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According to EU-Startups, AI security startup Mindgard announced the completion of a €26 million (approximately $30 million) Series A funding round, led by Album VC, with participation from Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard was founded by Dr. Peter Garraghan in 2022, incubated by Lancaster University in the UK, and is headquartered in Boston and London. The company's platform provides Shadow AI discovery, AI red teaming, and runtime AI protection capabilities, and has helped disclose over 150 high-impact AI security vulnerabilities, covering issues such as the Cursor IDE zero-day code execution vulnerability, Google Antigravity trusted workspace defects, and ChatGPT image generation protection failures.
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enterprise-level native AI platform Pit has announced the completion of a $16 million funding round, led by a16z, with participation from Lakestar and executives from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. It is reported that Pit is positioned as an "AI product team as a service," aiming to replace traditional spreadsheets and rigid SaaS systems.
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