Dawn Capital

Dawn Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in London, United Kingdom, focused on investing in European startups in enterprise software and fintech. It provides capital and strategic guidance to help founders scale their businesses through talent, product development, and scalable business models, with the aim of creating category-defining global companies. Founded in 2006 by Haakon Overli and Norman Fiore, the firm draws on former entrepreneur experience to support portfolio companies as they grow, in line with trends such as AI adoption and no-code platforms. Dawn Capital primarily invests in Europe and seeks opportunities in software, fintech, data and analytics, security and privacy, and related sectors.

Shamillah Bankiya

Vice President

Josh Bell

General Partner

Pierre Bricault

Investor

Owen Brooks

Investor

Dan Chaplin

Principal

Laurens de Poorter

Vice President

Norman Fiore

General Partner

Skye Fletcher

Investor

Nils Howland

Vice President

Joyce Liu

Principal

Henry Mason

Principal

Mina Mutafchieva

Partner

Jimena Nowack

Investor

Haakon Overli

General Partner

Evgenia Plotnikova

General Partner

Virginia Pozzato

Associate

Zoe Qin

Investor

Daniela Raffel

Associate

Past deals in Spam Filtering

BlackWall

Series B in 2025
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