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How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26th January 2022
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Dawn in the Press
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Flatpay rings up $47M to target smaller merchants with simple payment solutions
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Investment stories
Tuning out the noise – why we invested in Onum
10-04-2024 •
Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
04-04-2024 •
Thoughts
Part I — Introduction to Industry 4.0
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Dawn press
How to develop promising talent in VC
23-01-2024 •
Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
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Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 2/3) — the general ledger
23-01-2024 •
Thoughts
Opportunities in the unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 1/3)
16-01-2024 •
Dawn press
Fintech VCs’ predictions for 2024
16-01-2024 •
Dawn team
Celebrating our team’s achievements with four new promotions
09-01-2024 •
Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
21-12-2023 •
Dawn team
2023 in review: An action-packed year
18-12-2023 •
Dawn press
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13-12-2023 •
Thoughts
The Business in Knowing Businesses — the emerging European KYB landscape
11-12-2023 •
Dawn press
Que Font Les Fonds ? Le portrait de Dawn Capital
29-11-2023 •
Dawn press
Henry Mason on the European Cybersecurity Ecosystem
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?
20-11-2023 •
Dawn team
Meet Alex Goodway, our new CFO at Dawn Capital
08-11-2023 •
Thoughts
Resisting Siren calls: Odysseus, NDRs and Product Expansion
06-11-2023 •
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
18-10-2023 •
Dawn press
Xavier Niel’s €200M investment sparks a surge in France’s AI ecosystem
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
28-09-2023 •
Thoughts
Dear European entrepreneur
25-09-2023 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises $700M for B2B software fund amidst challenging times
25-09-2023 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
25-09-2023 •
Dawn press
Venture capital firm launches $700m fund for B2B software start-ups
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
11-09-2023 •
Thoughts
Next-generation automation: what Generative AI means for RPA
22-08-2023 •
Dawn team
Meet Ties Boukema: The Google alum revolutionising our data
11-07-2023 •
Thoughts
What will it take to build a Generative AI winner?
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
01-12-2022 •
Thoughts
RevOps: Is there a new generation of tools to come?
30-11-2022 •
Thoughts
Where next for the digital assets market?
01-11-2022 •
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
01-11-2022 •
Investment stories
Embedding peace of mind: Why we invested in Cover Genius
24-10-2022 •
Thoughts
Don’t be an ostrich…
18-10-2022 •
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
18-10-2022 •
Investment stories
Hedgehog unleashed: Why we invested in Raito
05-10-2022 •
Thoughts
Contracting for speed
14-09-2022 •
Thoughts
After Excel — Finance tools for the modern CFO
12-09-2022 •
Thoughts
E-commerce Needs another Revolution: Meet the Companies Leading It
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
27-07-2022 •
Investment stories
Supercharging hybrid work: Why we invested in RPA Supervisor
21-07-2022 •
Investment stories
Borderless tax compliance: Why we invested in Fonoa
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
27-06-2022 •
Investment stories
Another dimension: Why we invested in Omi
06-06-2022 •
Dawn press
Investors back business-focused buy now, pay later groups
30-05-2022 •
Portfolio news
Checkstep uses AI to moderate online platforms
30-05-2022 •
Investment stories
Trust & Safety for a social internet: Why we invested in Checkstep
16-05-2022 •
Investment stories
The foundations for crypto market access: Why we invested in Elwood
03-05-2022 •
Dawn press
Dan Chaplin included in Forbes 30 under 30 for finance
21-04-2022 •
Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
14-04-2022 •
Thoughts
How to beat the competition for tech talent
06-04-2022 •
Investment stories
Sharing the workload: Granulate joins Intel
28-03-2022 •
Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
28-03-2022 •
Investment stories
Turning the tide: Why we invested in Shoreline
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
27-01-2022 •
Investment stories
Fired up: Why we’ve reinvested in Firebolt
26-01-2022 •
Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
26-01-2022 •
Dawn team
Exciting promotions within our Dawn family, as Henry Mason makes Partner
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
22-12-2021 •
Thoughts
Dawn’s 2021 in review
14-12-2021 •
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
14-12-2021 •
Investment stories
Found in translation: Why we invested in Lokalise
07-12-2021 •
Thoughts
SaaS Foundations: Building scale-up data infrastructure
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 •
Investment stories
Sync and swim: Why we invested in Swimm
08-11-2021 •
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
06-11-2021 •
Portfolio news
A top Israeli VC names the 15 startups to watch
04-11-2021 •
Thoughts
SaaS Foundations: Hiring to succeed in B2B
03-11-2021 •
Portfolio news
Minute Media celebrates 10 years of digital storytelling
29-10-2021 •
Thoughts
Bringing exceptional talent into early-stage businesses
25-10-2021 •
Investment stories
Turbocharging B2B payments: Why we invested in Billie
25-10-2021 •
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
11-10-2021 •
Portfolio news
UK’s ex-chancellor Philip Hammond joins crypto start-up Copper
06-10-2021 •
Portfolio news
Quantexa makes CB Insights 250 list of top fintech startups
30-09-2021 •
Thoughts
The state of quantum: The race for supremacy is well and truly underway
28-09-2021 •
Thoughts
Enter quantum
21-09-2021 •
Thoughts
The immense opportunity of the life sciences data market
17-09-2021 •
Dawn team
B2B investor Dawn Capital promotes Evgenia Plotnikova to General Partner
16-09-2021 •
Portfolio news
Dataiku is named to the 2020 Forbes cloud 100
15-09-2021 •
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
31-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
The fintech crew in vanguard of a revolution
25-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
The Berlin startups and scaleups to watch in 2021
24-08-2021 •
Dawn press
The one thing every board member needs to know
23-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
Europe’s fintech M&A ‘boom’: What the data tells us
17-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
London’s top VCs pick fintech’s rising Class of 2021
16-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
Norway’s Gelato hits unicorn status and raises $240m
10-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
Forbes: The Cloud 100
10-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
Collibra named in the Forbes Cloud 100 for fifth consecutive year
09-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
The hottest startups in Berlin
05-08-2021 •
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
05-08-2021 •
Portfolio news
Enterprise AI firm Dataiku raises cash at $4.6 billion valuation
30-07-2021 •
Dawn team
Reflecting on an incredible first half of the year
27-07-2021 •
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
27-07-2021 •
Dawn press
What every founder needs on their board
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
22-07-2021 •
Dawn press
Exclusive: Dawn raises $120m ‘opportunities’ fund to back portfolio winners
21-07-2021 •
Investment stories
Transforming spend management: Why we’ve re-invested in Soldo
21-07-2021 •
Portfolio news
Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform
16-07-2021 •
Thoughts
How to maximise the value of strategic investors
13-07-2021 •
Investment stories
The art of category creation: Our partnership with Quantexa
13-07-2021 •
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
05-07-2021 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises Mina Mutafchieva to Partner, Dan Chaplin to Principal
05-07-2021 •
Dawn team
Our promotion of Mina Mutafchieva to Partner and Dan Chaplin to Principal
30-06-2021 •
Investment stories
Powering our real-time world: Why we invested in Ably
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
24-06-2021 •
Thoughts
Building the future of Europe’s financial services: Our partnership with Tink
24-06-2021 •
Portfolio news
Visa Agrees to Buy Open-Banking Platform Tink for $2 Billion
16-06-2021 •
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
15-06-2021 •
Thoughts
Two minutes on implementing the Flywheel Effect
11-06-2021 •
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
04-06-2021
11 startups investors predict will become unicorns in 2021
02-06-2021 •
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
28-05-2021 •
Thoughts
Denmark’s hygge SaaS
25-05-2021 •
Thoughts
In 2021, the last thing we need is another security tech hero
24-05-2021
Granulate named a 2021 Cool Vendor by Gartner
24-05-2021 •
Dawn press
Fintech valuations keep tripling, is it a trend or just a coincidence?
18-05-2021 •
Investment stories
Why we invested in Copper
18-05-2021 •
Portfolio news
Exclusive: UK cryptocurrency startup Copper closes $50m raise
18-05-2021 •
Dawn press
200+ female VC partners in Europe: the complete list
07-05-2021 •
Thoughts
The founder case for SPACs
26-04-2021
AI 50
26-04-2021
The Nordic startups and scaleups to watch in 2021
26-04-2021 •
Investment stories
Why we invested in CluedIn
22-04-2021 •
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
21-04-2021 •
Thoughts
The future of SaaS pricing isn’t one-size-fits-all
19-04-2021 •
Thoughts
How cloud has won: The state of the market in 2021
16-04-2021 •
Dawn press
Europe’s 16 most underrated fintechs, according to VCs
13-04-2021 •
Thoughts
One year on, the three pillars underpinning B2B SaaS
08-04-2021 •
Thoughts
Introducing the next generation of dev tools
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
03-04-2021 •
Dawn press
Deliveroo fiasco threatens to rip up City’s IPO dreams
02-04-2021 •
Dawn press
29 UK VC investors to follow on Twitter
31-03-2021 •
Investment stories
LeanIX — why we invested
24-03-2021 •
Portfolio news
LeanIX acquires leading US SaaS management provider Cleanshelf
18-03-2021 •
Investment stories
Why we invested in Vulcan
16-03-2021 •
Thoughts
Snowflake 2.0
16-03-2021 •
Dawn press
European VCs are still wary of joining the SPAC goldrush
15-03-2021
European tech startups and scaleups to watch 2021
15-03-2021 •
Dawn press
Driving the European B2B software scene, a profile of Dawn Capital
10-03-2021 •
Thoughts
How Israel is building the model B2B SaaS capital
08-03-2021 •
Dawn press
26 incredible women investors
08-03-2021 •
Dawn press
It’s time banks took a hard look at what’s valuable and what’s vanity
08-03-2021 •
Thoughts
Developers are the new rockstars of SaaS. You either sell through or to them
04-03-2021 •
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
02-03-2021
FT 1000: the fifth annual list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies
25-02-2021
21 European SaaS startups set to boom in 2021, predicted by VCs
17-02-2021 •
Dawn press
Venture views: In conversation with Dawn Capital’s Haakon Overli
16-02-2021
The European fintechs to watch in 2021
09-02-2021 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital predicts the categories that will break out in 2021
08-02-2021
‘The Netherlands’ startups and scaleups to watch in 2021
08-02-2021 •
Thoughts
The power of community. Lessons from enterprise AI powerhouse, Dataiku
04-02-2021 •
Dawn press
Europe’s top 30 young venture capitalists
04-02-2021 •
Investment stories
Why we invested in Granulate
03-02-2021
Granulate nabs $30M for software to optimize workloads and latency
01-02-2021
UK tech startups and scaleups to watch in 2021
22-01-2021 •
Thoughts
Finances on autopilot: How do we get there?
21-01-2021 •
Dawn team
What happened at Dawn in 2020?
19-01-2021 •
Dawn team
Team Dawn predictions: The categories that will break out in 2021
18-01-2021 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital appoints Head of Talent
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.
05-01-2021 •
Thoughts
Building the future enterprise digital workspace
04-01-2021 •
Dawn press
Rising Stars 2021
02-01-2021
Startup Spotlight: The top 50 London tech firms to work for
29-12-2020 •
Dawn press
The 10 biggest fintech rounds of 2020
24-12-2020 •
Dawn press
The 10 biggest funding rounds in Spain 2020
16-12-2020 •
Thoughts
Improving on perfection — where next for the spreadsheet?
04-12-2020 •
Thoughts
The breaking point: What software are banks buying today?
19-11-2020 •
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
18-11-2020 •
Thoughts
Burning your Equity
17-11-2020 •
Investment stories
Why Dawn invested in Harbr
16-11-2020
Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely
12-11-2020 •
Thoughts
The future Event Tech titans
29-10-2020 •
Thoughts
Why Sweden is the Silicon Valley of Fintech
29-10-2020 •
Dawn press
VC deals in Europe had one of the strongest quarters on record in Q3 2020
06-10-2020 •
Investment stories
Why we invested in Access Fintech
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
10-09-2020 •
Thoughts
A call to founders
09-09-2020 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital closes another $400M fund to focus on B2B software
09-09-2020 •
Our Funds
Introducing Dawn IV: $400m to build the future of European B2B software
24-08-2020 •
Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
15-07-2020 •
Portfolio news
Welcome to Element!
17-06-2020
Onna, the ‘knowledge integration platform’ for workplace apps, raises $27M Series B
17-06-2020 •
Thoughts
What I’ve learnt from Dawn founders about listening
04-06-2020 •
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER scores $16 million Series A from Dawn Capital and Accel
04-06-2020 •
Investment stories
Why Dawn invested in BRYTER
03-06-2020
Swedish open banking startup Tink takes funding from PayPal (again)
22-05-2020 •
Thoughts
A framework for navigating venture debt in a Covid-19 world
20-05-2020 •
Thoughts
How software startups are shaping the age of democratic surveillance
19-05-2020 •
Dawn press
Top 10 ways fintechs can find positivity amidst COVID-19
16-05-2020 •
Dawn press
Forget cybersecurity, it’s “hardsec” that will reinvent banking
05-05-2020 •
Thoughts
Making acquisitions in a time of crisis
01-05-2020 •
Thoughts
Our common future got a little bit dimmer. For tech, it got a lot brighter
01-05-2020 •
Thoughts
How B2B SaaS startups can reposition now to win
27-04-2020
Templafy raises $25M Series C led by Insight partners to deal with enterprise documents
27-04-2020 •
Dawn press
Many UK start-ups have less than a year’s cash left
24-04-2020 •
Thoughts
Being an all-weather investor
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
06-04-2020 •
Investment stories
Why we invested in Cleanshelf
02-04-2020 •
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
31-03-2020 •
Thoughts
Three tech founders in lockdown
31-03-2020 •
Thoughts
A lonely time
24-03-2020 •
Thoughts
A time to lead
16-03-2020 •
Dawn press
Fundraising during coronavirus: Are startups screwed?
16-03-2020
ING makes €4.5 million investment in London-based NLP FinTech
13-03-2020 •
Portfolio news
London-based Eigen Technologies closes Series B round at $42 million
10-03-2020
Zumper raises $60M to double down on tech to grow its apartment rentals platform
02-03-2020
London-based VC firm leads Minute Media to a total of £125 million funding
27-02-2020 •
Thoughts
Does tech spell the end of journalism?
21-02-2020 •
Dawn press
The changing face of UK VC 2020: Mina Mutafchieva, Principal, Dawn Capital
20-01-2020
Swedish fintech Tink secures biggest funding round to date
20-01-2020 •
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
10-01-2020
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09-01-2020 •
Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
17-12-2019 •
Dawn team
Dawn team 2020 predictions
16-12-2019 •
Dawn press
Dawn Capital promotes Soldo-backer Evgenia Plotnikova to Partner
18-11-2019 •
Investment stories
Eigen Technologies: why we invested
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
08-09-2019
Bebo guru Michael Birch backs £110m boost for tech darling Sonovate
10-07-2019 •
Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
26-06-2019 •
Investment stories
An easy sell: doubling down on Showpad
21-06-2019 •
Our Funds
Dawn doubling down on Europe’s best tech
03-06-2019 •
Investment stories
Order from data chaos
15-04-2019 •
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
03-04-2019 •
Investment stories
More than marginal gains: our new investment in OpenGamma
20-12-2018 •
Investment stories
The path to Enterprise AI
05-11-2018 •
Thoughts
Democratising access to advanced consumer research
16-10-2018 •
Investment stories
Evolving Email: Why we invested in ZIVVER
15-10-2018 •
Portfolio news
Garrison announces new $30m funding for pioneering safe web browsing technology
15-10-2018 •
Investment stories
Not remotely risky: Our investment in Garrison
03-08-2018 •
Investment stories
Joining the dots: Why we invested in Quantexa
18-05-2018
PayPal acquires Swedish payments firm iZettle
20-04-2018 •
Our Funds
Dawn III: Our new $235m fund
13-02-2018 •
Investment stories
Our investment in Templafy, the enterprise platform for brand integrity and compliance
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