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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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Sync and swim: Why we invested in SwimmDawn

8th November 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

If it’s not documented, it doesn’t exist. A truth every developer knows, but doesn’t want to hear. Writing documentation for code is a pain, and the traditional solutions don’t make it much easier. Tools that auto-generate an API reference from the codebase are quick and convenient, but fail to explain what the code does. Meanwhile, …

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Turbocharging B2B payments: Why we invested in BillieDawn

25th October 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Josh Bell

Much has been said about how the pandemic has transformed buyer behaviours. More than ever, consumers are making their purchases online, putting rocket boosters under every element of the e-commerce industry. But while the B2C market grabs the limelight, it’s dwarfed by its less glamorous counterpart. Annual volumes in B2B e-commerce are now over $12 …

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Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in DataikuDawn

5th August 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

From my very first encounter with Florian Douetteau, Dataiku’s Co-founder and CEO, I knew that he was building something special. We met more than four years ago, back when the company was raising its Series B round, and they were based in their old office on boulevard Poisonnière that could already barely fit the rapidly growing …

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Transforming spend management: Why we’ve re-invested in SoldoDawn

21st July 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Josh Bell

When I first met Soldo’s founder, Carlo Gualandri, I knew almost nothing about his business. But what I did know well was the time and challenge involved in managing the expenses of a growing company. Two hours later, the reception we were attending wound down and I realised I hadn’t managed to talk to anyone else …

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The art of category creation: Our partnership with QuantexaDawn

13th July 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Henry Mason

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

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Powering our real-time world: Why we invested in AblyDawn

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 …

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Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloudDawn

24th June 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

For many years, Snowflake has been the byword for the entire cloud data warehouse market. The company’s growth stands testament to how easy it made processing data for enterprise. But today, Snowflake is a victim of its own extraordinary success (and some success, its market cap currently sits at just over $70 billion!). It is …

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Why we invested in CopperDawn

18th May 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

It was a dark February afternoon when we hopped onto our first zoom call with Copper’s CEO, Dmitry Tokarev, but it wasn’t long before the atmosphere was alive and brimming with excitement. Though originally hailing from icy Siberia, Dmitry clearly had a fire in his belly, and we were immediately struck by both his passion and sheer breadth …

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