Norman Fiore
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
Published: 2nd June 2025
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore, Zoe Qin
Why we invested in deepdots Businesses have to understand what customers want to succeed. And if you can’t understand what your customer is telling you – or would tell – it’s game over. Yet, too often data stays trapped in customers’ heads. The first step is to find a way to collect data at scale …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
Dear European entrepreneur
Published: 28th September 2023
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
Don’t be an ostrich…
Published: 24th October 2022
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
As we head into the 2023 budgeting season for tech startups, it’s becoming clear that nothing is clear in deciding between growth and cash preservation. Since the tech market crash earlier this year, much of the advice from VCs to startups has been around cash preservation — mostly that having a long runway was in …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
Powering our real-time world: Why we invested in Ably
Published: 30th June 2021
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
Real-time went prime-time during Covid. Going into the pandemic, we would argue, the average Jane and Joe happily lived their ‘real’ lives, from which they would take time out to dip into their digital lives — paying bills, shopping online, replying asynchronously to emails — before returning to normal life. Fast forward to today, and …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
Burning your Equity
Published: 18th November 2020
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
Forget cash burn, in a world of easy money, Equity Burn should govern your decisions. If Oscar Wilde were alive today, he no doubt would have decided to become a tech entrepreneur. And his famous quip would instead have emerged as the tweet, “venture capitalists know the price of everything and the value of nothing”. …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
A call to founders
Published: 10th September 2020
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
Innovation thrives on instability. System-wide shocks drive change that startups can exploit ruthlessly, and to which incumbents cannot adjust. Historically, these shocks were either financial, technological or societal. In 2020, we’ve had all three at once: technology shock as the cloud came into its own, financial shock which will force society to do more with …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
Our common future got a little bit dimmer. For tech, it got a lot brighter
Published: 1st May 2020
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
When we work with our portfolio, mapping out the likely next few years, we keep hearing the common refrain “nobody knows what’s going to happen” and, therefore, a “V” shaped recovery is as likely as a “U” or “L” shaped one. We disagree. We concede that getting to a final GDP forecast is challenging but …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
Three tech founders in lockdown
Published: 31st March 2020
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
An adapted story from the lessons of the dot com bubble. Please note, none of the caricatured CEOs below represent actual Dawn portfolio CEOs, who, particularly our late-stage CEOs, are excelling in their leadership during these difficult times. A unicorn founder found himself at the bottom of his garden at dusk having a moment to …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
A time to lead
Published: 24th March 2020
•
Latest from Dawn
•
By Norman Fiore
I would urge business leaders, in these times of uncertainty and real opportunity, to forcefully define where they fit into the future of business and to decisively lead their current and new customers into that future. I will make two predictions about the consequences of the Corona crisis than I’d be willing to go ‘all …
Latest from Dawn
04-02-2026
•
events
Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Fireside Chat with Neo4j CRO Mark “Woody” Woodhams
11-12-2025
•
Dawn press
Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers
11-12-2025
•
Thoughts
Why we’re backing Runware – the engine behind scalable AI-powered media creation
18-09-2025
•
events
Female Founders & Funders Gathering at London Climate Action Week hosted at Dawn
28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
13-03-2025
•
Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
28-11-2024
•
Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
17-06-2024
•
Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
17-05-2024
•
Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-04-2024
•
Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
10-04-2024
•
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
23-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
09-01-2024
•
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-11-2023
•
Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
04-10-2023
•
Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
29-07-2022
•
Dawn press
Here are 23 startups in areas like AI, robotics, and quantum primed to take off in Europe’s $711 billion deep tech industry, according to VCs
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
21-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
15-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
15-07-2022
•
Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
21-04-2022
•
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
28-03-2022
•
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
03-02-2022
•
Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
01-02-2022
•
Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
26-01-2022
•
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
30-12-2021
•
Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Realtime data startup Ably counts Bloomberg and Hopin among its customers. We got a look at the pitch deck it used to raise $70 million
30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Here’s why Visa made its bold play for hot open banking fintech Tink in a $2.15 billion acquisition after its Plaid deal fell apart
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
18-01-2021
We asked 12 prominent European tech investors to pick out fintech startups they think will blow up in 2021. Here are the 20 they chose.
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
