Cyclopt

What Cyclopt does

Cyclopt (legal entity: Κυκλική Βελτιστοποίηση ΙΚΕ / Cyclopt PC) is a Greek software company headquartered in Thessaloniki that provides an AI-driven code quality and security analysis platform. Founded as a spin-off from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with origins tracing to 2017 research activity and a 2021 corporate formation, the company evaluates source code against the ISO/IEC 25010:2023 standard using automated static and dynamic analysis on every commit, with explicit positioning for the GenAI coding era. Its commercial product portfolio consists of Cyclopt Companion (an AI-powered coding co-pilot for individual developers with IDE-integrated feedback), Cyclopt Panorama (a team-wide code quality and risk analytics platform for managers and team leads), and a free open-source Community Version distributed via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Azure DevOps.

The platform integrates natively with GitHub, GitLab (including self-hosted), Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket for repository access, and ships IDE plugins for Visual Studio, VS Code, and JetBrains. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server launched in May 2026 connects Cyclopt's analysis directly with AI coding assistants. The company also participates in four EU-funded research consortia — WABLI (EPAnEK, 2020–2022), RAISE (Horizon Europe, Oct 2022 – Feb 2026), RAISE Suite (Horizon Europe, Sep 2025 – Dec 2028), and ALLEVIATE (Competitiveness Programme, kick-off Feb 2026) — which contribute to technology development and provide pilot deployment contexts across energy, pharmaceutical, and operational technology sectors.

Cyclopt operates a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led growth (free Community Version, Git OAuth self-serve onboarding, IDE marketplace distribution) for individual developers with a direct enterprise sales motion for the Panorama team/enterprise tier. Pricing is freemium with a Fee Threshold above which monthly or annual subscriptions apply, and enterprise accounts receive quote-based pricing. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; total disclosed funding is approximately €160,000 from TECS Capital Fund (July 2021 seed) plus a second round of approximately $236,191 in November 2023. The company is privately held, based in Thessaloniki, Greece, with leadership comprising co-founder and CEO Michail Papamichail and co-founder and Head of Research Andreas Symeonidis (also Managing Director and Legal Representative).

Name

Cyclopt

Legal name

Κυκλική Βελτιστοποίηση ΙΚΕ

Website

https://cyclopt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cyclopt is a Greek AI-driven software quality platform that evaluates source code against the ISO/IEC 25010:2023 standard via IDE, CI/CD, and AI-assistant integrations. It serves solo developers (Companion), engineering managers (Panorama), and enterprise teams through freemium and subscription tiers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Software Quality Assurance / AI-Powered Code Analysis

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAMADAK

App Testing, QA & Beta Distribution Platforms

Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/App Stores, Distribution & Developer Platforms

SECONDARYHDADACAG

Code & Repository Security (Git Security, Code Integrity)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cybersecurity/Application & API Security

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Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Platforms

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Enterprise Platforms & Databases/Enterprise Application Development Platforms (Low-Code/No-Code & PaaS)

Keywords

• Software quality assurance
• AI code review
• Static code analysis
• Developer productivity tools
• Code quality platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Thessaloníki

HQ country

Greece

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Cyclopt Companion (Solo Developer Subscription): Subscription-based SaaS for individual developers providing AI-powered code quality analysis and IDE-integrated feedback. Free quota available up to a threshold; paid tiers above the Fee Threshold. Supports sign-in via GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure, or Cyclopt account.
2. Cyclopt Panorama (Team/Enterprise): Team-wide quality management platform for managers and team leads, providing shared standards, team-wide insights, and commit-level accountability. Targets enterprise and fast-moving organizations. Sold via direct sales with quote-based pricing above free quota threshold.
3. Cyclopt Community Version: Free and open-source code review tool with no cost to users. Serves as a top-of-funnel product to drive adoption and conversion to paid tiers. Integrated with major CI/CD platforms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cyclopt provides an AI-driven software quality assurance platform that evaluates source code against the ISO/IEC 25010:2023 standard on every commit to catch security, maintainability, and quality issues before code reaches review. Its commercial products include Cyclopt Companion for solo developers and Cyclopt Panorama for engineering managers and team leads, complemented by a free, open-source Community Version, IDE plugins for Visual Studio/VS Code/JetBrains, and an MCP Server that integrates the analysis with AI coding assistants.

Product overview

Cyclopt offers a code quality and validation platform designed for the GenAI era. The core product portfolio consists of Cyclopt Companion (for solo developers) and Cyclopt Panorama (for managers and team leads), with a free Community Version available. The platform validates AI-generated and human-written code through automated quality and security checks against ISO/IEC 25010:2023 standards. Additional offerings include IDE plugins for Visual Studio, VS Code, and JetBrains, an MCP Server for AI assistant integration, and professional services. Cyclopt also participates in several EU-funded research projects (WABLI, RAISE, RAISE Suite, ALLEVIATE) focused on code generation, distributed data processing, and low/no-code platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Companion: Code quality and security analysis tool for solo developers, integrated directly into developer workflows.
• Panorama
• Community Version
• Cyclopt Community Version

Products and services

• Cyclopt Companion AI-powered quality co-pilot for solo developers that provides instant feedback on code maintainability and security, validates AI-generated code, and integrates directly into developer workflows for confidence before every merge.
• Cyclopt Panorama Team visibility platform for managers and team leads that provides shared standards across contributors, team-wide insights into quality and risk, and accountability at every commit for AI-powered teams.
• Cyclopt Community Version Free and open-source workflow-integrated automated code review tool for quality and security, supporting many languages, frameworks, and cloud technologies, with quality gates to enforce policies.
• Cyclopt Services Professional services for Cyclopt users, including support and consulting around deployment, adoption, and code quality governance.
• Cyclopt MCP Server Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that connects Cyclopt's code analysis capabilities directly with AI coding assistants, allowing developers to access software quality, security, and maintainability insights inside their AI-assisted workflow.
• Cyclopt IDE Plugins Plugins for Visual Studio, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs that bring code quality and security insights directly into the developer's integrated development environment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cyclopt's WABLI research project demonstrates 60% faster web application delivery when using automated code quality evaluation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GitHubcoreTechnology or IntegrationCyclopt integrates with GitHub for OAuth-based authentication and repository-level code quality analysis. Developers can sign in with GitHub and submit repositories for analysis. The Community Version integrates with GitHub Actions for automated code review in CI/CD pipelines.
• GitLabcoreTechnology or IntegrationCyclopt integrates with GitLab (including self-hosted installations) for authentication and repository analysis. The Community Version integrates with GitLab CI for automated code review pipelines.
• Azure DevOpscoreTechnology or IntegrationCyclopt integrates with Azure DevOps for repository analysis and automated code quality review. The Community Version integrates with Azure DevOps pipelines.
• BitbucketcoreTechnology or IntegrationCyclopt integrates with Bitbucket for OAuth-based sign-in and repository analysis. The Community Version integrates with Bitbucket Pipelines for automated code review.
• VilabsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVilabs is a consortium partner in the ALLEVIATE research project alongside Cyclopt. Vilabs contributes software engineering expertise to the development of the unified low/no-code platform.
• Pharm24minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPharm24 is a consortium partner and pilot user in the ALLEVIATE research project. Pharm24 validates the platform through real operational pilot cases in the pharmaceutical/health sector.
• HAM SystemsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHAM Systems is a consortium partner and pilot user in the ALLEVIATE research project. HAM Systems validates the platform through real operational pilot cases in their operational context.
• Visual Studio MarketplacecoreTechnology or IntegrationCyclopt plugins for Visual Studio are distributed via the Visual Studio Marketplace, enabling direct discovery and installation by Visual Studio users.
• VS Code Marketplace / JetBrains MarketplacecoreTechnology or IntegrationCyclopt plugins for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs are distributed via the respective official marketplaces, enabling direct discovery and installation by developers using these environments.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sonar (SonarQube): Sonar (formerly SonarQube) is the most established automated code quality and security platform, offering static analysis with IDE, CI/CD, and Git provider integrations. It directly competes with Cyclopt across maintainability, security, and team-wide quality governance, and is the de facto benchmark for ISO-style code quality standards.
• Snyk: Snyk is a developer security platform that includes SAST, code analysis, and dependency/security scanning integrated into IDEs, Git providers, and CI/CD pipelines. Cyclopt overlaps with Snyk's code-quality and security analysis layer and its developer-first, integration-led GTM approach.
• Codacy: Codacy provides automated code review and quality analysis integrated with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, with team-wide dashboards for engineering managers. It competes head-to-head with Cyclopt Panorama on team-level quality visibility and pre-merge quality gates.
• Semgrep: Semgrep offers static code analysis and AppSec tooling aimed at developers, with IDE and CI/CD integrations. It overlaps with Cyclopt's code security and quality analysis, particularly for engineering teams that want developer-friendly scanning tools.
• DeepCode (Snyk Code): DeepCode, now Snyk Code, is an AI-powered SAST tool for real-time code analysis, integrated directly into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines. It is highly comparable to Cyclopt's analyzer but is bundled inside Snyk's broader security platform.

Emerging players

• CodeRabbit: CodeRabbit is an AI code review agent that runs on pull requests to surface quality and security issues, targeting the same GenAI-era workflow Cyclopt addresses. It is a closer peer on the AI-assisted code review use case than on full platform governance.

Broad incumbents

• Qodana (JetBrains): Qodana is JetBrains' code quality platform that brings static analysis into JetBrains IDEs, GitHub, GitLab, and CI/CD. It competes with Cyclopt IDE plugins and CI integrations, especially for JetBrains-centric teams.
• GitHub Advanced Security / Copilot: GitHub bundles code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot, and Copilot-based code review natively into the GitHub ecosystem. It is a broad incumbent that both enables Cyclopt via integrations and threatens Cyclopt by inlining quality and security guardrails directly into developer workflows.
• Checkmarx: Checkmarx is an enterprise application security platform covering SAST, SCA, and IaC scanning. It overlaps with Cyclopt on the security dimension of code analysis but is positioned for larger enterprises and AppSec teams rather than developer-first quality workflows.
• Veracode: Veracode provides enterprise SAST, SCA, and application security testing, integrated into the SDLC. It is comparable to Cyclopt on code security analysis but targets enterprise AppSec buyers rather than individual developers and engineering managers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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