Jack Miller and John Daley, Co-Founders of HelmGuard AI: BREAKING: Helmguard raised $7.3M Seed
Scaling EuropeShow Notes
HelmGuard just raised a $7.3m Seed round led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline. Its AI agents handle a company's security and compliance work automatically, checking everything all the time instead of relying on manual paperwork and periodic reviews.
John Daley and Jack Miller are HelmGuard's co-founders, John as CEO and Jack as CTO. It took them just nine months to hit a million dollars in run rate with a three-person team.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction 0:20 - HelmGuard's $7.3m seed round 0:45 - What HelmGuard's platform does 1:15 - John's eight years at Palantir 2:24 - Jack's background in AI research 5:48 - How HelmGuard reacts to new model releases 8:45 - HelmGuard's work with Callosum 12:27 - HelmGuard's plans for the new funding 14:12 - Why legacy security platforms can't keep up 15:54 - What the OpenAI incident means for AI oversight 20:57 - How the OpenAI incident changed HelmGuard's thinking
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