Tagged: accel

May 18, 2026 @ 1:24 am By Michael Wong  |  

US startup Sprouts.ai has raised $9 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by True Global Ventures and Accel, as investors continue backing companies building autonomous tools for enterprise sales and marketing teams. The latest round brings Sprouts.ai’s total funding to $14 million since… Read More

January 3, 2026 @ 1:25 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Knight Fintech, an Indian provider of banking and digital lending infrastructure, has raised $23.6 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, the company said. The round also saw participation from IIFL and Rocket Capital, along with existing investors Prime Venture Partners, 3one4… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 11:37 am By Michael Wong  |  

Pave Bank, a fully licensed commercial bank built for this new financial architecture, said it has raised more than $39 million in a round led by Accel. The fresh funding will help scale what it calls the world’s first programmable commercial bank built to operate… Read More

March 26, 2025 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

While certain malcontents bemoan successful individuals, the reality is that when markets reward innovative entrepreneurs, they tend to use this success to support others attempting to do the same. This is one of the reasons the US innovation ecosystem has been thriving, creating the most… Read More

January 6, 2025 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sixteen years ago, Accel embarked on a journey to partner with founders across India—continuing the firm’s history of partnering with founders on a global scale. Accel is now announcing their eighth early-stage fund, a $650 million commitment to empower category-defining startups; companies that will “set… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 1:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stating they are one of the very few VC firms that are truly global, Accel is reporting that it is raising a $650 million fund to support early-stage ventures in Europe and Israel. Accel opened its London office in 2000 as one of the first… Read More

October 10, 2023 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rainforest, a Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform, announced the closing of an $11.75 million seed funding round led by Accel, with participation from Infinity Ventures, BoxGroup, The Fintech Fund, Tech Square Ventures, Ardent Venture Partners and a number of strategic angels. The investment round includes “a $3.25… Read More

June 9, 2023 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Insify, the end-to-end digital insurance platform designed for Europe’s entrepreneurs and SMEs, announced that it has raised €15 million in Series A financing. Global venture firm Accel “led the investment round and was joined by Visionaries Club as well as existing investors Frontline Ventures and… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accel-backed finbots.ai, a Singapore headquartered B2B SaaS FinTech announced signing Sathapana Bank—Cambodia’s commercial bank—as their latest client. With this, finbots.ai’s client case “has extended to 9 countries across APAC and MEA markets.” Sathapana Bank claims it is “one of the leading commercial banks in Cambodia… Read More

January 11, 2023 @ 11:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Custom-build homes platform Brick&Bolt announced that it has raised $10 million, co-led by global venture capital firms Accel and Celesta Capital. The company plans to use the funding “to enhance its tech stack, strengthen its leadership team and expand to 12+ cities in the next… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 3:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Business intelligence (BI) platform Lightdash has raised $8.4 million in Seed funding in a round led by Accel. Simultaneously, Lighthouse announced that hosted product Lightdash Cloud, is also now available in public beta, after receiving a waitlist of more than 600 pre-qualified companies. Other investors… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wall Street and Silicon Valley are coming together “to build digital asset management solutions focused on connecting institutional investors to the crypto ecosystem.” Earlier this year, former HSBC trader Ashutosh Goel and former Meta Asia executive Supreet Kaur paired up to build xalts, an investment… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 1:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Super Payments Holdings Ltd has raised £22.5 million in an over-subscribed funding round led by Accel. Other investors include Union Square Ventures, LocalGlobe, and a number of angel investors, including Sir Ron Kalifa OBE, Edward Wray (co-founder of Betfair), Peter Jackson (CEO of Flutter), Gokul… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 8:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Charles announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round that was led by Salesforce Ventures in order to become one of Europe’s “leading” conversational commerce as a service platform. Accel and HV Capital, who led the company’s seed round in 2021, also… Read More

May 4, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kevin., a Lithuania -headquartered account-to-account payments Fintech, has acquired $65 million via a Series A round that has been led by Accel. Eurazeo, OTB Ventures, Speedinvest, OpenOcean, Global Paytech Ventures, and a host of angels joined the company’s latest investment round, which has come only… Read More

April 22, 2022 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle founder Samir Desai has reportedly secured $30 million in funding from key investors such as Accel and Local Globe in order to support the roll-out of Super Payments, a newly-established Fintech venture, Sky News reported. A co-founder of Funding Circle, one of the… Read More

December 16, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nansen, a blockchain data analytics platform, has raised a $75 million Series B round led by Accel. GIC, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, and SCB 10X are among the VCs and angel investors who also participated in the round. This funding will be used to… Read More

November 10, 2021 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Socure, the provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions, has confirmed its oversubscribed $450M round at a $4.5B valuation from various growth equity and public market investors. Socure achieved a $4.5B valuation only seven months after its $1.3B Series D investment round, on the… Read More

October 28, 2021 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zolve, a neobank enabling international access to financial services, has announced the closing of $40 million in Series A funding. Zolve‘s investment round has been led by Partners of DST Global, who have previously led rounds in Fintech firms like Robinhood, Nubank, Chime, Revolut, and… Read More

October 27, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Deserve, a Fintech company transforming credit cards into mobile-centric software, has received a strategic investment from Visa to expand access to Deserve’s credit-card-as-a-service for financial institutions, Fintechs and brands. Visa joins Mission Holdings, Mastercard, Ally Ventures, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Sallie Mae in supporting… Read More