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Ryan Sweeney

Based in

Bay Area, USA

Specializing In

Early

Growth

Ryan Sweeney joined Accel in 2009.

He is the first outside investor and board member in a number of leading SaaS and enterprise software companies like Atlassian (TEAM), Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), Squarespace, PagerDuty, and Xero (XERO). Ryan is also active with innovative consumer startups like Bevy, GOAT, goPuff, and VSCO.

He was also responsible for numerous investments with notable exits, including AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Groupon (public), Lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Lightspeed (acquired by CPqD), OzForex (public), and Simility (acquired by PayPal).

Ryan grew up in South Jersey and graduated from Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.

Relationships

AirWatch

Series A

2013

John Marshall

Mobile device, application and content management for enterprises
Acquired by VMWare

Atlassian

Series A

2010

Scott Farquhar

Mike Cannon-Brookes

Collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams
NASDAQ: TEAM

Bevy

Series B

2020

Derek Andersen

Alex Bendig

Joel Fernandes

Virtual conference and community events software

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Braintree

Series A

2011

Bill Ready (CEO)

Bryan Johnson

Global payment solutions
Acquired by PayPal

BrowserStack

Series A

2018

Ritesh Arora

Nakul Aggarwal

Web and mobile app testing platform

Campaign Monitor

Series A

2014

Wellford Dillard (CEO)

Ben Richardson

Dave Greiner

Email marketing platform

GOAT

Series B

2017

Eddy Lu

Daishin Sugano

Online sneaker-selling platform

Gopuff

Initial Growth Investment

2018

Yakir Gola

Rafael Ilishayev

Instant needs delivery platform providing daily essentials

Hootsuite

Series A

2013

Ryan Holmes

David Tedman

Dario Meli

Social media marketing and management platform

Invoice 2go

Series A

2014

Mark Lenhard (CEO)

Chris Strode

Invoice app for professionals

Acquired by Bill.com

Lightspeed

Series A

2012

Dax Dasilva

Point-of-sale management software for restaurant and retail

CN: LSPD

Misfits Market

Initial Growth Investment

2021

Abhi Ramesh

Subscription box service for organically sourced produce

Narvar

Series A

2015

Amit Sharma

Intelligent customer experience platform for retailers

OzForex

Series A

2010

Matthew Gilmour

International money transfer service

ASX: OFX

PagerDuty

Initial Growth Investment

2017

Jennifer Tejada (CEO)

Alex Solomon

Andrew Miklas

Baskar Puvanathasan

Operations performance platform

NYSE: PD

Rally

Series B

2021

Christopher Bruno

Maximilian Niederste-Ostholt

Rob Petrozzo

Platform for buying and selling equity shares in collectible assets

SaltPay

Seed

2021

Eduardo Pontes

Ali Mazanderani

Fast and secure payment solutions

Simility

Seed

2015

Rahul Pangam

Kedar Samant

Uttam Phalnikar

Fraud detection and protection for companies

Acquired by PayPal

Squarespace

Series A

2010

Anthony Casalena

SaaS-based CMS and hosting service

NYSE: SQSP

Transit

Seed

2015

Sam Vermette

Guillaume Campagna

Public transit navigation mobile app

Venmo

Seed

2010

Andrew Kortina

Iqram Magdon-Ismail

Mobile payment solutions for consumers‍

Acquired by Braintree/PayPal

VSCO

Series A

2014

Joel Flory

Greg Lutze

Eric Wittma (CEO)

Community-driven media creation and discovery

Xendit

Series B

2019

Moses Lo

Bo Chen

Juan Gonzalez

Tessa Wijaya

Payment infrastructure

Xero

Initial Growth Investment

2015

Rod Drury

Craig Walker

Gary Turner

Hamish Edwards

Cloud accounting software

ASX: XRO

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