Overview
San Francisco-based venture capital and advisory firm founded in 2012 by Dave DeWalt, former CEO of McAfee, FireEye, and Documentum. Focuses on growth and late-stage investments in the SecureTech ecosystem — cybersecurity, defense technologies, AI, Quantum computing, and autonomous/dual-use systems. Closed a $750M growth fund (NightDragon Growth I) in July 2021 and operates the NightScale value-creation platform for portfolio companies.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
CEO
Fund
Focus
Platform
Data & sources
Press releases
1
Web sources
2
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company NightDragon has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 18VC1× joint1 total
- 2Andreessen Horowitz1× joint1 total
- 3Caffeinated Capital1× joint1 total
- 4Elad Gil1× joint
- 5Saronic Technologies1× joint5 total
Most recent
- Saronic Series B (2024)2024-07-19with Saronic Technologiesoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Dave DeWalt Founder, Managing Director & CEOSEC-verified
- Dorin Baniel Head of International (Tel Aviv)SEC-verified
- Admiral Mike Rogers Advisor (former NSA Director)SEC-verified
- General Sir Chris Deverell Advisor (former UK Strategic Command)SEC-verified
Founders (1)
- Dave DeWaltno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for NightDragon.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
NightDragon in third-party press
NightDragon Joins NATO DIANA Trusted Capital Network
NightVision with Nick Andersen — CISA's Acting Deputy Director on Ruthless Prioritization, Securing America's Biggest Events, and AI's Dual-Use Dilemma
Shawn Mucklai Joins NightDragon to Support Investment Across Cybersecurity, Defense, and AI
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company NightDragon has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Saronic Series B (2024)2024-07-19with Saronic Technologiesoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 18VC1× joint1 total
- 2Andreessen Horowitz1× joint1 total
- 3Caffeinated Capital1× joint1 total
- 4Elad Gil1× joint
- 5Saronic Technologies1× joint5 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in NightDragon’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipSaronic Series B (2024)
2024-07-19Saronic, a maritime-defense company building autonomous surface vessels, raised a $175 million Series B (announced July 19, 2024) at a $1 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz with 8VC, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and NightDragon.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
- https://www.nightdragon.com/
- About NightDragon · https://www.nightdragon.com/company/
- NightDragon Closes $750M Growth Fund · https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nightdragon-closes-750m-growth-fund-as-part-of-next-generation-cybersecurity-safety-security-and-privacy-platform-301340695.html
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for NightDragon.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning NightDragon from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
NightDragon Joins NATO DIANA Trusted Capital Network
Membership in NATO DIANA deepens NightDragon’s national security investment strategy and connects the firm to NATO’s dual-use innovation ecosystem across 32 Allied nations SAN…
NightVision with Nick Andersen — CISA's Acting Deputy Director on Ruthless Prioritization, Securing America's Biggest Events, and AI's Dual-Use Dilemma
NightVision Interview with CISA’s Nick Andersen | Part 4 of 4 (Series Finale) | Recorded live at Black Hat 2026, Las Vegas THE TAKEAWAYNick Anderson, Acting Deputy Director of…
Shawn Mucklai Joins NightDragon to Support Investment Across Cybersecurity, Defense, and AI
By Shawn Mucklai, Associate, NightDragon The cybersecurity, defense, and national security sectors are undergoing a period of rapid transformation. Threats are more sophisticated…
NightVision with Katie Sutton — Department of War Assistant Secretary on Integrating Cyber Into Every Fight, and Why Partnership Is Shifting to Outcomes
NightVision Interview | Part 3 of 4 | Recorded live at Black Hat 2026, Las Vegas THE TAKEAWAYKatie Sutton, Assistant Secretary in the Department of War overseeing cyber policy,…
NightVision with Brett Leatherman — FBI Cyber Assistant Director on Operation Riptide, Ransomware's Decline, and AI's Compression of Attack Timelines
NightVision Interview with FBI Cyber Assistant Director Brett Leatherman | Recorded live at Black Hat 2026, Las Vegas THE TAKEAWAYFBI Cyber Assistant Director Brett Leatherman…
NightVision with Sean Cairncross — National Cyber Director on AI, Deterrence, and the Future of Public-Private Cyber Defense
NightVision Interview | Recorded live at Black Hat 2026, Las Vegas THE TAKEAWAYNational Cyber Director Sean Cairncross joined NightDragon Founder & CEO Dave DeWalt live from Black…
The AI vs. AI Era Arrived Faster Than Anyone Expected: Why We Led the Horizon3 $250M Series E
By: Dave DeWalt, Founder and CEO, NightDragon and Morgan Kyauk, Managing Director, NightDragon A little over a year ago, we explained why we invested in Horizon3 with a simple…
NightDragon at Black Hat 2026: Where to Find Our Portfolio
Black Hat 2026 returns to Mandalay Bay August 1–6, and NightDragon will have a strong presence on the ground supporting our portfolio and connecting with the broader cybersecurity…
Join the Team: Program & Platform Engagement Associate
NightDragon is a growth-stage investment and advisory firm focused on SecureTech, including cybersecurity, defense, public safety, and critical infrastructure. As we continue to…
NightVision Fireside Chat: GDIT President Amy Gilliland
In the latest installment of NightDragon’s NightVision series, Founder and CEO Dave DeWalt sat down with Amy Gilliland, President of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)…
Armada: $230 Million Series B Raised To Scale Modular AI Infrastructure And U.S. AI Manufacturing - Pulse 2.0
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Powering AI at the Edge: Why NightDragon Invested in Armada
By Morgan Kyauk and Hannah Huffman, NightDragon The next chapter of the AI economy won’t be defined only by how large the models get or how many GPUs we stack into hyperscale data…
Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/nightdragon/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b5d0d813-b955-46f2-8643-bbeca302754d
- Revision history: /companies/nightdragon/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place NightDragon against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026