Accel

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. The firm specializes in early and growth-stage investments, focusing on technology sectors such as software, big data, cloud technologies, fintech, healthcare, and digital media. Accel is known for backing innovative entrepreneurs and has a history of investing in notable companies including Facebook, Dropbox, and Spotify. With over three decades of experience, Accel employs dedicated teams that utilize market-specific strategies to identify and support the next generation of industry leaders. The firm manages approximately $9.6 billion and carries out investments typically ranging from $5 million to $15 million, aiming to foster the development of world-class, category-defining businesses globally.

Pratik Agarwal

Principal

Sankalpana Agrawal

Investment Team

Radhika Ananth

Vice President

Casey Aylward

Partner

Mahendran Balachandran

Partner

Ayush Banerjee

Investment Team

Yashwini Bansal

Investment Team

Lakshay Bansal

Investment Team

Carlo Biggio

Vice President

Nir Blumberger

Venture Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner

Andrew Braccia

Partner

Andrei Brasoveanu

Partner

Katie Brown

Investor

Abhinav Chaturvedi

Partner

Ethan Choi

Partner

Miles Clements

Partner

Kevin Comolli

Founding Partner

Siddhant Dang

Investor

Anand Daniel

Partner

Kevin Efrusy

Partner

Christine Esserman

Partner

Ben Fletcher

Partner

Candice du Fretay

Investor

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Vandit Gandotra

Investment Team

Rishika Garg

Senior Associate

Bruce Golden

Partner

Harjas Gulati

Investor

Zhicheng Ho

CFO for China office

Graham Hutson

Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner

Myrel Iturrey

Investor

Henry Jefferies

Investor

Dinesh Katiyar

Partner

Sophiya Khan

Investment Team

Shekhar Kirani Ph.D

Partner

Daniel Levine

Partner

Ping Li

Partner

John Locke

Partner

Steve Loughlin

Partner

Arun Mathew

Partner

Jonathan Mendelson

Investor

Gananath Misra

Investment Team

Subrata Mitra

Partner

Gonzalo Mocorrea

Investor

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Hendrik W. Nelis

General Partner

Harry Nelis

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner

Maya S. Noeth

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Investment Team

Arthur C. Patterson

Co-Founder

Seth Pierrepont

Partner

Prashanth Prakash

Partner

Ben Quazzo

Partner

Rafael Quintanilla

Investor

Tim Rawlinson

Investor

Sonali De Rycker

Partner

Sagar Sanghvi

Partner

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Karan Shah

Investor

Manasi Shah

Investor

Robert E. Sternberg

Investor

Barath Subramanian

Partner

Diksha Sundarka

Investor

Prayank Swaroop

Partner

Ryan Sweeney

General Partner

Humza Tariq

Investor

Jonathan Turner

Partner

Yuvraj Wadhwa

Investor

Cecilia Wang

vice_president

Matthew Weigand

Partner

Lucy Wimmer

Head of Marketing

Eric Wolford

Venture Partner & Investor

Rich Wong

General Partner

Pranay Yadav

Investor

Richard Yanowitch

Venture Partner

Past deals in Copenhagen

Chainalysis

Series F in 2022
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in anti-money laundering software tailored for businesses involved with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company also has offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore. Its product suite includes REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders and visualizes data, and a real-time API that provides risk scoring based on the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also produces activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools to help financial institutions understand the risks associated with cryptocurrency activities and to estimate potential criminal revenues. Additionally, the company offers web-based investigation tools to detect cyber-criminals and track extortion payments, thereby enhancing security for government agencies, banks, exchanges, and cryptocurrency businesses.

Chainalysis

Series C in 2020
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in anti-money laundering software tailored for businesses involved with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company also has offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore. Its product suite includes REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders and visualizes data, and a real-time API that provides risk scoring based on the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also produces activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools to help financial institutions understand the risks associated with cryptocurrency activities and to estimate potential criminal revenues. Additionally, the company offers web-based investigation tools to detect cyber-criminals and track extortion payments, thereby enhancing security for government agencies, banks, exchanges, and cryptocurrency businesses.

Chainalysis

Series B in 2019
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in anti-money laundering software tailored for businesses involved with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company also has offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore. Its product suite includes REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders and visualizes data, and a real-time API that provides risk scoring based on the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also produces activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools to help financial institutions understand the risks associated with cryptocurrency activities and to estimate potential criminal revenues. Additionally, the company offers web-based investigation tools to detect cyber-criminals and track extortion payments, thereby enhancing security for government agencies, banks, exchanges, and cryptocurrency businesses.

Semmle

Series B in 2018
Semmle Ltd develops an engineering analytics platform to manage the software development process. The platform serves both technical and strategic decision making by analyzing software code quality in the context of other data, such as development cost, source code, issue tickets, test coverage, team location, and version history. Its products include LGTM and QL. Semmle Ltd was founded in 2006 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom with additional offices in San Francisco, California Bellevue, Washington; New York, New York; Valencia, Spain; and Copenhagen, Denmark. As of September 18, 2019, Semmle Ltd operates as a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc.

Semmle

Series A in 2014
Semmle Ltd develops an engineering analytics platform to manage the software development process. The platform serves both technical and strategic decision making by analyzing software code quality in the context of other data, such as development cost, source code, issue tickets, test coverage, team location, and version history. Its products include LGTM and QL. Semmle Ltd was founded in 2006 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom with additional offices in San Francisco, California Bellevue, Washington; New York, New York; Valencia, Spain; and Copenhagen, Denmark. As of September 18, 2019, Semmle Ltd operates as a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc.

Momio

Venture Round in 2007
Momio is an international interactive media company located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company specializes in developing and operating social online products for children. Our goal is to give kids a great first social media experience by surrounding them with good friends in a playful and safe environment. Momio was founded in 2004 and currently employs approximately 25 talented digital professionals. Momio is owned by a company called watAgame.