Paladin Capital Group

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.

Philip Eliot

Venture Partner

Ken Minihan

Managing Director

Kenneth Pentimonti

Principal and European Manager

Christopher Steed

Chief Investment Officer

Mourad Yesayan

Managing Director

Thomas Clute

Senior Vice President

Past deals in Virginia

FireTail

Seed Round in 2022
FireTail is a cybersecurity company based in McLean, Virginia, established in 2021. It focuses on enhancing API security through a code-centric approach, recognizing that APIs are becoming the primary target for cyberattacks. The company's platform offers real-time protection for cloud applications and APIs, addressing vulnerabilities such as data breaches and hacking attempts. Key features include monitoring, alerts through various communication channels, centralized logging, and security posture management. Additionally, FireTail provides reporting and integration capabilities, along with enterprise support services, which help businesses and developers secure their data and information from third-party threats while ensuring visibility into performance metrics.

Expel

Series E in 2022
Expel, Inc. is a managed security operations provider based in Herndon, Virginia, specializing in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service that monitors and responds to threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel's platform combines advanced technology with human expertise to quickly detect, analyze, and remediate security issues, including phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks. The Expel Workbench™ platform enhances collaboration by allowing customers to engage with live investigations and receive continuous updates, ensuring transparency throughout the security process. By filtering out false positives, Expel enables security teams to focus on strategic priorities rather than being overwhelmed by alerts, ultimately improving their overall security posture.

Nisos

Series B in 2022
Nisos is a managed intelligence and investigations firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 2015. It offers technology-enabled services aimed at enhancing cybersecurity and investigation capabilities. The firm addresses critical issues such as platform abuse, supply chain integrity, and nation-state-level hacking through its innovative platform. Nisos provides a range of services, including reputation and asset protection, adversarial attribution, incident response, valuation, due diligence, threat detection, and mitigation. By doing so, it enables clients to safeguard their assets, make informed decisions, and maintain their competitive position in an increasingly hostile market landscape.

Expel

Series E in 2021
Expel, Inc. is a managed security operations provider based in Herndon, Virginia, specializing in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service that monitors and responds to threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel's platform combines advanced technology with human expertise to quickly detect, analyze, and remediate security issues, including phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks. The Expel Workbench™ platform enhances collaboration by allowing customers to engage with live investigations and receive continuous updates, ensuring transparency throughout the security process. By filtering out false positives, Expel enables security teams to focus on strategic priorities rather than being overwhelmed by alerts, ultimately improving their overall security posture.

SCYTHE

Series A in 2021
SCYTHE, founded in 2017 and based in Arlington, Virginia, specializes in developing an adversary emulation platform aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for enterprises and consulting firms. The platform enables users to create and simulate real-world adversarial campaigns efficiently, allowing Red, Blue, and Purple teams to assess and improve their security controls. By providing tools to continuously evaluate risk posture and exposure, SCYTHE helps organizations validate their defenses against various cyber threats, ensuring that security teams and employees are better prepared to handle potential breaches and attacks. Through its innovative approach, SCYTHE supports clients in implementing effective cybersecurity services and frameworks.

Expel

Series D in 2020
Expel, Inc. is a managed security operations provider based in Herndon, Virginia, specializing in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service that monitors and responds to threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel's platform combines advanced technology with human expertise to quickly detect, analyze, and remediate security issues, including phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks. The Expel Workbench™ platform enhances collaboration by allowing customers to engage with live investigations and receive continuous updates, ensuring transparency throughout the security process. By filtering out false positives, Expel enables security teams to focus on strategic priorities rather than being overwhelmed by alerts, ultimately improving their overall security posture.

Expel

Series C in 2019
Expel, Inc. is a managed security operations provider based in Herndon, Virginia, specializing in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service that monitors and responds to threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel's platform combines advanced technology with human expertise to quickly detect, analyze, and remediate security issues, including phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks. The Expel Workbench™ platform enhances collaboration by allowing customers to engage with live investigations and receive continuous updates, ensuring transparency throughout the security process. By filtering out false positives, Expel enables security teams to focus on strategic priorities rather than being overwhelmed by alerts, ultimately improving their overall security posture.

SCYTHE

Seed Round in 2018
SCYTHE, founded in 2017 and based in Arlington, Virginia, specializes in developing an adversary emulation platform aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for enterprises and consulting firms. The platform enables users to create and simulate real-world adversarial campaigns efficiently, allowing Red, Blue, and Purple teams to assess and improve their security controls. By providing tools to continuously evaluate risk posture and exposure, SCYTHE helps organizations validate their defenses against various cyber threats, ensuring that security teams and employees are better prepared to handle potential breaches and attacks. Through its innovative approach, SCYTHE supports clients in implementing effective cybersecurity services and frameworks.

Expel

Series A in 2016
Expel, Inc. is a managed security operations provider based in Herndon, Virginia, specializing in managed detection and response (MDR) services. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service that monitors and responds to threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel's platform combines advanced technology with human expertise to quickly detect, analyze, and remediate security issues, including phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks. The Expel Workbench™ platform enhances collaboration by allowing customers to engage with live investigations and receive continuous updates, ensuring transparency throughout the security process. By filtering out false positives, Expel enables security teams to focus on strategic priorities rather than being overwhelmed by alerts, ultimately improving their overall security posture.

Endgame

Series C in 2014
Endgame, Inc. specializes in security intelligence and analytics solutions, catering to both federal and commercial clients. The company offers a comprehensive endpoint security platform that empowers security operations teams and incident responders to proactively prevent attacks, thereby reducing the time and costs associated with incident response. Endgame’s technology leverages machine learning and data science to detect and mitigate unique threats throughout the entire attack lifecycle while ensuring minimal disruption to normal business operations. In addition to its core products, the company provides software research and professional services tailored to the needs of federal customers. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with an additional office in San Francisco, Endgame operates as a subsidiary of Elastic N.V.

Endgame

Series B in 2013
Endgame, Inc. specializes in security intelligence and analytics solutions, catering to both federal and commercial clients. The company offers a comprehensive endpoint security platform that empowers security operations teams and incident responders to proactively prevent attacks, thereby reducing the time and costs associated with incident response. Endgame’s technology leverages machine learning and data science to detect and mitigate unique threats throughout the entire attack lifecycle while ensuring minimal disruption to normal business operations. In addition to its core products, the company provides software research and professional services tailored to the needs of federal customers. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with an additional office in San Francisco, Endgame operates as a subsidiary of Elastic N.V.

Digital Signal

Private Equity Round in 2012
Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Fixmo

Series C in 2011
Founded in 2009, Fixmo Inc. is a mobile risk management company headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, with an additional office in Toronto. The company specializes in providing infrastructure management software designed to help enterprises and government agencies mitigate risks associated with mobile device deployments. Fixmo's flagship product, Sentinel, ensures the integrity, compliance, and auditability of devices used by mobile workforces. By commercializing advanced mobile risk management technologies initially developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, Fixmo delivers solutions that enable organizations to maintain policy compliance and conduct thorough device auditing, thereby enhancing overall mobile security.

Digital Signal

Series C in 2011
Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Previstar

Series A in 2005
Previstar, Inc. provides a suite of Web-based software products primarily to the emergency preparedness and response communities, armed services, and homeland security industry for managing and planning for, responding to, and recovering from hazards incidents, and events. Its products include Continual Preparedness System, an intelligent resource and information management system to automate national incident management system processes for preparedness, response, and recovery; CEMPlanner, a comprehensive emergency management planner that generates industry compliant plans, as well as prompts planners and stakeholders step-by-step through the planning processes; Long Term Care (LTC), a Web-based nursing home-centric control center that increases LTC facility emergency preparedness and provides decision support to agencies, such as state public health and emergency management agencies; and OPENTST, a non-intrusive software application that ensures critical information sent using common alerting protocol or emergency data exchange language. The company provides solutions for emergency management, and public health and medical providers. Its products are used to develop exercise and emergency plans, prepare for bioterrorism attacks, recover from hurricanes, and enhance nursing home preparedness. Previstar, Inc. was formerly known as RAMSAFE Technologies LLC and changed its name to Previstar, Inc. in 2006. The company is based in Alexandria, Virginia. It has a research and development facility in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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