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Mindgard

34 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7AT, United Kingdom

Overview

Mindgard operationalizes AI security research and offensive-security expertise through a Security Platform that performs Shadow AI discovery, AI red teaming, and run-time AI protection across models, agents, and applications. The company was spun out of over a decade of AI security research at Lancaster University and is headquartered in Boston and London. Mindgard's platform has been used to uncover and publicly disclose more than 150 high-impact security and safety vulnerabilities in widely used AI products, including a zero-day code execution vulnerability in Cursor IDE, a trusted workspace flaw in Google Antigravity, and image-generation guardrail failures in ChatGPT. Its customer base includes a large number of Fortune 2000 companies and AI innovators across financial services, pharmaceuticals, gaming, digital services, semiconductors, and healthcare. The company plans to scale product, engineering, sales, and marketing following its $30M Series A to meet significant enterprise demand.

Total raised
$42M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
Aug 2026

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Cyber Security
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    Aug 2026

    $30M

  2. Equity

    Dec 2024

    $8M

  3. Seed

    Sep 2023

    $4M

Team

  • James Brear

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Peter Garraghan

    Founder and Chief Science Officer

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  • Aaron Portnoy

    Head of Research & Innovation

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  • Neeraj Suri

    Co-Founder

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