Venture Capital

Dawn Capital

Dawn Capital is a London-based venture capital firm exclusively focused on B2B software companies in Europe. The firm invests at Series A and B, targeting enterprise SaaS, fintech infrastructure, and data platforms.

Dawn's portfolio includes iZettle (acquired by PayPal), Mimecast (IPO), Collibra, and Neo4j. Managing over $1 billion, Dawn is recognized as one of Europe's most specialized and disciplined B2B software investors.

United KingdomLondonSeries A to BB2B SaaSEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Details

Location

London, United Kingdom

Category

Venture Capital

Stage

Series A to B

Profile

/united-kingdom/venture-capital/dawn-capital

Portfolio startups

Startups this investor has backed

Collibra

Brussels, Belgium · Startup

Collibra is a Brussels-founded data intelligence company that became one of Europe's most important enterprise software success stories by focusing on data governance, cataloging, lineage, and trust. Its software helps large organizations understand what data they have, where it came from, who owns it, and whether it can be safely used for analytics, compliance, and AI systems. That function has become significantly more important as companies face growing regulatory pressure around privacy, AI accountability, and internal data quality. Collibra operates in the layer beneath many other modern software workflows: before a company can run serious analytics or train advanced models, it needs confidence in the underlying data estate. That makes the business strategically important to data-heavy industries such as finance, healthcare, and industrial technology. In the European ecosystem, Collibra stands out because it turned a difficult, top-down enterprise problem into a large software platform category. It is a useful addition to the directory because it represents the governance backbone that increasingly underpins other ambitious AI and data companies.

StartupLate StageData IntelligenceGovernanceEnterprise Software

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