LinkedIn post · Jun 2026
MindFort highlighted a Business Insider feature and discussed the company’s token-to-people ratio and AI-native operating model.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
MindFort is a YC Spring 2025 cybersecurity startup building autonomous AI security agents that continuously pentest, validate exploits, and generate patch PRs across web, API, network, and cloud surfaces.
Primary product
Autonomous security agents for continuous pentesting, validation, and remediation.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI security / autonomous pentesting
Offices
San Francisco, CA, United States (455 Market St)
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
usage-based subscriptions
enterprise software
security platform
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.6M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$3M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Founding GTM
Founding Frontend Engineer
Founders
Co-founder
Work & culture
Mission-driven and research-heavy, with an emphasis on security experts and AI researchers, early ownership, and building autonomous security infrastructure around the clock.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public YC job postings show salaries from about $60K to $250K and equity grants around 0.10% to 0.50% for open roles.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based SaaS with credit pools, monthly tiers, one-time credit packs, and annual enterprise plans.
Differentiators
- —Continuous 24/7 autonomous testing instead of point-in-time pentests
- —Validated exploits and low-noise triage to reduce false positives
- —Automated remediation via merge-ready pull requests and retesting
- —Recursive/self-learning agents that improve across engagements
- —Black-box and white-box testing modes
- —MCP-native tool use and control-plane workflows
- —Enterprise guardrails including SSO, RBAC, approvals, and private deployment options
- —Integrations with GitHub, Jira, Linear, Slack, and CI/CD pipelines
Technology
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Metasploit
OWASP
Asana
GraphQL
Git
Bitbucket
GitHub
Jira
SQL
Trello
GitLab
Redux
React
TypeScript
Slack
Linear
AWS
Customers
enterprise customers
fast-growing startups
security teams
engineering teams shipping AI-accelerated software
Competitors
XBOW
Novee
RunSybil
Armadin
legacy DAST scanners
manual penetration testing
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$220K ARR (GetLatka estimate for 2025)
Estimated monthly visits
10.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Menlo Times · Apr 2026
A third-party write-up recaps the seed round and MindFort’s autonomous security engineer concept, including its continuous testing and remediation workflow.
MindFort Blog · Apr 2026
MindFort announced a $3M+ seed round led by Soma Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, CRV, Sandwith Ventures, and Blast, and said it would expand the team and platform coverage.
Railway Blog · Dec 2025
A company profile on Railway describes MindFort’s agent-heavy infrastructure, rapid deployment workflow, and large compute reduction after moving off AWS.
Y Combinator
YC’s launch post describes MindFort as fully autonomous AI security agents that continuously find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities in web applications and networks.
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