Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners has announced that Sonali De Rycker, who has more than eight years of investment experience in early-stage technology companies with Atla
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners has announced that Sonali De Rycker, who has more than eight years of investment experience in early-stage technology companies with Atlas Venture, will be joining the firm’s London office as a partner.
De Rycker, who was previously an investment banker with Goldman Sachs in New York and has specialist knowledge of the consumer internet and software markets, joins the current team of nine investment professionals in Accel’s London office.
‘We are thrilled to welcome Sonali to the firm,’ says managing partner Kevin Comolli. ‘She is immensely talented and her strong domain expertise, her excellent reputation with entrepreneurs and the venture community and her extensive investment experience are a great complement to our team.’
Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has more than USD4bn under management and focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies in the consumer internet, enterprise software, networking and mobile sectors. The firm has offices in Palo Alto and London as well as in China, via the IDG-Accel partnership.
‘Accel is an exceptional group of people committed to building game-changing technology businesses,’ De Rycker says. ‘They have the talent, the reputation and a successful global platform – everything it takes to win in the venture business.’
Accel has brought portfolio companies with an aggregate capitalisation of more than USD150bn to market through IPOs and backed firms including Admob, Actuate, Agile Software, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, ComScore, Facebook, Foundry Networks, GlamMedia, Infinera, JBoss, Kayak, Macromedia, metroPCS, Polycom/PictureTel, QlikTech, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Riverbed, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, XenSource and Zimbra.
