PASCAL GAUTHIER

Pascal Gauthier is a Managing Partner at Accel in London, United Kingdom, where he leads early-stage technology investments across the European market. Before joining the venture capital firm in September 2023, he co-founded and served as the chief executive officer of Spendesk, a corporate spend management platform that was acquired earlier that year. His earlier operational and strategic experience includes senior corporate roles at the advertising technology company Criteo and management consulting positions at Boston Consulting Group. Gauthier has managed over €100 million in funds and executed more than 20 investments at Accel, recently leading the firm's funding round for the French financial technology startup Qonto in June 2024. He holds an MBA-equivalent degree from HEC Paris and currently focuses his investment strategy on backing early-stage enterprise software, business-to-business software-as-a-service, and financial technology startups.