Mourad Yesayan

Managing Director at Paladin Capital Group

📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 27 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Board Member
May 2024
embed unlocks the power of AI for your security operations
Board Member
Jan 2024
As threat actors become more sophisticated, the tools we use to thwart them need to advance. At Insane Cyber, weve developed a powerful, automated solution monitoring host and network data - giving you instant near-insights and visibility into your network. Whether you have a mature cyber team and are looking to add to your tools, or youre just starting out well engage how you need us. Our Valkyrie Automated Security platform can be used in-house or with our Corvus xMDR service well monitor and respond for you.
Investor
Jul 2023
Fixify is a new take on the IT help desk!! We take on the work that’s bogging internal IT teams down using a combination of tech and talented analysts that deliver an IT help desk experience tailored to each company’s environment, workflows and people.
Board Member
Jun 2023
As the leading provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CSaaS), RADICL is revolutionizing advanced cyberthreat protection for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and other regulated industries. No longer should SMBs be satisfied with lack luster solutions delivering lack luster protection. RADICL is ushering in a new era of turn-key and affordable cyberthreat protection via its AI-powered virtual SOC platform that allows human and digital agents to quickly and seamlessly become SMBs’ day-to-day compliance and security operations team. RADICL’s turn-key CSaaS offering uniquely combines compliance management with AI and expert-driven 24/7 security operations. We guide customers to regulatory and best practice adherence with standards like CMMC and NIST CSF while also delivering 24/7 threat monitoring, deep-spectrum™ threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability management, and security awareness training. With RADICL, customers can stay mission focused, confident their front, rear, and flank are protected, affordably and without compromise.
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May 2023
We simplify security investigations so you can see employee activities and entitlements in your enterprise in seconds.
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Dec 2022
General Inception is pioneering company creation as the first Igniter company. As an Igniter, General Inception brings a new way to partner with inventors to ignite innovation and nurture transformational companies. General Inception becomes a co-founder and brings together domain expertise, seasoned executive talent, infrastructure resources, and capital to nurture and scale growth throughout the entire company journey.
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Sep 2022
The Mesh is the next Web.
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Mar 2022
FireTail.io is bringing a new approach to API security - security through code. Since APIs are predicted to be the number 1 attack vector as early as 2022, leading innovators are tackling API security now. The most proactive approach to API security is baking it into your code, using best practices around authentication, authorization, call validation and payload sanitization.
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Nov 2021
Arm device virtualization for mobile security research, mobile app testing, IoT device modeling, and beyond. Powerful security and testing tools for iOS, Android, and Linux phones and devices.
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Apr 2020
Acquired by F5, CalypsoAI is an adaptive AI security platform that empowers enterprises to innovate safely—staying ahead of evolving threats to deliver unmatched protection and performance. As a trusted global leader, CalypsoAI partners with organizations of all sizes to responsibly unlock AI’s full potential. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2018 by the most talented minds in AI, data science and machine learning, CalypsoAI has established key partnerships with some of the world’s largest companies and secured backing from investors including Paladin Capital Group, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Hakluyt Capital and Empros Capital. The company has raised $38.2 million to date.
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Aug 2018
Secure Code Warrior is a secure coding platform that sets the standards that keep our digital world safe. We do this by providing the world’s leading agile learning platform that delivers the most effective secure coding solution for developers to learn, apply, and retain software security principles. More than 600 enterprises trust Secure Code Warrior to implement agile learning security programs and ensure the applications they release are free of vulnerabilities.
Board Observer
Aug 2018
Cloud Conformity is a SaaS tool providing clients unparalleled visibility, control, governance, and reporting into their Public Cloud Infrastructure within seconds. Cloud Conformity provides 500+ Rules across 50+ AWS Services with a step by step resolution instructions for each of these rules. Out of the box integrations with popular communication channels and ticketing systems allow real-time and automated workflows to be executed and remediated. Our monitoring provides auto-remediation by leveraging the largest AWS Rules Engine in existence mapped to the Well Architected Framework. But, why wait until your changes hit you environment to solve them? Utilize our Cloud Formation Template Scanning to find and fix errors pre-deployment. This gives your engineers the ability to fix issues early in the development cycle, optimize their precious time and speed up release cycles. Here is the cool part - our tool does all of this and more while solely requiring read-only permissions, we only see meta data related to your infrastructure and we are not interested in your application data. We look forward to meeting you and chat about your cloud compliance, security and governance strategy.
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Jun 2018
Teraki's mission is to enable accurate machine learning in Automotive, Drone and Robotic industries without a compromise to safety. Based in Berlin, the team delivers embedded software for intelligent and AI-compatible sensor data pre-processing. The technology helps customers to train and improve their own AI-models quicker and more accurately - whilst dealing efficiently with the exploding amounts of edge data. The AI-focused solution enables low-powered hardware to extract the required information in real-time from telematic, camera and 3D point cloud sensors while detecting events and objects at high accuracy. The AI-model geared edge processing is deterministic and certifiable conform safety standards for autonomous control of cars, drones and robots.
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Oct 2017
Ursa Space Systems is a U.S.-based satellite intelligence company that provides business and government decision-makers access to on-demand analytic solutions. Through its radar satellite network and data fusion expertise, Ursa detects real-time changes in the physical world to expand transparency. The company’s subscription and custom services enable clients to access satellite imagery and analytic results with no geographic, political, or weather-related limitations.
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Feb 2026
HawkEye 360 is equipping defense, intelligence and national security leaders with mission-critical signals intelligence to enable faster, better decision making. By detecting, geolocating, and characterizing radio frequency emissions worldwide, HawkEye 360 delivers trusted domain awareness and early warning indicators to the US Government and allied partners. Our space-based collection, proprietary signal processing, and AI-powered analytics transform knowledge of RF spectrum into a strategic advantage. Proven by operational mission success, HawkEye 360 is redefining how signals intelligence strengthens national and global security. HawkEye 360 was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.
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May 2024
embed unlocks the power of AI for your security operations
Board Member
Jan 2024
As threat actors become more sophisticated, the tools we use to thwart them need to advance. At Insane Cyber, weve developed a powerful, automated solution monitoring host and network data - giving you instant near-insights and visibility into your network. Whether you have a mature cyber team and are looking to add to your tools, or youre just starting out well engage how you need us. Our Valkyrie Automated Security platform can be used in-house or with our Corvus xMDR service well monitor and respond for you.
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Jul 2023
Fixify is a new take on the IT help desk!! We take on the work that’s bogging internal IT teams down using a combination of tech and talented analysts that deliver an IT help desk experience tailored to each company’s environment, workflows and people.
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