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Why we invested in CluedInDawn

26th April 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Mina Mutafchieva

An Australian, a Belgian and a Dane walk into a… not a bar, this is a different story. They walk into a tough data engineering problem, and thus begins the epic story of one of the most exciting data companies we at Dawn have come across in a long time. When I first spoke to …

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LeanIX — why we investedDawn

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Why we invested in VulcanDawn

18th March 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Henry Mason

“In an ideal world, a security vulnerability is flagged, then resolved as quickly as possible by the relevant security, IT or DevOps teams.” We couldn’t disagree more. The problem–solution structure of the traditional security paradigm goes like this: Commercial software is plagued by vulnerabilities, and IT and security departments, already flooded with potential risks, are …

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Why we invested in GranulateDawn

4th February 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

For most software companies, COGS is dominated by cloud costs. Across the market, these can account for anywhere between 10 and 20 percent of a company’s revenue. In compute-heavy applications, such as AI and machine learning, this percentage can be significantly higher. And as every company becomes a software company, getting control of these costs …

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Why Dawn invested in HarbrDawn

17th November 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

For data to be truly powerful, everything has to work in concert. If one part of the value chain — whether that’s preparing data, storing it, or creating insights — is broken, then the gains made elsewhere are negated, or even nullified. Think of it like lights on a Christmas tree: if one bulb has …

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Why we invested in Access FintechDawn

6th October 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Mina Mutafchieva

I remember the first time I visited a bank’s trading floor. It was both a huge relief and mild disappointment to discover that it is nothing like the Wolf of Wall Street-style high octane drama that Hollywood would have us believe. The overwhelming sound is one of humming computers and screens and people tapping out …

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Why Dawn invested in BRYTERDawn

4th June 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

It’s 1am 10 years ago. I’m working on a big sell-side transaction, worth billions. Before I head home, I still need to update the financial model, complete potential buyer profiles, and update the latest analysis of the trading multiples. Instead, I am executing the 34th NDA of the week, frantically trying not to get names …

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Why we invested in CleanshelfDawn

6th April 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Mina Mutafchieva

I was in Copenhagen when I found myself, trip cut short and bleary eyed, boarding a 06:00am flight to Ljubljana to go and meet Dusan Omercevic, Founder and CEO of Cleanshelf, and his team. My first call with Cleanshelf had been the month before, on 18 December, when most of us had at least mentally …

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An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolutionDawn

20th January 2020 • Latest from Dawn • By Josh Bell

We stand on the cusp of a new era in financial services. After decades of limited real product innovation, the foundations are now being put in place to enable radical transformation in the way that financial products are built and delivered. The future of finance will be fundamentally data-driven and highly personalised. As consumers we …

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Eigen Technologies: why we investedDawn

18th November 2019 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

The warnings about the financial crisis of 2008 were all there, hidden in plain sight — but only if you had the time or tools to look hard enough. Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, whose story was told in the film The Big Short, combed through thousands of collateralised debt obligations and realised that there …

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Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New VectorDawn

10th October 2019 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

When Emmanuel Macron boasted about his use of Telegram in 2017, security advisors in the French Government were thrown into a panic. Macron believed that using this ‘secure’ consumer chat application demonstrated that he was a politician for modern times. But with the President’s communications being hosted on a Russian-controlled app, what his advisors saw …

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Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with SoldoDawn

10th July 2019 • Latest from Dawn • By Evgenia Plotnikova

An excel hangover and a serious headache There was a time, not so long ago, when most of the small business world lived offline. Physical premises and a phone line sufficed for most mom-and-pop shops and small corporates to function. The last thirty years, however, have seen radical change. With the advent of the digital …

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