NightDragon
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
NightDragon is an investment and advisory firm focused on growth and late-stage investments within the cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy industries. Its platform and vast industry network provide unparalleled threat insights, deal flow, market leverage and operating expertise to drive portfolio company growth and increase shareholdervalue. Founded by Dave DeWalt, the NightDragon team has more than 25 years of operational and market expertise leading technology companies such as Documentum, EMC, Siebel Systems (Oracle), McAfee, Mandiant, Avast and FireEye. Read more about NightDragon at www.nightdragon.com.
- Total investments:
- 44
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 48%
- Last fund:
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Industries NightDragon invests in
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Contacts
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Ken Gonzalez
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 12 (27%)
- Software 10 (23%)
- Security 7 (16%)
- Network Security 6 (14%)
- Information Technology 5 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 9 (20%)
- Series C 6 (14%)
- Series E 4 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (9%)
- Series A 3 (7%)
Country
- United States 19 (43%)
- Israel 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Ken Gonzalez
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
David DeWalt
CEO and Founder
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CEO and Founder | Total investments: 29 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Horizon3.ai
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Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA. | $250M / Series E / Aug 03, 2026 | |
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Horizon3.ai
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Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA. | $250M / Series E / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Armada
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Welcome to the new edge. Armada is the world’s first full-stack edge computing platform, revolutionizing connectivity, compute, and AI solutions where they’re needed most - anywhere on Earth. | $230M / Series B / May 19, 2026 | |
Starfish Space
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Starfish Space is a space technology company focused on developing infrastructure for in-orbit satellite servicing and maintenance. It designs autonomous spacecraft, particularly its Otter vehicle, which can rendezvous with, dock to, and interact with satellites already in orbit. The company’s technology enables services such as extending theoperational life of satellites, repositioning them, and safely removing defunct satellites or debris from space. Its systems rely on advanced robotics, navigation software, and electric propulsion to perform precise proximity operations in orbit. Through these capabilities, it aims to make satellite servicing more affordable and scalable, supporting the long-term sustainability and growth of space activities. | $111.7M / Series B / Apr 07, 2026 | |
HawkEye 360
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HawkEye 360 is a data analytics company that develops space-based radio frequency mapping. The company operates a commercial satellite constellation to identify, process, and geolocate a broad set of RF signals. Its products include maritime domain awareness and spectrum mapping and monitoring; our customers include a wide range of commercial,government, and international entities.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. | $150M / Series E / Dec 18, 2025 | |
Forterra
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Forterra delivers autonomous mission systems for defense. From self-driving land systems to coordinated swarms of robotic platforms, the company builds scalable, robust, mission-critical hardware and software designed to empower customers to deploy autonomy as a force multiplier - extending reach, survivability, and effectiveness across thebattlespace and industrial domains. | $188M / Series C / Nov 12, 2025 | |
Classiq Technologies
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Classiq Technologies, the leading quantum software company, provides an all-encompassing software platform (IDE, compiler and OS) with a single point of entry into quantum computing, from algorithm design to execution. Tailored to all levels of developer proficiency, Classiq aims to democratize access to quantum computing with software that equipscustomers to take full advantage of the quantum computing revolution. A low-code development environment that automates quantum programming ensures that a broader range of talents, including those with backgrounds in AI, ML and linear algebra, can harness quantum computing without requiring deep, specialized knowledge of how to program quantum computer hardware. Classiq also works closely with advanced computation hardware providers providing software for use with quantum computers, HPC and quantum simulators. Backed by powerful investors such as HPE, HSBC, Samsung, Intesa Sanpaolo and NTT, Classiq’s world-class team of scientists and engineers has distilled decades of quantum expertise into its groundbreaking software development platform. | $110M / Series C / May 12, 2025 | |
Dataminr
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Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence. | $100M / Convertible Note / Apr 24, 2025 | |
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Dataminr
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Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence. | $85M / Convertible Note / Mar 19, 2025 | |
Epirus
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Epirus develops solid-state, software-defined directed energy systems for counter-electronics applications and power management in defense and commercial sectors. The company specializes in long-pulse high-power microwaves combined with AI and advanced electronics for electronic warfare. | $250M / Series D / Mar 05, 2025 | |
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AllegisCyber
9 deals together
Cisco Investments
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5 deals together
Cota Capital
4 deals together
Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)
4 deals together
Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)
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FAQ
What does NightDragon invest in?
NightDragon invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Security startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at NightDragon includes Ken Gonzalez (Managing Director) and David DeWalt (CEO and Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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