Evgenia Plotnikova

Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business

Published: 22nd July 2025 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

Win-win-win in delivering AI  Today, everyone wants AI. Not just the world’s largest enterprises but also small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), who form the backbone of economies around the world. However, SMBs lack the appetite and capability to either build custom AI in-house or to sift through the exploding number of external options. So, they …

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How close are we to AI lawyers? 

Published: 21st July 2025 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova, Shamillah Bankiya, Zoe Qin, Andrea Guariglia

Legal AI is rapidly becoming a killer use case for LLMs. You could even argue LLMs were born to take over the legal profession. Legal tasks are already being accelerated and automated, and we see a clear opportunity for generational impact on the lives of lawyers. But what would it take to build AI lawyers? …

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License to Thrill: Innovation in the IP Value Chain

Published: 19th June 2025 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova, Henry Mason, License to Thrill: Innovation in the IP Value Chain, Zoe Qin

Note: Map above does not include industry incumbents. Why Now? As AI accelerates innovation, IP is no longer festering in the legal back-office – it’s front and centre in defining company value. In fact, up to 90% of the S&P 500’s market cap is now tied to intangible assets, with patents and trademarks central to …

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Sharing the workload: Granulate joins Intel

Published: 6th April 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

Asaf Ezra and Tal Saiag’s company didn’t exist four years ago. When we participated in their Series B last year, Granulate was still just two years old. Now, this rocketship of a company is joining one of their titan champions, Intel — an acquisition so clearly a natural evolution for a business whose software agent slashes the cost of …

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Turning the tide: Why we invested in Shoreline

Published: 28th March 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

The cost of digital outages is higher than ever. When almost every aspect of our daily lives is touched by software, we’ve got zero tolerance for downtime, whether it is our work chat or our favourite food delivery app. At the same time, delivering a seamless customer experience 24/7 has become more challenging. As businesses …

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Fired up: Why we’ve reinvested in Firebolt

Published: 27th January 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

Every company now is not just a software company, but a data company too. Data is the core of every app, product and service, becoming part of the fabric of modern business. The evolution of data warehousing — the foundation on top of which companies build all kinds of analytics experiences and services — made this possible. …

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Sync and swim: Why we invested in Swimm

Published: 8th November 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

If it’s not documented, it doesn’t exist. A truth every developer knows, but doesn’t want to hear. Writing documentation for code is a pain, and the traditional solutions don’t make it much easier. Tools that auto-generate an API reference from the codebase are quick and convenient, but fail to explain what the code does. Meanwhile, …

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Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku

Published: 5th August 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

From my very first encounter with Florian Douetteau, Dataiku’s Co-founder and CEO, I knew that he was building something special. We met more than four years ago, back when the company was raising its Series B round, and they were based in their old office on boulevard Poisonnière that could already barely fit the rapidly growing …

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Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud

Published: 24th June 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

For many years, Snowflake has been the byword for the entire cloud data warehouse market. The company’s growth stands testament to how easy it made processing data for enterprise. But today, Snowflake is a victim of its own extraordinary success (and some success, its market cap currently sits at just over $70 billion!). It is …

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How cloud has won: The state of the market in 2021

Published: 19th April 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

Cloud has won. Having lingered on the horizon for the last two decades, cloud companies across the value chain — IaaS, PaaS and SaaS (infrastructure, platform and software as services) — are now dominating software markets. Valuations have increased on both the public and private markets over the last 12 months, and dramatically. Billion-dollar companies …

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Why we invested in Granulate

Published: 4th February 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

For most software companies, COGS is dominated by cloud costs. Across the market, these can account for anywhere between 10 and 20 percent of a company’s revenue. In compute-heavy applications, such as AI and machine learning, this percentage can be significantly higher. And as every company becomes a software company, getting control of these costs …

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Why Dawn invested in Harbr

Published: 17th November 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

For data to be truly powerful, everything has to work in concert. If one part of the value chain — whether that’s preparing data, storing it, or creating insights — is broken, then the gains made elsewhere are negated, or even nullified. Think of it like lights on a Christmas tree: if one bulb has …

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