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September 9, 2020

Dawn Capital raises $400m fund for B2B startups

100% of Dawn’s backers have reinvested into this fund, which is almost double the size of the firm’s last.


Amy Lewin

5 min read

Credit: Dawn Capital

Just two years after closing its last fund, Dawn Capital has raised a new venture capital fund of $400m to invest in business-to-business startups. 

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Photo of Evgenia Plotnikova, partner at Dawn
Evgenia Plotnikova, partner at Dawn
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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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