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Gideon Hixon Fund

The Gideon Hixon Fund utilizes and expands on the experience of 6 generations of family business. Since 1850, the Hixon Family has been building businesses and providing capital to exceptional entrepreneurs. We invest in passionate, committed people, who have ideas that change the world for the better. We take a traditional approach based on the belief that an investment is an alignment, and the best success is a shared one. The Hixon family via the Gideon Hixon Fund, its predecessors Midland Investment Company, HixVen and its partnership with Southwest Venture Partners, have had the opportunity to be part of some great success stories including AMP, Apple Computer, Dell Computer, Xiotech, and CorSolutions. We are generalists and will look at different stages of investment as well as different industries. Our support for our companies comes in many forms, from financial to management to strategic alliances. We have a deep admiration for the courage it takes to build a business, and we strive to do our best to help our entrepreneurs reach their goals. The Gideon Hixon Fund is committed to being a great partner for its investors, co-investors and entrepreneurs. If you have an idea that revolutionizes an industry and makes the world a better place, then we look forward to hearing from you.
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Frank H. Foster

Managing General Partner

Dylan Hixon

Managing General Partner

10 past transactions

Sensitech

Venture Round in 2000
Sensitech® is a world leader in supply chain visibility. Their innovative monitoring products and services help to maintain the quality, integrity and security of their customers' valuable products at every step in their journey, all around the world. For more than 25 years, leading companies in the food, pharmaceutical, industrial, consumer goods, and other industries have relied on Sensitech to help protect their products—and their bottom lines.

Prolacta Bioscience

Series C in 2007
Prolacta Bioscience Inc. develops and produces standardized human milk-based nutritional products for premature and critically ill infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It offers human milk-based human milk fortifiers; human milk caloric fortifiers; standardized human milk; a ready-to-feed human milk-based premature infant formula; and solutions for early/trophic feeds and full feeds. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Duarte, California.

Glycos Biotechnologies

Series B in 2010
Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc. enables the fuels and chemicals industries of the future. Their partners can flexibly make high value products from a wide range of non-food feedstocks, increasing profits and reducing carbon footprint. They partner with ethanol companies, biodiesel companies and chemical companies interested in leveraging existing infrastructure into alternative chemicals and fuels production. They are also collaborating with biorefinery manufacturers and plant operators to deliver the technology for an integrated biorefinery solution.

BOOM! Entertainment

Venture Round in 2008
BOOM! Entertainment, Inc. publishes various comic books and novels. It offers youth imprints, comics, and story titles. The company’s imprints include, The Studios, which publish The Woods, Klaus, and Big Trouble; BOOM! Box, which publish LumberJanes, Munchkin, and Giant Days; and KaBOOM, which publish Charles Schulz, Peanuts, Garfield, and Adventure Time. It also publishes Mouse Guard and Cow Boy under Archaia imprint. BOOM! Entertainment, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Metropolis

Series A in 2021
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Zadspace

Series A in 2009
Zadspace Inc., a Norwalk, Connecticut is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based platform that enables retailers to deliver targeted advertisements on 4” x 6” color labels affixed to packages shipped to consumers, has closed a $3.2m Series B venture financing round.

Metropolis

Series B in 2022
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

iosil Energy

Private Equity Round in 2012
Iosil Energy Corporation produces "high purity polysilicon," the essential raw material for solar cells. The Corporation was founded in 2007, with its R&D facilities located in the National Institute for Nanotechnology In Edmonton, Alberta. The company has demonstrated its ability to produce high-purity solar grade polysilicon from the waste material (or “kerf”) created by wafer sawing operations, saving costs.

Zadspace

Series B in 2011
Zadspace Inc., a Norwalk, Connecticut is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based platform that enables retailers to deliver targeted advertisements on 4” x 6” color labels affixed to packages shipped to consumers, has closed a $3.2m Series B venture financing round.

Edufii

Series A in 2014
Edufii develops and operates a cloud-based coaching platform and skill development network. The company's product includes TrainingSpaces, which allows capturing technique, drills, and recaps with videos, photos, audio, and text at course, court, field, and gym, also it allows feedback import from training aids and technologies. The company's customers include golf pros and academies; fitness and mental trainers; baseball coaches; soccer coaches; and physical therapists. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California.