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. 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. 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:
- 202
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$8.2M
- Series A
- $4M–$25M
- Series B
- $9M–$48M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 44 (22%)
- Cyber Security 34 (17%)
- Information Technology 29 (14%)
- Security 22 (11%)
- Enterprise Software 18 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 45 (22%)
- Series B 38 (19%)
- Seed 27 (13%)
- Series C 24 (12%)
- Series D 14 (7%)
Country
- United States 81 (40%)
- United Kingdom 11 (5%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- Australia 3 (1%)
- 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: 13 | Find email | |
Kenneth Pentimonti
Principal and European Manager
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Principal and European Manager | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Mark Maloney
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael R. Steed
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIND is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform that is simple, autonomous and complete. | $72M / Series B / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Treble develops advanced acoustic simulation and spatial audio technology that enables engineers and researchers to model, analyze, and optimize sound in both physical and virtual environments.The company provides a cloud based platform that combines wave based acoustic simulation with scalable computing to deliver high fidelity, physicallyaccurate sound modeling. Treble’s technology supports applications across industries including architecture and the built environment, robotics, automotive, consumer electronics, gaming, XR, and audio AI, enabling virtual prototyping, synthetic audio data generation, and faster development of next generation audio systems. | $18M / Series A / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| We secure small and medium sized businesses from nation state level cyberthreats. | $31M / Series A / Feb 03, 2026 | ||
| 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 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 is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform that is simple, autonomous and complete. | $30M / Series A / Jun 04, 2025 | ||
| 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 is the developer of AI based security platform for various organizations. | $6M / Seed / Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| See all 202 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 202 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Paladin Capital Group invest in?
Paladin Capital Group typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$8.2M at Seed, $4M–$25M at Series A and $9M–$48M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Paladin Capital Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Paladin Capital Group took part 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 Pentimonti (Principal and European Manager), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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