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 Transport and logistics

Nimble Robotics

Series A in 2021
Nimble Robotics, Inc. specializes in automated end-to-end solutions for piece-picking, sorting, and packing in eCommerce order fulfillment. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company emerged from the artificial intelligence research labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Nimble Robotics focuses on advancing robotic technology to enhance the ability of robots to grasp and manipulate a wide variety of objects. The company's mission is to transform eCommerce fulfillment by achieving rates and reliability in robotic handling that surpass human capabilities.

sennder

Series D in 2021
sennder GmbH offers transport and forwarding services through a web based platform. The company provides courier, express, parcel, and cargo forwarding services for short and long haul routes. It provides instant pricing, live tracking, and API integration. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

sennder

Series C in 2019
sennder GmbH offers transport and forwarding services through a web based platform. The company provides courier, express, parcel, and cargo forwarding services for short and long haul routes. It provides instant pricing, live tracking, and API integration. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Blackbuck

Series D in 2019
Keeping technology at the core, Zinka Logistics is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Our comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Zinka Logistics marks the beginning.

sennder

Series B in 2019
sennder GmbH offers transport and forwarding services through a web based platform. The company provides courier, express, parcel, and cargo forwarding services for short and long haul routes. It provides instant pricing, live tracking, and API integration. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Transit

Series B in 2018
Transit is a mobile app intended to help its users navigate their cities. Transit simplifies local travel in 125 cities worldwide. Upon launch, the bright, intuitive interface shows all nearby transportation options and departures. Users can plan trips, set reminders, and get notifications about disruptions. Plus, Transit also integrates other sustainable transport modes -- bike sharing, car sharing and Uber -- so users can determine the best way to get from A to B. With millions of active users in the US and Canada, Transit has emerged as the leading urban transit app in North America. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Blackbuck

Series D in 2018
Keeping technology at the core, Zinka Logistics is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Our comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Zinka Logistics marks the beginning.

Cogoport

Series A in 2018
Globally, logistics costs account for a staggering 15% of the total cost of goods today. The international freight logistics market for this consists of many fragmented stakeholders working in silos today creating large process inefficiencies. Cogoport aims to iron out these inefficiencies to achieve a 20% reduction in freight costs. Overall, the Freight logistics market is pegged at over $1trln of which India contributes $4Bn and practically none of it is online. At Cogoport, we aspire to bridge this gap and digitize the international freight buying market by providing instant spot rates and a fast bidding/quotation process for the freight buyer - which stands at the top of the value chain. We have been able to stitch together a strong team with decades of sectoral experience alongside technology hackers from premier institutes.

Transit

Series A in 2017
Transit is a mobile app intended to help its users navigate their cities. Transit simplifies local travel in 125 cities worldwide. Upon launch, the bright, intuitive interface shows all nearby transportation options and departures. Users can plan trips, set reminders, and get notifications about disruptions. Plus, Transit also integrates other sustainable transport modes -- bike sharing, car sharing and Uber -- so users can determine the best way to get from A to B. With millions of active users in the US and Canada, Transit has emerged as the leading urban transit app in North America. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec.

4tigo

Series A in 2017
We are 4TiGO, The Truck Network. We have set out on a mission to empower the Indian goods transportation industry ecosystem through technology and the power of networking. 4TiGO provides a common technology platform complemented with Business Services for each and every participant in the ecosystem. The 4TiGO Network members interact, transact and manage the entire goods transportation lifecycle and business on the platform thereby enabling a quantum leap in Productivity, Efficiency & Customer Service.

Blackbuck

Series C in 2017
Keeping technology at the core, Zinka Logistics is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Our comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Zinka Logistics marks the beginning.

Omni

Series A in 2017
Omni aims to revolutionise mobility in cities and campuses by empowering residents with cleaner, more efficient, and affordable transportation options that improve urban sustainability in the United Kingdom. By systematically deploying thousands of smart-bikes, enabled with GPS, wireless technology, and self-locks, we will dramatically improve urban mobility by making the first and last mile faster, cheaper, and healthier. We take city and school friendly approach and seek for partnership to work on this challenging problem.

Transit

Seed Round in 2016
Transit is a mobile app intended to help its users navigate their cities. Transit simplifies local travel in 125 cities worldwide. Upon launch, the bright, intuitive interface shows all nearby transportation options and departures. Users can plan trips, set reminders, and get notifications about disruptions. Plus, Transit also integrates other sustainable transport modes -- bike sharing, car sharing and Uber -- so users can determine the best way to get from A to B. With millions of active users in the US and Canada, Transit has emerged as the leading urban transit app in North America. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Transit

Seed Round in 2015
Transit is a mobile app intended to help its users navigate their cities. Transit simplifies local travel in 125 cities worldwide. Upon launch, the bright, intuitive interface shows all nearby transportation options and departures. Users can plan trips, set reminders, and get notifications about disruptions. Plus, Transit also integrates other sustainable transport modes -- bike sharing, car sharing and Uber -- so users can determine the best way to get from A to B. With millions of active users in the US and Canada, Transit has emerged as the leading urban transit app in North America. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Blackbuck

Series B in 2015
Keeping technology at the core, Zinka Logistics is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Our comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Zinka Logistics marks the beginning.

Qikpod

Series A in 2015
Delivering innovative last mile logistics solutions for India's eCommerce industry. QikPod is building an intelligent Internet-of-Things (IoT) next-generation logistics platform serving online vendors and e-commerce companies. This platform will dramatically improve efficiency, convenience and security of current last mile delivery operations. The QikPod core team comprises talented, successful technologists, software engineers, and business leaders with start-up and large global tech company experience. QikPod is backed by top tier venture capital firms, strategic industry partners and highly respected angel investors.

Opinio

Series A in 2015
Opinio is a fast growing start-up that builds next generation last mile delivery service for food, grocery, bakery, peer-to-Peer and more. Founded by IIT Kanpur Computer Science graduates, company started its operations on 15th of June, 2015. They recently got funded by India's biggest VC firm, Accel Partners (Portfolio Companies: Facebook, Flipkart, Myntra etc.) Operating on a B2B model, they partner with local merchants to help them deliver goods to the customer through our fast expanding fleet of Ground Pilot's.

Packlink

Series C in 2015
Packlink is an online platform that offers cost-effective package delivery services in Spain, Germany, France, Italy and internationally. Since 2015 Packlink also introduced a business solution which is called Packlink PRO to enable cost-effective package delivery for businesses. It enables users to compare all available package delivery options offered by different service providers and pick a suitable service to get their parcels delivered. Packlink was launched in January 2011.

Opinio

Seed Round in 2015
Opinio is a fast growing start-up that builds next generation last mile delivery service for food, grocery, bakery, peer-to-Peer and more. Founded by IIT Kanpur Computer Science graduates, company started its operations on 15th of June, 2015. They recently got funded by India's biggest VC firm, Accel Partners (Portfolio Companies: Facebook, Flipkart, Myntra etc.) Operating on a B2B model, they partner with local merchants to help them deliver goods to the customer through our fast expanding fleet of Ground Pilot's.

Blackbuck

Series A in 2015
Keeping technology at the core, Zinka Logistics is redefining the logistics landscape of India, making it reliable and efficient. Our comprehensive approach to problems creates impact on the entire ecosystem of transportation, which stitches across large number of livelihoods. The transportation sector is ripe for a revolution, and Zinka Logistics marks the beginning.

Packlink

Series B in 2014
Packlink is an online platform that offers cost-effective package delivery services in Spain, Germany, France, Italy and internationally. Since 2015 Packlink also introduced a business solution which is called Packlink PRO to enable cost-effective package delivery for businesses. It enables users to compare all available package delivery options offered by different service providers and pick a suitable service to get their parcels delivered. Packlink was launched in January 2011.

SilverRail

Series B in 2012
SilverRail Technologies AB is an information technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for the rail and ground transport sectors. Founded in 2000 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance the passenger experience, covering areas such as inventory management, sales, distribution, operations, and settlement. SilverRail's platform connects rail carriers and travel retailers, facilitating both online and offline ticket distribution. The technology aims to simplify access to global rail content for passengers, integrating services like journey planning, pricing, booking, payment, and reporting. Originally known as Linkon AB, the company rebranded to SilverRail Technologies AB in 2018 and operates as a subsidiary of SilverRail Linkon AB.

SilverRail

Venture Round in 2011
SilverRail Technologies AB is an information technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for the rail and ground transport sectors. Founded in 2000 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, the company offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance the passenger experience, covering areas such as inventory management, sales, distribution, operations, and settlement. SilverRail's platform connects rail carriers and travel retailers, facilitating both online and offline ticket distribution. The technology aims to simplify access to global rail content for passengers, integrating services like journey planning, pricing, booking, payment, and reporting. Originally known as Linkon AB, the company rebranded to SilverRail Technologies AB in 2018 and operates as a subsidiary of SilverRail Linkon AB.

KDS

Series A in 2005
KDS is Europe’s leader provider of on-demand Travel & Expense solutions. They help corporate customers to achieve lower ticket prices, reduced total travel costs and increased administrative efficiencies. They have a developed integrated solution that meets customers’ most pressing needs, including travel policy definition and enforcement, online travel self-booking and automated travel expense processing. It offers extensive back-end connectivity to airline, car, rail and hotel providers, ensuring optimized pricing and up-to-the-minute inventory control.

Savi Technology

Series C in 2001
Savi is the leader in applying big data analytics, data science, and machine learning to in-transit visibility. We develop innovative Internet of Things (IoT) and in-transit visibility solutions for the largest and most complex supply chains in the world. More than 1,000 companies and government organizations depend on Savi applications to reduce supply chain disruptions, improve delivery performance, and decrease logistics costs. For more information about Savi visit www.savi.com.