Donald Dixon
Founder & Managing Director @ Trident Capital
San Francisco, United States
Donald Dixon is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital. He has been a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Trident Capital since 1993. From 1988 to 1993, Don was Co-President of Partech International, a private equity fund manager associated with Banque Paribas. From 1983 to 1988, he was a Managing Director of Alex. Brown &Sons.Earlier in his career, Don was a Vice President of Morgan Stanley & Co., and a Senior Account Officer at Citibank, N.A.Don serves as a Director of Clarus Systems, Epicor Software Corporation (EPIC), PGI, Inc., Merchant e-Solutions, Inc., and Qualys Inc.Earlier, he served as a Director of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), Anasazi Inc., BankAmerica Merchant Services, Inc. (BPI), BlueStar Solutions, Inc., CSG Systems International, Inc (CSGS)., Evolving Systems, Inc. (EVOL), InfoUSA, Inc., Pegasus Systems, Inc. (PEGS), Sygate Technologies, Inc. and Unison Software, Inc. (UNSN).Don earned his B.S.E. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Don is also an Executive Committee member of the SEAS Strategic Planning Committee at Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
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Industries Donald Dixon invests in
Stages Donald Dixon invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (16%)
- Cyber Security 4 (11%)
- Consulting 3 (8%)
- Network Security 3 (8%)
- SaaS 2 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (29%)
- Series B 8 (21%)
- Series C 7 (18%)
- Funding Round 3 (8%)
- Series D 2 (5%)
Investments
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| Verituity is a verified digital payments platform that connects banks, businesses, and payees to first-time and on-time digital payouts. Verituity’s bank-grade platform helps financial institutions meet the unique payout needs of their clients. Whether it’s insurance companies paying claims, businesses paying suppliers, service providers payingrefunds, mortgage companies transferring funds, or gaming companies paying out winnings. | $19.8M / Series B / Jun 21, 2024 | ||
| CyberCube provides cyber risk analytics and modeling solutions designed for the insurance ecosystem. The company develops software platforms and services that support insurers, brokers, reinsurers, and investors in assessing cyber risk exposure and managing cyber insurance portfolios. Its offerings include tools for broking, underwriting, portfoliomanagement, exposure assessment, and event response, helping organizations evaluate both individual risks and systemic cyber events. CyberCube also provides intelligence through data-driven insights, consulting, and technology integration, enabling informed decision-making across the insurance value chain. The company’s solutions combine analytics, AI, and domain expertise to support risk quantification and resilience-building strategies. The company was founded in San Francisco, California. | $50M / Series C / Dec 19, 2022 | ||
| SPHERE is a cybersecurity company that provides software and services to improve data governance, security, and compliance across data, platforms, and applications.It enables businesses to secure their sensitive data and create a governance framework to control access to systems and assets. The company is developing its managed serviceoperations, including its purpose-built automation platform, SPHEREboard, along with targeted SME's across the SPHERExperts team. Together, this solution is described as SPHEREsoftserve, which combines automation and expertise to provide a seamless and effective solution to SPHERE's customers. SPHEREsoftserve provides a unified approach, improving processes and procedures leveraging technology and skillset for a consistent and predictable outcome.In 2009, Rita Gurevich headquartered SPHERE in Hoboken, New Jersey. | $31M / Series B / Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Surefire Cyber delivers swift, strong response to cyber incidents such as ransomware, email compromise, malware, data theft, and other threats with end-to-end response capabilities. We provide clients confidence by helping them prepare, respond, and recover from cyber incidents—and to fortify their cyber resilience after an incident. | $10M / Series A / May 31, 2022 | ||
| SolCyber offers a curated stack of enterprise-strength security tools and streamlined, accessible, and affordable services for any organization. | $20M / Series A / Jul 29, 2021 | ||
| Verituity is a verified digital payments platform that connects banks, businesses, and payees to first-time and on-time digital payouts. Verituity’s bank-grade platform helps financial institutions meet the unique payout needs of their clients. Whether it’s insurance companies paying claims, businesses paying suppliers, service providers payingrefunds, mortgage companies transferring funds, or gaming companies paying out winnings. | $10M / Series A / May 25, 2021 | ||
| SPHERE is a cybersecurity company that provides software and services to improve data governance, security, and compliance across data, platforms, and applications.It enables businesses to secure their sensitive data and create a governance framework to control access to systems and assets. The company is developing its managed serviceoperations, including its purpose-built automation platform, SPHEREboard, along with targeted SME's across the SPHERExperts team. Together, this solution is described as SPHEREsoftserve, which combines automation and expertise to provide a seamless and effective solution to SPHERE's customers. SPHEREsoftserve provides a unified approach, improving processes and procedures leveraging technology and skillset for a consistent and predictable outcome.In 2009, Rita Gurevich headquartered SPHERE in Hoboken, New Jersey. | $10M / Series A / Feb 18, 2021 | ||
| Concourse Labs is a company that accelerates enterprise digital transformation through automated cloud governance. Concourse brings a new paradigm to the market, automating the process of establishing and monitoring controls, identity and cloud usage data. | $15.2M / Series A / Jun 09, 2020 | ||
| CyberCube provides cyber risk analytics and modeling solutions designed for the insurance ecosystem. The company develops software platforms and services that support insurers, brokers, reinsurers, and investors in assessing cyber risk exposure and managing cyber insurance portfolios. Its offerings include tools for broking, underwriting, portfoliomanagement, exposure assessment, and event response, helping organizations evaluate both individual risks and systemic cyber events. CyberCube also provides intelligence through data-driven insights, consulting, and technology integration, enabling informed decision-making across the insurance value chain. The company’s solutions combine analytics, AI, and domain expertise to support risk quantification and resilience-building strategies. The company was founded in San Francisco, California. | $40M / Series B / Mar 09, 2020 | ||
| Bishop Fox is an offensive security solution and contributor to the infosec community. It offers solutions ranging from continuous penetration testing, red teaming, and attack surface management to product, cloud, and application security assessments.The company focuses on offensive security because they believe that securing modern organizationsrequires a forward defense approach that proactively uncovers and eliminates exposures before they are exploited. | $25M / Series A / Feb 26, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Trident Capital
Trident Capital is a venture and growth equity firm investing in Software, Services and Internet. Trident focuses on companies addressing the major technology challenges facing today's enterprise, including Cloud Computing, IT Security, Digital Monetization, and Healthcare IT.The company was founded in 1993 and headquartered in Palo Alto,California.
Trident Capital Contacts
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Alberto Yepez
Managing Director
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Donald Dixon
Founder & Managing Director
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Howard Zeprun
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
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John Moragne
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