Cyber, AI & Deep Tech
We are living in a digital-first society. Advancing, sustaining and defending our critical infrastructure requires both innovation and investment.
Digital resilience requires dual use solutions across an ecosystem of Cyber, AI, and deep tech, a $4.6T market. Paladin invests across four uniquely defined, interrelated pillars that power our successful strategy since 2008:
- Digital enablement – Design with security, safety, and trust in-mind
- Monitoring & management – Continuous awareness of the operating environment
- Cyber security – Persistent defense of digital and information assets
- Cyber safety – Provide safe passage for humans in cyberspace
By combining our proven investment experience with deep expertise in global security, cyber and AI technology, and developing cutting-edge research, Paladin creates an information advantage that adds value across many market sectors and company stages.
We have assembled the very best talent from the intelligence, security, academic, and defense global establishments in our Strategic Advisory Group, to advise both our portfolio companies and investors on navigating the rapidly changing cyber and AI landscape.
AI has life changing implications for all facets of our lives, but most AI is tested for functionality—not trust or security. For AI to be a force for positive change, the industry requires investment in responsible technology solutions.
Paladin takes pride in our track record of helping early-stage founders in these emerging sectors cultivate successful, growing companies by making connections, securing business opportunities, and providing funding – not just initially but in follow on fundraising rounds.
Our team has backed founders with varied experiences and supported them at multiple stages of growth – from industry veterans like Dave Merkel at Expel to first-time entrepreneurs with deep technical expertise like Neil Serebryany of CalypsoAI and Eric Wengrowski of StegAI. The entrepreneurs we back are dedicated to building trusted cyber and technologies that are dedicated to the betterment of our society.
Portfolio Examples
Stanhope AI
Stanhope AI is a London-based, deep tech startup that applies decades of neuroscience research to build agentic AI “brains” for robots, drones and autonomous machines, enabling on-device, energy-efficient, explainable decision-making in changing environments, without relying on computationally demanding pre-training datasets.
Mimica
Mimica is an AI-native process intelligence platform that automatically captures real user activity to generate detailed, “as‑is” process maps, enabling enterprises to see how work truly happens, identify bottlenecks, and pinpoint the best candidates for automation and AI-driven optimization at scale.
MIND
MIND is an AI-powered, fully autonomous data security platform that reinvents data loss prevention (DLP).
It uses a proprietary multi-layered AI engine to automatically classify sensitive data, build smart prevention policies, and stop leaks with minimal oversight.
Unlike legacy approaches, MIND deploys in minutes and starts delivering value within hours, learning and improving over time. MIND was named one of the ten finalists in RSA Sandbox.
Steg AI
Steg.AI’s information security software enables businesses to protect their digital intellectual property (IP) from costly leaks and misuse.
Steg.AI’s forensic watermarks imbue provenance into digital assets, as though every image is embedded with an invisible QR code.
Steg.AI helps to counter the decay in trust created by the rise of deep fakes, misinformation, and data theft by protecting and authenticating digital assets.
