Full Name

Philippe Botteri

Job Title

Partner

Company

Accel

Speaker Bio

Philippe joined Accel in 2011 and focuses on AI, cloud and cybersecurity. His active investments include Algolia, BlaBlaCar, Chainalysis, Doctolib, Gloat, PayFit, and more recently Cyera, H, Synthesia, and Surf AI. His notable exits include DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU), PeopleDoc (acquired by Ultimate Software), UiPath (NASDAQ: PATH) and more recently Melio (acquired by Xero). Prior to Accel, Philippe was with Bessemer, based in Menlo Park, where he helped build the firm’s cloud practice, working on investments including Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD), Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ) and Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO). He started his career with McKinsey & Company. When the traction in Europe’s cloud ecosystem started accelerating in 2016, Philippe crystalised this momentum by publishing Accel’s Euroscape, an in-depth report on the region’s cloud ecosystem. With AI now redefining the way applications and software are written, and driving a new industrial revolution globally, Euroscape evolved into Globalscape in 2025. You can read the report and see Accel’s list of AI companies to watch across Europe, Israel and the US here: www.accel.com/globalscape. Philippe is from Paris and graduated from École Polytechnique and École des Mines.