Paladin Capital Group is a leading global investor that supports and grows the world’s most innovative companies through venture investment, expansion, and growth capital. We are headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, and London. We seek out diverse investment opportunities across the US and worldwide.
Paladin is a leader in investing in technologies, products, and services focused on dual use in both commercial and governmental markets with a strong value-add culture.
Paladin recognizes that successful investments begin with attracting and collaborating with top-tier entrepreneurs and management teams. Adding value to our portfolio companies is a cornerstone of Paladin’s investment culture and philosophy. In addition to subject matter expertise, entrepreneurs in today’s dynamic markets are focused on investors’ ability to add value through a variety of avenues, including helping to build strategic partnerships, accessing key customers or new markets, navigating non-dilutive financing options, or recruiting high-quality management talent and independent board members. Our ‘dual use’ investment approach, with deep knowledge of both commercial and government markets, provides our companies with unique insights and opportunities.
We Are Active Investors
The Paladin team merges financial expertise with national security and technical competence to add value across a wide array of market sectors and company stages. Paladin is focused on being an active investor—bringing decades of experience, advice, access, and relationships to its portfolio companies.
Our Funds
Since Paladin’s inception, more than $1 billion have been committed across multiple funds and investment vehicles.
Paladin Cyber Fund II Our most recent fund is a $372 million multi-stage fund that invests in cybersecurity startups bringing innovative technologies to market. Cyber Fund II will look to deploy capital across a number of high-priority cybersecurity and online safety sectors, including innovative technologies that protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks and networks from ransomware.
Paladin Cyber Fund The Fund focuses on Digital Infrastructure Resilience, investing globally in advanced technologies and solutions which enable, monitor, manage, and defend critical infrastructure that is dependent on cyber space.
Paladin III The Fund has completed 34 investments and continues to deploy follow-on capital to its portfolio companies and offer value-add services. The Fund invested primarily in disruptive cyber and advanced technologies and, to a lesser extent, alternative energy.