Mindgard Raises $30M Series A by Turning Attacker Behavioral Intelligence into Effective AI Defense
Mindgard, the leader in AI security, announced today that it has closed 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 Launches GuardBuster to Measure How AI Guardrails Perform in Real-World Environments
Mindgard, the leader in AI security, today released GuardBuster, a new offering which brings together Mindgard’s platform, research, and adversarial AI security expertise to evaluate the effectiveness of AI guardrails and gateways under realistic and agentic attack conditions. As enterprises deploy AI systems, agents, copilots, and LLM-powered applications, many are turning to guardrails as a first line of defense against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage. However, most guardrails are built and benchmarked in controlled lab environments, resulting in a lack of independent evidence around how those protections perform against adaptive, real-world threats.
Mindgard Unveils First Autonomous AI Security Platform To Identify And Fix Exploitable Vulnerabilities
Mindgard, the leader in AI security, announced the expansion of its automated and continuous AI security platform with the introduction of the industry’s first reconnaissance capability designed for AI models, agents and applications. This capability allows enterprise security teams to discover, assess, and defend their AI deployments against security and safety risks faster and more cost-effectively.
Mindgard Ups the Ante for Security of AI – Appoints Proven Cybersecurity Leader James Brear to Capture Expanding Market Opportunity
Mindgard, the leading provider of Artificial Intelligence security solutions, today announced the appointment of James Brear as Chief Executive Officer. To further accelerate its growth, the company also welcomed renowned offensive security researcher Rich Smith to its team and established its U.S. headquarters in Boston. These moves follow Mindgard’s recent expansion of its leadership team with offensive security expert Aaron Portnoy, reinforcing the company’s rapid trajectory and the caliber of talent driving its mission. This momentum is designed to capitalize on the growth opportunity in the generative AI cybersecurity market, which is projected to reach $35.5 billion by 2031.
