# Sonali De Rycker

**Sonali De Rycker**

**Based in:** London, UK

**Sectors:** AI, Cloud / SaaS, Consumer

**Specializations:** Early Stage

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Sonali joined in 2008 and invests in consumer internet, software, and fintech businesses. Prior to Accel, she was with Atlas Venture (now Accomplice). She is from Mumbai and graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Harvard.

## Get to know Sonali

##### What’s the most impactful piece of advice you’ve received?

It will all become clear if you just sleep on it, from my grandmother in an effort to help me avoid making decisions when most impassioned. I've made great use of these valued few words in the investment business. Everything is more clear in the morning!

##### What’s your all-time favourite movie, TV show, OR book?

My all-time favourite book is _Fine Balance_, by Rohinton Mistry. It is an epic tale that weaves together the lives of four ordinary people in the relentless and gritty city of Mumbai. Its mundanity is its brilliance, as is the constant balance he finds between absolute despair and eternal hope.

##### If you could master any skill instantly?

I would definitely learn to catapult from being a less-than-amateur EDM DJ to one who can master all the needed creative and technical feats.

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**Twitter:** https://twitter.com/sonalidr
**LinkedIn:** https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sonaliderycker

## Key Investments

- **Arrakis**
- **Avito**
- **BeReal**
- **Calastone**
- **KRY**
- **Lottie**
- **LYST**
- **merXu**
- **Monzo**
- **Omnea**
- **Primer**
- **Sennder**
- **Shift Technology**
- **Soldo**
- **Spotify**
- **Sumeria**
- **Swan**
- **Taito.ai**
- **Tines**
- **Wallapop**

## Related News

- [Zyg: Powering the Next Generation of Consumer Brands](https://accel.com/news/zyg-powering-the-next-generation-of-consumer-brands.md)
- [Tackling Industrial AI’s Last Mile Problem: Our Investment in Arrakis](https://accel.com/news/tackling-industrial-ai-s-last-mile-problem-our-investment-in-arrakis.md) - 7/22/2026
- [Our Investment in Perceptic: The AI Operating System for Drug Discovery and Development](https://accel.com/news/our-investment-in-perceptic-the-ai-operating-system-for-drug-discovery-and-development.md) - 5/26/2026
- [Taking the Pain out of Procurement: Our Investment in Omnea](https://accel.com/news/taking-the-pain-out-of-procurement-our-investment-in-omnea.md) - 10/14/2024

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