Founder
Mahdi Abdulrazak
Co-Founder & CEO of Dawnguard
Dutch-born entrepreneur · AI & Cybersecurity
Amsterdam, Netherlands
01 / About
Mahdi Abdulrazak co-founded Dawnguard in 2025, an early-stage cybersecurity company building security-by-design tooling for teams shipping AI-assisted code. He was a cybersecurity leader and investor before founding the company. Dawnguard has raised $6.4 million in total pre-seed investment, including a $3.4 million extension reported by Forbes.
02 / Company
- Company
- Dawnguard
- Industry
- AI & Cybersecurity
- Founded
- 2025
- Dutch origin
- Netherlands
- Current location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Founder role
- Co-Founder & CEO
Dawnguard builds shift-left security tooling aimed at catching vulnerabilities as software is written rather than after deployment.
03 / Why they're featured
- 01
Raised $6.4 million in pre-seed funding for a company founded in 2025.
- 02
Covered by Forbes on security-by-design in the age of AI.
- 03
Moved from investing in cybersecurity to building in it.
04 / At a glance
- Founder
- Mahdi Abdulrazak
- Company
- Dawnguard
- Industry
- AI & Cybersecurity
- Dutch origin
- Netherlands
- Current location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Founded
- 2025
- Status
- Rising