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June 10, 2026

Fake perfume, loo rolls and riffing on The Matrix: The stunts that helped push Aikido Security to the top

This ‘yin and yang’ founder team have turned a Belgian cyber firm into a global player


Éanna Kelly

4 min read

Madeline Lawrence’s first meeting with Belgian cyber company Aikido was, by her own admission, a disaster. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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