{"id":985677,"date":"2026-01-16T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985677"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:02:20","slug":"belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-hits-unicorn-status-with-new-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-hits-unicorn-status-with-new-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido hits unicorn status with new funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium&#8217;s Aikido Security \u200dhas raised $60 million from investors led by tech-focused private \u2060equity firm DST Global at a valuation of $1 billion, the cybersecurity startup said on Wednesday, making it \u200camong Europe&#8217;s \u200cfirst new unicorns of 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2022, Aikido&#8217;s security software \u200chelps developers detect and address risk automatically. It counts mobile app and game developer Niantic, fintech Revolut and music streaming platform SoundCloud among its customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium&#8217;s Aikido Security \u200dhas raised $60 million from investors led by tech-focused private \u2060equity firm DST Global at a valuation of $1 billion, the cybersecurity startup said on Wednesday, making it \u200camong Europe&#8217;s \u200cfirst new unicorns of 2026. Founded in 2022, Aikido&#8217;s security software \u200chelps developers detect and address risk automatically. It counts mobile app and game developer Niantic, fintech Revolut and music streaming platform SoundCloud among its customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}