Paladin Capital Group
VC Fund
Washington, United States
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. 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. ThePaladin 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.Their most recent 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. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg.
- Total investments:
- 182
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $372M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Paladin Capital Group invests in
Stages Paladin Capital Group invests in
Countries Paladin Capital Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$8.2M
- Series A
- $4M–$25M
- Series B
- $8.3M–$48M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 43 (24%)
- Cyber Security 31 (17%)
- Information Technology 28 (15%)
- Security 19 (10%)
- Enterprise Software 18 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 43 (24%)
- Series B 35 (19%)
- Seed 24 (13%)
- Series C 23 (13%)
- Funding Round 13 (7%)
Country
- United States 77 (42%)
- United Kingdom 11 (6%)
- Canada 3 (2%)
- Australia 3 (2%)
- Germany 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Inglis
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Christopher Steed
Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director
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Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Kenneth Minihan
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Kenneth Pentimonti
Principal and European Manager
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Principal and European Manager | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Mark A. Maloney
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Arpio
|
Arpio protects and eliminates downtime for AWS applications by making it easy to recover from any outage in just a few minutes. Founded by Doug Neumann and Shaw Terwilliger in 2018 and is based in Durham, North Carolina, United States. | $15M / Series A / Jun 03, 2026 | |
RADICL Defense
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We secure small and medium sized businesses from nation state level cyberthreats. | $31M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | |
Hermes Biosciences
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Hermes Biosciences describes a benchtop, hands-off extracellular vesicle isolation system designed to purify exosomes quickly, efficiently, and reproducibly from any bodily fluid or cell culture media. This technology aims to advance research into exosome function and support clinical applications in oncology, degenerative disease, and regenerativemedicine. | $6M / Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Mimica Automation
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Mimica captures your work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks. Its research and tech are backed by Entrepreneur First, Europe's most successful accelerator and seed fund. | $26.2M / Series B / Sep 24, 2025 | |
MIND
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MIND operates as a data security platform, which puts data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot. | $30M / Series A / Jun 04, 2025 | |
SandboxAQ
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SandboxAQ develops quantitative artificial intelligence technologies that combine AI methods with physics-based modeling and advanced computational techniques to address scientific and industrial challenges. Its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) are designed to analyze complex quantitative data and support applications in areas such as drugdiscovery, chemicals and materials research, cybersecurity, navigation, and sensing. The company provides software and simulation tools that help organizations study molecular interactions, manage cryptographic systems, and operate in environments where conventional positioning technologies may be unreliable. SandboxAQ also works with experimental and proprietary scientific datasets to generate predictions and insights for research and engineering workflows. Its technologies are used across industries including life sciences, energy, defense, and manufacturing. | $150M / Series E / Apr 04, 2025 | |
Embed Security
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Embed Security is the developer of AI based security platform for various organizations. | $6M / Seed / Nov 07, 2024 | |
Aralez Bio
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Aralez Bio uses engineered enzymes to make valuable products in a sustainable way.The company has invented a novel enzymatic method for synthesizing noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) also called unusual or unnatural amino acids. Its proprietary approach enables over 100 ncAAs to be synthesized with perfect enantiopurity in just a single step, withwater as the only byproduct | $12M / Series A / Oct 29, 2024 | |
Fixify
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Fixify is an AI powered managed service provider for IT support. | $25M / Series A / Oct 23, 2024 | |
Zerve AI
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Zerve helps enterprises create computer vision solutions in minutes. Zerve is a cloud-based software service that makes it simple to develop reliable, consistent custom computer vision solutions. Zerve takes data privacy seriously, and its cutting-edge security mechanisms ensure the piece of mind regarding data protection that might be essentialfor businesses. By design, Zerve produces results that are simple to understand and support the inferences made by their models. | $7.6M / Seed / Oct 17, 2024 | |
| See all 182 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Paladin Capital Group invest in?
Paladin Capital Group invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 182 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Paladin Capital Group's check size?
Paladin Capital Group typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$8.2M at Seed, $4M–$25M at Series A and $8.3M–$48M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paladin Capital Group participates in.
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Who are the partners at Paladin Capital Group?
The team at Paladin Capital Group includes Chris Inglis (Managing Director), Christopher Steed (Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director) and Kenneth Minihan (Managing Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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