DN Capital is an international

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firm headquartered in

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that invests in

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companies. It was founded in 2000 by Nenad Marovac and Steve Schlenker, two

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classmates.

Investments and exits

DN Capital has raised approximately $600 million. Among other roles, the firm looks to help US companies enter the European market. The firm's notable exits include: * Shazam (acquired by

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for approximately $400 million) *

Datanomic Datanomic was a software engineering company based in Cambridge, England. Founded in 2001, Datanomic was a UK-based software company developing data quality solutions. In 2006, Datanomic acquired Tranato and integrated Tranato's semantic profil ...

(acquired by

Oracle An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The word '' ...

) * Quandoo (acquired by

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Recruit Holdings is a human resources Company (law), company headquartered in Japan. It was founded as "Daigaku Shimbun Koukokusha" in 1960 as an advertisement company that specialized in university newspapers. It owns the job search engine Indeed and the empl ...

for $219 million) * Kana (acquired by

Verint Systems Verint Systems is a Melville, New York-based analytics company which was founded in 2002. The company sells software and hardware products for customer engagement management and business intelligence. Their products are designed to assist clie ...

for $514 million) * Apsmart (acquired by

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

) *

Endeca Endeca was a software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that sold eCommerce search, customer experience management, enterprise search and business intelligence applications. Endeca was founded in 1999 as Optigrab and was a privat ...

(acquired by

for $1.1 billion) *

Purplebricks Purplebricks is an online estate agent which operates in the UK. Founded in 2012 by Michael Bruce and Kenny Bruce, it is backed by investors that include venture capital firm DN Capital as well as Neil Woodford, Paul Pindar, and Errol Dame ...

()

Awards

DN Capital was awarded the Best

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of the Year at the 7th annual

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Exchange Awards in

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in 2016. Nenad Marovac was awarded the Investor of the Year award at the 14th annual Investor Allstars Awards in

in 2016. In 2017 DN Capital featured as one of the top performing Europe-based venture capital funds in the

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awards.

References

External links

DN Capital
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