Roeland Delrue
Co-founder, CRO & COO at Aikido Security; Angel Investor at aikido-security
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Background
Roeland Delrue is co-founder, CRO and COO of Aikido Security, a Ghent-based developer-first cloud security platform he launched in September 2022 alongside Willem Delbare, Amber Rucker, and Felix Garriau 124. He earned his Master’s from Ghent University in 2012 and studied at Hult International Business School (San Francisco) in 2012–2013 23. Aikido has raised $120M total, including a $60M Series B in January 2026 led by DST Global with PSG Equity, following a $17M Series A in May 2024, a €5M seed in November 2023, and a €2M pre-seed in January 2023 145. He angel invests in parallel to his operating role 3.
Stated Thesis
Delrue self-reports investment focus across pre-seed, seed, Series A, and late-stage rounds in the EU 3. He has not published a written investment thesis; his profile lists primary sector focus as Enterprise Applications and Consumer 4.
Inferred Thesis
Sample size: 6 publicly tracked angel investments 4. Sample is too small for percentage analysis; qualitative description below.
Stage: Exclusively seed-stage in the verified data 4.
Sector: Concentrated in B2B enterprise applications (4 of 6 — Geteagl, Getdalton, Driven, Markmi) with one consumer investment (Maurice And Nora) 4.
Geography: Belgium and United States 4; consistent with operating between Ghent and the U.S. expansion of Aikido 2.
Cadence: Five verifiable 2025–2026 investments span an ~13-month window (April 2025 to May 2026), with four of the five concentrated between September 2025 and May 2026 — suggesting an accelerated deployment phase in late 2025 following an earlier April 2025 first check into Markmi 47.
Founder profile: Insufficient data to characterize.
Portfolio
| Company | Year | Stage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice And Nora | 2026-05-06 | Seed | 4 |
| Geteagl | 2025-09-18 | Seed | 4 |
| Getdalton | 2025-09-05 | Seed | 4 |
| Driven | 2025-09-04 | Seed | 4 |
| Markmi | 2025-04-02 | Seed (€1.1M, angel participant) | 43789 |
Tracxn reports 6 total angel investments; 5 are individually named in public sources 4. One additional portfolio company is referenced but not named in available sources 6.
In Their Own Words
On AI and cybersecurity: “AI is generating vulnerabilities 3x faster than before” — Roeland Delrue, LinkedIn activity, 2026 2.
What Founders Say
No independently sourced founder testimonials about Delrue as an angel investor have been located. Founder Laurent Mainil (Markmi) is referenced as a warm-intro connection in Delrue’s public investor profile 3, but no published quote about the working relationship was found.
Sources
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TechCrunch, “Belgium’s Aikido lands $17M Series A for its ‘no BS’ security platform aimed at developers,” May 1, 2024, accessed June 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/belgiums-aikido-lands-17m-series-a-for-its-no-bs-security-platform-aimed-at-developers/↩↩
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LinkedIn, “Roeland Delrue — Cofounder at Aikido,” accessed June 2026. https://be.linkedin.com/in/roelanddelrue↩↩↩↩
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EasyVC, “Roeland Delrue — Startup Investor Profile,” accessed June 2026. https://easyvc.ai/investor/roeland-delrue/↩↩↩↩↩
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Tracxn, “Roeland Delrue — 2026 Portfolio & Founded Companies,” accessed June 2026. https://tracxn.com/d/people/roeland-delrue/__v4_uohe1A7jxEt_H9DyG7k7ZRRiwxQUQsFv9E_iTkkg↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
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Wikipedia, “Aikido Security,” accessed June 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido_Security↩
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Investorlist, “Roeland Delrue,” accessed June 2026. https://investorlist.com/investor/roeland-delrue↩
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Markmi, “Press Release: Ghent-based Markmi raises €1.1 million to expand its markdown assistant in Belgium, the Netherlands, the Nordics, and later this year, the US,” company blog, April 2, 2025. Accessed July 2026. https://markmi.ai/blog/press-release-ghent-based-markmi-raises-1.1-million-to-expand-its-markdown-assistant-in-belgium-the-netherlands-the-nordics-and-later-this-year-the-us↩↩
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The SaaS News, “Markmi Raises €1.1 Million in Seed Round,” April 2025. Accessed July 2026. https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/markmi-raises-1-1-million-in-seed-round↩
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FashionUnited, “Markmi raises 1.1 million euros in seed funding,” April 2025. Accessed July 2026. https://fashionunited.com/news/business/markmi-raises-1-1-million-euros-in-seed-funding/202504026524↩