news.ycombinator.com• May 2, 2024• 1 min read
Show HN: Just raised $17M for a no BS application security platformHello Hacker News! We’re Willem, Roeland, Felix and Madeline from Aikido Security (https://aikido.dev/) We’re building a “no BS’ application security platform. It’s the platform we wish existed, but couldn’t find.Willem, our CTO had to manage (application) security at many of his previous startups, and honestly, hated it. Most security tools we had to use made us feel dumb. They were super complex and riddled with false positives. Their platform was behind the book a demo button. They had intransparent pricing models and honestly charged us way too much.We think most of these platforms are built for the buyer at corporate companies, the CISO, not for the user, the developer. The people that actually need to use it.So we built a platform that brings all the security scanners you need to secure your app, into one. We’ve built the app to be tech agnostic, it connects to your code (GitHub, GitLab, Azure Devops, Bitbucket,…), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean), docker images (over 15 dif