Sonali De Rycker

Partner at Accel

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
26
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Sep 2024
Omnea orchestrates the full supplier lifecycle—transforming procurement, third-party risk management, and spend control. Were empowering businesses of all sizes to take full control of their suppliers. Our platform is built from the ground-up around user experience. Thanks to our AI, users can make requests conversationally. We extract and autofill contract information to eliminate manual work. We meet teams where they work with smart integrations. And we give every approver a tailored experience, that highlights the critical information they need. We’re backed by Accel, Point Nine, and First Round Capital and trusted by innovative businesses including Spotify, Hargreaves Lansdown, Adecco, TeamViewer, Reach plc, Pleo, and McAfee.
Board Member
Sep 2023
Meet Lottie - a family’s trusted (and free) guide to best understand, find and fund later life care. Founded in August 2021 by two brothers, Will and Chris Donnelly, Lottie is on a mission to elevate later life for everybody.
Board Member
May 2021
BeReal is a new kind of photo sharing app where you spontaneously share your real life with your friends. Every day at a different time, everyone is notified simultaneously to capture and share a photo within 2 minutes. Without filters, followers & likes. Only your friends for real.
Board Member
Nov 2020
Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue, all from a single platform. Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, were building the payments layer that the worlds best companies rely on.
Board Member
Mar 2020
merXu is an online trading platform for companies only. We operate in the EU, currently available in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Germany. We create safe business environment, where we connect verified buyers and sellers and enable them to make direct transactions or through quotes and inquiries. Our platform focuses primarily on the trade of industrial goods from following categories: - chemicals and metallurgy - office equipment - building and construction - electrotechnics - heating, plumbing, ventilation - HoReCa - industry and machine building - lightning - safety - professional tools Should you have any questions please contact us at contact@merxu.com
Board Member
Jan 2020
RingCentral Events is your go-to platform for running personalized, AI-powered events that reflect your brand and foster community. From planning to execution, our comprehensive solution covers every aspect of in-person, virtual, and hybrid event management, ensuring your events create a lasting impression. With features like custom branding, interactive engagement tools, 40+ app integrations, and in-depth event analytics, RingCentral Events makes your events seamless and engaging. Trusted by companies like Spotify, HubSpot, and Square, its the go-to platform for businesses of all sizes.. Transform your event strategy with RingCentral Events.
Board Member
Apr 2019
sennder – Europe’s #1 digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. sennder, a leading digital road freight forwarder in Europe, is offering shippers access to a connected fleet of thousands of trucks. In a traditional industry, we are moving fast and focus on the digitalization and automation of all road logistics processes. sennder deploys over 40,000 trucks across Europe, with access to more than 120,000 vehicles, and has a team of over 1,600 people. By leveraging our proprietary technology and offering advanced green transport solutions, we are creating a transparent, flexible and efficient road freight network. sennder is backed by some of Europe’s leading investors including Baillie Gifford, Accel, HV Capital and Lakestar along with industry experts Poste Italiane and Scania to assure innovation and state of the art offerings. Imprint: https://www.sennder.com/imprint Privacy Policy: https://www.sennder.com/privacy-policy
Board Observer
Oct 2018
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
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Board Member
Jun 2017
Kry is Europe’s largest digital healthcare provider, allowing patients to see a doctor, nurse, or psychologist through video consultations within minutes. We’ve delivered 11+ million patient appointments transforming access to high quality care at scale. Above all else, we’re driven by our vision of great healthcare for everyone. Headquartered in Stockholm and backed by some of Europe’s most renowned investors, our employees and 3000+ healthcare professionals are committed to improving the world’s health through innovation, one patient at a time. Through our products, we’re harnessing the power of technology to integrate, primary, urgent and secondary care within digital and physical care settings so patients connect to the right care, at the right time. We work with partners to tailor member journeys and with public health systems to deliver efficient care, at a lower cost. In Sweden and Norway you may know us as Kry. In the UK and France we operate under the name Livi. To learn more, visit www.kry.se / www.livi.co.uk / www.livi.fr / www.kry.no
Board Member
May 2017
Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees up businesses to accomplish more. We champion the notion of Progressive Finance, because we believe in a decentralised approach to financial decision-making and greater spending autonomy for everyone. Over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries use Soldo to bring order, efficiency and agility to their decentralised spending, and empower the whole company to spend safely and responsibly. By combining pre-programmed cards, a user-friendly app and a powerful spend management platform, Soldo enables decentralised spend decisions and frees everyone from tedious admin, while ensuring compliance. Everyone gains back time to focus on the things that matter. For Finance teams, that means more time for the rewarding parts of your role, such as in-depth data analysis, defining overall business strategy, and implementing process improvements that empower everyone to achieving business goals. Liberate Finance. Accomplish More.
Board Member
May 2016
About Shift Technology Shift Technology is the trusted AI partner to the world’s leading insurers. The company’s innovative and explainable AI solutions help insurers reduce fraud and risk, streamline claims processes, and enhance customer experiences. By combining deep insurance expertise with cutting-edge technology, Shift delivers significant business impact and ROI.
Board Member
2014
Wallapop is a Barcelona-based scale-up driven by the purpose of empowering people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where a collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us. 💫 Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, offering a catalog of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach. Backed by top investors such as Accel, Insight Partners & Naver Corp we bring our total valuation to 806 million EUR embarking on our international journey to become the world’s best unique goods trading platform. ➡️ Check more about our culture and opportunities: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/wallapop
Board Member
2013
Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations. Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. More than 4,500 clients in 58 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing over £250 billion of investment value each month. Calastone is headquartered in London and has offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York and Sydney. Calastone is a wholly owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC), a global provider of software and services for the financial services and healthcare industries.
Board Member
Feb 2012
Avito is the most popular classifieds site in Russia and is the biggest classifieds site in the world.
Investor
2011
Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c. 160 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace. At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn’t, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.
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2024
Board Member
Sep 2024
Omnea orchestrates the full supplier lifecycle—transforming procurement, third-party risk management, and spend control. Were empowering businesses of all sizes to take full control of their suppliers. Our platform is built from the ground-up around user experience. Thanks to our AI, users can make requests conversationally. We extract and autofill contract information to eliminate manual work. We meet teams where they work with smart integrations. And we give every approver a tailored experience, that highlights the critical information they need. We’re backed by Accel, Point Nine, and First Round Capital and trusted by innovative businesses including Spotify, Hargreaves Lansdown, Adecco, TeamViewer, Reach plc, Pleo, and McAfee.
2023
Board Member
Sep 2023
Meet Lottie - a family’s trusted (and free) guide to best understand, find and fund later life care. Founded in August 2021 by two brothers, Will and Chris Donnelly, Lottie is on a mission to elevate later life for everybody.
Member of Council (NED)
Feb 2023
Were a world-leading university, unique in our dedication to the social sciences.
2021
Board Member
May 2021
BeReal is a new kind of photo sharing app where you spontaneously share your real life with your friends. Every day at a different time, everyone is notified simultaneously to capture and share a photo within 2 minutes. Without filters, followers & likes. Only your friends for real.
2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue, all from a single platform. Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, were building the payments layer that the worlds best companies rely on.
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