Paladin Capital has been licensed by the Dubai Financial Services Authority to operate as an authorized firm in the Dubai International Financial Centre. The firm’s objective is to launch a variety of private equity funds tailored to the region’s markets that will help promote growth and job creation. PRESS RELEASE Paladin Capital (Middle East) Limited [...]

Atlanta-based network security company Damballa Inc. has raised $12 million in new funding. New investor Paladin Capital Group contributed to the financing, as did existing investors Sigma Partners, Palomar Ventures, InterWest Partners, GRA Venture Fund, Imlay Investments, and Blumberg Capital. The company will use the new money to expand its technology. Paladin Capital is based in Washington D.C.

Ethanol has been a disaster for private equity. VeraSun is bankrupt, Aventine Renewables is trading at less than $2 per share and Hawkeye Holdings wasn’t even able to price its IPO. And there continue to be those pesky – and disputed – reports that a gallon of ethanol takes more power to produce than it [...]

Paladin Capital Group has raised $340 million for Paladin III, which is a successor to the $235 million Paladin Homeland Security Fund raised in 2004. An official announcement is expected to come later today. The Washington, D.C.-based firm plans to continue a multi-stage strategy focused on homeland security, which includes everything from critical infrastructure IT [...]