2025 npm compromise attributes the analysis to Aikido researchers. Latio Tech's 2026 report praises the reachability and autofix work, on a spotlight page the report says vendors were offered, so it corroborates rather than validates. \[[s29](#profile-analysis-sources), [s30](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 4/5 | The enabler is AI-generated code, which Latio Tech's 2026 report records as the concern its surveyed practitioners named ahead of the others for the year. The survey is the buyer-side demand signal, putting AI penetration testing ahead of the other emerging capabilities and naming budget among its three 2026 concerns. The EU Cyber Resilience Act is the regulatory driver, placing vulnerability-handling duties on software makers with reporting obligations from 11 September 2026. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 4/5 | The reviewed record shows sustained public security work rather than a prior exit in this domain. A BleepingComputer report on the September 2025 npm compromise attributes the analysis to Aikido Security, Aikido co-launched the LGPL-licensed Opengrep engine in January 2025, and the creator of Gitleaks joined in March 2026 to start the Betterleaks project. \[[s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s29](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | Reuters reported Niantic, Revolut and SoundCloud among Aikido's customers and that its customer base nearly tripled last year. The company publishes named customer accounts including a Visma rollout across 200 portfolio companies and Deel's platform security team, and distribution runs through an AWS Marketplace listing alongside self-serve signup. \[[s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | Aikido raised nearly 85 million dollars across four rounds and reached a 1 billion dollar valuation in January 2026 on 24 million dollars raised before that round, and Reuters reported five-fold revenue growth over the prior year. The revenue itself is a band the chief executive gave in an interview, and he also said the faster growth meant burning extra money, so output per dollar is disclosed rather than confirmed. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s20](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | Latio Tech's market history places Aikido among the startups consolidating separate application security scanners, and it does so in editorial pages rather than the vendor spotlight the report says vendors were offered. Two further outside placements follow, The New Stack setting Aikido beside Socket, Endor Labs and Chainguard in the supply-chain decision and a SiliconANGLE article putting its penetration testing acquisitions in a 6 billion dollar market. \[[s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | Breadth across code, cloud, runtime and penetration testing creates real replacement friction, and Aikido's chief executive told Information Security Media Group that the company competes more often against Checkmarx, Veracode and Snyk than against newer startups. The reviewed record evidences no cross-customer data asset, and the Intel feed page publishes running counts rather than an exclusive corpus, so absorption by a developer platform stays the live exposure. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- GitHub could fold comparable scanning into developer tiers enterprises already buy, weakening the single-console pitch to the same developer buyer.
- Socket, Endor Labs or Snyk could match the supply-chain and agent-install controls Aikido added with Device Protection in 2026.
- If auditors decline automated penetration tests as evidence in place of a human-led test, the Attack and Infinite lines lose their compliance argument.
- Aikido's FedRAMP 20x authorization could slip past the Q3 2026 target its government page states, delaying the federal and regulated motion that page markets.
- Integration debt from four acquisitions inside a year could slow the shipping cadence the growth story depends on.
- The company's own pages report different organization counts, so a later disclosure could show a smaller paying base than the headline figures imply.

### Problem & Market

Aikido sells to the development team that has to fix what security scanners find, and it treats that team as the buyer rather than routing through a separate security organization. Its chief executive told Reuters the product is meant for people who write software, and told TechCrunch in 2024 that Aikido was built for a market where the buyer is the user.

Independent research describes the same pain the company sells against. Latio Tech's 2026 practitioner survey places developer experience ahead of the other factors teams weigh when choosing a tool, with false positive rates next, and reports that 84 percent of responses named AI-generated code or supply chain malware as the concern for the year. Latio calls application security a discipline in crisis as developer workflows change.

The supply-chain half of that pain has a documented scale. A BleepingComputer report on the September 2025 npm compromise lists hijacked packages carrying more than 2.6 billion downloads a week, and attributes the analysis of that attack to Aikido Security. \[[s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

The platform covers the scanning surface in one console, spanning dependency analysis, static code analysis, secrets, licenses, infrastructure as code, containers, cloud misconfiguration and virtual machines. Aikido describes it as one system securing an application from code to cloud to runtime, and a public documentation portal covers setup and the individual scanners.

Three lines extend the platform past scanning. Aikido Attack runs agent-driven penetration tests that the company positions as continuous testing at machine speed and connects findings into attack graphs across code, containers and cloud assets. Infinite runs those agents against every deployment and generates patches. Device Protection checks packages, plugins and browser or editor extensions on developer machines, and blocks known malware before it touches the file system.

Part of the stack is public code rather than description. The Zen firewall ships as an embedded web application firewall for Node.js applications, and Opengrep, which Aikido co-launched, is an LGPL-licensed fork of the Semgrep analysis engine. Latio Tech's 2026 report praises the reachability analysis and autofix architecture, on a spotlight page the report says vendors were offered the chance to have its team write. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s27](#profile-analysis-sources), [s28](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s15](#profile-analysis-sources), [s29](#profile-analysis-sources), [s30](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Aikido's chief executive told Information Security Media Group that the company competes more often against Checkmarx, Veracode and Snyk than against newer startups, and that Aikido wins the requests for proposal it is invited into, which puts discoverability rather than product fit at the front of his account.

The New Stack places Aikido in a crowded field for the newer supply-chain and agent-install work, naming Socket, which closed a 60 million dollar Series C at a 1 billion dollar valuation, along with Endor Labs and Chainguard. Latio Tech's buyer guidance groups Aikido with JIT, Arnica and Socket as vendors offering free accounts and friendly pricing, and separately notes GitHub's value through included or open-source offerings.

The consolidation pitch cuts both ways. Breadth reduces the number of vendors a team buys from, and it also means each piece has a specialist rival a customer can buy on its own. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

Independent reporting supplies the named side of the traction record. Reuters reported Niantic, Revolut and SoundCloud among Aikido's customers, that revenue grew five-fold over the prior year with around half coming from the United States, and that the customer base nearly tripled.

The company's own pages carry the volume claims and they do not agree with each other. The homepage states more than 150,000 organizations while the about page states more than 50,000, and the January 2026 funding announcement states more than 100,000 teams alongside the Premier League, Revolut, SoundCloud and Niantic. No source in the reviewed record breaks any of those counts into paying customers.

The motion is product-led and priced in the open. A free plan starts without a credit card, plan prices are published as a total fee against a chosen number of covered developers, and the top tier is arranged with the company rather than listed. An AWS Marketplace listing lets a buyer put Aikido against committed AWS spend, and Aikido states a go-to-market security partnership with Amazon's Kiro coding tool. \[[s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s26](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s20](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Willem Delbare has led Aikido since it began, and he co-founded Teamleader CRM, Futureproofed Cities and Officient before it. Wikipedia records the incorporation in Ghent on 26 October 2022 by Delbare, Roeland Delrue and Felix Garriau, and the Belgian company registry records the same start date for the entity.

The security-research record is the stronger signal, and it recurs rather than resting on a single event. A BleepingComputer report on the September 2025 npm compromise attributes the analysis to Aikido Security, and Aikido states that its engine scans every package published to npm, PyPI and other registries, and that suspicious packages are flagged and reviewed by its in-house research team. Aikido co-launched Opengrep, an LGPL-licensed fork of Semgrep, in January 2025, and the creator of Gitleaks joined in March 2026 to start Betterleaks.

The bench has grown through acquisition as well as hiring. Aikido announced the Root acquisition on its own blog, and John Amaral and Ian Riopel, whom a Calcalist Ctech article names among Root's founders, now appear on Aikido's executive list. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s29](#profile-analysis-sources), [s10](#profile-analysis-sources), [s4](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s20](#profile-analysis-sources), [s27](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

Aikido's trust center carries more than its homepage claims. Rendered, it lists TX-RAMP Level 2, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and a CSA STAR Level 1 self-assessment alongside the SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 attestations the homepage names, and it publishes dated certificates, policies and a penetration test report. A probe of trust.aikido.dev did not resolve.

The federal posture is stated plainly by the company rather than left to inference. Its government page answers whether Aikido is FedRAMP certified with a direct no, and says it is pursuing FedRAMP 20x certification under the 2026 consolidated rules with a Q3 2026 target. Until that lands, a federal buyer weighs the AWS GovCloud deployment and the on-premises option the same page describes, rather than an authorization Aikido holds. \[[s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s25](#profile-analysis-sources), [s31](#profile-analysis-sources), [s32](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Snyk | competes with | Aikido's chief executive names Snyk among the established brands it meets in deals more often than newer startups. |
| Checkmarx | competes with | Named by Aikido's chief executive among the large-install-base vendors it meets in deals. |
| Veracode | competes with | Named by Aikido's chief executive among the large-install-base vendors it meets in deals. |
| Semgrep | competes with | Contests the same code-scanning decision, and Aikido co-launched Opengrep as a fork of Semgrep's engine. |
| Socket | competes with | The New Stack places Socket in the same open-source supply-chain market as Aikido. |
| Endor Labs | competes with | The New Stack places Endor Labs in the same market for securing what AI coding agents install. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-08-25. Scope: whole company.

An Aikido customer stays for the range one platform covers, from dependency scanning and static code analysis through secrets detection, cloud configuration checks, runtime blocking and penetration testing. Leaving costs the work of reassembling several products rather than any broken production path, and the record names Checkmarx, Veracode and Snyk among the vendors Aikido meets in deals. Its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 attestations are table stakes, and its trust center also lists a TX-RAMP Level 2 badge for which the record carries no certificate and no Texas listing. Aikido Intel accumulates malware findings and licenses them commercially, while its public feed page publishes running counts rather than the findings, and the record does not say what the licensed database adds.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 | Aikido delivers software that the customer connects to its own repositories and cloud accounts and operates from the console, and the customer's team owns the outcome. Automated triage, AI fixes and machine-generated penetration test reports are software output rather than a service layer that accepts accountability. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | Repository, pipeline and editor integrations are meaningful friction, and leaving costs the work of reassembling several products rather than any broken production path. The cited record documents no mechanism beyond that integration work and does not size the migration, so the friction stays at the integration level. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | Aikido's trust center lists SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, a CSA STAR Level 1 self-assessment and a TX-RAMP Level 2 badge, and publishes SOC 2 and ISO 27001 artifacts. The SOC 2 and ISO items are entry cost a funded competitor obtains through ordinary enterprise preparation. For TX-RAMP the record carries no certificate, no Texas listing naming Aikido and no mention on Aikido's own government page, which states that FedRAMP certification is in process rather than granted. The record evidences a self-published badge, not a requirement that blocks a replacement. \[[s31](#deep-dive-sources), [s32](#deep-dive-sources), [s25](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Correlating findings across many scanner types with reachability analysis, running agent-driven penetration tests that validate exploitability, and blocking injection inside a running application is real-time and analysis-heavy engineering. The Zen firewall and the Opengrep engine put part of that work in public code. \[[s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s30](#deep-dive-sources), [s29](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 | Aikido sells through a free tier and published per-plan pricing a team can read without contacting sales, and its named references include Revolut and a Visma rollout across 200 portfolio companies. The record therefore shows a buyer band spanning self-serve teams and gated enterprises rather than the regulated buyer alone. \[[s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | The platform runs beside the application, scanning code and cloud configurations and reporting into pipelines and ticketing, so other applications do not depend on it while they run. The optional Zen firewall runs inside a customer's own application, which is the one piece that runs in the request handling. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s30](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | Aikido Intel accumulates malware and vulnerability findings across open-source ecosystems and licenses that database through a commercial API, which is a retained asset held by the vendor rather than in per-tenant custody. The public feed page carries running counts and filter controls rather than the findings themselves, so the record does not show the licensed database is public or duplicated by a public catalog. A competitor scanning the same registries could approximate it, which is this rung's own standard rather than a reason to score below it. \[[s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

The proven base is developer-led and spans small teams upward. TechCrunch counted 3,000 small and mid-size customers at the 2024 Series A, and the free tier still opens the funnel with no credit card required.

The enterprise motion is visible and newer. Aikido's customer pages carry a Visma rollout across 200 portfolio companies and 6,000 developers, Deel's platform security team, and a Believe deployment spanning France, New York and Japan. Reuters names the fintech Revolut among customers, and the pricing page still quotes a total fee for a ten-user team in the open.

The public sector shows up as a customer and as a target. Aikido's customer pages carry a customer story tagged as a public institution, while its government page markets to agencies and contractors and states that FedRAMP certification is still in process, so the federally authorized buyer remains ahead of the record. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s25](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

The capability claim is breadth plus correlation. Dependency scanning, static analysis, secrets, licenses, infrastructure as code, containers, cloud configuration and virtual machine scanning feed one console. Latio Tech's 2026 report credits the reachability analysis, SAST customization and autofix architecture, and the same report states that vendors were offered a spotlight page its team would write, which is a disclosure a reader should carry into that passage.

AI is the method across the newer lines. Aikido Attack runs agent-driven penetration tests that chain weaknesses into attack graphs, and Infinite runs those agents on every deployment, validating exploitability and generating patches before code reaches production. Device Protection applies the same malware analysis at the developer's machine, checking packages, plugins and extensions before they install.

The New Stack reports an outside caution about how far this goes. Brad Shimmin of the Futurum Group told it that fully autonomous self-securing software is a long way off, and that current tooling supports monitoring and human-in-the-loop automation rather than autonomy. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s28](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s27](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

The motion is product-led and self-serve at the entry point. A free tier starts without a credit card, and published plan prices are quoted as a total fee against the number of covered developers, so a team can price the product before it talks to anyone.

Enterprise selling builds on that funnel. Aikido's about page lists a general manager for the United States among its executives alongside the four co-founders, and the company runs an AWS Marketplace listing a buyer can put against committed AWS spend. Its chief executive told Information Security Media Group that Aikido wins the requests for proposal it is invited into, and that discoverability rather than product competitiveness is the challenge.

Reuters reported that revenue grew five-fold over the prior year with around half coming from the United States, and that the customer base nearly tripled. The about page lists a European headquarters in Ghent, a US headquarters in San Francisco, further offices in Chicago, London and Singapore, and a defense headquarters in Boston. \[[s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s26](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Aikido publishes its prices. Plan tiers quote a total fee against a selector for the number of developers covered, a free tier is priced below them with no credit card required, and the top tier is arranged with the company rather than listed.

Published pricing is a stated part of the pitch rather than an accident. TechCrunch reported flat pricing as part of the original developer-facing proposition in 2024, and Latio Tech's 2026 report groups Aikido with JIT, Arnica and Socket as vendors with free accounts and friendly pricing structures. The published unit is the developer count, which matches how engineering teams size themselves. \[[s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Delivery starts with low friction. Aikido states that it takes read-only access to a customer's repositories and that scans run in temporary containers destroyed after analysis, the pricing page promises scan results in about half a minute, and a documentation portal covers setup, each scanner and migrations from tools such as SonarQube.

There is a deployment path for buyers who cannot send code out. The government page describes a fully on-premises platform for air-gapped and classified-adjacent environments and a deployment in AWS GovCloud. That widens the deployable base past the hosted default and matters for the regulated segment the company is courting. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources), [s25](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

The trust center carries the fuller compliance picture. Rendered, it lists TX-RAMP Level 2, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and a CSA STAR Level 1 self-assessment beside the SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 attestations the homepage names, together with dated certificates, policies and a penetration test report. TX-RAMP is the Texas program for cloud services that process the data of state agencies, and the reviewed record carries no certificate for it and no Texas listing that names Aikido.

The company is candid about what it does not yet hold. Asked on its own government page whether it is FedRAMP certified, it answers no and says it is pursuing FedRAMP 20x certification under the 2026 consolidated rules, targeting the third quarter of 2026. A federal buyer therefore weighs a stated roadmap rather than an authorization Aikido holds.

Public research doubles as a trust signal. The Aikido Intel page publishes running counts of the malware and vulnerabilities it has found across open-source ecosystems, and Aikido states that it detects new malware and vulnerabilities within minutes. \[[s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s25](#deep-dive-sources), [s31](#deep-dive-sources), [s32](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

The integration surface targets the developer's existing stack, covering repositories, pipelines, editors and ticketing, with an AWS Marketplace listing a buyer can put against committed AWS spend. Aikido also states a go-to-market security partnership with Amazon's Kiro coding tool.

Open-source projects extend the surface past the paid product. Aikido labels Zen open source and included in the platform, its repository offers the code under the AGPL alongside a commercial licence, and Opengrep is an LGPL-licensed fork of Semgrep that Aikido co-launched. Both put working code in front of engineers before any purchase, which is the same bottom-up path the free tier monetizes.

Device Protection pushes the surface onto the developer's machine, monitoring which registries and marketplaces a team draws from and applying allowlists, blocklists and approval workflows per team. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s29](#deep-dive-sources), [s30](#deep-dive-sources), [s27](#deep-dive-sources), [s15](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Willem Delbare has led Aikido since it began, and co-founded Teamleader CRM, Futureproofed Cities and Officient before it. Wikipedia records the October 2022 incorporation in Ghent by Delbare, Roeland Delrue and Felix Garriau. The Belgian company registry records the same start date for the entity.

Headcount has grown quickly and the record catches it three times. Information Security Media Group reported 164 people around the January 2026 round, The New Stack reported 200, and Aikido's about page states an employee size above 300.

Acquisition is part of how the bench was assembled. A Calcalist Ctech article on the Root acquisition reports the deal, estimating the price between 70 and 100 million dollars and naming John Amaral and Ian Riopel among Root's founders, and both now appear on Aikido's executive list. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s10](#deep-dive-sources), [s21](#deep-dive-sources), [s20](#deep-dive-sources), [s22](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Aikido: platform overview page](https://www.aikido.dev/platform) | official | 2026-08-25 |
| f2 | [Crossroads Bank for Enterprises: entity 0792.914.919 record](https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?ondernemingsnummer=0792914919) | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |
| f3 | [Wikipedia: Aikido Security article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido_Security) | research | 2026-08-25 |
| f4 | [Calcalist CTech: article on Aikido's acquisition of Root](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx) | press | 2026-08-25 |
| f5 | [Yahoo Finance: Reuters wire article on Aikido's $1 billion valuation](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-hits-120614192.html) | press | 2026-08-25 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Aikido: platform overview page](https://www.aikido.dev/platform) “One system to secure your application from code to cloud - to runtime.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s2 | [Aikido: Attack product page](https://www.aikido.dev/platform/attack) “Continuous, automated penetration testing that matches human creativity with machine speed. Detect, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities across your entire attack surface, on demand.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s3 | [Aikido: Zen in-app firewall product page](https://www.aikido.dev/protect/zen) “Automatically block critical injection attacks, introduce rate limiting for APIs, and more...” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s4 | [Aikido: about page with leadership roster and offices](https://www.aikido.dev/company/about) “Our vision is self-securing software. Security that continuously tests, validates, and improves itself as software is built and released.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s5 | [TechCrunch: 2024 article on Aikido's Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/belgiums-aikido-lands-17m-series-a-for-its-no-bs-security-platform-aimed-at-developers/) “That logic seems to have worked fairly well: The company already has 3,000 small-to-midsize customers.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s6 | [BankInfoSecurity: article on Aikido's Series B](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/aikido-gets-60m-series-b-to-scale-automate-ai-pen-testing-a-30556) “Aikido, founded in 2022, employs 164 people and has raised nearly $85 million in four rounds of outside funding, having last received a Series A investment in May 2024 led by Singular.vc.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s7 | [GlobeNewswire: Aikido Security Series B announcement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/14/3218567/0/en/Aikido-Security-Raises-60-Million-Series-B-at-1-Billion-Valuation-to-Lead-Software-Security.html) “Aikido is trusted by over 100,000 teams, with a global customer base including the Premier League, Revolut, SoundCloud, and Niantic.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s8 | [Wikipedia: Aikido Security article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido_Security) “In May 2024, the company raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Singular. [ 3 ] In January 2025, Aikido Security co-launched Opengrep, an open-source fork of Semgrep . [ 8 ] In August 2025, the company acquired the artificial intelligence (AI) code review startup Trag. [ 9 ]” | research | 2026-08-25 |
| s9 | [Latio Tech: Application Security Market Report 2026 (PDF)](https://www.legitsecurity.com/hubfs/2026-Latio-Application-Security-Report.pdf) “Several application platform startups like Aikido and Arnica focused on orchestrating and consolidating different tools, often using a combination of open and closed source scanners.” | research | 2026-08-25 |
| s10 | [Crossroads Bank for Enterprises: entity 0792.914.919 record](https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?ondernemingsnummer=0792914919) “Ondernemingsnummer: 0792.914.919” | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |
| s11 | [Aikido: Intel threat feed page](https://intel.aikido.dev/) “Aikido Intel is the real-time supply chain intelligence feed. We detect malware and vulnerabilities in open-source ecosystems within minutes.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s12 | [Aikido: homepage](https://www.aikido.dev/) “We’re doing everything we can to be fully secure & compliant. Aikido has been examined to attest that its system and the suitability of the design of controls meets the AICPA's SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001:2022 requirements. Find out more on our Trust Center .” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s13 | [Aikido: blog post announcing the Root acquisition](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/aikido-acquires-root) “Today, Aikido acquires Root.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s14 | [Aikido: vendor comparison index page](https://www.aikido.dev/comparison/comparison-overview) “Aikido vs Snyk” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s15 | [Aikido: documentation portal](https://help.aikido.dev/) “Migrating from SonarQube to Aikido” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s16 | [Aikido: pricing page](https://www.aikido.dev/pricing) “Select the number of developers covered by Aikido” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s17 | [Aikido: AWS partner page](https://www.aikido.dev/partners/aws) “Aikido integrates directly into your AWS environment through the AWS Marketplace. This allows you to use your Amazon billing and simplify procurement.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s18 | [Yahoo Finance: Reuters wire article on Aikido's $1 billion valuation](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-hits-120614192.html) “By Supantha Mukherjee” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s19 | [SiliconANGLE: article on Aikido's Allseek and Haicker acquisitions](https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/24/allseek-haicker-join-aikido-transform-penetration-testing-sub-hour-automated-assessments/) “Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced the acquisition of two artificial intelligence-native security companies, Allseek BV and Haicker SA , to transform weeks-long pen tests into sub-hour automated assessments” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s20 | [Calcalist CTech: article on Aikido's acquisition of Root](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx) “Belgian cybersecurity unicorn Aikido Security is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Root, which developed an AI platform for securing open-source components.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s21 | [BleepingComputer: article on the September 2025 npm supply-chain attack](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-npm-packages-with-2-billion-weekly-downloads-in-supply-chain-attack/) “According to Aikido Security, which analyzed the supply-chain attack , the threat actors updated the packages after taking over control, injecting malicious code that acts as a browser-based interceptor into the index.js files, capable of hijacking network traffic and application APIs.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s22 | [The New Stack: article on Aikido Infinite and continuous AI penetration testing](https://thenewstack.io/aikido-self-securing-software/) “In a recent survey of 500 security and engineering leaders, Aikido found that 76% deploy significant production changes weekly or faster — yet only 21% validate security on every release.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s23 | [The New Stack: interview article on AI coding agents and package installs](https://thenewstack.io/aikido-ai-agents-security/) “Last month, Aikido introduced Aikido Endpoint , which inspects packages, plugins, and IDE and browser extensions before every installation and automatically blocks malware before it’s downloaded.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s24 | [European Commission: Cyber Resilience Act policy page](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act) “The CRA entered into force on 10 December 2024. The main obligations introduced by the Act will apply from 11 December 2027, with reporting obligations to apply as of 11 September 2026.” | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |
| s25 | [Aikido: FedRAMP and government page](https://www.aikido.dev/fedramp-security) “Not yet, & we won't pretend otherwise. We're pursuing FedRAMP 20x Certification, in process under the Consolidated Rules for 2026, targeting Q3 2026.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s26 | [Aikido: customer stories index page](https://www.aikido.dev/customer-stories) “Visma rolled out a unified SCA & SAST solution across 200 portfolio companies and 6,000 devs .” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s27 | [Aikido: Device Protection product page](https://www.aikido.dev/protect/device-protection) “Block malicious browser extensions, IDE plugins, and code libraries. Device Protection gives you visibility and control over the software packages installed on your dev's devices.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s28 | [Aikido: Infinite product page](https://www.aikido.dev/attack/infinite) “Autonomous agents pentest every deployment, validate exploitability, generate patches, and retest the fix, all before code hits production.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s29 | [GitHub: Opengrep repository page](https://github.com/opengrep/opengrep) “Welcome to Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep, under the LGPL 2.1 license” | research | 2026-08-25 |
| s30 | [GitHub: Aikido Zen firewall-node repository page](https://github.com/AikidoSec/firewall-node) “Zen by Aikido is an embedded Web Application Firewall that autonomously protects Node.js apps against common and critical attacks.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s31 | [Aikido: trust-center probe, trustcenter.aikido.dev rendered, trust.aikido.dev did not resolve](https://trustcenter.aikido.dev/) “TX-RAMP Level 2” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s32 | [Texas Department of Information Resources: TX-RAMP program page](https://dir.texas.gov/information-security/texas-risk-and-authorization-management-program-tx-ramp) “The Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program provides a standardized approach for security assessment, certification, and continuous monitoring of cloud computing services that process the data of Texas state agencies.” | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Aikido: platform overview page](https://www.aikido.dev/platform) “One system to secure your application from code to cloud - to runtime.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s2 | [Aikido: Attack product page](https://www.aikido.dev/platform/attack) “Continuous, automated penetration testing that matches human creativity with machine speed. Detect, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities across your entire attack surface, on demand.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s3 | [Aikido: Zen in-app firewall product page](https://www.aikido.dev/protect/zen) “Automatically block critical injection attacks, introduce rate limiting for APIs, and more...” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s4 | [Aikido: about page with leadership roster and offices](https://www.aikido.dev/company/about) “Our vision is self-securing software. Security that continuously tests, validates, and improves itself as software is built and released.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s5 | [TechCrunch: 2024 article on Aikido's Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/belgiums-aikido-lands-17m-series-a-for-its-no-bs-security-platform-aimed-at-developers/) “That logic seems to have worked fairly well: The company already has 3,000 small-to-midsize customers.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s6 | [BankInfoSecurity: article on Aikido's Series B](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/aikido-gets-60m-series-b-to-scale-automate-ai-pen-testing-a-30556) “Aikido, founded in 2022, employs 164 people and has raised nearly $85 million in four rounds of outside funding, having last received a Series A investment in May 2024 led by Singular.vc.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s7 | [GlobeNewswire: Aikido Security Series B announcement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/14/3218567/0/en/Aikido-Security-Raises-60-Million-Series-B-at-1-Billion-Valuation-to-Lead-Software-Security.html) “Aikido is trusted by over 100,000 teams, with a global customer base including the Premier League, Revolut, SoundCloud, and Niantic.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s8 | [Wikipedia: Aikido Security article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido_Security) “In May 2024, the company raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Singular. [ 3 ] In January 2025, Aikido Security co-launched Opengrep, an open-source fork of Semgrep . [ 8 ] In August 2025, the company acquired the artificial intelligence (AI) code review startup Trag. [ 9 ]” | research | 2026-08-25 |
| s9 | [Latio Tech: Application Security Market Report 2026 (PDF)](https://www.legitsecurity.com/hubfs/2026-Latio-Application-Security-Report.pdf) “Several application platform startups like Aikido and Arnica focused on orchestrating and consolidating different tools, often using a combination of open and closed source scanners.” | research | 2026-08-25 |
| s10 | [Crossroads Bank for Enterprises: entity 0792.914.919 record](https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.html?ondernemingsnummer=0792914919) “Ondernemingsnummer: 0792.914.919” | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |
| s11 | [Aikido: Intel threat feed page](https://intel.aikido.dev/) “Aikido Intel is the real-time supply chain intelligence feed. We detect malware and vulnerabilities in open-source ecosystems within minutes.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s12 | [Aikido: homepage](https://www.aikido.dev/) “We’re doing everything we can to be fully secure & compliant. Aikido has been examined to attest that its system and the suitability of the design of controls meets the AICPA's SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001:2022 requirements. Find out more on our Trust Center .” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s13 | [Aikido: blog post announcing the Root acquisition](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/aikido-acquires-root) “Today, Aikido acquires Root.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s14 | [Aikido: vendor comparison index page](https://www.aikido.dev/comparison/comparison-overview) “Aikido vs Snyk” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s15 | [Aikido: documentation portal](https://help.aikido.dev/) “Migrating from SonarQube to Aikido” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s16 | [Aikido: pricing page](https://www.aikido.dev/pricing) “Select the number of developers covered by Aikido” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s17 | [Aikido: AWS partner page](https://www.aikido.dev/partners/aws) “Aikido integrates directly into your AWS environment through the AWS Marketplace. This allows you to use your Amazon billing and simplify procurement.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s18 | [Yahoo Finance: Reuters wire article on Aikido's $1 billion valuation](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-hits-120614192.html) “By Supantha Mukherjee” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s19 | [SiliconANGLE: article on Aikido's Allseek and Haicker acquisitions](https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/24/allseek-haicker-join-aikido-transform-penetration-testing-sub-hour-automated-assessments/) “Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced the acquisition of two artificial intelligence-native security companies, Allseek BV and Haicker SA , to transform weeks-long pen tests into sub-hour automated assessments” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s20 | [Calcalist CTech: article on Aikido's acquisition of Root](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjxak411qzx) “Belgian cybersecurity unicorn Aikido Security is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Root, which developed an AI platform for securing open-source components.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s21 | [BleepingComputer: article on the September 2025 npm supply-chain attack](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-npm-packages-with-2-billion-weekly-downloads-in-supply-chain-attack/) “According to Aikido Security, which analyzed the supply-chain attack , the threat actors updated the packages after taking over control, injecting malicious code that acts as a browser-based interceptor into the index.js files, capable of hijacking network traffic and application APIs.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s22 | [The New Stack: article on Aikido Infinite and continuous AI penetration testing](https://thenewstack.io/aikido-self-securing-software/) “In a recent survey of 500 security and engineering leaders, Aikido found that 76% deploy significant production changes weekly or faster — yet only 21% validate security on every release.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s23 | [The New Stack: interview article on AI coding agents and package installs](https://thenewstack.io/aikido-ai-agents-security/) “Last month, Aikido introduced Aikido Endpoint , which inspects packages, plugins, and IDE and browser extensions before every installation and automatically blocks malware before it’s downloaded.” | press | 2026-08-25 |
| s24 | [European Commission: Cyber Resilience Act policy page](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act) “The CRA entered into force on 10 December 2024. The main obligations introduced by the Act will apply from 11 December 2027, with reporting obligations to apply as of 11 September 2026.” | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |
| s25 | [Aikido: FedRAMP and government page](https://www.aikido.dev/fedramp-security) “Not yet, & we won't pretend otherwise. We're pursuing FedRAMP 20x Certification, in process under the Consolidated Rules for 2026, targeting Q3 2026.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s26 | [Aikido: customer stories index page](https://www.aikido.dev/customer-stories) “Visma rolled out a unified SCA & SAST solution across 200 portfolio companies and 6,000 devs .” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s27 | [Aikido: Device Protection product page](https://www.aikido.dev/protect/device-protection) “Block malicious browser extensions, IDE plugins, and code libraries. Device Protection gives you visibility and control over the software packages installed on your dev's devices.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s28 | [Aikido: Infinite product page](https://www.aikido.dev/attack/infinite) “Autonomous agents pentest every deployment, validate exploitability, generate patches, and retest the fix, all before code hits production.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s29 | [GitHub: Opengrep repository page](https://github.com/opengrep/opengrep) “Welcome to Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep, under the LGPL 2.1 license” | research | 2026-08-25 |
| s30 | [GitHub: Aikido Zen firewall-node repository page](https://github.com/AikidoSec/firewall-node) “Zen by Aikido is an embedded Web Application Firewall that autonomously protects Node.js apps against common and critical attacks.” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s31 | [Aikido: trust-center probe, trustcenter.aikido.dev rendered, trust.aikido.dev did not resolve](https://trustcenter.aikido.dev/) “TX-RAMP Level 2” | official | 2026-08-25 |
| s32 | [Texas Department of Information Resources: TX-RAMP program page](https://dir.texas.gov/information-security/texas-risk-and-authorization-management-program-tx-ramp) “The Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program provides a standardized approach for security assessment, certification, and continuous monitoring of cloud computing services that process the data of Texas state agencies.” | regulatory | 2026-08-25 |

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