Brightmind Partners Raises Second $250M Cybersecurity VC Fund
This is a business/profile article about Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and ex-CISO (TIAA, Home Depot), who co-founded cybersecurity venture fund Brightmind Partners and is now raising a second $250 million fund. The piece covers his career history, the firm's first fund performance (14 investments, one exit via the SGNL acquisition by CrowdStrike), the departure of co-founder Gur Talpaz to start a rival firm called Cognition, and broader trends in early-stage cybersecurity venture funding. There is no security incident, vulnerability, breach, or threat activity discussed in this article.
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Brightmind Partners Raises Second $250M Cybersecurity VC Fund
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This is a business/profile article about Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and ex-CISO (TIAA, Home Depot), who co-founded cybersecurity venture fund Brightmind Partners and is now raising a second $250 million fund. The piece covers his career history, the firm's first fund performance (14 investments, one exit via the SGNL acquisition by CrowdStrike), the departure of co-founder Gur Talpaz to start a rival firm called Cognition, and broader trends in early-stage cybersecurity venture funding. There is no security incident, vulnerability, breach, or threat activity discussed in this article.