# Donald Dixon

> Donald Dixon is a Series A investor at Infotrieve backing Software and Cyber Security. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Infotrieve](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infotrieve)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dodixon
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/donalddixon
- Website: https://x.com/donalddixon

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 14% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 8% |
| Finance | 2 | 6% |
| Computer | 2 | 6% |
| Compliance | 2 | 6% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 25% |
| Series B | 8 | 22% |
| Series C | 7 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Verituity | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Siva Power | Siva Power develops third-generation thin-film PV technologies which increase solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs, therefore enabling the commercialization of solar modules that generate electricity at competitive rates without depending on government subsidies. Siva Power was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose,California. | $10M | Series D | Jan 29, 2015 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boston Millennia Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-millennia-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [CMEA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmea-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [DBL Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbl-investors) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Medley Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/medley-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Firelake Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firelake-capital-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Infotrieve

VC Fund · Wilton, United States

Infotrieve, Inc., an information management company, provides consulting and business service solutions for information centers in large and middle-market corporations. It offers librarians solutions, such as document delivery services; library staffing and information management services; STM Library, which provides real estate, technology, andpersonnel for collection management and document delivery for scientific, technical, and medical industries; Virtual Library 2.0, a document sourcing/delivery platform which automates and manages the document delivery process at the division or departmental level in large companies, or as an enterprise solution for a medium size or small companies; Ariel Interlibrary Loan Document Transmission Software, which turns personal computers, printers, and scanners into a document transmission station on the Internet; and copyright compliance services. The company also provides information center management solutions, such as business process outsourcing services; and Content SCM, which is designed to manage content sourcing and delivery at the enterprise level for large companies. In addition, it offers product and marketing manager’s solutions, such as reprints, eprints, and permissions services; and BRAVO, which enables colleagues separated by department, divisions, or continents to exchange communications about reprint orders in process; and eDetailing, a communication tool for pharmaceutical product and marketing managers. Infotrieve, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut.

4 contacts available at Infotrieve.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Donald Dixon | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donald-dixon |
| Jeff Clark | Sales & Marketing VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-clark-3 |
| Mark Freedman | Finance VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-freedman |
| Tom Ryan | Business Development VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-ryan-3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Donald Dixon invest in?

Donald Dixon invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Donald Dixon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Donald Dixon closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 36 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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