Fundraising Fox

HelmGuard AI

Entrepreneur First '24

London, GB · Founded 2024 · 7 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors

HelmGuard offers an AI security agent platform that embeds AI-driven analysis into security workflows to help security and risk professionals make faster, clearer decisions. It emphasizes transparent AI reasoning and foundational security guarantees for enterprise defenders.

Also known as HelmGuard · Helmguard AI · HelmGuard Technologies, Inc.

Founders & leadership

HelmGuard AI was founded in 2024 by John Daley and Jack Miller.

JDJohn Daley
John DaleyinCEO & Co-FounderJohn Daley spent eight years in executive roles at Palantir, where he reported to the Chief Revenue Officer and closed the company's biggest cybersecurity contract, worth $200 million across five years. His academic background includes degrees from McGill University, the University of Oxford, and Stanford Law School.
JMJack Miller
Jack Millerin𝕏CTO & Co-FounderJack Miller works across disciplines in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and is a recipient of Australia's top academic scholarship. He has built and commercialized original AI algorithms and carried out advanced research in the field of AI security.

Investors · 4

Also in the syndicate · 1

Sequoia Scout Fund

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

HelmGuard AI (operating as HelmGuard Technologies, Inc.) develops what it describes as an enterprise AI risk operating system, or "trust infrastructure": a platform that consolidates risk, security and compliance data into a single foundation and applies specialized AI agents to run assessments, compliance mapping and risk analysis across domains. The stated model is that users define requirements and validate results while agents perform the intervening work, producing evidence-backed outputs for stakeholders.

The platform is organized into modules covering zero-knowledge verification (verifying requirements without disclosing underlying sensitive data), third-party/vendor risk management, intelligent risk assessment across cyber, compliance, risk and data protection, customer assurance for inbound security questionnaires, operational resilience and BC/DR modelling, an ad hoc analysis workbench with agent orchestration and search, and audience-tailored reporting. Marketed capabilities include multi-source vendor risk assessment with citations, cross-domain reasoning across multiple tools, prioritized security improvement reports with cost-benefit analysis and implementation roadmaps, and visualization of vendor data flows including identification of AI training risks in the supply chain.

A dedicated enterprise risk management offering positions the product for chief risk officers, risk committees and business unit leaders, with features such as risk domain unification, a business impact translator that converts vulnerabilities and control gaps into business consequences, a scenario modeling engine for cascading risk events, and an executive risk cockpit measuring posture against defined risk appetites. The company describes the framework as industry-agnostic, citing financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and technology/SaaS as target sectors.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through HelmGuard AI went on to found or lead other companies.

Competitors · 8

by search overlap
Mindgard10 shared keywordsMindgard provides AI security solutions that help enterprises identify, assess, and mitigate threats across AI models, agents, and applications throughout the AI lifecycle. The platform uses offensive security techniques to help organizations understand exposure and reduce risk from AI-driven threats.
Watchguard9 shared keywordsWatchGuard offers a unified cybersecurity platform combining network security, endpoint protection, identity security, secure Wi-Fi, and AI-driven threat detection and response. It serves businesses and managed service providers (MSPs), providing centralized cloud-based management and managed detection and response services.
Upguard8 shared keywordsUpGuard provides a platform for managing cybersecurity risk, including third-party vendor and supply chain risk assessment. It is aimed at organizations seeking to evaluate and monitor the security posture of their vendors.
Neuralguard6 shared keywordsNeuralGuard provides AI-based automated threat detection that connects to existing X-ray and CT security screening equipment to identify hidden threats in scanned bags in real time. Sold as a subscription service to government, enterprise, and public venue security operators, it flags potential threats, triggers alerts, and maintains a searchable record of every screening event for auditing and analytics.
CoGuard Website4 shared keywordsCoGuard audits an organization's infrastructure security posture and checks configurations against compliance frameworks such as SOC2, HIPAA, and ISO27001. It is a security and compliance tool aimed at technology teams working to reach and maintain compliance.
Prediction Guard4 shared keywordsPrediction Guard provides a self-hosted control plane that lets enterprises manage, govern, and deploy AI systems, agents, models, and MCP tools within their own security boundary. It unifies fragmented AI assets (such as AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and self-hosted models) and enforces AI security and governance policies aligned with NIST and OWASP standards.
Guardz4 shared keywordsGuardz offers a unified, AI-powered cybersecurity platform with 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) that consolidates security controls across identities, endpoints, email, cloud, and data. It is built for managed service providers (MSPs) to secure their clients and manage security operations from a single multi-tenant console.
Protect AI4 shared keywordsProtect AI develops security solutions for artificial intelligence systems. The company serves organizations adopting AI technology across multiple industries globally.

Companies competing with HelmGuard AI for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Jul 2025
Keynote presentation at Palantir DevCon 3

Media item listed in HelmGuard's resources referencing a keynote presentation at Palantir DevCon 3.

source ↗

Mar 2025
Hiring a Founding Engineer in London as a seed-stage company

An early-stage roles roundup listed HelmGuard AI recruiting a Founding Engineer in London, describing the company as a seed-stage startup backed by Entrepreneur First, the Sequoia Scout Fund and strategic angels.

source ↗

Mar 2025
DevCon 2 session: "AIP Agents x HelmGuard AI: Function-Backed Agent Context"

Media item listed in HelmGuard's resources covering an AIP Agents x HelmGuard AI session on function-backed agent context at DevCon 2.

source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does HelmGuard AI do?
London-based seed-stage startup building an AI-agent platform for enterprise risk, security and compliance assurance.
Who founded HelmGuard AI?
HelmGuard AI was founded by John Daley, Jack Miller in 2024.
Who are HelmGuard AI's investors?
HelmGuard AI's investors include Entrepreneur First, Infinity Ventures, Transpose Platform Management.
Where is HelmGuard AI headquartered?
HelmGuard AI is headquartered in London, GB.