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Jack Miller and John Daley, Co-Founders of HelmGuard AI: BREAKING: Helmguard raised $7.3M Seed

Jack Miller and John Daley, Co-Founders of HelmGuard AI: BREAKING: Helmguard raised $7.3M Seed4 days ago24 min

<p>HelmGuard just raised a $7.3m Seed round led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline. Its AI agents handle a company&#39;s security and compliance work automatically, checking everything all the time instead of relying on manual paperwork and periodic reviews.</p><p><br></p><p>John Daley and Jack Miller are HelmGuard&#39;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.</p><p><br></p><p>The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel. Check them out here: https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjk</p><p><br></p><p>Sponsors:</p><p><br></p><p>SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk</p><p><br></p><p>Lovable: https://lovable.dev/</p><p><br></p><p>Parloa: https://www.parloa.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Conveo: https://conveo.ai/</p><p><br></p><p>NatWest: https://www.natwest.com/</p><p><br></p><p>WWT: https://www.wwt.com/</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p><br></p><p>0:00 - Introduction</p><p>0:20 - HelmGuard&#39;s $7.3m seed round</p><p>0:45 - What HelmGuard&#39;s platform does</p><p>1:15 - John&#39;s eight years at Palantir</p><p>2:24 - Jack&#39;s background in AI research</p><p>5:48 - How HelmGuard reacts to new model releases</p><p>8:45 - HelmGuard&#39;s work with Callosum</p><p>12:27 - HelmGuard&#39;s plans for the new funding</p><p>14:12 - Why legacy security platforms can&#39;t keep up</p><p>15:54 - What the OpenAI incident means for AI oversight</p><p>20:57 - How the OpenAI incident changed HelmGuard&#39;s thinking</p>