Mindgard Raises $30M Series A

Mindgard, the leader in AI security led by James Brear, Dr. Peter Garraghan, and the team, has raised a $30 million Series A financing led by Album VC with participation from Karma Ventures and existing investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard plans to use the funding to scale the company across product, engineering, sales, and marketing in response to significant customer demand.

Mindgard combines AI security research with offensive security expertise to assess and protect AI systems from emerging threats. Backed by an AI security lab at Lancaster University, the company has developed a platform designed to identify and exploit emerging attack surfaces across AI models, agents, and applications.

The platform has uncovered and publicly disclosed more than 150 high-impact AI security and safety vulnerabilities, including flaws in Cursor IDE, Google Antigravity, and ChatGPT.

These findings continuously strengthen Mindgard’s proprietary security knowledge base, enabling security teams to access evolving offensive and defensive capabilities for AI at scale.

AI is creating a new attack surface that requires a fundamentally different approach to security. Mindgard combines AI security research and offensive security expertise to turn specialist knowledge into practical capabilities for enterprises.

The investment will support global expansion and help establish attacker-driven AI security as a core part of enterprise AI deployment and management.

— James Brear, CEO, Mindgard

The Series A follows rapid adoption of Mindgard among Fortune 2000 companies and AI innovators across financial services, pharmaceuticals, gaming, digital services, semiconductors, and healthcare.

As AI moves into production, organizations are increasingly using Mindgard to identify, assess, and defend against emerging AI security risks.

Organizations are deploying AI in critical operations without security infrastructure designed for the way these systems behave in practice.

Mindgard combines deep research with offensive security expertise to provide continuously evolving capabilities that help enterprises stay ahead of emerging AI threats.

— Ty Boswell, Partner, Album VC

AI security is an emerging category, and Mindgard stands out for combining world-class offensive security research with automated reconnaissance and intelligent penetration testing.

The platform is already used by leading Fortune 2000 enterprises, combining a strong research foundation with proven enterprise demand.

— Kristjan Laanemaa, Founding Partner, Karma Ventures

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