Dawn Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

133

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

76

Rounds per year

7.39

Lead investments

29

Follow on index

0.41

Exits

10

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Media and Information Services (B2B)SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig Data

Summary

In 2005 was created Dawn Capital, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

This organization was formed by Haakon Overli, Norman Fiore. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight IZettle, Collibra, Showpad. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Big Data.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Dawn Capital, startups are often financed by Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, Kleiner Perkins. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Battery Ventures, Index Ventures, Insight Partners.

Opposing the other organizations, this Dawn Capital works on 13 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. When the investment is from Dawn Capital the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2015.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseAnalyticsDeveloper ToolsCloud/InfrastructureFintech Show 2 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 620000000
Fund raised date
2023-09-24

Analytics

Total investments
133
Lead investments
29
Exits
10
Rounds per year
7.39
Follow on index
0.41
Investments by industry
  • Software (53)
  • SaaS (37)
  • Analytics (26)
  • Financial Services (25)
  • Information Technology (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (34)
  • United Kingdom (45)
  • Belgium (9)
  • Sweden (5)
  • Israel (6)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
240M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
10
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Fonoa 21 Jul 2022 Internet, Software, FinTech, SaaS, Compliance Early Stage Venture 60M Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Omi 16 Jun 2024 Internet Early Stage Venture 15M Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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