Mirror Security, a research-driven cybersecurity company which spun out of University College Dublin (UCD) with the support of NovaUCD, today announced that it has raised $2.5 million (€2.15 million) in pre-seed funding to scale its breakthrough encryption platform for AI security.
The funding round was led by (opens in a new window)Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and (opens in a new window)Atlantic Bridge, with support from strategic angel investors.
The funding will be used by the company to expand 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.
Mirror Security is addressing one of the most urgent problems in enterprise AI adoption, the lack of reliable data confidentiality in model training and inference. As organisations integrate AI into their operations, the risk of exposing proprietary data during AI processing has surged. Mirror solves this through its revolutionary Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology, VectaX, which allows AI systems to process sensitive data while keeping it completely encrypted.
The company also announced today a multi-million-dollar strategic agreement with (opens in a new window)Inception AI, a G42 company and leading innovator of agentic AI solutions. Under the partnership, Mirror Security 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.
Founded by Pankaj Thapa and Dr Aditya Narayana K, a global expert in AI Security, Mirror Security combines world-class academic research with enterprise-grade execution, and its architecture is IP-rich and built for real-world enterprise workloads.
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