DN Capital
325 Sharon Park Drive #752, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States
Overview
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’s previous funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
- Total investments
- 174
- Lead investments
- 59
- Investments · 12mo
- 8
- Active investors
- 11
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Sherpa
Led · Seed · Jul 2026
Sherpa builds an AI operating system that manages the full lifecycle of external work — from request to payment — bringing contractors, freelancers, consultants, service providers and AI agents into a single operating model. The platform provides a unified framework for onboarding, compliance, performance management and oversight so organisations can govern both human and AI-driven work. Sherpa positions its product as infrastructure for work orchestration as enterprises combine employees, external workers and AI agents. The company aims to help enterprises and managed service providers streamline processes while maintaining control over data, governance and compliance. Sherpa was founded by Tristan Deschler, Tim Altpeter and Max Lang and is based in Germany. It recently raised $2.2M in a pre-seed round to fund enterprise deployments, integrations and compliance work.
- Gaussion
Participated · Equity · Jun 2026
Founded in 2022 as a spinout from University College London and the Faraday Institution, Gaussion develops an external magnetic charging approach that can be retrofitted to existing lithium-ion battery packs. Its two main products are MagLiB, a magnetic printed circuit board add-on for packs, and Aeon, a control chip and software platform that together form a smart control layer. The company claims faster charging and extended battery lifespan without changing cell chemistry or design and supports 14 active commercial programs across automotive, aerospace, grid storage and consumer electronics. Gaussion has filed 66 patent applications in 17 families and reported about 19 employees as of June 2025. In October 2025 it moved into a 40,000-square-foot R&D facility in central London. The company positions itself to capture demand from AI data centres, electric vehicles and grid-scale storage as the battery management market grows.
- Airspeed
Led · Series A · Jun 2026
Airspeed provides an execution-layer platform for revenue teams that deploys autonomous AI agents to act on commercial context across calls, emails, tickets, and CRM. Its platform automatically updates systems, flags risks, and generates follow-ups across the revenue workflow to help sales teams move deals forward. The company is led by CEO Adam Liska and CTO Devang Agrawal. Airspeed serves 200 customers across 20 countries. Financially, the company has raised a total of $25M after the $20M Series A. It plans to use the newly raised capital to expand operations and accelerate product development.
- dehaze
Led · Seed · Apr 2026
dehaze builds a purpose-built foundational AI model that processes heterogeneous healthcare datasets at scale to provide causal insights for clinicians and insurers. Its platform is designed to help healthcare payers identify individuals at risk of chronic conditions earlier, with the aim of improving intervention outcomes and reducing medical loss ratios. The company emphasizes that it is built as a foundational model for chronic disease detection rather than a chatbot or dashboard solution. dehaze says its system improves traceability and will add next-best-action recommendations to support decision-making. The company reports global customer interest and payer signings as it scales internationally.
- Interloom Technologies
Led · Seed · Mar 2026
Interloom builds a continuously evolving “context graph” that stores decisions and outcomes from past work, enabling AI agents and employees to reference prior resolutions. The platform captures tacit operational knowledge from real-world workflows to reduce knowledge loss from workforce changes. Interloom positions this persistent memory layer as a way to give AI agents company-specific context and improve automation of complex processes. Founder and CEO Fabian Jakobi emphasizes grounding AI decisions in successful past resolutions with expert oversight. The company recently raised $16.5 million in a seed round to further develop the platform, enhance its AI memory capabilities, and expand its enterprise automation offerings. No revenue, user metrics, founding year, or location were disclosed in the article.