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Candice Du Fretay
Investor at Accel
London Area, United Kingdom
Overview
Candice du Fretay is an Early Stage Investor at Accel in London, specializing in Series A and Seed investments in sectors like Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS, Consumer Internet, and FinTech. With a background including roles at NEA and Harvard Business School, she brings a wealth of experience to her current position, where she has made significant investments in companies like Nansen, Swan, and Conduktor.
Highlights of Candice's career include serving as a Rock Venture Partner at Harvard Business School and working as an Investor at NEA, showcasing her expertise in venture capital and early-stage investments. Her role at Accel involves investing in promising startups in various sectors, contributing to her reputation as a successful and knowledgeable investor.
Work Experience
Early Stage Investor
2020 - Current
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Investor (seed)
2024
Investor (seed)
2022
Lightdash turns a dbt project into a full-stack BI platform.
Raised $19,400,000.00 from Moonfire Ventures, Shuo Wang, Dimitar Stanimiroff, Y Combinator, Michael Grinich, Operator Partners, Accel and Shopify Ventures.
Investor (series B)
2021
Investor (series A) & Board Observer
2021
Investor (series A) & Board Observer
2021
Conduktor is an Apache Kafka enterprise platform, most famous for its Kafka desktop application
Raised $52,000,000.00 from RTP Global, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Accel and Ansa Capital.
Investor (series A)
2021
Rock Venture Partner
2019 - 2020
Responsible for selection, investment in and support of selected HBS ecosystem start-ups
MBA Candidate (class of 2020)
2018 - 2020
Investor (Fellow)
2019 - 2020
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Strategic Projects for the CEO (Summer MBA Internship)
2019 - 2019