Mindgard, an AI security company spun out of Lancaster University research, said on August 12, 2026, that it closed a $30 million Series A led by Album VC. Karma Ventures joined, along with existing investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. The company said it will use the capital to scale product, engineering, sales, and marketing as enterprise demand rises.

In its announcement, Mindgard said its platform has been used to uncover and publicly disclose more than 150 high-impact security and safety vulnerabilities across widely used AI products. Those findings include a zero-day code execution vulnerability in Cursor IDE, a trusted workspace flaw in Google Antigravity, and image-generation guardrail failures in ChatGPT.

From research lab to enterprise defense

Mindgard combines AI security research with offensive security methods to assess and protect models, agents, and applications. The company said the resulting intelligence feeds a proprietary knowledge base that continuously strengthens its platform for enterprise security teams.

CEO James Brear said organizations need a different approach as AI creates a new attack surface, arguing that Mindgard operationalizes researcher and practitioner expertise rather than only automating generic attacks. The company said deployments have accelerated across Fortune 2000 firms and AI innovators in financial services, pharmaceuticals, gaming, digital services, semiconductors, and healthcare.

Decoded Take

Mindgard is raising into a market where guardrails are becoming a product category and a liability. Public vulnerability disclosures are both marketing and dataset. As AI agents gain tool access inside enterprises, red-teaming that can find real exploit paths will matter more than checklist compliance. Watch whether Mindgard stays independent as larger security platforms keep buying AI security specialists.