Shamillah is a Partner at Dawn Capital, where she leads the firm’s investments in AI, infrastructure and automation, and has become a go-to name across the European AI ecosystem. With a razor-sharp eye for early-stage opportunities and deep conviction in founders solving complex technical problems, she’s led some of Dawn’s most exciting investments, including Blackwall, an AI security leader; Qogita, Europe’s largest B2B marketplace; Fonoa, the AI-native tax solution for global businesses; Lokalise, the AI-powered localisation platform; and Ably, the real-time developer infrastructure pioneer.

Shamillah’s investment lens is simple: find the frontier, then back the founders bold enough to tackle it. Whether it’s AI-native infrastructure, high-scale developer platforms, or complex marketplace models, she brings relentless curiosity, operator empathy and a thesis-driven approach to every boardroom and founder conversation.

Shamillah joined Dawn in 2020 from the SoftBank Vision Fund, where she helped launch the London office and focused on software and healthcare investments, serving on two boards including Roivant, which IPO-ed for $7b on the NASDAQ. Earlier in her career, she built data products for Fortune 500 companies at Bain & Company, and also founded a labour-matching startup in the B2B space.

A Yale graduate (Economics, Mathematics & African Studies, Honours), Shamillah was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Business Insider’s 34 Rising Stars of European Tech. As a Partner at Dawn, Shamillah is one of the youngest Black women to reach that title in venture capital.