Global Security Challenge

GSC Blogs from September 2008 (7)



Paladin Capital Group raises a new $340 million security technology fund

Last week, Paladin Capital Group based in Washington DC,  just closed its third fund at $340 million, with $40 million over the their target. Paladin Capital Group is a venture capital fund with particular focus on the homeland security market. It h...

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America's Two Most Promising Security Startups Selected at University of Maryland

A new solution for detecting concealed information stored in memory and a technology for tracking first responders within complex structures, have won the American Semi-Final of the Global Security Challenge 2008.  Five startups, who were chosen out ...

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VCs are Hungry for Security Startups: $90 million this summer (deals roundup: sept '08)

  Here is another roundup of recent funding rounds in security startups. We publish this list of recent VC deals regularly to inform entrepreneurs about active investors in the security space. Read here about our April deal roundup, our May deal rou...

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Top-5 Asian Security Startups 2008 selected by Global Security Challenge

Five high-tech companies – specializing in areas as diverse as protecting tunnels from explosions and fighting cyber crime with smartcards  - were selected as Semi-Finalists for the Asian-leg of the Global Security Challenge (GSC) at the Nation...

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2nd Generation Biometrics: Taking Gait Analysis One Step Further

A scientist from NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) is now saying that he can perform gait analysis on someone using satellites, according to an article in the New Scientist.  Keeping the debate away from how clear an image you can get fr...

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iViZ, a GSC Semi-Finalist 2007 Raises $2.5m - Bringing Total of GSC Alumni to over $37 million

  We are proud to report on the success story from iViZ, who was selected to be one of the top-6 security startups worldwide by the Global Security Challenge 2007 and was one our Asian Semi-Finalists. iViZ is an Information Security Company from ...

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Top Five Security Startups in Europe 2008 Announced by Global Security Challenge

  Five high-tech companies – specializing in areas as diverse as cargo screening and artificial intuition software - were selected as Semi-Finalists for the European-leg of the Global Security Challenge (GSC) on September 24th to battle it out...

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