# Mindgard

> Mindgard is an enterprise AI security company spun out of Lancaster University research. Its platform discovers AI assets, profiles models and agents, runs adversarial tests and supports runtime protection, helping security and engineering teams find exploitable weaknesses and validate fixes.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States; London, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** Peter Garraghan (Co-founder and Chief Science Officer; formerly CEO and CTO), Steve Street (Co-founder; historically COO and CRO), Neeraj Suri (Early research co-founder; no longer involved, according to December 2024 reporting)
- **Products:** Mindgard AI Security Platform, AI Discovery & Recon, AI Red Teaming & Assessment, AI Runtime Protection, AI Security Services
- **Notable:** Named the UK's Most Innovative Cyber SME at Infosecurity Europe on June 6, 2024., Raised a $30 million Series A announced August 12, 2026., Reports more than 150 publicly disclosed high-impact AI security and safety vulnerabilities.

## Products & services

- **Mindgard AI Security Platform** — Integrated discovery, reconnaissance, adversarial testing, risk assessment and runtime defense for AI systems and agents.
- **AI Discovery & Recon** — Inventory AI assets and shadow AI, profile behavior and connected tools, and map potential attack paths.
- **AI Red Teaming & Assessment** — Automated adversarial testing, attack-chain exploration, remediation validation and risk reporting.
- **AI Runtime Protection** — Monitor malicious behavior and apply responses informed by reconnaissance and adversarial testing.
- **AI Security Services** — Expert-led red teaming and penetration testing, strategic guidance and practitioner training through the AI Academy.
- **Mindgard AI Security Labs** — Free testing tool announced in 2024; historical availability, not a claim about current enterprise pricing.

## Achievements

- Named the UK's Most Innovative Cyber SME at Infosecurity Europe on June 6, 2024.
- Raised a $30 million Series A announced August 12, 2026.
- Reports more than 150 publicly disclosed high-impact AI security and safety vulnerabilities.
- Kiro research led to a vendor-validated fix in IDE version 0.8.140, according to Mindgard’s September 2026 disclosure.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Closed $30 million Series A led by Album VC.
- **2026-09** — Published Kiro data-exfiltration disclosure recording testing on version 0.7.45 and a fix in 0.8.140.
- **2026-09** — Announced ecosystem program relationships spanning Anthropic, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS.
- **2026-09** — Published Cursor vulnerability disclosure commentary on September 24.

## Links

- Website: https://mindgard.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mindgard
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mindgard
- GitHub: https://github.com/Mindgard
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MindgardAI
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mindgard.ai

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Last updated: 2026-10-05