Daybreak Capital Partners

Daybreak Partners is a New York City-based early-stage venture capital and private equity firm that invests in pre-product internet, software, and marketplace businesses, primarily focusing on the intersection of healthcare and technology, as well as the future of work. They act as the first institutional backer for technology startups, targeting application layer platforms reshaping traditional markets across the healthcare, financial, and employment sectors. The firm provides strategic capital and hands-on operational support, including sourcing early engineering talent and introducing potential co-founders. Daybreak Partners was officially established in 2022 by managing partner Rex Woodbury. Key partners, including William Augenbraun, bring extensive private equity experience. The firm also has a division, Daybreak Capital Partners, founded in 2010, that provides strategic financial advisory as a specialty investment and merchant banking firm for middle and lower-middle market companies and investors. This entity focuses on mergers and acquisitions advisory, private equity advisory, debt financing, acquisition finance, valuation, strategic analysis, and fairness opinion services.