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He arrested a hacker, then spent 18 months clearing his own name. Now he’s a cybersecurity VC.
Publisher description: Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.
TechCrunch | Nov 8, 2026 | Connie Loizos
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Now Ward is raising a second fund, targeting roughly the same size as the first one. Instead of charging him, however, Ward flipped him, turning him into an informant and running him for about three years. Ward questions how much of that money is really going to AI security.
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