Mindgard
London, United Kingdom
Mindgard is an AI security platform that provides automated red teaming and continuous security testing across the AI lifecycle, covering large language models, AI agents, and multimodal models. It uses attacker-style reconnaissance to find how adversaries could exploit an organization's AI systems, then feeds results back as vulnerability discovery, runtime protection, and model scanning. The company spun out of AI security research at Lancaster University and is dual-headquartered in London and Boston.
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2022
- Website
- mindgard.ai/
Notable facts
- Raised an $8 million seed round announced December 2024, led by .406 Ventures with participation from Atlantic Bridge, Willowtree Investments, IQ Capital, and Lakestar, bringing total disclosed funding to over $11 million.
- Named winner of Best Cybersecurity Startup and Best AI Security Solution at the 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.
- Recognized in OWASP's LLM and Generative AI Security Solutions Landscape Guide 2025.
- James Brear was appointed CEO in October 2025, with founder Dr. Peter Garraghan transitioning to Chief Science Officer.
Service categories
Pricing
Pricing not publicly disclosed on the vendor's site. Typical for B2B AI-governance engagements, which are usually quoted per scope.
Case study
Case study describing how an anonymized Midwestern US insurance brokerage and risk management firm used Mindgard for continuous attacker-aligned security testing across nine production AI models to produce governance-aligned evidence. Read the case study →
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-13. See methodology.
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