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About Herd Security

Protecting your Herd starts with ours.

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Our Mission

Who We Are

Herd was founded in 2025 by security alumni from Duo Security, Cisco, Oracle, Panther Labs, and Imperva. We're building the training platform we couldn't buy when we were responsible for it.

Founded
2025By a team of former cybersecurity alumni.
Backed by
$3M seedLed by Aspiron Ventures, announced May 2026.
Certified
SOC 2 Type IIControls tested over a period, not a point in time.
Recognised
Okta finalistFinalist in the Okta Startup Challenge.

Why we started

Why we started Herd

Security training has never been limited by expertise, but by execution.

“Threats evolve daily and organizations aren't equipping security professionals with the tools to turn what they know into relevant programs that engage employees when it matters most.”

Brandon MinBrandon MinCEO & Co-Founder

What we build

Three convictions the product is built on.

Herd is an agentic AI platform for continuous security training and simulation. It exists to replace the annual compliance checkbox with a curriculum that moves when the threat landscape does.

Training should be generated from your policies, not bought off a shelf.

A catalogue of generic courses leaves you to map content to controls by hand, and the mapping goes stale the moment either side changes. Herd reads the policy documents you already wrote for your audit and generates lessons from them, so the training and the policy say the same thing.

Nothing reaches an employee without someone on your team approving it first.

Result · training that matches your controls

It should arrive where people already work.

A portal link gets bookmarked. A Slack or Teams message gets finished. Herd delivers micro-training and simulations across Slack, Teams and your existing LMS, in whatever format fits the moment: video, article, quiz or scenario.

That is the difference between a completion rate you chase and one that arrives on its own.

Result · completions without the chase

Evidence should be the output, not an afterthought.

Because every lesson and simulation is generated against a control, the audit trail exists from the first campaign. You are not reverse-engineering coverage from a completions spreadsheet three weeks before fieldwork.

Stand up a security, compliance or onboarding program in minutes, not months.

Result · audit evidence on demand

Leadership

Meet the Founders

Experienced operators who have built and scaled security products at category-defining companies.

Brandon Min

Brandon Min

CEO & Co-Founder

Multi-time founder with a background in both technical and GTM roles from Duo Security, Cisco, Oracle, and Panther Labs. Brandon brings deep expertise in bringing security products to market and scaling them across enterprise organizations.

Grant Joy

Grant Joy

CTO & Co-Founder

Multi-time founding engineer with a deep full-stack background from Ediphi, Panther Labs, and Imperva. Grant has a track record of building scalable, secure platforms from the ground up and leading high-performing engineering teams.

Our network

Advisors

Guided by experienced operators who have built and scaled category-defining security companies.

Chris Kirsch

Chris Kirsch

Former CEO · RunZero

Erik Goldman

Erik Goldman

Co-Founder · Vanta

Kevin Corliss

Kevin Corliss

Managing Director · Forum Ventures

Prapti Kannan

Prapti Kannan

Business Development

Ken Westin

Ken Westin

Field CISO · LimaCharlie

Terry O'Daniel

Terry O'Daniel

Angel Investor · Former CISO of Amplitude

Luofei Deng

Luofei Deng

Managing Partner · Forwardslash Ventures

Sean Ferguson

Sean Ferguson

Head of Brand · Securonix

Backed by

Our Investors

Supported by investors who believe in redefining security awareness.

  • Forum Ventures
  • YPO
  • Aspiron
  • Ignite
  • Forward Slash
  • RSCM

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Stand up a security, compliance, or onboarding program in minutes, not months. See Herd build it live against your own stack.