News and Events
Fixmo Raises $23M Series C to Deliver Mobile Risk Management to Enterprise And Government Agencies
Fixmo Inc., the mobile risk management (MRM) company, today announced it has closed a $23 million Series C round, led by new investor Paladin Capital Group. Horizons Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers join as new investors; existing investors and management all participated in the round. Read more
Mubadala partners with Paladin Capital Group to invest in cyber security
Paladin Capital Group, a leading multi-stage private equity firm, has today announced that Mubadala Development Company, the Abu Dhabi based strategic investment and development company, has invested with Paladin in Damballa, Inc., an innovative cyber security business focusing on Advanced Persistent Threats. Read more
Fixmo Announces Advisory Board, Adds to Board of Directors
Fixmo Inc., the mobile risk management (MRM) company, today announced its new Board of Advisors. Charter members include Mr. Bob Gourley, CTO at Crucial Point LLC; Mr. Wilson “Bill” Livingood, a 33-year veteran of the United States Secret Service and Sergeant at Arms (Ret.) of the United States House of Representatives for the 104th Congress; and Rear Admiral Arthur Lawrence, Assistant Surgeon General (Ret.) Read more
Paladin Capital Group Promotions: Dr. Paul Conley to Managing Director
Paladin Capital Group, a leading multi-stage private equity firm based in Washington D.C., is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Paul Conley to Managing Director. Dr. Conley possesses a broad set of skills and deep experience base as an investor, entrepreneur and technologist and has been a key principal leading new investments for the firm. Read more
Confessions of a One-time Reluctant Football Mom
It’s football season- so while this blog is a little off topic, as I keep my fingers crossed that the Cowboys will make the playoffs (thank God for the NFC East), it feels somehow relevant.
About this time last year, my oldest son William, a wonderfully sensitive 8-year-old who builds robots and publishes a daily newsletter in his spare time, announced that he wanted to play football in the fall. Read more
A Different Take on the Food vs. Fuel Debate
As a significant investor in the biofuels sector in the U.S., we at Paladin continue to be surprised by the amount of incomplete information and analysis in the media about the impact of corn-based ethanol production on food supply and prices. While approximately 35% of the total U.S. corn supply is used for ethanol production, discussions about this usage often fail to distinguish between “gross” and “net” usage. Read more
Adapx Awarded New DARPA Contract for Deep Green III to Further Integrate Speech & Sketch Interfaces Into Command and Control (C2) Systems
Adapx, the company that is changing the way mobile teams collect data and collaborate, today announced a new $1.65M contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build advanced speech and sketch interfaces for Command and Control (C2) Systems. Read more
Paladin Capital (Middle East) Limited obtains license to operate in the Dubai International Financial Centre
Paladin Capital (Middle East) Limited today announced that it has been licensed by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (“DFSA”) to operate as an authorized firm in the Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”). Read more
Security in the Cyber Age
Words matter. Understanding those words and cyber developments in the 21st century is critical to our success. Realizing this success is realizing it will mostly be bounded by mega trends. Cyber technology and with it cyber power will develop very quickly, measured generally in quarter or half years—web years. Read more
Cyber Security Regulation
Remember the Great American Pants Lawsuit of 2005? Wonder how it applies to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and cyber security? Well, here it goes… Read more