Download the Accel 2023 Euroscape report to read more on this year's cloud market share trends and see the full list of 100 SaaS companies to watch.

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu.

UiPath rings the bell at the NYSE Sometimes the most surprising outcomes originate from unexpected beginnings and we are honored to be part of the UiPath story. Founded in Bucharest, and now headqu...

-This article was written with help from my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu.

Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the company makes its public market debut. What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in...

This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay. The Accel 2021 Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStock EMEA and you can view the full presentation here.

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Lucy Wimmer, Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay. The Accel 2021 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October.

French startup PayFit has raised a $107 million series D funding round (€90 million). Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading

From Bucharest to the World As we boarded our flight back to London in early February 2017, leaving behind the Bucharest winter, our team was incredibly excited by the two days we spent with Daniel...

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu.

Accel Euroscape: The 100 most promising Software-as-a- Service companies in Europe and Israel -This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu.

94 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn In 2018, prolific investor Accel saw a number of its portfolio companies go public, including Dropbox, DocuSign, Spotify, and Tenable. In total, it had more...

This article was co-authored with my colleagues Carlo Biggio, Mor Chen and Lucy Wimmer **************** The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he...

Accel announced Tuesday the close of three new funds totaling $3.05 billion, money that it will be using to back early-stage startups, as well as growth

French startup PayFit is raising a new $79 million funding round (€70 million) from Eurazeo and Bpifrance. The company first started with a payroll

On July 17, Ultimate Software, a $10B HR software gorilla, announced the acquisition of Peopledoc for $300m - the largest software exit in France since the acquisition of Neolane by Adobe in 2013....

This guest post from Philippe Botteri (Accel) shares how Snyk's community-driven freemium approach led to the company’s stellar growth.

On 23 June 2016, despite the betting odds being largely in favour of “Stay”, the UK decided to leave the European Union. Four and half years later, we finally know what this means – or at least have...

What a great achievement for Micha Kaufman and the whole team at Fiverr, which made its debut on the NYSE today. They have built a company that is changing how the world works together, and which...

The Accel 2022 Euroscape: THE RESET is now out❗ 👏 👏 👏  to the companies who made the top 100 list for  🇪🇺&🇮🇱 In 2021, the European and Israeli cloud… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

French startup BlaBlaCar is announcing plans to acquire Ouibus, the bus division of France’s national railway company SNCF. For the first time, BlaBlaCar

-This article was co-authored with my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu.

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European entrepreneurs building global...

SaaStock Meet the speakers taking to the online stage at SaaStock EMEA -

Brave, bold, or even brash – founders need to be pretty fearless, but the line between audacity and arrogance is a thin one. We think there’s another way to do things, and we’ve actually seen it play...

Algolia has raised a $150 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Compared to the Series C round from October 2019, the

Most startups fail at getting a new country off the ground. This is why Unicorns are such a rare breed.

Longtime Accel partners Philippe Botteri, Sonali De Rycker, Luciana Lixandru and Harry Nelis took the stage at Disrupt Berlin earlier today, and unlike

A growing number of IT breaches has led to security becoming a critical and central aspect of how computing systems are run and maintained. Today, a

-This article was co-authored with my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu.

From Bucharest to the World As we boarded our flight back to London in early February 2017, leaving behind the Bucharest winter, our team was incredibly excited by the two days we spent with Daniel...

We are truly humbled to announce the closing of our latest funding round—an investment of $200 million led by Addition—to modernize the security industry.

Guiding and democratizing global money flows.

2018 was quite a year for our team. We kicked it off by rebranding BlaBlaCar and launching a new, smarter, matching algorithm bringing people closer to the places they love.

Parisian SME-focused payroll and HR management…

As part of SaaStock Remote 2020, I spoke on a panel yesterday about something that’s top of mind for many early-stage SaaS entrepreneurs right now: is it possible to raise money from investors in the...

Accel is on a roll. Shortly after announcing a $500 million seed fund and a $1.5 billion growth fund for U.S.-focused investments, the venture firm has yet another fund. This time, Accel raised $500...

Nominations are now open for the 2017 edition of Accel SaaS 100 Europe, the list of the top 100 leading SaaS companies emerging from Europe & Israel. Last year, after many months of research, we...

The other week TechCrunch's Extra Crunch Live series sat down with Accel VCs Sonali De Rycker and Andrew Braccia to chat about the state of the global

/PRNewswire/ -- Algolia, the leading Search & Discovery API for websites and mobile apps, today announced it was named the leader in Glassdoor and Battery...

Philippe Botteri (Accel) interviews G2 co-founder Godard Abel about his entrepreneurial journey, SaaS pricing, building a sales team, and more. Listen now.

While incumbent insurance providers continue to get disrupted by startups like Lemonade, Alan, Clearcover, Pie and many others applying tech to rethink

"Daniel is a one of kind founder, he had a global vision for the company from the get-go, he's very product orientated, and driven."

French startup PayFit just raised a $15.9 million Series B round (€14 million) from Accel with Xavier Niel and Otium Venture also participating. PayFit