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No thought-leadership theater. Field notes from the trenches of building, buying, and breaking security companies. We stay quiet and let the work be loud, except here.
Artemis: Reimagining Security Operations for the AI-Era
Adaptive protection for the SOC: automating detection and response with enterprise context while staying architecturally flexible.
Aryon: Building the Proactive Cloud Security Policy Enforcement Platform
Preventative policy enforcement embedded in the cloud control plane, stopping misconfigurations before they ever reach production.
Pi: Building Zero Recurrence Code Security for the AI CodeGen Era
Pi Security attacks vulnerability recurrence by learning how your org builds software and enforcing preventative guardrails across the lifecycle.
Why We Invested in Empirical: Building Global and Local AI Models for Cybersecurity
Empirical combines global threat intelligence with customer-specific context, taking vulnerability prioritization beyond traditional CVE scoring.
Why We Invested in Vijil: Building the Trust Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Agents
Brightmind invested in Vijil, founded by Vin Sharma, Zdravko Pantic, Radina Mihaleva, and Tim Rudner, a team combining deep AWS infrastructure pedigree, enterprise GTM experience, and world-class AI research credentials from institutions including Oxford, Yale, and Caltech. Enterprises are actively deploying AI agents but lack the infrastructure to verify they are safe, reliable, and production-ready — a gap that content filters, static guardrails, and first-generation AI security tools have consistently failed to close. Vijil addresses this with a unified trust platform built around three compounding modules: Diamond for continuous, bespoke agent testing; Dome for policy-driven runtime guardrails with real-time enforcement; and Darwin, which uses multi-agent reinforcement learning over production telemetry to continuously harden agent behavior. With early enterprise customers including DigitalOcean, SmartRecruiters, and DuploCloud, partnerships with AWS, Google, and Groq, and recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor for AI Security, Brightmind believes Vijil is positioned to become the defining trust infrastructure of the agentic era.
Onit Security: Decision-based Exposure Management at Enterprise Scale
An AI-native approach that combines business context with risk signals to autonomously eliminate vulnerability backlogs.
What everyone seems to be overlooking with Mythos and Project Glasswing
AI vulnerability discovery advantages evaporate the moment they go public. The durable edge is restructuring teams around remediation.