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Embedding peace of mind: Why we invested in Cover GeniusDawn

1st November 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

In an increasingly digitised world, you’d expect insurance to have become more convenient, available and effective for consumers and businesses. But the global protection gap is actually growing. In fact, at $1.5tn, it’s widened 20% in just the past five years. It’s a startling figure and a symptom of fundamental challenges in the way insurance is …

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Hedgehog unleashed: Why we invested in RaitoDawn

18th October 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Henry Mason

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

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Supercharging hybrid work: Why we invested in RPA SupervisorDawn

27th July 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

If you hear the phrase ‘hybrid work’, your mind might turn to pyjama chic or the constant worry that you’re on mute. But there’s an even more important hybrid work trend underway: the rise of human + digital workforces. With the help of automation tools — several of which we have previously backed at Dawn, …

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Borderless tax compliance: Why we invested in FonoaDawn

21st July 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

Benjamin Franklin famously said, “nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except for death and taxes”, and online businesses are no exception. With easy access to global markets, these companies have grown rapidly — often unchecked by regulation. But at some point, like all of us, they just need to pay their …

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Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in MedusaDawn

15th July 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

Even as the pandemic-fuelled boom in e-commerce quiets down, the secular drivers behind digital commerce continue to push its volume up. Retail e-commerce is projected to reach $7.5 trillion by 2025 and B2B online commerce is a 4x larger market. Despite the breakneck growth of e-commerce, we are still in the first, or maybe second iteration …

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Another dimension: Why we invested in OmiDawn

27th June 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

When it comes to online selling, the devil’s in the details. While the online sales boom — nearly 20% of retail sales worldwide in 2021 — is great news for brands, it’s putting huge pressure on the individuals who market and sell these products. Imagine you’re a content manager presenting a range of products. Whereas once a …

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Trust & Safety for a social internet: Why we invested in CheckstepDawn

30th May 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

Over the past few years, our lives have become increasingly digital — the news, social media and everything in between infiltrating every part of our lives. In all of this, we know that the depths of the internet are a dark place to be yet, by and large, we manage to avoid it. But have …

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The foundations for crypto market access: Why we invested in ElwoodDawn

16th May 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

A tidal wave of institutional money has flowed into digital assets over the past two years. And, with it, we’ve seen the rapid growth of exchanges, brokers, lenders and custodians — and an emerging crypto market structure. But efficient and transparent access to this market and asset class remains a challenge, even for the most …

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Sharing the workload: Granulate joins IntelDawn

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

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

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Turning the tide: Why we invested in ShorelineDawn

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

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

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Fired up: Why we’ve reinvested in FireboltDawn

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

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

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Found in translation: Why we invested in LokaliseDawn

14th December 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Mina Mutafchieva

It’s fitting that my first trip after a worldwide lockdown was to meet the team helping digital products go global. Having missed my morning flight to Lisbon (a PCR-test related snafu) and scrambled to still make it there a few hours later than planned, there I was — on a sunny rooftop, finally face to …

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