Michael Steed is a venture capital investor at Paladin Capital Group who chairs the investment committees for the firm's cyber-focused funds while simultaneously serving on the Board of Directors of Harvard's Belfer Center Defending Digital Democracy Project. He brings an unusual background to venture capital, having started as a prosecutor before serving as Special Counsel to the Chairman and National Director of the Democratic National Committee in the early 1980s, and continues his democracy-focused work as a founding board member of the National Democratic Institute and executive producer of the documentary Bad Faith, which examines threats to American democracy. Michael Steed is a venture capital investor at Paladin Capital Group who chairs the investment committees for the firm's cyber-focused funds while simultaneously serving on the Board of Directors of Harvard's Belfer Center Defending Digital Democracy Project. He brings an unusual background to venture capital, having started as a prosecutor before serving as Special Counsel to the Chairman and National Director of the Democratic National Committee in the early 1980s, and continues his democracy-focused work as a founding board member of the National Democratic Institute and executive producer of the documentary Bad Faith, which examines threats to American democracy.