Philippe Botteri

Philippe Botteri is a Partner at Accel based in London, United Kingdom, where he focuses on late-stage venture capital investments in artificial intelligence, cloud applications, and cybersecurity. Before joining the venture capital firm in 2011, he worked as an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners in Menlo Park, California, helping to establish the firm's initial cloud computing investment practice. Earlier in his professional career, he served as a strategic consultant at McKinsey after earning two distinct Master's degrees from École Polytechnique and MINES ParisTech in Paris, France. Over the past decade, he has developed specific investment theses around enterprise infrastructure and security, leading to successful investments in prominent technology companies such as BlaBlaCar and Chainalysis. Botteri currently leverages his extensive enterprise software background to identify, evaluate, and fund high-growth global technology startups across the European market.