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

1st December 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Nils Howland

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 …

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Where next for the digital assets market?Dawn

30th November 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniel Chaplin

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…Dawn

24th October 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Norman Fiore

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 speedDawn

5th October 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniela Raffel Torrebiarte

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 CFODawn

14th September 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By Daniela Raffel Torrebiarte

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 ItDawn

12th September 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

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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Why developers are still the biggest opportunity in software — key trends you need to knowDawn

21st April 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

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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How to beat the competition for tech talentDawn

14th April 2022 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

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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Dawn’s 2021 in reviewDawn

22nd December 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

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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SaaS Foundations: Building scale-up data infrastructureDawn

7th December 2021 • Latest from Dawn • By dawnadmin

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 …

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