Trident Capital, Inc. is a principal investment firm specializing in private equity and venture capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in early stage growth capital and expansion stage companies and participates in buyout, spinout, and recapitalization. It focuses its investment on clean tech; business services; information services; software including technology-leveraged outsourcing and processing for healthcare and insurance; communication and wireless; payment and transaction processing; innovation management; marketing and sales; and enterprise software for security, communications, and mobility. Within clean tech sector, the firm seeks to invest in solar, energy storage, fuel cells, green building materials, water, and carbon sequestration. It prefers to invest upto $30 million in its portfolio companies. Trident Capital, Inc. was founded by Mr. Donald R. Dixon and Mr. John H. Moragne in 1993 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Westport, Connecticut.