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 Ireland

Soldo

Series C in 2021
Soldo Limited is a provider of expense management software solutions tailored for small businesses, enterprises, and accountants. Established in 2014 and based in London, with additional offices in Italy and Ireland, Soldo offers various products, including Soldo Pro, which manages expenses from payment to reconciliation, Soldo Premium for controlling business spending, and Soldo Enterprise for supporting financial strategies. The platform integrates prepaid Mastercard® cards, a web-based administration console, and a mobile app, offering a comprehensive solution to streamline the business expense cycle. This system enhances visibility and control over company spending while automating tasks and ensuring compatibility with major accounting software. Soldo has garnered significant investment, exceeding $80 million, from notable investors, reflecting its commitment to innovation in the fragmented landscape of business spending management.

BrowserStack

Series B in 2021
BrowserStack Inc. designs and develops a web and mobile based automated testing platform. The company enables to perform Selenium and desktop browser testing. It provides testing on Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets; and internal websites. The company offers responsive design testing across devices. BrowserStack Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Mumbai, India; and Dublin, Ireland.

Tines

Series B in 2021
Tines Security Services Ltd. is a Dublin-based company that specializes in developing a cyber security automation platform. Established in 2018, Tines provides both cloud-based and on-premise solutions designed to automate workflow processes within security operations. The platform enables security teams to streamline various tasks by offering tools for workflow automation, API auto-completion, and crowd-sourced response mechanisms. Security analysts can create tailored automation stories to address complex workflows, thus enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in security management.

Tines

Series A in 2019
Tines Security Services Ltd. is a Dublin-based company that specializes in developing a cyber security automation platform. Established in 2018, Tines provides both cloud-based and on-premise solutions designed to automate workflow processes within security operations. The platform enables security teams to streamline various tasks by offering tools for workflow automation, API auto-completion, and crowd-sourced response mechanisms. Security analysts can create tailored automation stories to address complex workflows, thus enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in security management.

Soldo

Series B in 2019
Soldo Limited is a provider of expense management software solutions tailored for small businesses, enterprises, and accountants. Established in 2014 and based in London, with additional offices in Italy and Ireland, Soldo offers various products, including Soldo Pro, which manages expenses from payment to reconciliation, Soldo Premium for controlling business spending, and Soldo Enterprise for supporting financial strategies. The platform integrates prepaid Mastercard® cards, a web-based administration console, and a mobile app, offering a comprehensive solution to streamline the business expense cycle. This system enhances visibility and control over company spending while automating tasks and ensuring compatibility with major accounting software. Soldo has garnered significant investment, exceeding $80 million, from notable investors, reflecting its commitment to innovation in the fragmented landscape of business spending management.

Vectra

Series E in 2019
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-based solutions for detecting and responding to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, and enterprise infrastructures. Established in 2010, Vectra focuses on safeguarding cloud and data center workloads as well as user and IoT devices. Its flagship Cognito platform enhances threat detection and investigation by leveraging AI to collect, store, and enrich network metadata, enabling real-time detection and analysis of both known and unknown threats. The company offers three key applications within the Cognito platform: Cognito Stream, which transmits security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs; Cognito Recall, a cloud-based tool for storing and investigating threats; and Cognito Detect, designed to swiftly reveal and prioritize hidden attackers. Vectra AI also has research and development centers in Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Segment

Series D in 2019
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Vectra

Series D in 2018
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-based solutions for detecting and responding to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, and enterprise infrastructures. Established in 2010, Vectra focuses on safeguarding cloud and data center workloads as well as user and IoT devices. Its flagship Cognito platform enhances threat detection and investigation by leveraging AI to collect, store, and enrich network metadata, enabling real-time detection and analysis of both known and unknown threats. The company offers three key applications within the Cognito platform: Cognito Stream, which transmits security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs; Cognito Recall, a cloud-based tool for storing and investigating threats; and Cognito Detect, designed to swiftly reveal and prioritize hidden attackers. Vectra AI also has research and development centers in Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

YapStone

Series C in 2018
YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets. YapStone powers payments for HomeAway®, VRBO®, and thousands of apartment rental and vacation rental companies, homeowners’ associations, and self-storage companies. YapStone processes over $18B in payment volume annually and has been recognized for its growth, ranking on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for nine consecutive years. To add, YapStone was named to Forbes'​ list of "Next Billion Dollar Startups in 2016"​ as well as Forbes’ List of America’s Most Promising Companies in 2015. With over $110 million in funding from investors including Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Bregal Sagemount, YapStone is well on its way to “changing how the world pays.” Headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, YapStone has additional U.S. offices in San Francisco, CA, Santa Monica, CA, and Austin, TX, with international operations in Drogheda, Ireland. To learn more the next big thing in FinTech, visit www.YapStone.com.

BrowserStack

Series A in 2018
BrowserStack Inc. designs and develops a web and mobile based automated testing platform. The company enables to perform Selenium and desktop browser testing. It provides testing on Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets; and internal websites. The company offers responsive design testing across devices. BrowserStack Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Mumbai, India; and Dublin, Ireland.

Segment

Series C in 2017
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Soldo

Series A in 2017
Soldo Limited is a provider of expense management software solutions tailored for small businesses, enterprises, and accountants. Established in 2014 and based in London, with additional offices in Italy and Ireland, Soldo offers various products, including Soldo Pro, which manages expenses from payment to reconciliation, Soldo Premium for controlling business spending, and Soldo Enterprise for supporting financial strategies. The platform integrates prepaid Mastercard® cards, a web-based administration console, and a mobile app, offering a comprehensive solution to streamline the business expense cycle. This system enhances visibility and control over company spending while automating tasks and ensuring compatibility with major accounting software. Soldo has garnered significant investment, exceeding $80 million, from notable investors, reflecting its commitment to innovation in the fragmented landscape of business spending management.

Segment

Series B in 2015
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Vectra

Series C in 2015
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-based solutions for detecting and responding to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, and enterprise infrastructures. Established in 2010, Vectra focuses on safeguarding cloud and data center workloads as well as user and IoT devices. Its flagship Cognito platform enhances threat detection and investigation by leveraging AI to collect, store, and enrich network metadata, enabling real-time detection and analysis of both known and unknown threats. The company offers three key applications within the Cognito platform: Cognito Stream, which transmits security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs; Cognito Recall, a cloud-based tool for storing and investigating threats; and Cognito Detect, designed to swiftly reveal and prioritize hidden attackers. Vectra AI also has research and development centers in Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Segment

Series A in 2014
Segment.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in customer data infrastructure, enabling businesses to collect, unify, and connect their customer data across various platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Segment offers a single API that allows organizations to track customer information across multiple devices and channels. This data can be seamlessly sent to a variety of third-party tools, internal systems, or SQL databases. Additionally, Segment provides a product known as Data Lakes, which assists companies in leveraging their customer data to enhance user experiences. The company also maintains an office in Dublin, Ireland, and operates as a subsidiary of Twilio Inc. as of November 2020.

Vectra

Series B in 2014
Vectra AI, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in San Jose, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-based solutions for detecting and responding to cyberattacks across cloud, data center, and enterprise infrastructures. Established in 2010, Vectra focuses on safeguarding cloud and data center workloads as well as user and IoT devices. Its flagship Cognito platform enhances threat detection and investigation by leveraging AI to collect, store, and enrich network metadata, enabling real-time detection and analysis of both known and unknown threats. The company offers three key applications within the Cognito platform: Cognito Stream, which transmits security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs; Cognito Recall, a cloud-based tool for storing and investigating threats; and Cognito Detect, designed to swiftly reveal and prioritize hidden attackers. Vectra AI also has research and development centers in Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hailo

Venture Round in 2013
Hailo is a prominent taxi app operating in the UK and Ireland, providing users with an efficient platform to connect with taxi services. The app allows passengers to request rides with just two taps, facilitating quick and easy access to transportation. In July 2016, Hailo merged with mytaxi, which later rebranded as FREE NOW, enhancing its position in the mobility market. Currently, FREE NOW operates in several major cities including London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, making it one of the leading mobility providers in Europe. The joint venture between BMW and Daimler, established in 2019, further strengthens FREE NOW's market presence and capabilities in the evolving landscape of e-hailing services.

Hailo

Series B in 2012
Hailo is a prominent taxi app operating in the UK and Ireland, providing users with an efficient platform to connect with taxi services. The app allows passengers to request rides with just two taps, facilitating quick and easy access to transportation. In July 2016, Hailo merged with mytaxi, which later rebranded as FREE NOW, enhancing its position in the mobility market. Currently, FREE NOW operates in several major cities including London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, making it one of the leading mobility providers in Europe. The joint venture between BMW and Daimler, established in 2019, further strengthens FREE NOW's market presence and capabilities in the evolving landscape of e-hailing services.

Hailo

Series A in 2012
Hailo is a prominent taxi app operating in the UK and Ireland, providing users with an efficient platform to connect with taxi services. The app allows passengers to request rides with just two taps, facilitating quick and easy access to transportation. In July 2016, Hailo merged with mytaxi, which later rebranded as FREE NOW, enhancing its position in the mobility market. Currently, FREE NOW operates in several major cities including London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, making it one of the leading mobility providers in Europe. The joint venture between BMW and Daimler, established in 2019, further strengthens FREE NOW's market presence and capabilities in the evolving landscape of e-hailing services.

YapStone

Series B in 2011
YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets. YapStone powers payments for HomeAway®, VRBO®, and thousands of apartment rental and vacation rental companies, homeowners’ associations, and self-storage companies. YapStone processes over $18B in payment volume annually and has been recognized for its growth, ranking on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for nine consecutive years. To add, YapStone was named to Forbes'​ list of "Next Billion Dollar Startups in 2016"​ as well as Forbes’ List of America’s Most Promising Companies in 2015. With over $110 million in funding from investors including Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Bregal Sagemount, YapStone is well on its way to “changing how the world pays.” Headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, YapStone has additional U.S. offices in San Francisco, CA, Santa Monica, CA, and Austin, TX, with international operations in Drogheda, Ireland. To learn more the next big thing in FinTech, visit www.YapStone.com.