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Acquired
August 2025
Onum
Onum — Acquired by CrowdStrike, August 2025 Brightmind supported the Onum team during the sale process leading to its acquisition by CrowdStrike. Onum's real-time telemetry pipeline platform is being integrated into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM as the data foundation for CrowdStrike's agentic security and IT operations.
round
Acquired
BOARD MEMBER
Onum
Onum — Acquired by CrowdStrike, August 2025 Brightmind supported the Onum team during the sale process leading to its acquisition by CrowdStrike. Onum's real-time telemetry pipeline platform is being integrated into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM as the data foundation for CrowdStrike's agentic security and IT operations.
Status:
Acquired
Partners:
Stephen Ward
Acquired
November 2025
Lakera
Lakera — Acquired by Check Point Software Technologies, Q4 2025 Brightmind supported the Lakera team during the sale process leading to its acquisition by Check Point Software Technologies. Lakera's AI-native security platform — built to protect agentic AI applications across models, agents, and data — became the foundation of Check Point's Global Center of Excellence for AI Security.
round
Acquired
BOARD MEMBER
Lakera
Lakera — Acquired by Check Point Software Technologies, Q4 2025 Brightmind supported the Lakera team during the sale process leading to its acquisition by Check Point Software Technologies. Lakera's AI-native security platform — built to protect agentic AI applications across models, agents, and data — became the foundation of Check Point's Global Center of Excellence for AI Security.
Status:
Acquired
Partners:
Stephen Ward
Acquired
March 2026
Promptfoo
Promptfoo — Acquired by OpenAI, March 2026 Brightmind advised Promptfoo, an AI security and evaluation platform used by more than 25% of Fortune 500 companies, on its acquisition by OpenAI. Promptfoo's red-teaming, evaluation, and compliance tooling is being integrated into OpenAI Frontier, the company's enterprise AI agent platform.
round
Acquired
BOARD MEMBER
Promptfoo
Promptfoo — Acquired by OpenAI, March 2026 Brightmind advised Promptfoo, an AI security and evaluation platform used by more than 25% of Fortune 500 companies, on its acquisition by OpenAI. Promptfoo's red-teaming, evaluation, and compliance tooling is being integrated into OpenAI Frontier, the company's enterprise AI agent platform.
Status:
Acquired
Partners:
Stephen Ward
Promptfoo
Promptfoo
Cybersecurity - AI Red Teaming
Acquired
2026-03-09
Mar 2026
Acquired
November 2025
Chronosphere
Chronosphere — Acquired by Palo Alto Networks, January 2026 Brightmind supported the Chronosphere team during the sale process leading to its $3.35 billion acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Chronosphere's cloud-native observability platform — a 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant leader — is being integrated into Palo Alto Networks' Cortex AgentiX platform to deliver real-time visibility and agentic remediation for AI-era operations.
round
Acquired
BOARD MEMBER
Chronosphere
Chronosphere — Acquired by Palo Alto Networks, January 2026 Brightmind supported the Chronosphere team during the sale process leading to its $3.35 billion acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Chronosphere's cloud-native observability platform — a 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant leader — is being integrated into Palo Alto Networks' Cortex AgentiX platform to deliver real-time visibility and agentic remediation for AI-era operations.
Status:
Acquired
Partners:
Stephen Ward
Chronosphere
Chronosphere
Cybersecurity - Resilience
Acquired
2025-11-19
Nov 2025
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