Mindgard, a London-based DeepTech startup specialising in security for AI, has raised 拢3 million in seed funding.
Initially developed under the aegis of Lancaster University, Mindgard harnesses years of PhD-level research in AI security with their automated threat analysis, detection, and response platform already in use by the intelligence community.聽
The Mindgard platform fully integrates with market-leading cybersecurity products, and is a part of the NVIDIA Inception Programme and Microsoft Founder鈥檚 Hub.
The funding comes from IQ Capital and Lakestar and will be used to bring the platform to market.聽
鈥淭oday鈥檚 businesses are rapidly embracing LLMs (large language models) and other AI technologies. Although these enterprises understand the need to secure their AI assets, the cybersecurity that worked for them in the past won鈥檛 help guard their AI against the next generation of cyber threats,鈥� said Dr Peter Garraghan, CEO at Mindgard and Professor at Lancaster University.
鈥淭his leaves companies open to the possibility of AI models and data being stolen or compromised, as well as disabling attacks from bad actors.
鈥淐urrently, Mindgard is deployed by key intelligence organisations around the world to assess, detect, and respond to AI issues and attacks as they happen. With this seed funding, Mindgard now becomes available to enterprises who need to protect their operations against the rapidly-evolving AI threat landscape.聽
鈥淲e are defining and driving the security for AI space, and believe that Mindgard will quickly become a must-have for any enterprise with AI assets.鈥澛�
Archie Muirhead, partner at IQ Capital, added: 鈥淎I models are an emerging critical attack surface for organizations increasingly seeking to deploy AI.
鈥淢indgard provides the most comprehensive solution to manage this surface and reduce risk. With Mindgard鈥檚 platform, the complexity of model assessment is made easy and actionable through integrations into common MLOps and Sec Ops tools and an ever-growing attack library.聽
鈥淲e are happy to back a remarkable founding team spinning out of a world-leading AI security lab at Lancaster.鈥�