Lakera · Acquired by Check Point Software Technologies, Q4 2025

Lakera, founded in 2021 in Zurich by David Haber, Matthias Kraft, and Mateo Rojas-Carulla, built one of the earliest AI-native security platforms purpose-built for the threats unique to large language models and autonomous agents. The platform addressed prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, and adversarial manipulation across more than 100 languages, drawing on a dedicated AI research team and the 80 million-plus adversarial patterns generated through Gandalf, Lakera's public red-teaming game that crowdsourced attacks against AI systems.

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Brightmind supported the Lakera team during the sale process that culminated in Check Point Software Technologies' agreement to acquire the company, announced September 16, 2025, and closed in Q4 2025. Lakera became the foundation of Check Point's Global Center of Excellence for AI Security, with its technology integrated across the Check Point Infinity platform.

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The Lakera outcome sits in a category Brightmind has invested behind directly through Vijil — the AI-native security and trust layer for agents. As enterprises deploy agentic AI in business-critical roles, the security control plane around models, prompts, and tool use becomes inseparable from how those agents are deployed and governed.

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