Overview
- Mindgard closed a $30 million Series A led by Album VC with participation from Karma Ventures and returning investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar.
- The company’s core product runs automated red‑teaming that maps an AI attack surface, simulates adversarial chains and jailbreaks, and provides runtime protections for deployed models and agent workflows.
- Mindgard says its platform has found more than 150 vulnerabilities, including a Cursor IDE zero‑day that allowed code execution, data‑leak defects in Google Antigravity, and guardrail bypasses in ChatGPT’s image generation.
- Proceeds will fund hires in product, engineering, sales, and marketing and accelerate rollouts into finance, gaming, healthcare, pharma, semiconductors, and other regulated sectors.
- The raise comes as demand grows for AI‑specific security tied to frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS, OWASP, and Gartner’s AI TRiSM and after a wave of consolidation in the AI security market that is pushing enterprises to embed runtime defenses.