Herd Security raises $3 million to replace static annual compliance…

Team S · 2026-05-07T14:39:12.000Z

Herd Security, a San Francisco-based security training startup founded in 2025, has raised $3 million in a round led by Aspiron Ventures, with participation from Team Ignite, ForwardSlash VC, Forum Ventures, Rightside Capital, and YPO. The capital will fund product development across new training categories in HR and AI, optimise the company's AI-powered video generation capabilities, and expand its partnership ecosystem. Herd Security has built an agentic AI platform designed as an alternative to the once-a-year compliance programs that have long defined corporate security training. The platform lets security and governance, risk and compliance teams upload their policies, compliance frameworks, and security data, then generate short training modules — including text, video, images, and conversational AI — from prompts. These are pushed out directly through Slack, Microsoft Teams, and existing learning management systems, meeting employees where they already work rather than requiring them to attend separate training sessions. The company's pitch rests on a widening gap between how fast threats evolve and how slowly security habits form. SANS Institute research cited by Herd suggests it can take three to five years for organisations to change employee behaviour and up to a decade to meaningfully shift security culture. Meanwhile, Gartner has predicted that by 2028, 40% of social engineering attacks will target executives and the broader workforce — not just technical staff. CEO and co-founder Brandon Min said the limitation in security training has never been expertise but execution — and that Herd is giving security professionals tools to turn what they know into relevant, timely programmes without the usual friction of building content from scratch. Existing customers include Onebrief, whose security team has replaced long static lectures with short microtrainings delivered directly into employee workflows.

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