How Aikido Security Disrupted AppSec to Hit Unicorn Status in Just 3 Years
- ByStartupStory | January 15, 2026
Aikido Security, the Ghent-based cybersecurity disruptor, has achieved unicorn status with a $1 billion valuation after raising $60 million in Series B funding led by DST Global – remarkable for a company founded only in 2022.
The Belgian startup stormed application security by rejecting bloated enterprise suites in favor of developer-first tools that embed directly into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines. While competitors sell dashboard complexity, Aikido delivers “no bullshit security” – instant SAST scans, auto-remediation, and cloud vulnerability detection that fix issues before code merges.
Co-founders Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue, and Felix Garriau engineered a unified platform spanning code, cloud, and runtime risks, serving over 50,000 organizations including SoundCloud, Niantic, and Revolut. Their secret weapon: AI-native automation that predicts exploits and generates pull requests, slashing remediation from days to minutes without slowing velocity.
Europe’s fastest cybersecurity unicorn proves AppSec transforms when developers own security natively. Three years from zero to $1 billion signals the self-securing software era – where AI makes breaches as unacceptable as shipping uncompiled code. Aikido didn’t iterate on yesterday’s SAST; they reimagined security for AI-powered engineering teams building tomorrow’s internet.
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