Paladin Capital Group
AUM : $1 billion
Paladin Capital Group is an investment firm specializing in fund of funds and direct investments and was founded in 2001 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia with additional offices in New York, New York London, Silicon Valley and Palo Alto, California.
For direct investments, it specializes in investing across all stages of a company life-cycle including start-ups, early venture, mid venture, late venture, acquisitions, growth capital, and expansion capital investments.
For fund of fund investments, the firm invests in venture capital and private equity funds.
It will not consider investments in real estate, oil and gas companies, hostile takeovers, companies with anti-worker history or philosophy, and pooled investment vehicles.
It seeks to invest at the market entry stage in disruptive technology companies who solve important customer problems in both private and public sector markets.
The firm seeks to invest across the globe from Silicon Valley to Brazil. It prefers to invest between $2 million and $30 million in its portfolio companies in companies having annual sales of $500 million. It may also consider co-investing as part of a syndicate.
Areas of expertise
Information technology, telecommunications, cyber security, enterprise mobility, mobile broadband, alternative energy, and companies that offer high-tech solutions for the N.S.A. and other intelligence agencies.
Within alternative energy, it focuses on investments in alternative fuels, bio-fuels, renewable energy generation technologies, solar infrastructure, and energy management and storage.
Within bio-fuels sector, the firm targets operational assets which fit strategically with its existing bio-fuels platforms in the United States and Brazil.
It also invests in critical infrastructure and homeland security elements such as mesh networks, information technology services, data storage, business process software, network management software, detection, biometrics, search software, electronic/network hardware, network security, communications interoperability and reconstruction, biological/chemical/radiological remediation, protective equipment, asset tracking, digital security, container security, semiconductors, wireless infrastructure, mobile applications, bio-defense, life sciences, networking, security, storage, communications, financial services, and data analysis sectors.
The firm also seeks to invest in industrial manufacturing, educational services, media, environment, and healthcare services sectors. It seeks to invest in the United States and Canada.
