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Brightmind Partners
Venture capital · NJ, United States · North America
Brightmind Partners is an early-stage venture firm that backs cybersecurity and AI companies. It describes itself as operator-built and works closely with founders beyond providing capital.
Invests inCybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordscybersecurityartificial intelligenceenterprise securityearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsBrightmind Partners lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 10 funding rounds, 6 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Cybersecurity (50%), AI & Machine Learning (35%) and Enterprise Software (10%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Costanoa Ventures, Hetz Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Brightmind Partners, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 2 |
| '26 | 7 | 4 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 54% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Costanoa Ventures | 2 |
| Hetz Ventures | 2 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 1 |
| Blumberg Capital | 1 |
| Cisco Investments | 1 |
| Claltech | 1 |
| DNX Ventures | 1 |
| ETS Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1292%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company18%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 50% | 4% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 35% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Costanoa Ventures
Compare Brightmind Partners head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Brightmind Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 29 Dec 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Brightmind Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Brightmind Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abundant Security provides a vulnerability remediation platform that turns findings into verified fixes | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides cloud security services to eliminate excessive access and prevent breaches. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Dec 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Artemis Security provides a platform for AI-native security operations that detects, investigates, and stops attacks from a living model of a customer's environment. | Cybersecurity | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Aryon Security provides cloud security enforcement and prevention of risky cloud configurations | Cybersecurity | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Empirical Security builds custom security models for organizations to predict and manage potential attacks | Cybersecurity | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Onit provides software for automated legal operations and workflow management | Legal & ComplianceEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |||
| Pi.security provides a product security platform to help organizations secure their development process from planning to production. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides an endpoint AI observability platform for the agent workforce | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Round | Funding round | |
| QueryStory turns data into trusted decisions and action by understanding every source and turning it into a unified business narrative and decision-ready decks or dashboards | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Rig Security provides identity protection and security services for humans, non-human identities, and AI agents. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Vijil helps users delegate missions to teams of agents that earn their autonomy by proving their identity, resilience, and fidelity to them. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Nov 2025Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- brightmindpartners.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 25 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 13
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