Dawn Capital
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Dawn Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in the enterprise software and FinTech sectors.It provides capital and counsel to support founders to scale their business’s growth through talent, products, and business models to become category-defining, global companies. The firm is powered by cloud computing, ever-loweringbarriers to entry and multi-player categories are changing the way people live and work. As this innovation continues, with the growth of AI and no-code applications, the investment opportunities in Dawn’s area of expertise continue to increase. Its portfolio companies include Mimecast, iZettle, Neo Technology, iControl, Showpad, and Gelato Group.Dawn Capital was founded by Haakon Overli and Norman Fiore in August 2006 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Total investments:
- 154
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
- Fund size:
- $80M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Dawn Capital invests in
Stages Dawn Capital invests in
Countries Dawn Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3M–$39M
- Series B
- $9.8M–$61M
- Series C
- $15M–$101M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 34 (22%)
- SaaS 21 (14%)
- Information Technology 19 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (10%)
- FinTech 15 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 42 (27%)
- Series B 35 (23%)
- Series C 20 (13%)
- Series D 11 (7%)
- Seed 9 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 26 (17%)
- United States 21 (14%)
- Denmark 7 (5%)
- France 4 (3%)
- Israel 4 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Evgenia Plotnikova
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Josh Bell
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Norman Fiore
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 38 | Find email | |
Dan Chaplin
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Haakon Overli
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inforcer develops a cloud-based platform that helps managed service providers simplify the administration and security of Microsoft 365 environments. Its solution enables centralized policy management, automated configuration, compliance monitoring, tenant governance, and security enforcement across multiple customer organizations. The platformalso supports Microsoft Copilot readiness and AI governance, helping MSPs strengthen security, reduce manual effort, and deliver consistent IT management at scale. | $50M / Series C / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations. | $13.9M / Seed / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| Orbio is an AI native system firm that aids companies to create dynamic talent, eliminate repetitive work and deliver business impact. | $21M / Series A / Jun 15, 2026 | ||
| Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $110M / Series C / May 28, 2026 | ||
| Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API. | $50M / Series A / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| Scalable manual cybersecurity testing as a service provided by vetted expert penetration testers. | $33M / Series A / Oct 02, 2025 | ||
| Inforcer develops a cloud-based platform that helps managed service providers simplify the administration and security of Microsoft 365 environments. Its solution enables centralized policy management, automated configuration, compliance monitoring, tenant governance, and security enforcement across multiple customer organizations. The platformalso supports Microsoft Copilot readiness and AI governance, helping MSPs strengthen security, reduce manual effort, and deliver consistent IT management at scale. | $35M / Series B / Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| Magic Feedback is an AI business creating a platform that compiles user reviews into one location and analyzes everything automatically using its own AI. | $6.3M / Seed / Jun 02, 2025 | ||
| Doubleword (formerly TitanML) is an InferenceOps platform that enables enterprises to securely deploy, manage, and scale open-source and custom AI models. By providing a self-hosted inference stack and control layer, it helps businesses reduce infrastructure complexity, costs, and vendor lock-in. | $12M / Series A / May 08, 2025 | ||
| Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company focused on protecting web ecosystems from automated threats. Specializing in bot mitigation and web security, Blackwall provides solutions for hosting service providers (HSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), and eCommerce platforms. By securing these providers, Blackwallsafeguards thousands to hundreds of thousands of websites, indirectly protecting the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that rely on these services for their online presence. | $48.8M / Series B / Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| See all 154 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Dawn Capital invest in?
Dawn Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 154 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Dawn Capital's check size?
Dawn Capital typically joins rounds of $3M–$39M at Series A, $9.8M–$61M at Series B and $15M–$101M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dawn Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Dawn Capital?
The team at Dawn Capital includes Evgenia Plotnikova (General Partner), Josh Bell (General Partner) and Norman Fiore (Co-Founder and General Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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