The leading Specialist B2B software investor aims to not only strengthen its leadership team through the appointment, but sustain an effective gender balance across its investment committees, investment team and wider firm.
Dawn Capital now draws from an experienced team boasting a rich variety of perspectives, with 18 languages spoken in total across the company and teams coming from a broad range of countries and backgrounds.
Since joining Dawn as Senior Principal in September 2019, Mutafchieva has focused her efforts primarily on managing VC and founder relationships in the Nordic markets, as well as leading fintech and future of work deals across Europe.
Since then, Mutafchieva has led Dawn’s investments in document AI platform Eigen Technologies, capital markets network AccessFintech, enterprise architecture tool LeanIX, and modern master data management CluedIn.
Her experience in areas such as strategy consulting, growth private equity and early stage venture capital will help the company tap into new specialist areas and consolidate its commitment to building up a future generation of leaders from within.
The appointment comes at the end of a period of rapid growth for the company, having made six investments from its fourth flagship fund, Dawn IV, since January. These include its latest investment in the $127M Series B of next-generation cloud data warehouse, Firebolt, on top of investment in Europe’s leading open banking platform Tink, through its agreement to be acquired by Visa for $2.2B.
Mutafchieva's appointment comes alongside that of her colleague and co-worker on Eigen Technologies, AccessFintech and CluedIn, Dan Chaplin, to Principal.
Of her recent appointment, Mutafchieva said, “As soon as I met the team at Dawn, I knew we were aligned on what mattered to me most: the power of being a focused investor and how that helps with pattern recognition and value add for our companies; a collaborative and analytical approach to evaluating and winning investments; and the opportunity to build on the strongest possible foundation of outstanding returns and people, with many chapters yet to be written.”
