About Us

Lisa

Lisa Yerebakan

Yerebakan

Founder & CEO
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Karin

Karin Yerebakan

Yerebakan

Strategic Advisor
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Thomas

Thomas Knell

Knell

Technology Advisor
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Wojciech

Wojciech Zalewski

Zalewski

Technical Go-To-Market Engineer
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Shreya

Shreya Duggal

Duggal

Design & Communication Strategist
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Rooted in legacy. Focused on renewal.


Dawn Ventures works alongside owners, successors, and leaders in family and legacy businesses navigating renewal.

We understand what it means to carry something built before you and decide what it becomes next.

Our work isn't about applying playbooks - it's about building what fits the business in front of us.

To Those Shaping What Comes Next,

Leading a legacy business - through succession, ownership, or operational responsibility - comes with weight long before clarity. You inherit history, expectations, and systems shaped over decades, while being asked to decide what comes next.

Dawn Ventures works with the people navigating this in-between phase. Not at the finish line, but while the business is still running and renewal decisions are unresolved. Owners reshaping what they've built. Successors stepping in. Founders and operators carrying the weight of a name with history behind it.

We believe opportunity is built, not discovered. That requires clear judgment on what should change and what should remain, structures that turn intent into action, and a trusted partnership to test, decide, and move forward.

Growth, in this context, is not about scale alone. It is about building businesses that endure, systems that hold, and decisions that stand the test of time.

— The Dawn Ventures Team