Aikido Security
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$60M
1 round on record
Latest round
$60M
Series B · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
25
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
67
+18 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Connect Ventures, Decibel
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
71/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 30
First role in Japan Account Executive Japan
Sep 15
First role in Australia Account Executive ANZ
Sep 9
First executive search Sales Director, Enterprise
Sep 8
First role in Singapore Account Executive (South East Asia)
Sep 2
First role in Israel AI Engineer
Sep 2
First role in Saudi Arabia Account Executive Saudi Arabia
Aug 28
First role in France Account Executive Enterprise France
Aug 27
First role in Sweden Account Executive Enterprise (Nordics)
Aug 10
First role in United Arab Emirates Account Executive Middle East
Aug 4
On the Hacker News front page Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack · 251 points
Jul 3
First role in Romania Customer Success Engineer Romania
Jul 3
First role in Poland Customer Success Engineer Poland
Apr 20
Launched Aikido Security Launches Endpoint Protection for Developer Devices as Software Supply Chain Attacks Hit Unprecedented Scale · manilatimes.net
Mar 15
On the Hacker News front page Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories · 303 points
Mar 4
First role in United Kingdom Customer Success Engineer UK
Jan 14
Raised a round Series B $60M
Nov 24, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack · 352 points
Sep 8, 2025
On the Hacker News front page NPM debug and chalk packages compromised · 1372 points
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
47
best: 1372 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Jan 2026 | $60M | — | manilatimes.net |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Aikido Security BV | its site |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Connect Ventures 
Decibel 
Foreword 
Notioncapital 
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How Aikido Security hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
32 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Aikido Security scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 26 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 32 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Aikido Security is an application security company headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, and founded in 2022. The company offers a single platform combining code scanning, dependency and container checks, secrets detection, cloud posture management, and runtime protection for development teams. It targets small and mid-sized engineering organizations that want broad security coverage without assembling and tuning several separate tools.
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Top on-prem AI pentesting tools in 2026
The best on-prem AI pentesting tools of 2026 for regulated teams, compared on air-gap support, whitebox depth, and application coverage Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
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Aikido achieves AWS Security Competency for Application Security
AWS has recognized Aikido with its Security Competency for Application Security, validating how Aikido secures applications from code to cloud to runtime. Category: Product & Company Updates
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Finding vulnerabilities at every stage: what to run, and when
SAST, Deep PR Review, AI Code Analysis, and AI Pentest each catch different vulnerabilities at different stages. Here's when to use each, and why. Category: Product & Company Updates
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Audn vs Codex vs Aikido on the Same Repo - 159 Findings, and All Three Agreed on Exactly 3
We ran Audn WhiteBox, OpenAI Codex, and Aikido over the same OWASP Juice Shop source. 159 findings between them, and the three-way intersection is three issues. Audn proved 18 exploits live, Codex shipped a patch per regression, Aikido found the dependenc
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What is AI harness engineering?
Harness engineering is the code around an AI model that turns it into an agent. What a harness does, why it beats picking a model, and how to build one. Category: News
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Who was behind the attack? Possibly nobody
Three summer disclosures documented AI agents attacking real organizations with no human intent in the chain. Incident response has no box for this yet. Category: News
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The Aikido Machine: on-prem AI pentesting that never leaves your network
Continuous AI pentesting for teams that can't use the cloud. The Aikido Machine keeps models, code, and results entirely inside your network. Category: Product & Company Updates
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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account Category: Vulnerabilities & Threats
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Aikido Security over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
66
Postings analysed
22
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Go32%
Python27%
TypeScript27%
JavaScript9%
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain14%
CUDA5%
LangGraph5%
OpenAI Agents SDK5%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes32%
AWS32%
Linux18%
Azure14%
AI & ML
LLM18%
Claude5%
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Full Aikido Security tech stack
66 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$150k
Typical range
$85k – $250k
Open positions
5
4
Jobs
Junior
50%
Middle
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $150k | $150k |
| Middle | 2 | $175k | $100k – $250k |
Highest paying role
Account Executive, Mid-Market US
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Aikido Security
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
69
13 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
32 days
faster than 39% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
38% ▲
AI/ML
8% ▼
Backend
8%
Marketing
8%
Customer Success
8%
Solutions
8% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Tokyo
Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack
Oct 2026
Added CloudFormation to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Belgium
Sep 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Added Git to stack
Sep 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Sep 2026
Added EU AI Act to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Sydney
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
5
Busiest office
Ghent
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Ghent
Belgium
HQ
25 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 12% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Backend, Marketing
Coupure Rechts 88, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
Chicago
United States
HQ
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14 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 7% remote 50-200 est. staff $146k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success
330 N. Wabash 23rd Floor Chicago, IL 60611
San Francisco
United States
HQ
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4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product, Communications, Marketing
🇺🇸 95 Third St, 2nd Fl, San Francisco, CA 94103, US, 🇺🇸 330 N. Wabash 23rd Floor Chicago, IL 60611, US
London
United Kingdom
Sales office
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 25% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Customer Success
Boston
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Sales, Solutions
Singapore
Singapore
Sales office
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
Tel Aviv
Israel
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Austin
United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Jobs
≈ $57k – $155k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Ghent
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≈ $61k – $171k per year (Estimated) • In office • Ghent
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Terraform
GCP
CloudFormation
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $116k – $227k per year (Estimated) • In office • Boston
AWS
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
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≈ $46k – $126k per year (Estimated) • Remote (France) • 3+ years exp • Paris
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≈ $91k – $201k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Boston
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In office • Ghent
Go
Rust
C++
Assembly
WinDbg
DevOps
eBPF
Linux
Windows
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≈ $90k – $269k per year (Estimated) • In office • Tel Aviv
Python
Go
TypeScript
Cursor
LangGraph
LangChain
Claude
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
Langfuse
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI Agents SDK
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Argo Workflows
Cybersecurity
CVE
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In office • Ghent
Go
GCP
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
eBPF
Linux
Cybersecurity
Falco
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Financials
Total raised
$60M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2026 | $60M | $1B | Details |