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Harry Nelis

Based in
London, UK
Specializing In
Early
Growth

Harry Nelis joined Accel in 2004 and focuses on software, fintech and consumer internet companies.

Harry led Accel’s investments in Carto, KAYAK (NASDAQ: KYAK; acquired by Booking.com), Showroomprive (EPA: SRP), Funding Circle (LON: FCH), Callsign, Celonis, CHECK24, Instana (acquired by IBM), Miro, Taxdoo and Zepz.

Harry started his career in Silicon Valley as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard before founding a venture-backed software company.

Harry is from the Netherlands and graduated from Harvard Business School and Delft University of Technology.

Read Harry's thoughts on the three things founders should focus on in the current climate here.

Focus

Cloud/SaaS

Enterprise IT

Fintech

Relationships

Carto
Series B
2015

Luis Sanz (CEO)

Javier de la Torre

Sergio Álvarez Leiva

Spatial data analysis platform

CallSign
Series A
2017

Zia Hayat

Mobile multi-factor authentication engine

Celonis
Series A
2016

Alexander Rinke

Bastian Nominacher

Martin Klenk

Process mining software

CHECK24
Series A
2007

Henrich Blase

Eckhard Juls

German price comparing platform

Deliveroo
Series B
2014

Will Shu

Greg Orlowski

Food delivery platform

LON: ROO

Funding Circle
Initial Investment
2013

Samir Desai

Andrew Mullinger

James Meekings

Small business financing

LON: FCH

Gameforge
Series A
2007

Alexander Rösner

Klaas Kersting

Publisher and developer of free-to-play, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs)

Gravity Sketch
Series A
2022

Daniel Thomas

Daniela Paredes

Oluwaseyi Sosanya

3D design and collaboration platform

Instana
Series B
2017

Mirko Novakovic

Pavlo Baron

Fabian Lange

Pete Abrams

Automatic performance management for dynamic applications

Acquired by IBM

Kayak
Initial Investment
2006

Steve Hafner

Paul English

Travel and hospitality price comparison platform. Acquired by Booking Holdings.

NASDAQ: KYAK

Lola
Series A
2016

Mike Volpe (CEO)

Paul English

Bill O'Donnell

Corporate travel management app

Acquired by Capital One

Miro
Series A
2018

Andrey Khusid

Collaborative online whiteboard platform for teams

Personio
Initial Investment
2019

Hanno Renner

Arseniy Vershinin

Ignaz Forstmeier

Roman Schumacher

HR management and recruiting

Showroomprive.com
Series A
2010

Thierry Petit

David Dayan

Online shopping platform for clothing, cosmetics and household products

EPA: SRP

Super Payments
Seed
2022

Samir Desai

Closed loop payments system

Strattic
Seed
2019

Josh Lawrence

Miriam Schwab

Hosting platform for WordPress websites

Taxdoo
Series A
2020

Christian Königsheim

Matthias Allmendinger

Roger Gothmann

Automated VAT compliance for e-commerce

Zepz
Seed
2012

Breon Corcoran (CEO)

Ismail Ahmed

International money transfer service

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Noteworthy

Product Design, as it Should Be: Our Investment in Gravity Sketch

“Going public is unbelievably exciting and rewarding…it’s the beginning of something, not the end” – Spotify’s CFO Paul Vogel

“You have to be ambitious and go beyond your immediate horizons” - Ismail Ahmed, Zepz (formerly WorldRemit Group)

“It takes the same discipline and commitment to hire your thousandth employee as it did your first” - Personio’s Hanno

“Everything I do is designed to try and make Miro a spherical company” - Miro's Andrey Khusid

Our Series A in Taxdoo: Bringing automated compliance to e-commerce

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