Dawn is a serial entrepreneur and inventor with over two decades of experience in technology and business development. She has an expertise in raising traditional and non-traditional business capital, having raised millions of dollars for her ventures since 2001. Dawn is the sheer embodiment of perseverance. From investors refusing to give her the additional funds she needed after her prototype was stolen, to dealing with a total shutdown of her vending business due to the pandemic, she is the "patron saint" of "not giving up."
In 2019, she became the first female CEO globally to raise a secure token offering (STO) over $1 million using equity crowdfunding. In 2020, she raised a second fully subscribed equity crowdfunding campaign, bringing her total to $4 million raised from over 5000 investors.
She has received numerous awards and accolades for her business savvy and pitching skills, and has been invited to speak on numerous panels and workshops. She's been featured in countless media outlets, including the Forbes Next 1000 list, the cover of Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur magazine, Fortune, Fast Company, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, and the popular national syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club.