The latest partner of Dawn Capital, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped capital this week to speak about the European landscape and the biggest misunderstandings that Americans have about the European world of startups.
Dawn Capital is a tent company in Great Britain with over $ 2 billion in AUM, 34 exits and 11 unicorns. The names in the wallet include AI Collibra and Dataiku. He focuses on corporations at an early stage, supporting them from seeds to series C. Currently invests from the fund $ 620 million V.
Meanwhile, Bankiya is one of the few black women’s partners in Europe. Her investments in the company are AI Qogita and Marketplace Fonoa.
She talked with us about growing up in the family of entrepreneurs and the desire to learn recent things.
“Venture is very good,” she said. “So in some respects, as in the last 20 years I wanted to become an investor.”
She said that the European landscape has been exciting for some time, and in fact, some of the hottest startups, especially in AI and FinTech, come from the continent (Think Lovable and Klarna, of which the latter had the hits of IPO in New York). She said that what has modified was the interest that American investors took in European countries, which, he claims, Pandemia has significantly contributed.
However, she admitted that the landscape was dealing with the possession of European founders of IPO in their countries. In fact, one of the biggest benefits of the European landscape is sometimes its biggest determinant.
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“Europe is a group of large disgusting exchanges,” she said. “It creates an imbalance that we probably need a solution.”
The second part is the regulation, something for which Europe is known.
Before the conversation ended, we needed to talk about the largest European stereotype – about a long vacation or “Euro Summer”, which touches the concept that European investors take long breaks in the summer, unlike their American counterparts. Bankiya wants the stereotype to finish and says that everybody can make sure that a lot of work is done.
“It’s a bit noise around it, but we’ll see the result again,” she said. “We will see this interesting pattern of amazing European outgoing and winning companies all over the world because they have always won.”