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RevOps: Is there a new generation of tools to come?


In the old days of software development, version control was centralised, pipelines were siloed and merging was a dark art. Then DevOps came along. It ushered in agile methodologies to streamline planning and development, and aligned those who wrote the code with those who deployed and supported it. It handed devs and IT the keys …

Where next for the digital assets market?


The FTX revelations have sent tremors through the market during the last two weeks. The news has seen damage to the industry’s reputation and to investors — retail and institutional alike — who had exposure to FTX and the estimated $10bn hole in its balance sheet. There are still plenty of details that have yet …

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Don’t be an ostrich…


As we head into the 2023 budgeting season for tech startups, it’s becoming clear that nothing is clear in deciding between growth and cash preservation. Since the tech market crash earlier this year, much of the advice from VCs to startups has been around cash preservation — mostly that having a long runway was in …

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Contracting for speed


What’s the difference between ARR and CARR? No, it’s not a trick question — though, for a lot of scaling businesses, it can feel like one. Closing the gap between the two is hard. Customers saying they’re going to buy isn’t the same thing as seeing their money in your bank account — and though …

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After Excel — Finance tools for the modern CFO


Innovations in technology have helped businesses revolutionise the way they work. Every department from Sales to HR to Marketing — even Compliance — has dedicated software to help them be the best they can be. Finance teams though? The vast majority are still heavily reliant on Excel and the power that comes with the trusted …

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E-commerce Needs another Revolution: Meet the Companies Leading It


Online businesses have been growing fast for the last decade — 2.5x faster than global GDP. The UN estimates that Global E-Commerce totaled $26.7 trillion in 2019, and its importance is expected to increase further — in the same year e-commerce accounted for nearly 14% of retail sales worldwide, which became almost 18% in 2020 and it’s predicted to hit …
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Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
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
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
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
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
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
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
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.
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know


In our last article in this series in 2021, we explained why developer tools were becoming one of the most exciting opportunities in the software space. While the technology market has seen a lot of changes since then, the role, and value, of developers continues to grow. Just as software was predicted to eat the world, the …
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Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
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
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
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
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
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
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
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.
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
How to beat the competition for tech talent


Software is eating the world — including, over the last two years, the workplace. ‘Travel, driving to the office and the actual physical office building quite literally got dematerialized into video conferencing,’ as Marc Andreessen put it. By forcing the world to go remote almost overnight, the pandemic made software all the more important. Simultaneously, the …
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Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
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
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
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
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
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
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
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.
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
Dawn’s 2021 in review


January Avalon Lee-Bacon joined our team as Head of Talent, to support our portfolio companies with senior hires and developing their top talent, and Alix Fawcett joined as Marketing Associate. Our Partner Mina was named one of Venture Capital Journal’s rising stars of 2021! February We invested in Granulate’s $30m Series B. Our Partner Evgenia …
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Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million
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
RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms
Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa
Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to know
Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform
POWER PLAYERS: 18 women to watch in 2022 who made partner or higher in Europe’s male-dominated VC ecosystem
More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner
How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy
Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022
Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation
Goodbye London, hello New York: Why Eigen Technologies moved their headquarters
Data intelligence company Collibra brings in another $250m to more than double its valuation
Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process
Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation
Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m
Our number one criteria for CEO evaluation is how good they are at attracting talent
Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations
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
Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features
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
Firebolt raises $127m more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation
Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper
Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets
Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital
Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic
Berlin’s BRYTER raises $66M to take its no-code tools for enterprises to the US
Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms
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.
Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK
Israeli-born company AccessFintech secures $20 million Series B to help global financial institutions collaborate
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol
Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance
VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?
Eigen nabs $37m to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’
It’s chips, not the cloud, that will save banks from the hackers of the future
UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
SaaS Foundations: Building scale-up data infrastructure


Data is a critical component of success for all fast-growth B2B companies. Not getting your infrastructure sorted or right will hit your product and distribution: knowing who you’re selling what to, where and when, can be a matter of life and death. We sat down with our portfolio companies — data intelligence unicorn Collibra and open banking …