News: In 2020, the European Investment Fund provided capital for Israeli spyware company #Paragon Solutions through an Israeli venture capital fund.
Founded in 2019 by former PM Ehud Barak and a former head of #Unit8200, the cyber warfare unit of the Israeli military, Paragon was acquired by a US private equity firm at the end of 2024.
It's spyware has been used against activists and journalists. In the US Paragon’s contract with #ICE was recently reactivated.
