Dawn Capital’s latest partner Shamillah Bankiya stopped Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions that Americans have about the European starting world.
Dawn Capital is a Marquee company in the United Kingdom with more than $ 2 billion in AUM, 34 outputs and 11 unicorn. The names in the portfolio include AI Collibra and Dataiku companies. It focuses on early stage companies, supporting them from seeds in C. series.
Bankiya, meanwhile, is one of the few black business business partners in Europe. Its investments in the business include AI Company Qogita and the Fonoa market.
He talked to us about the development of a family of entrepreneurs and the desire to learn new things.
“Venture is offered extremely well,” he said. “So, in some ways. Yes, as the last 20 years, I wanted to be an investor of some kind.”
He said the European landscape has been exciting for some time, and indeed, some of the hottest newly established businesses, especially in AI and Fintech, come from Epirus (Think Lovable and Klarna, the last of which had only a blockbuster ipo in New York). What has changed, he said, is the interest that US investors have taken in European countries, a shift that says the pandemic has contributed significantly.
He admitted, however, that the landscape has to do when it comes to possession of European founders IPO in their countries. In fact, one of the greatest advantages of the European landscape is, at times, its largest decisive factor.
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“Europe is a bunch of large detailed exchanges,” he said. “Creates an imbalance that we may need a solution around.”
The other part is the regulation, something that Europe is known for.
Before the discussion was over, we had to talk about the biggest European stereotype – that of extensive holidays or the “Euro Summer”, which touches the idea that European investors take long breaks in the summer, unlike their US bonds. Bankiya wants to finish the stereotype and says that everyone can be sure, there is a lot of work done.
“It’s a little noise around it, but again, we’ll see the proof of the results of themselves,” he said. “We will see this interesting pattern of amazing European companies coming out and winning worldwide, as they have always won.”
