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Brightmind Partners

1705 Alameda Dr, Austin, Texas, 78704, United States

Overview

Brightmind Partners is committed to investing in the next generation of cybersecurity and infrastructure.

Total investments
9
Lead investments
7
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
3
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Investment portfolio

  • Empirical Security

    Led · Series A · Jul 2026

    Empirical Security develops predictive exploit intelligence using custom-built AI and machine learning models to support exposure management. Its flagship products are Foundation, a global model that monitors over 18,000 exploited CVEs to help predict threats, and Radiant, a custom predictive engine fine-tuned for each customer’s environment. The company rapidly fine-tunes deployments using curated, AI-mined, and customer-provided data. Empirical plans to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate development and deployment of Foundation and Radiant. The company has raised a total of $37M to date. It is led by CEO Ed Bellis, CTO Michael Roytman and Jay Jacobs and is based in Chicago, IL.

  • Aryon Security

    Led · Series A · Jun 2026

    Aryon Security offers a Cloud Security Enforcement Platform that shifts cloud security from reactive detection and remediation to preventive enforcement before risks reach production. Since emerging from stealth in 2025, the company says its platform can avoid up to 95% of traditional CSPM alerts and has gained traction with mid-to-large enterprises across regulated industries such as healthcare, banking, insurance, telecommunications, shipping, and industrials. Founders Ron Arbel (CEO), Ariel Litmanovich (CTO), and Yair Ladizhensky (CPO) are veterans of the IDF’s Matzov cybersecurity unit and Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees who worked on securing Project Nimbus. The company reports three primary use cases: secure cloud migration and M&A, preventing new gaps in mature complex environments, and operationalizing prevention at scale with granular, production-safe enforcement and exception management. Aryon also stated a long-term vision to extend preventive enforcement beyond cloud infrastructure to broader enterprise environments as organizations adopt more AI, SaaS, and distributed technologies. Financially, Aryon has raised $29 million in Series A and $38 million in total capital to date.

  • Artemis Security

    Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

    Artemis builds an AI-driven security platform that continuously monitors logins, cloud activity, and applications to learn organization-specific baselines, connect events into coherent incident narratives, and automatically respond to attacks. The company was founded by CEO Shachar Hirshberg and CTO Dan Shiebler and emerged from stealth after roughly six months of operation. Artemis reports early commercial traction with customers including Mercury, Wix, Lemonade and Abnormal AI and has closed several seven-figure deals. It expects to achieve multi-million dollar ARR before the end of 2026. The startup raised a $70 million Series A to scale its business, though the company did not disclose valuation or a detailed use-of-funds plan in the articles. Artemis is entering a competitive market where many vendors are rapidly adding AI capabilities to security products.

  • Onit Security

    Led · Seed · Mar 2026

    Onit Security offers an agentic exposure management platform that automates the entire exposure management lifecycle, including ingestion, business-context prioritization, asset ownership identification, and remediation execution. The platform uses AI agents to apply resolution strategies automatically so remediation compounds over time and happens at machine speed. Onit says it helps customers reduce mean time to remediation by up to 87% and is already working with Fortune 1000 organizations. The company was founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneurs with prior exits (SCADAfence, Portnox, For-Each) and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. With the new seed funding, Onit plans to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market efforts into additional sectors.

  • vijil

    Led · Series A · Nov 2025

    Vijil is building a specialized “trust infrastructure” layer that lets companies deploy AI agents quickly and safely. Its platform offers industry-specific agent templates for functions such as HR and legal, then subjects each agent to customized pre-deployment tests to check accuracy and security. During production, Vijil supplies real-time monitoring tools and runtime defenses against threats like prompt injection, assigning each agent a dynamic “trust score” that reflects its security posture. Automated auditing continuously evaluates agent behavior and generates compliance documentation aligned with frameworks such as the EU AI Act and the U.S. NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Early customers are reportedly adopting the system rapidly, and Gartner has named Vijil a 2025 Cool Vendor in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management. The company plans to accelerate commercialization of its “continuous-defense” platform following new funding. Vijil has raised a total of $23 million to date, including the latest Series A round.

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