VC Soho Lunch Club Summer Edition

Published: 10th July 2025 • Latest from Dawn • By Dawn Team

We teamed up with Cocoa Ventures to host a small group of senior women in VC for a light hearted breakfast networking session.

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Latest from Dawn

13-02-2018 • Investment stories

Our investment in Templafy, the enterprise platform for brand integrity and compliance

20-04-2018 • Our Funds

Dawn III: Our new $235m fund

18-05-2018

PayPal acquires Swedish payments firm iZettle

03-08-2018 • Investment stories

Joining the dots: Why we invested in Quantexa

15-10-2018 • Investment stories

Not remotely risky: Our investment in Garrison

15-10-2018 • Portfolio news

Garrison announces new $30m funding for pioneering safe web browsing technology

16-10-2018 • Investment stories

Evolving Email: Why we invested in ZIVVER

05-11-2018 • Thoughts

Democratising access to advanced consumer research

20-12-2018 • Investment stories

The path to Enterprise AI

03-04-2019 • Investment stories

More than marginal gains: our new investment in OpenGamma

15-04-2019 • Investment stories

Solving the consumer identity challenge: why we are partnering with ReachFive

03-06-2019 • Investment stories

Order from data chaos

21-06-2019 • Our Funds

Dawn doubling down on Europe’s best tech

26-06-2019 • Investment stories

An easy sell: doubling down on Showpad

10-07-2019 • Investment stories

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

08-09-2019

Bebo guru Michael Birch backs £110m boost for tech darling Sonovate

08-10-2019 • Dawn press

TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space

10-10-2019 • Dawn press

UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019

10-10-2019 • Investment stories

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

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’

18-11-2019 • Investment stories

Eigen Technologies: why we invested

16-12-2019 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital promotes Soldo-backer Evgenia Plotnikova to Partner

17-12-2019 • Dawn team

Dawn team 2020 predictions

09-01-2020 • Dawn press

VC predictions: What do you think the UK IPO landscape looks like for fintechs in 2020?

10-01-2020

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20-01-2020 • Investment stories

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

20-01-2020

Swedish fintech Tink secures biggest funding round to date

21-02-2020 • Dawn press

The changing face of UK VC 2020: Mina Mutafchieva, Principal, Dawn Capital

27-02-2020 • Thoughts

Does tech spell the end of journalism?

02-03-2020

London-based VC firm leads Minute Media to a total of £125 million funding

10-03-2020

Zumper raises $60M to double down on tech to grow its apartment rentals platform

13-03-2020 • Portfolio news

London-based Eigen Technologies closes Series B round at $42 million

16-03-2020

ING makes €4.5 million investment in London-based NLP FinTech

16-03-2020 • Dawn press

Fundraising during coronavirus: Are startups screwed?

24-03-2020 • Thoughts

A time to lead

31-03-2020 • Thoughts

A lonely time

31-03-2020 • Thoughts

Three tech founders in lockdown

02-04-2020 • Portfolio news

Collibra raises $112 million at $2.3 billion valuation to provide better data governance

06-04-2020 • Investment stories

Why we invested in Cleanshelf

08-04-2020 • Dawn press

TOP 50: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space

20-04-2020 • Thoughts

£1.25bn for VC-backed startups — Dawn’s response to the UK government’s coronavirus plan

24-04-2020 • Thoughts

Being an all-weather investor

27-04-2020 • Dawn press

Many UK start-ups have less than a year’s cash left

27-04-2020

Templafy raises $25M Series C led by Insight partners to deal with enterprise documents

01-05-2020 • Thoughts

How B2B SaaS startups can reposition now to win

01-05-2020 • Thoughts

Our common future got a little bit dimmer. For tech, it got a lot brighter

05-05-2020 • Thoughts

Making acquisitions in a time of crisis

16-05-2020 • Dawn press

Forget cybersecurity, it’s “hardsec” that will reinvent banking

19-05-2020 • Dawn press

Top 10 ways fintechs can find positivity amidst COVID-19

20-05-2020 • Thoughts

How software startups are shaping the age of democratic surveillance

22-05-2020 • Thoughts

A framework for navigating venture debt in a Covid-19 world

03-06-2020

Swedish open banking startup Tink takes funding from PayPal (again)

04-06-2020 • Investment stories

Why Dawn invested in BRYTER

04-06-2020 • Portfolio news

Berlin’s BRYTER scores $16 million Series A from Dawn Capital and Accel

17-06-2020 • Thoughts

What I’ve learnt from Dawn founders about listening

17-06-2020

Onna, the ‘knowledge integration platform’ for workplace apps, raises $27M Series B

15-07-2020 • Portfolio news

Welcome to Element!

24-08-2020 • Portfolio news

Data science startup Dataiku raises $100 million to keep growing its AI enablement software

09-09-2020 • Our Funds

Introducing Dawn IV: $400m to build the future of European B2B software

09-09-2020 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital closes another $400M fund to focus on B2B software

10-09-2020 • Thoughts

A call to founders

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

06-10-2020 • Investment stories

Why we invested in Access Fintech

29-10-2020 • Dawn press

VC deals in Europe had one of the strongest quarters on record in Q3 2020

29-10-2020 • Thoughts

Why Sweden is the Silicon Valley of Fintech

12-11-2020 • Thoughts

The future Event Tech titans

16-11-2020

Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely

17-11-2020 • Investment stories

Why Dawn invested in Harbr

18-11-2020 • Thoughts

Burning your Equity

19-11-2020 • Portfolio news

Deloitte recognises Divido as one of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in the UK

04-12-2020 • Thoughts

The breaking point: What software are banks buying today?

16-12-2020 • Thoughts

Improving on perfection — where next for the spreadsheet?

24-12-2020 • Dawn press

The 10 biggest funding rounds in Spain 2020

29-12-2020 • Dawn press

The 10 biggest fintech rounds of 2020

02-01-2021

Startup Spotlight: The top 50 London tech firms to work for

04-01-2021 • Dawn press

Rising Stars 2021

05-01-2021 • Thoughts

Building the future enterprise digital workspace

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.

18-01-2021 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital appoints Head of Talent

19-01-2021 • Dawn team

Team Dawn predictions: The categories that will break out in 2021

21-01-2021 • Dawn team

What happened at Dawn in 2020?

22-01-2021 • Thoughts

Finances on autopilot: How do we get there?

01-02-2021

UK tech startups and scaleups to watch in 2021

03-02-2021

Granulate nabs $30M for software to optimize workloads and latency

04-02-2021 • Investment stories

Why we invested in Granulate

04-02-2021 • Dawn press

Europe’s top 30 young venture capitalists

08-02-2021 • Thoughts

The power of community. Lessons from enterprise AI powerhouse, Dataiku

08-02-2021

‘The Netherlands’ startups and scaleups to watch in 2021

09-02-2021 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital predicts the categories that will break out in 2021

16-02-2021

The European fintechs to watch in 2021

17-02-2021 • Dawn press

Venture views: In conversation with Dawn Capital’s Haakon Overli

25-02-2021

21 European SaaS startups set to boom in 2021, predicted by VCs

02-03-2021

FT 1000: the fifth annual list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies

04-03-2021 • Portfolio news

Dataiku again named a leader in the Gartner 2021 magic quadrant for data science and machine-learning platforms

08-03-2021 • Thoughts

Developers are the new rockstars of SaaS. You either sell through or to them

08-03-2021 • Dawn press

It’s time banks took a hard look at what’s valuable and what’s vanity

08-03-2021 • Dawn press

26 incredible women investors

10-03-2021 • Thoughts

How Israel is building the model B2B SaaS capital

15-03-2021 • Dawn press

Driving the European B2B software scene, a profile of Dawn Capital

15-03-2021

European tech startups and scaleups to watch 2021

16-03-2021 • Dawn press

European VCs are still wary of joining the SPAC goldrush

16-03-2021 • Thoughts

Snowflake 2.0

18-03-2021 • Investment stories

Why we invested in Vulcan

24-03-2021 • Portfolio news

LeanIX acquires leading US SaaS management provider Cleanshelf

31-03-2021 • Investment stories

LeanIX — why we invested

02-04-2021 • Dawn press

29 UK VC investors to follow on Twitter

03-04-2021 • Dawn press

Deliveroo fiasco threatens to rip up City’s IPO dreams

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

Forbes under 30 Europe: The newcomers rethinking finance during the time of a global pandemic

08-04-2021 • Thoughts

Introducing the next generation of dev tools

13-04-2021 • Thoughts

One year on, the three pillars underpinning B2B SaaS

16-04-2021 • Dawn press

Europe’s 16 most underrated fintechs, according to VCs

19-04-2021 • Thoughts

How cloud has won: The state of the market in 2021

21-04-2021 • Thoughts

The future of SaaS pricing isn’t one-size-fits-all

22-04-2021 • Portfolio news

Copenhagen’s CluedIn raises $15 million in Series A round led by Dawn Capital

26-04-2021 • Investment stories

Why we invested in CluedIn

26-04-2021

The Nordic startups and scaleups to watch in 2021

26-04-2021

AI 50

07-05-2021 • Thoughts

The founder case for SPACs

18-05-2021 • Dawn press

200+ female VC partners in Europe: the complete list

18-05-2021 • Portfolio news

Exclusive: UK cryptocurrency startup Copper closes $50m raise

18-05-2021 • Investment stories

Why we invested in Copper

24-05-2021 • Dawn press

Fintech valuations keep tripling, is it a trend or just a coincidence?

24-05-2021

Granulate named a 2021 Cool Vendor by Gartner

25-05-2021 • Thoughts

In 2021, the last thing we need is another security tech hero

28-05-2021 • Thoughts

Denmark’s hygge SaaS

02-06-2021 • Portfolio news

Divido bags $30m to take its ‘buy now, pay later’ platform to more markets

04-06-2021

11 startups investors predict will become unicorns in 2021

11-06-2021 • Portfolio news

Alan Howard leads $25 million investment in London crypto custodian Copper

15-06-2021 • Thoughts

Two minutes on implementing the Flywheel Effect

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

Visa Agrees to Buy Open-Banking Platform Tink for $2 Billion

24-06-2021 • Thoughts

Building the future of Europe’s financial services: Our partnership with Tink

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

Why we invested in Firebolt: Snowflake catapulted the data warehouse into the cloud

26-06-2021 • 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 • 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 • Portfolio news

Ably raises $70 million for its developer platform that enables realtime features

30-06-2021 • Investment stories

Powering our real-time world: Why we invested in Ably

05-07-2021 • Dawn team

Our promotion of Mina Mutafchieva to Partner and Dan Chaplin to Principal

05-07-2021 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital raises Mina Mutafchieva to Partner, Dan Chaplin to Principal

13-07-2021 • Portfolio news

Quantexa raises $153M to build out AI-based big data tools to track risk and run investigations

13-07-2021 • Investment stories

The art of category creation: Our partnership with Quantexa

16-07-2021 • Thoughts

How to maximise the value of strategic investors

21-07-2021 • Portfolio news

Soldo raises $180M for its business expense management platform

21-07-2021 • Investment stories

Transforming spend management: Why we’ve re-invested in Soldo

22-07-2021 • Dawn press

Exclusive: Dawn raises $120m ‘opportunities’ fund to back portfolio winners

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 • Dawn press

What every founder needs on their board

27-07-2021 • Portfolio news

Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30m

30-07-2021 • Dawn team

Reflecting on an incredible first half of the year

05-08-2021 • Portfolio news

Enterprise AI firm Dataiku raises cash at $4.6 billion valuation

05-08-2021 • Investment stories

Welcome to the world of Everyday AI: Why we’ve reinvested in Dataiku

09-08-2021 • Portfolio news

The hottest startups in Berlin

10-08-2021 • Portfolio news

Collibra named in the Forbes Cloud 100 for fifth consecutive year

10-08-2021 • Portfolio news

Forbes: The Cloud 100

16-08-2021 • Portfolio news

Norway’s Gelato hits unicorn status and raises $240m

17-08-2021 • Portfolio news

London’s top VCs pick fintech’s rising Class of 2021

23-08-2021 • Portfolio news

Europe’s fintech M&A ‘boom’: What the data tells us

24-08-2021 • Dawn press

The one thing every board member needs to know

25-08-2021 • Portfolio news

The Berlin startups and scaleups to watch in 2021

31-08-2021 • Portfolio news

The fintech crew in vanguard of a revolution

15-09-2021 • Portfolio news

Dataiku recognized as a 2021 GartnerⓇ peer insights customers’ choice for data science and machine learning platforms

16-09-2021 • Portfolio news

Dataiku is named to the 2020 Forbes cloud 100

17-09-2021 • Dawn team

B2B investor Dawn Capital promotes Evgenia Plotnikova to General Partner

21-09-2021 • Thoughts

The immense opportunity of the life sciences data market

28-09-2021 • Thoughts

Enter quantum

30-09-2021 • Thoughts

The state of quantum: The race for supremacy is well and truly underway

06-10-2021 • Portfolio news

Quantexa makes CB Insights 250 list of top fintech startups

11-10-2021 • Portfolio news

UK’s ex-chancellor Philip Hammond joins crypto start-up Copper

25-10-2021 • Portfolio news

Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100m on a $640m valuation

25-10-2021 • Investment stories

Turbocharging B2B payments: Why we invested in Billie

29-10-2021 • Thoughts

Bringing exceptional talent into early-stage businesses

03-11-2021 • Portfolio news

Minute Media celebrates 10 years of digital storytelling

04-11-2021 • Thoughts

SaaS Foundations: Hiring to succeed in B2B

06-11-2021 • Portfolio news

A top Israeli VC names the 15 startups to watch

08-11-2021 • Portfolio news

Swimm nabs $27.6M Series A to include up-to-date documentation throughout coding process

08-11-2021 • Investment stories

Sync and swim: Why we invested in Swimm

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

07-12-2021 • Thoughts

SaaS Foundations: Building scale-up data infrastructure

14-12-2021 • Investment stories

Found in translation: Why we invested in Lokalise

14-12-2021 • Portfolio news

Latvian startup Lokalise raises $50m to streamline localisation and translation

22-12-2021 • Thoughts

Dawn’s 2021 in review

30-12-2021 • Dawn press

From web3 to climate and health tech: The tech trends and companies to watch in 2022

26-01-2022 • 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 • Dawn team

Exciting promotions within our Dawn family, as Henry Mason makes Partner

26-01-2022 • Dawn press

How to succeed in venture capital without really trying is anything but easy

27-01-2022 • Investment stories

Fired up: Why we’ve reinvested in Firebolt

01-02-2022 • Dawn press

More than one-third of Europe’s top VC firms are yet to hire a female partner

03-02-2022 • 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 • Investment stories

Turning the tide: Why we invested in Shoreline

28-03-2022 • Portfolio news

Shoreline scores $35M Series B to build automated incident response platform

06-04-2022 • Investment stories

Sharing the workload: Granulate joins Intel

14-04-2022 • Thoughts

How to beat the competition for tech talent

21-04-2022 • Thoughts

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

03-05-2022 • Dawn press

Dan Chaplin included in Forbes 30 under 30 for finance

16-05-2022 • Investment stories

The foundations for crypto market access: Why we invested in Elwood

30-05-2022 • Investment stories

Trust & Safety for a social internet: Why we invested in Checkstep

30-05-2022 • Portfolio news

Checkstep uses AI to moderate online platforms

06-06-2022 • Dawn press

Investors back business-focused buy now, pay later groups

27-06-2022 • Investment stories

Another dimension: Why we invested in Omi

15-07-2022 • Investment stories

Engineering the headless e-commerce revolution: why we invested in Medusa

15-07-2022 • Portfolio news

Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify

21-07-2022 • Portfolio news

Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom

21-07-2022 • Investment stories

Borderless tax compliance: Why we invested in Fonoa

27-07-2022 • Investment stories

Supercharging hybrid work: Why we invested in RPA Supervisor

27-07-2022 • Portfolio news

RPA Supervisor lands cash to help companies manage their various RPA platforms

29-07-2022 • 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

12-09-2022 • Thoughts

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

14-09-2022 • Thoughts

After Excel — Finance tools for the modern CFO

05-10-2022 • Thoughts

Contracting for speed

18-10-2022 • Investment stories

Hedgehog unleashed: Why we invested in Raito

18-10-2022 • Portfolio news

In Raito, former Collibra team members cite a ‘paradigm shift’, raise €4 million

24-10-2022 • Thoughts

Don’t be an ostrich…

01-11-2022 • Investment stories

Embedding peace of mind: Why we invested in Cover Genius

01-11-2022 • Portfolio news

Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business

30-11-2022 • Thoughts

Where next for the digital assets market?

01-12-2022 • Thoughts

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

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

11-07-2023 • Thoughts

What will it take to build a Generative AI winner?

22-08-2023 • Dawn team

Meet Ties Boukema: The Google alum revolutionising our data

11-09-2023 • Thoughts

Next-generation automation: what Generative AI means for RPA

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

Venture capital firm launches $700m fund for B2B software start-ups

25-09-2023 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital raises record $620m flagship fund to back B2B software startups

25-09-2023 • Dawn press

Dawn Capital raises $700M for B2B software fund amidst challenging times

28-09-2023 • Thoughts

Dear European entrepreneur

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

18-10-2023 • Dawn press

Xavier Niel’s €200M investment sparks a surge in France’s AI ecosystem

06-11-2023 • Dawn press

Europe’s largest specialist B2B software investor, a profile of Dawn Capital

08-11-2023 • Thoughts

Resisting Siren calls: Odysseus, NDRs and Product Expansion

20-11-2023 • Dawn team

Meet Alex Goodway, our new CFO at 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?

29-11-2023 • Dawn press

Henry Mason on the European Cybersecurity Ecosystem

11-12-2023 • Dawn press

Que Font Les Fonds ? Le portrait de Dawn Capital

13-12-2023 • Thoughts

The Business in Knowing Businesses — the emerging European KYB landscape

18-12-2023 • Dawn press

Planning tomorrow: VC and Startup predictions for 2024

21-12-2023 • Dawn team

2023 in review: An action-packed year

09-01-2024 • Thoughts

Predictions for 2024: Software and market trends the Dawn team are watching, from AI and VR to compliance

16-01-2024 • Dawn team

Celebrating our team’s achievements with four new promotions

16-01-2024 • Dawn press

Fintech VCs’ predictions for 2024

22-01-2024 • Dawn team

Meet Jimena Nowack, Dawn’s new Vice President

23-01-2024 • Thoughts

Opportunities in the unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 1/3)

23-01-2024

Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 2/3) — the general ledger

23-01-2024 • Thoughts

Opportunities in unbundling of mid-market ERP (Part 3/3) — procurement and treasury management

15-03-2024 • Dawn press

How to develop promising talent in VC

04-04-2024 • Thoughts

Part I — Introduction to Industry 4.0

10-04-2024 • Portfolio news

Dawn Capital and Insight Partners back Spain’s data startup Onum with a $28m Series A

10-04-2024 • Investment stories

Tuning out the noise – why we invested in Onum

12-04-2024 • Thoughts

Part II — Deep Dive into the Themes we’re most excited about

17-04-2024

Flatpay rings up $47M to target smaller merchants with simple payment solutions

17-04-2024 • Investment stories

Baristas, bookshops and bikestores — how Flatpay is spearheading the replacement cycle for millions of merchants entrenched in legacy payment solutions

19-04-2024 • Thoughts

Part III — How to scale successfully — Lessons from the experts

17-05-2024 • Thoughts

How to turbocharge sales growth: Seven top tips from Revolut, Personio and Quantexa

30-05-2024 • Investment stories

Why We Invested in Bondaval: Q&A with the Dawn team

30-05-2024

Insurtech Bondaval reaches new Dawn with funding boost

11-06-2024 • Dawn press

Inside fundraising in today’s climate with Brite payments and Dawn Capital

17-06-2024

Meta alum raises €13m for 3D image creation tool Omi

17-06-2024 • Investment stories

3D and AI is a paradigm shift for creators: Why we’re doubling down on Omi

09-07-2024 • Thoughts

Five founders on the AI agents about to join your team

24-07-2024 • Thoughts

The CrowdStrike outage — preparing for ‘unprecedented’ events

25-07-2024

AI Agents – a new form of automation

02-08-2024

Office of the CFO landscape

05-08-2024 • Dawn press

Humans 2.0: How One VC Is Supercharging Relationships Through AI

09-08-2024

The Business in Knowing Businesses — the emerging European KYB landscape

16-08-2024

Industry 4.0: A market map of European companies ushering in the factories of the future

23-08-2024

The Generative AI tech stack: Where we see stars emerging in Europe – a market map

15-09-2024 • Dawn team

Boardwave: Evgenia Plotnikova: General Partner, Dawn Capital

18-10-2024

Telecommunications is a $3tn market – here are the next-gen software companies disrupting a traditional sector

28-11-2024 • Thoughts

The missing tool in the toolbox: digitisation is finally coming for European Blue-Collar Industries

16-12-2024 • Thoughts

Dawn Product Summit 2024: Five tips for success from leading CPOs

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

21-01-2025 • Investment stories

Kraaft – Why We Invested

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

06-03-2025

Global Muscle, Startup Hustle: Secrets from Quantexa’s Series F

13-03-2025 • 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

03-04-2025 • Thoughts

Dawn Deep Dive: AI and Vertical Fintech Strategies

10-04-2025 • Thoughts

Stablecoins: The Next Global Payment Rail

22-04-2025 • Thoughts

Vibe-coding and the future of software agencies

06-05-2025

Part I: The Generative AI P&L

07-05-2025

AI self-hosting start-up Doubleword finds new Dawn with £9m funding boost

15-05-2025 • Thoughts

Part II: Why AI Agents & Copilots Will Unlock Trillion‑Dollar Value

02-06-2025 • Investment stories

deepdots – helping customers connect the dots in their data to unlock deeper insights

18-06-2025

Key takeaways from the Dawn Marketing Summit

19-06-2025

License to Thrill: Innovation in the IP Value Chain

21-07-2025

How close are we to AI lawyers?

22-07-2025 • Investment stories

Why We Invested in inforcer: The fastest-growing MSP platform that brings security and AI to every small business

27-08-2025 • Dawn press

Ghent tech gem Showpad acquired by US fund

28-08-2025 • Dawn press

George Kurtz on CrowdStrike’s $290 million Onum acquisition and cybersecurity M&A

03-09-2025 • Thoughts

Onum x CrowdStrike: Building to Last in a Fast-Fashion World

18-09-2025 • events

AI Engine: Dawn x Manus AI Vibe Hack – Build your next superagent

18-09-2025 • events

AI Tinkerers London: fireside chat with Guillermo Rauch from Vercel

18-09-2025 • events

AI Engine: Summer Hack by Dawn, Crane and Chapter One

18-09-2025 • events

AI Engine: Summer Hack Network and Find Your Teammates

18-09-2025 • events

AI Engine: Dawn x Techbible Mini Hack – Build your agent night

18-09-2025 • events

Product, Data & AI Meetup hosted by Dawn & Balderton

18-09-2025 • events

VC Talent Leaders Breakfast by Dawn and Seekhr

18-09-2025 • events

AI Demo Days #9 by StackOne hosted at Dawn

18-09-2025 • events