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Mindgard appoints industry veterans to lead AI security expansion

Wed, 23rd Jul 2025
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Mindgard appoints cybersecurity veteran Aaron Portnoy and SaaS leader Tom Axbey to spearhead its AI security expansion and offensive testing efforts.
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Mindgard secures $8m to expand AI security solutions and market reach

Sun, 5th Jan 2025
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Mindgard, a UK startup focused on AI security, has raised $8 million in seed funding to boost R&D and expand into the US market.
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Mindgard reveals vulnerabilities in Azure AI content safety

Thu, 31st Oct 2024
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Mindgard has uncovered serious security flaws in Microsoft's Azure AI Content Safety Service, enabling potential attacks to undermine its security measures.
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Purple Transform secures GBP £4.5m to expand AI analytics reach

Thu, 19th Sep 2024
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Purple Transform raises GBP £4.5 million to expand AI data analytics in the West Midlands, led by Mercia Ventures. The funding will support new sectors and job creation.
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Mindgard wins UK's Most Innovative Cyber SME award for 2024

Thu, 6th Jun 2024
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Mindgard, an AI-focused cyber security startup, wins UK's Most Innovative Cyber SME 2024 at Infosecurity Europe for its groundbreaking AI Security Labs platform.
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UK releases new reports to enhance AI cyber security measures

Tue, 21st May 2024
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The UK government launches a new set of AI cyber security reports, featuring major contributions from startup Mindgard, to address emerging cyber threats.
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Cisco bolsters Project SAIVE to prevent railway suicides

Fri, 29th Mar 2024
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Tech giant Cisco is uniting with Purple Transform to advance Project SAIVE, an initiative employing AI tech to identify and aid individuals at risk of suicide on railways.
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Mindgard unveils tool to assess cyber risk in AI systems

Fri, 9th Feb 2024
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AI cybersecurity leader Mindgard debuts free tool, AI Security Labs, to aid engineers in assessing cyber risks to AI systems.
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Lancaster varsity to commercialise computer memory Ultraram

Tue, 11th Apr 2023
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Invented by Professor Manus Hayne, who teaches Physics at Lancaster University, Ultraram is a novel type of memory with extraordinary properties.