General Partner at Dawn Capital · Joined 2006
View Live Interactive Profile →Josh Bell helped found Dawn Capital in 2006 at just 28 years old, after five years at McKinsey advising Fortune 500 financial institutions and earlier studies in mathematics at Oxford and economics and game theory at Cambridge and Harvard. He has personally been the driving force behind Dawn's two largest fintech outcomes: iZettle, acquired by PayPal for $2.2 billion in 2018, and Tink, acquired by Visa for approximately $2 billion in 2021 - together the second and third largest fintech M&A exits in European history, with Dawn the only investor in both. Bell has described neither outcome as a straightforward trajectory, noting both companies navigated periods that felt existential before becoming category-defining exits, and credits real investing skill not to cheerleading during growth but to recognizing difficult periods for what they are and helping founders steer through them.