Paladin Capital Partners Fund, L.P. is a $208 million private equity fund targeting superior long-term capital appreciation, typically through privately negotiated equity and equity related transactions in private and, in certain cases, public companies. The Fund targets small to medium size, worker-friendly, growth companies with proven management, products and services with significant potential to capture top tier market share, and a strong business plan to grow their revenues, profits and jobs. Only a small portion of the Fund's capital is available for start-up enterprises.
| Paladin Capital Partners Fund, L.P. | |
| Accubuilt, Inc. | AgION Technologies |
| ClearCube Technology | Cogent Communications |
| CompuCredit Corporation | FPMI Solutions, Inc. |
| Royalty Pharma | SOA Software |
Founded in 1923, Accubuilt is the world's leading specialty vehicle manufacturer. Headquarted in Lima, Ohio, the Company designs and manufactures specialty vehicles for a variety of markets, including the funeral industry, the chauffeured transportation, and the mobility and the disability industry. Accubuilt’s three divisions operate out of 300,000 square feet of manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. The Specialty Vehicle Division, based in Lima, Ohio, is the world leader in the design and manufacture of professional vehicles for the funeral industry, consisting of funeral coaches, also known as hearses, and six-door funeral limousines. This Division is the largest and most dominant player in the professional vehicle market, with 2/3rds of the market. The Specialty Vehicle Division also manufactures executive luxury long wheelbase versions of popular sedans, such as the Cadillac DES and the W. P. Chrysler Executive Series. The Luxury Limousine Division, based in Springfield, Missouri, is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of luxury limousines. The Truck & Van Division, based in Elkhart, Indiana, is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of wheelchair accessible mobility vans and specialty vans, as well as specialty super-duty trucks.{top}
http://www.accubuilt.com
AgION Technologies is a leader in providing engineered antimicrobial solutions based on ionic silver that continuously inhibit the growth of bacteria, mold a nd fungus on a broad range of industrial, consumer and medical products. AgION ' s silver-based antimicrobial technology is safe and effective. It is NSF and FDA-listed, EPA-registered and approved by the European Food Safety Authority. Customers of AgION include Carrier Corporation, Honeywell, North Face, Timberland, Cosmetal, DuPont Powder Coatings, Vygon and AK Steel Corporation. AgION is headquartered in Wakefield, MA. {top}
http://www.agion-tech.com
ClearCube Technology is the market leader in client blade desktop computing solutions. ClearCube enables customers to reduce their support costs while dramatically improving availability and security throughout their end-user computing infrastructure. {top}
http://www.clearcube.com
Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI) is a multinational Tier 1 Internet service provider ranked as the largest Ethernet Service Provider in the United States by Ovum-RHK and consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Cogent is focused on delivering ultra-high speed Internet access and transport services to businesses in the multi-tenant marketplace and to service providers located in major metropolitan areas across North America and Europe. Cogent’s primary service offering consists of Internet access, data transport, colocation and managed modem services—all offered over its award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network. Cogent’s innovative, facilities-based network spans across North America, across the Atlantic and throughout Western Europe. With over 29,500 miles of route fiber, Cogent provides service to over 95 major markets and interconnects with over 1,750 other networks. The Fund, in part, obtained an equity position in Cogent as a result of a sale of Unlimited Fiber Optics to Cogent. {top}
http://www.cogentco.com
CompuCredit Corporation is a publicly held financial services company that uses sophisticated analytical techniques and computer models to target sub-prime consumer credit. CompuCredit currently has more than 900 employees in seven locations throughout the United States, with headquarters located in Atlanta, Georgia. The Fund exited this investment in October of 2003 at a 41% IRR. {top}
http://www.compucredit.com
FPMI Solutions, with principal offices in Alexandria, VA, Huntsville, AL, Orlando, FL, and San Antonio, TX, is a leading provider of Human Capital Management Services and Integrated Training Systems. FPMI Human Capital services increase the effectiveness and efficiency of our client organizations through management strategies and leading organizational solutions to include Organizational Performance, Workforce Transition, Learning Programs, and Human Capital Transformation, NSPS and Max HR solutions. FPMI's Integrated Training Services (ITS) include Modeling and Simulation Courseware Analysis and Development for complex avionics, weapons, and transportation systems for Defense and Civilian industry clients, Government agencies and Commercial firms. FPMI's Integrated Training Services develops SCORM compliant Integrated Multimedia Instruction (IMI).{top}
http://www.fpmi.com
Royalty Pharma invests in pharmaceutical and
biotechnology product royalties and other
revenue-producing intellectual property. The
fund exited this investment in December of 2007 at a
43% IRR. {top}
http://www.royaltypharma.com
SOA Software is the leading provider of comprehensive enterprise class SOA management, security, and governance solutions. It is the largest specialist vendor of SOA solutions and offers a complete SOA infrastructure solution. SOA Software provides software and solutions for Enterprise, B2B, and Legacy SOA, with its Service Manager, Partner Manager, and SOLA products. Service Manager is the industry-leading complete Web Services Management solution. It includes security, monitoring, reliability and registry services to deliver a one-stop shop for organizations building Web services and SOA. Partner Manager delivers powerful B2B Web services security and provisioning as both software and an appliance. This allows companies and their partners to share internal applications as critical parts of each other’s business processes. SOLA is the only production proven mainframe Web services solution for CICS programmers. These enterprise-class products combine to create the only complete SOA Infrastructure solution available today. This offers end-to-end security, monitoring, reliability, registry and provisioning capabilities for Enterprise SOA, B2B XML and Web services, and Mainframe Web services. {top}
http://www.soa.com