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Dawn Capital

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We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies.

Dawn is Europe’s leading specialist B2B software investor, with total commitments of $2bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams, exceptional technology and scalable business models to create category-defining global companies.

Dawn is an early-stage investor, backing companies from Series A and B, and continuing to fund the top-performing through growth rounds to exit. Its roster of investments includes Mimecast (formerly NASDAQ-listed, taken private by Permira in a $5.8bn transaction), iZettle (sold to PayPal for $2.2bn cash), Tink (purchased by Visa for $2.0bn), LeanIX (acquired by SAP), as well as current leaders, Collibra, Dataiku, Quantexa, amongst many others.

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