Belgium company acquires young Lausanne startup
Less than six months following its incorporation, Haicker has been acquired by Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV to help to transform weeks-long pen tests into sub-hour automated assessments.
Manaf Mhamdi Alaoui and Philippe Dourassov established Haicker with the aim of bringing continuous pen testing closer to developers, integrated directly with their workflow. Their platform acts as a code-security-scanner that leverages AI Agents to find vulnerabilities and help developers fix them. The platform simulates the actions of a human penetration tester by running browser-driven workflows, Python scripts, and security tools in isolated environments to detect security flaws in software projects. Haicker has managed to achieve an 88.4% detection rate on the XBOW Validation Benchmark, surpassing both competitors and even human penetration testers.
Shortly after its incorporation in July 2025, the Lausanne-based startup was selected to join in the premier Project Europe cohort, securing an investment of EUR 200k, access to a network of tier 1 founders and mentors including 20VC investor Harry Stebbings and Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli. Project Europe was initiated by Europe’s top tech companies with the aim of building the continent’s next €100bn companies.
Haicker, along with Allseek, has now been acquired by Belgium company Aikido Security NV to transform weeks-long pen tests into sub-hour automated assessments, enabling Aikido to capture a larger piece of the $6 billion penetration testing market. Based in Belgium, Allseek builds AI agents that think like attackers, continuously mapping real exploit paths as infrastructure evolves. The new parent company was founded in 2022. The company secures organizations’ code, cloud, and runtime in one central system. It currently serves over 30,000 organizations.
“The reason Haicker was created was because we want to make it possible to detect all security issues and fix them, and AI pen testing is an essential part of that,” said Dourassov. “But to accomplish our vision, we needed a platform, not just a single product. Aikido represents exactly what we were going for. A solution that protects applications against attackers on all fronts. By teaming up, we are getting another step closer to making ‘unhackable’ possible.”
“By combining Allseek and Haicker’s autonomous testing capabilities with our existing platform, we’re moving from annual security snapshots to continuous testing that keeps pace with the AI era. While AI agents handle the bulk of testing at scale, human experts can focus on creative, high-value vulnerabilities – the complex business logic flaws and sophisticated attack chains that require human intuition”, says Willem Delbare, founder and CEO of Aikido Security.
(Press release/RAN)