# Osney Capital

> Osney Capital is a VC fund backing Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last fund: Apr 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/osneycapital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/osneycapital
- Website: https://www.osneycapital.com/

Osney Capital is a sector specialist venture capital firm, focussed exclusively on the early-stage Cyber sector in the UK. Everything that we do is geared around supporting UK Cyber founders and companies that we invest in, during the very early stages of their growth.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 11 | 69% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 44% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Cragg | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-cragg |
| Joshua Walter | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-walter-5377 |
| Paul Wilkes | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-wilkes-f7bb |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ossprey Security | Ossprey Security is a British cybersecurity company that detects malicious open-source packages in npm and PyPI using AI-powered behavioural analysis. Unlike signature-based scanners, Ossprey analyses what packages do at runtime to catch novel threats before they reach production. A graduate of both the Cyber Runway Launch and Grow programmes,Ossprey is working with copmanies across UK and European fintech, crypto, and technology companies to establish the standard for open-source dependency security.Engineering teams depend on open-source software at scale, and the supply chain attacks targeting those ecosystems are accelerating faster than traditional defences can track. Ossprey's just-in-time AI scanning pipeline catches malicious packages in real time, without relying on databases of known threats.The platform is API-first, with integrations across the CLI, CI/CD pipeline, AI security coding apps, IDEs, SCA, and a security dashboard, giving teams visibility at the point of dependency resolution rather than after a compromise has occurred. Ossprey has detected confirmed real-world campaigns including Shai-Hulud, Bitwarden CLI breach, and the Telnyx PyPI compromise. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Strand Intelligence | Strand Intelligence is cybersecurity software company. Its software automates investigations in both cloud and endpoint contexts, claiming to produce results. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Overmind | Overmind is a development tool that allows AI to learn from production data. Using pattern of life analysis, it transforms real-world agent behavior into continuous improvement, allowing teams to ship secure and highly specialised agents. | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Refute | Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses. | $6.8M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Aisy | Continuously model your environment like attackers do | $2.3M | Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Ploy | Ploy is a cloud-first Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform that automates identity and access management across SaaS, cloud, and collaborative technologies, allowing enterprises to minimize identity management. | $3.4M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Huntbase | Huntbase is a SaaS-based cybersecurity platform that streamlines alert triage and threat hunting. Utilizing custom AI models, Huntbase guides analysts toward the next best actions and equips teams with tools to explore unknown threats. Our solution empowers both new and experienced security professionals to efficiently manage and mitigate risksacross an organization's software ecosystem. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 27, 2025 |  |
| AVIEL Intelligence | AVIEL Intelligence provides a proactive, AI-driven solution to prevent customers from making payments to scammers and block fraudulent transactions. | $334.8K | Pre-Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Mindgard | Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world. | $8.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Sitehop | Sitehop is a technology company that develops cutting-edge cyber-security and networking solutions. Sitehop's custom FPGA solutions are used to optimize and accelerate cloud/telco networks. | $6.3M | Seed | Feb 28, 2024 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iq-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lakestar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lakestar) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amadeus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Episode 1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/episode) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [14Peaks Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14peaks-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Osney Capital invest in?

Osney Capital invests primarily in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Osney Capital?

The team at Osney Capital includes Adam Cragg (Partner), Joshua Walter (Partner) and Paul Wilkes (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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