Henry Mason

AI Agents – a new form of automation

AI agents present a new iteration of automation. Founders are rapidly standing up agentic applications that can solve specific needs in functions like sales and customer success – without a human in the loop. Meanwhile, software buyers seeing real opportunity to quickly improve their P&L are quickly building or purchasing agentic products. In recent months,

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26-04-2021

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The CrowdStrike outage — preparing for ‘unprecedented’ events

Although most had never heard of it before last week, it’s now obvious to everyone that CrowdStrike’s software is deeply woven into the fabric of our society. One botched update disrupted healthcare, grounded flights, and stalled businesses worldwide — despite affecting less than 1% of all Windows devices. But in these so-called ‘unprecedented’ times, it’s

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Hedgehog unleashed: Why we invested in Raito

Here at Dawn, we’re big believers in focus. In an early-stage startup the possibilities truly are endless, and so it’s essential to do one thing better than anyone else. In this domain, hedgehogs usually beat foxes. Following that philosophy, the past few years have seen an explosion in the tooling for the data stack. First-generation data

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The art of category creation: Our partnership with Quantexa

Salesforce, Shopify, Atlassian: the world’s most iconic and valuable SaaS companies are the ones that pioneered a category and have become synonymous with it. Category creation is notoriously difficult, as it involves forging one’s own path and educating buyers about a new concept. So at Dawn we get very excited when we see a business