Monday, 28 September 2026

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Alastair Paterson
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The VETTDD 50 · UK startups · 2026

Alastair Paterson

CEO and Co-Founder, Harmonic Security · harmonic.security ↗

Harmonic’s data shows staff pasting company data into AI tools their employers never approved. Alastair Paterson, who sold his first security company for $160m, is building the controls to govern it

enterprise AI prompts analyzed in Harmonic’s 2025 study
22.4 million
raised across seed and Series A
$26m+
MCP Gateway launched for AI agents
Oct 2025

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