Mirror Security, a research-driven cybersecurity company, has raised $2.5 million in its pre-seed funding round led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Atlantic Bridge, with participation from strategic angel investors.
The funds raised will be used to expand its engineering and AI security teams in Ireland, the US, and India, accelerate product development in encrypted inferencing and secure fine-tuning, and drive immediate expansion into US enterprise markets.
Founded in 2024 by Pankaj Thapa and Dr Aditya Narayana K, Mirror Security is a research-driven cybersecurity company.
Its integrated “Security of AI” platform delivers the industry’s most complete protection suite: AgentIQ provides full-spectrum agentic security, safeguarding every class of AI agent from single-task executors to complex multi-agent swarms and the latest reasoning architectures; DiscoveR delivers fully automated red teaming that continuously probes and hardens AI systems by uncovering vulnerabilities before attackers do; and VectaX, a production-ready fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) engine optimized for AI workloads, enables training and inference on encrypted data without ever exposing it.
The Company also announced a strategic partnership with Inception AI, a G42 company and innovator of agentic AI solutions. Under the partnership, Mirror will deploy its full AI security stack across Inception’s enterprise and government ecosystem, enabling secure, scalable AI adoption globally. Mirror has also forged strategic partnerships with Intel, MongoDB, Qdrant, SiSys AI & Accops.
Pankaj Thapa, Co-Founder & CEO, Mirror Security, said, “AI is transforming productivity and reshaping industries, but unsecured data flows pose an urgent risk that threatens to stall adoption. With VectaX, we replace policy-based trust with cryptographic proof, ensuring that sensitive information remains encrypted even during computation. Our mission is bigger than protecting data – we are building the trust layer for the AI economy.”
“Just as the internet required a secure foundation to scale, AI now demands a new security paradigm. Mirror Security is pioneering that paradigm, enabling enterprises and governments to innovate confidently, knowing their data, strategies, and sovereignty are protected by design. We believe this is the cornerstone for AI’s next decade of growth,” he adds.
Barry Downes, Managing Partner, Sure Valley Ventures, said, “Mirror Security is building the encryption layer for AI – setting a new standard for how data is protected across the AI ecosystem. Its technology enables the secure processing of encrypted data, creating a foundation for the next generation of enterprise AI. We look forward to supporting the Mirror team as they scale this breakthrough technology globally.”
Weili Wang, Investor at Atlantic Bridge, said, “Data security remains one of the most significant hurdles to AI adoption, with organizations concerned about exposing proprietary information during model training and inference. Mirror Security’s differentiated FHE technology provides a unique solution for secure AI deployment without compromise. We are delighted to partner with the team and support this mission through our global network of cybersecurity and AI leaders.”
