Brightmind Partners
VC Fund
Brightmind Partners is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Computer. Brightmind Partners is committed to investing in the next generation of cybersecurity and infrastructure.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 88%
Last updated:
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Industries Brightmind Partners invests in
Stages Brightmind Partners invests in
Countries Brightmind Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Stephen Ward
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Sven Wollschlaeger
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
- Computer 1 (13%)
- Software 1 (13%)
- Desktop Apps 1 (13%)
- Network Security 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (38%)
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Stephen Ward
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
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Sven Wollschlaeger
Founding Vice President and Investor
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Founding Vice President and Investor | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Empirical Security
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Empirical builds mathematical models for security data. | $25M / Series A / Jul 20, 2026 | |
Pi Security
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Pi Security is an agentic AI-driven product security platform that enables organizations to automate security throughout the software development lifecycle, proactively uncover risks, strengthen compliance, and accelerate secure software delivery. | $25M / Series A / Jun 10, 2026 | |
Artemis
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Artemis is the first protective layer that is AI-native | $55M / Series A / Apr 15, 2026 | |
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Artemis
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Artemis is the first protective layer that is AI-native | $15M / Seed / Apr 15, 2026 | |
Onit Security
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Onit Security provides an AI-powered exposure management platform that focuses on decision-based security operations. The platform analyzes thousands of vulnerability and exposure cases, surfaces key decisions for security leaders, and turns those decisions into persistent operating rules across the environment. It uses agent-based automation tohandle triage, impact assessment, ownership assignment, and continuous remediation. Onit Security helps security teams reduce manual ticket handling, shorten remediation times, and connect findings from existing security tools to concrete fixes. It integrates with existing security stacks and targets enterprises that manage large volumes of vulnerabilities. | $11M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | |
vijil
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Vijil helps organizations build and operate autonomous agents that humans can trust. It offers cloud services that continuously enhance the trustworthiness of custom models using open-source large language models. | $17M / Series A / Nov 25, 2025 | |
Prelude
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Prelude is a technology company that helps organizations proactively ask questions of their security systems to advance their defenses. Built around the notion of visibility, our products conduct continuous probing that elicits answers to questions that range from basic health checks to vulnerability to latest threats - across all environments. Bytranslating obscure definitions of security into concrete questions, Prelude provides holistic internal intelligence with which customers can identify, prioritize and take action seamlessly without any unknowns. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 25, 2025 | |
SGNL
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Modern enterprise authorization with human-readable policies and an understanding of business context to deliver just-in-time authorization | $30M / Series A / Feb 12, 2025 |
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FAQ
What does Brightmind Partners invest in?
Brightmind Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Computer and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Brightmind Partners?
The team at Brightmind Partners includes Stephen Ward (Co-Founder) and Sven Wollschlaeger (Founding Vice President and Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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