Built by Hackers. Reinvented by AI.

Built by Hackers. Reinvented by AI.

MindFort was founded by a team of security engineers, researchers, and builders who’ve spent years at the forefront of AI and cybersecurity. We’re pioneering the world’s first team of fully autonomous red team agents, built to hack, validate, and patch at a scale no human team could match.

MindFort was founded by a team of security engineers, researchers, and builders who’ve spent years at the forefront of AI and cybersecurity. We’re pioneering the world’s first team of fully autonomous red team agents, built to hack, validate, and patch at a scale no human team could match.

Backed by

Sam Berston

Co-Founder

Before founding MindFort, Sam led security as a senior engineer at Salesforce, responsible for securing Tableau. He has contributed research on agentic offensive security agents in collaboration with DARPA and holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from UC Berkeley.

Brandon Veiseh

Co-Founder & CEO

Brandon founded his first startup out of college, building NLP models for network packet inspection.

Prior to MindFort, Brandon led product at ProjectDiscovery, where he built their enterprise vulnerability management platform from the ground up. He then joined NetSPI, leading the development of generative AI tools for penetration testers and built a model red teaming platform.

Akul Gupta

Co-Founder & CTO

Akul has experience working as a software engineer at VC-backed startups, launching products from the ground up and as an AI researcher focusing on LLMs in cybersecurity. He has worked with both OpenAI and Anthropic as part of their red-teaming and model safety programs. Authored multiple conference papers and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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