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Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
Published: 22nd July 2021
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Latest from Dawn
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By Haakon Overli
Last year, software saved the world. We saw it happen in real-time as we worked, shopped, and socialised from home. Now, and for years to come, companies will be built that are larger, and more world-changing, than ever before — redefining everything we see around us for the better. Today is the age of private enterprise, and …
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Introducing Dawn IV: $400m to build the future of European B2B software
Published: 9th September 2020
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Latest from Dawn
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By Haakon Overli
2020 will go down in history as the year software saved the world. As Covid-19 hit, we went remote — almost overnight. We’d been doing it all already — occasional days working from home, buying clothes, food and furniture online, chatting to colleagues on Zoom and family members on Skype. But in March it became …
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•
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•
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•
Investment stories
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•
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•
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22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
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23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
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•
Investment stories
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•
Portfolio news
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•
Portfolio news
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•
Portfolio news
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Portfolio news
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•
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Dawn press
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•
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•
Investment stories
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•
Thoughts
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•
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•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
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•
Dawn press
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•
Dawn press
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03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
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•
Investment stories
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•
Dawn press
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Thoughts
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Thoughts
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Thoughts
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Investment stories
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•
Portfolio news
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•
Investment stories
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22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
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28-08-2025
•
Dawn press
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Dawn doubling down on Europe’s best tech
Published: 21st June 2019
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Latest from Dawn
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By Haakon Overli
This week we announced the closing of Dawn Opportunities Fund. At $125M, it’s Europe’s largest B2B opportunities fund. We have already deployed a good portion of it in Collibra — the leading data governance and cataloguing company — alongside Alphabet’s CapitalG growth fund in the recent $100M round. We backed Collibra from the very beginning …
Latest from Dawn
13-02-2018
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Investment stories
Our investment in Templafy, the enterprise platform for brand integrity and compliance
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•
Portfolio news
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15-04-2019
•
Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
10-07-2019
•
Investment stories
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08-10-2019
•
Dawn press
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10-10-2019
•
Dawn press
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10-10-2019
•
Investment stories
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12-11-2019
•
Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
14-11-2019
•
Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
09-01-2020
•
Dawn press
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20-01-2020
•
Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
02-04-2020
•
Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
08-04-2020
•
Dawn press
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20-04-2020
•
Thoughts
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24-08-2020
•
Portfolio news
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30-09-2020
•
Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
05-10-2020
•
Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
19-11-2020
•
Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
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.
04-03-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
07-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
07-04-2021
•
Dawn press
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22-04-2021
•
Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
02-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
11-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
16-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
24-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
24-06-2021
•
Investment stories
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26-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
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•
Portfolio news
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30-06-2021
•
Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
13-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
22-07-2021
•
Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
23-07-2021
•
Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
27-07-2021
•
Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
05-08-2021
•
Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
15-09-2021
•
Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
25-10-2021
•
Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
08-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
09-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
22-11-2021
•
Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
14-12-2021
•
Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
30-12-2021
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Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
26-01-2022
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Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
26-01-2022
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Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
01-02-2022
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Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
03-02-2022
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Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
28-03-2022
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Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
21-04-2022
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Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
15-07-2022
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Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
15-07-2022
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Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
21-07-2022
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Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
27-07-2022
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Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
29-07-2022
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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
18-10-2022
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Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
01-11-2022
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Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
22-05-2023
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Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
04-07-2023
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Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
18-09-2023
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Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
25-09-2023
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Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
25-09-2023
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Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
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Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
03-10-2023
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Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
04-10-2023
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Investment stories
The future’s Brite for instant payments: Why we’re backing the next generation platform to pay and get paid
06-11-2023
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Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
21-11-2023
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Thoughts
E-Sims and “MVNO-in-a-box”: Is the Telecoms Sector Finally Ready to be Disrupted by Next-Gen B2B Software?
09-01-2024
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Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
23-01-2024
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Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
10-04-2024
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Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
17-04-2024
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Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
17-05-2024
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Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-06-2024
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Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
28-11-2024
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Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-12-2024
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Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
20-12-2024
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Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
24-01-2025
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Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
13-03-2025
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Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
13-03-2025
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Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
02-06-2025
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Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
22-07-2025
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Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
28-08-2025
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Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
Dawn III: Our new $235m fund
Published: 20th April 2018
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Latest from Dawn
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By Haakon Overli
Dawn earlier this week announced the closing of Dawn III — at $235m (£165m), Dawn III is the single largest dedicated B2B venture fund in Europe. We are very pleased to about this outcome as it supports our long-standing thesis that Europe has a tremendous ability and even further potential to create global software leaders. …
Latest from Dawn
13-02-2018
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Investment stories
Our investment in Templafy, the enterprise platform for brand integrity and compliance
15-10-2018
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Portfolio news
Garrison announces new $30m funding for pioneering safe web browsing technology
15-04-2019
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Investment stories
Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive
10-07-2019
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Investment stories
Reimagining business spend at no one’s expense: why we are partnering with Soldo
08-10-2019
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Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
10-10-2019
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Dawn press
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
10-10-2019
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Investment stories
Communications of the future will be open and secure: why we are partnering with New Vector
12-11-2019
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Dawn press
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
14-11-2019
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Portfolio news
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
09-01-2020
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Dawn press
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
20-01-2020
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Investment stories
An open future: How Tink is laying the foundations for the banking revolution
02-04-2020
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Portfolio news
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
08-04-2020
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Dawn press
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
20-04-2020
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Thoughts
£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan
24-08-2020
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Portfolio news
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
30-09-2020
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Portfolio news
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
05-10-2020
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Portfolio news
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
19-11-2020
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Portfolio news
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
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.
04-03-2021
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Portfolio news
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
07-04-2021
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Portfolio news
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
07-04-2021
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Dawn press
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
22-04-2021
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Portfolio news
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
02-06-2021
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Portfolio news
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
11-06-2021
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Portfolio news
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
16-06-2021
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Portfolio news
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
24-06-2021
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Portfolio news
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
24-06-2021
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Investment stories
Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud
26-06-2021
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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
30-06-2021
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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
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Portfolio news
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
13-07-2021
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Portfolio news
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
22-07-2021
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Dawn team
Our long-standing commitment to our founders: Introducing Dawn Opportunities II
23-07-2021
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Dawn press
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
27-07-2021
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Portfolio news
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
05-08-2021
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Investment stories
Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku
15-09-2021
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Portfolio news
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
25-10-2021
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Portfolio news
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
08-11-2021
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Portfolio news
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
09-11-2021
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Portfolio news
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
22-11-2021
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Portfolio news
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
14-12-2021
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Portfolio news
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
30-12-2021
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Dawn press
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
26-01-2022
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Portfolio news
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
26-01-2022
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Dawn press
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
01-02-2022
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Dawn press
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
03-02-2022
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Dawn press
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
28-03-2022
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Portfolio news
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
21-04-2022
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Thoughts
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
15-07-2022
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Investment stories
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
15-07-2022
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Portfolio news
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
21-07-2022
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Portfolio news
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
27-07-2022
•
Portfolio news
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
29-07-2022
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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
18-10-2022
•
Portfolio news
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
01-11-2022
•
Portfolio news
Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
22-05-2023
•
Investment stories
FlowX.AI: The platform transitioning enterprises to systems fit for the AI-driven future
04-07-2023
•
Thoughts
Not all hype: Software stars are emerging in the European Generative AI ecosystem
18-09-2023
•
Thoughts
Hyper-focus on partnerships and efficient expansion: Learnings from the LeanIX exit
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn raises $700m to invest in the next generation of European B2B software winners
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
A top European software investor raises $700 million — defying the venture capital slump
25-09-2023
•
Dawn press
Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups
03-10-2023
•
Thoughts
Unlocking GenAI for the Enterprise: Frontline experts share five tips for success
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
06-11-2023
•
Dawn press
Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital
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?
09-01-2024
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Thoughts
Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance
23-01-2024
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Thoughts
Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management
10-04-2024
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Portfolio news
Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A
17-04-2024
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Investment stories
Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions
17-05-2024
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Thoughts
How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa
17-06-2024
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Investment stories
3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi
18-10-2024
Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector
28-11-2024
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Thoughts
The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries
18-12-2024
•
Thoughts
Insights on building next-wave GenAI companies from Europe’s leading agentic startup founders
20-12-2024
•
Dawn team
2024 in review: A year filled with exciting new partnerships, team expansion, and community building
24-01-2025
•
Thoughts
AI x IT Services: Europe’s €200 billion industry transforming AI ambitions into adoption
14-02-2025
Invest in data, collaboration and transparency — insights for People leaders from the Dawn x Mazi CPO Collective People Summit
13-03-2025
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Investment stories
Why we’re backing Blackwall, the startup outmuscling tech infrastructure giants
13-03-2025
•
Portfolio news
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
02-06-2025
•
Investment stories
deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights
22-07-2025
•
Investment stories
Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business
28-08-2025
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Dawn press
George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A
