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Lancaster Uni spinout Mindgard raises another £22m

Published: August 17, 2026 at 7:28 am

Author: Jonathan Symcox

Mindgard, a DeepTech startup specialising in security for AI, has raised £22 million in funding as it eyes further expansion in the United States.

The Lancaster University spinout is now headquartered in London and Boston in the US.

The company claims to have created the first platform that successfully captures and exploits the newly discovered psycho-technical attack surface manifesting within AI models, agents and applications. It says its technology has discovered over 150 publicly disclosed high-impact vulnerabilities in AI applications including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google and Cursor.

 

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