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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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Why Dawn invested in BRYTER

Published: 4th June 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

It’s 1am 10 years ago. I’m working on a big sell-side transaction, worth billions. Before I head home, I still need to update the financial model, complete potential buyer profiles, and update the latest analysis of the trading multiples. Instead, I am executing the 34th NDA of the week, frantically trying not to get names …

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Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo

Published: 10th July 2019 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

An excel hangover and a serious headache There was a time, not so long ago, when most of the small business world lived offline. Physical premises and a phone line sufficed for most mom-and-pop shops and small corporates to function. The last thirty years, however, have seen radical change. With the advent of the digital …

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Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive

Published: 15th April 2019 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

In the B2C world, consumer identity remains the Wild West Within the corporate environment the user identity challenge has largely been solved. Employees sign in once and gain access to company-wide services and data to perform everyday tasks. Enterprises can control employee access to company systems, monitor usage, and flexibly adapt to regulatory and other …

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Evolving Email: Why we invested in ZIVVER

Published: 16th October 2018 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

Email: The necessary evil Email has established an unassailable position as the principal channel for all business communication. It also doubles up as the OS and the system of record — we manage tasks and arrange meetings via email, and we archive or at the very least keep all our messages, “just in case”. An …

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