- Mirror Security has also signed a multi-million-dollar strategic partnership with G42’s Inception AI, a global AI infrastructure giant, to secure next-generation AI ecosystems
National, December 3rd 2025: Mirror Security, a research-driven AI security company raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding from Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Atlantic Bridge to scale its breakthrough encryption platform for AI security.
The funding will be used 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 has also signed a multi-million-dollar strategic agreement with Inception AI a G42 company and global leader in agentic AI innovation. Through this partnership, Mirror’s full AI security suite will be deployed across Inception’s enterprise and government ecosystem to power secure, scalable AI adoption worldwide. The company has further strengthened its ecosystem through strategic partnerships with Intel, MongoDB, Qdrant, SiSys AI, and Accops.
Pankaj Thapa, Co-Founder & CEO, Mirror Security, said: AI is transforming productivity and reshaping industries, but unsecured data flows pose an urgent risk that threatens to stall adoption. With VectaX, we replace policy-based trust with cryptographic proof, ensuring that sensitive information remains encrypted even during computation. Our mission is bigger than protecting data – we are building the trust layer for the AI economy. Just as the internet required a secure foundation to scale, AI now demands a new security paradigm. Mirror Security is pioneering that paradigm, enabling enterprises and governments to innovate confidently, knowing their data, strategies, and sovereignty are protected by design. We believe this is the cornerstone for AI’s next decade of growth.
Barry Downes, Managing Partner, Sure Valley Ventures commented:“Mirror Security is building the encryption layer for AI – setting a new standard for how data is protected across the AI ecosystem. Its technology enables the secure processing of encrypted data, creating a foundation for the next generation of enterprise AI. We look forward to supporting the Mirror team as they scale this breakthrough technology globally.”
Weili Wang, Investor at Atlantic Bridge commented:“Data security remains one of the most significant hurdles to AI adoption, with organizations concerned about exposing proprietary information during model training and inference. Mirror Security’s differentiated FHE technology provides a unique solution for secure AI deployment without compromise. We are delighted to partner with the team and support this mission through our global network of cybersecurity and AI leaders.”
Mirror 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.
About Mirror Security:
Mirror Security, spun out of University College Dublin, is the global pioneer in GenAI-native security. Its integrated “Security of AI” platform delivers the industry’s most complete protection suite:
- AgentIQ: full-spectrum agentic security for single-task executors to complex multi-agent swarms
- DiscoveR: automated red teaming to continuously probe and harden AI systems
- VectaX: the world’s first production-ready fully homomorphic encryption engine optimized for AI workloads
With operations in Ireland, the USA, and India, Mirror Security is setting the unbreakable global standard for AI data protection and GenAI security. For more information, please visit www.mirrorsecurity.io
About Sure Valley Ventures (SVV):
SVV is a specialist AI VC firm that since 2017 has invested in high potential AI software companies across the UK and Ireland. Former founders turned investors, they bring decades of entrepreneurial experience to bear on finding the very best founders to partner with and invest in.
About Atlantic Bridge:
Atlantic Bridge is a global deep technology investment firm established in 2004 founded by successful entrepreneurs and executives. The Firm has €1.4B under management and has invested in over 120 deep tech companies from seed to growth stage. Atlantic Bridge supports portfolio companies that scale internationally through its global networks and expert investors located across offices in Dublin, London, Palo Alto, Paris and Munich.
About Inception AI (G42 Company):
Inception, a G42 company, is the region’s leading innovator of AI-powered domain-specific and industry-agnostic products. Within the G42 ecosystem, Inception functions as the core intelligence layer—transforming data and compute infrastructure into real-world, applied AI solutions.
By: Sandhya Bharti
