Accel
Global venture firm with a London office; backed Cambridge Aerospace and Omnea
- Venture capital
- Type
- Venture capital
- Based in
- Outside the UK
- Stages
- Seed, Series A, Series B+, Growth
- Sector focus
- Sector-agnostic
- Fund size
- Undisclosed
- Website
- accel.com
Accel is a global venture capital firm with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, London and Bangalore. It positions itself as the first partner to exceptional founding teams and invests from seed through to growth across software, consumer, fintech, infrastructure and deeptech. The London team, which includes Sonali De Rycker, Harry Nelis and Philippe Botteri, leads European investments and has backed many UK companies over two decades. In this directory, Accel participated in Cambridge Aerospace's $300M Series C in 2026 and in procurement software company Omnea's Series B in 2025. The firm also runs a dedicated growth strategy for later-stage rounds.
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