Accel

5 tracked neobanks backed · North America, Europe, Asia · accel.com ↗

Palo Alto firm founded 1983, famous for the early Facebook round; its London office built one of Europe's strongest fintech portfolios (Monzo, Lydia, Trade Republic).

Accel appears in the publicly disclosed early funding rounds of 5 of the 358 neobanks tracked in the open dataset. Sources are linked on each profile; this is notable-backer data from disclosed rounds, not a complete cap table.

Key people

Sonali De Rycker — partner ↗

Portfolio

Zolve New York/Bengaluru · est. 2020 traditional

Monzo London, UK · est. 2015 traditional · 12M customers

Sumeria (Lydia) Paris, FR · est. 2013 traditional

Trade Republic Berlin, DE · est. 2015 traditional

Niyo Bengaluru, IN · est. 2015 traditional

Frequent co-investors

Firms appearing alongside Accel in the same neobanks' disclosed rounds.

Tencent · 3 shared Y Combinator · 1 shared DST Global · 1 shared Sequoia Capital · 1 shared General Catalyst · 1 shared Lightspeed · 1 shared Founders Fund · 1 shared Lightrock · 1 shared Thrive Capital · 1 shared Creaegis · 1 shared

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