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Mindgard secures $30M in Series A funding led by Album VC to enhance AI security solutions. The capital will be used to scale operations across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

PRIVATEAug 12, 2026about 3 hours ago

Amount Raised

$30 Million

Round Type

Series A

London

Investors

LakestarIq CapitalAtlantic Bridge.406 VenturesKarma VenturesAlbum Vc

Description

Mindgard, the leader in AI security, announced it has closed a $30 million Series A financing. The round was led by Album VC with participation from Karma Ventures and several existing investors. This funding will help scale the company in response to increased customer demand. Mindgard combines innovative AI security research with premier offensive security expertise.

Company Information

Company

Mindgard

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to adversarial threats against their AI models. Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely andsecurely move into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation. Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing. The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.

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