Accel - John Locke

John Locke

Based in

Bay Area, USA

Specializing In

Growth

John Locke joined Accel in 2010 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund.

Over the last decade, John has led or worked closely on Accel's investments in Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Crowdstrike (CRWD), Galileo, GoFundMe, Invoice2go, Lightspeed (LSPD), Lower, Monzo, QMC Telecom, SeatGeek, Socure, The Zebra, Tenable (TENB), Zepz, and Xero (XRO), as well as a number of other companies.

John grew up in Ashland, Ohio and graduated from Princeton.

Relationships

Algolia

Series A

2015

Bernadette Nixon (CEO)

Nicolas Dessaigne

Julien Lemoine

End-to-end AI search

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Braintree

Series A

2011

Bill Ready (CEO)

Bryan Johnson

Global payment solutions
Acquired by PayPal



CoinTracker

Series A

2021

Jon Lerner

Chandan Lodha

Cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax reporting tool

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CrowdStrike

Series B

2013

George Kurtz

Dmitri Alperovitch

Comprehensive, cloud-native enterprise security solutions‍

NASDAQ: CRWD



Galileo

Series A

2019

Clay Wilkes

Payment processing solutions platform

Acquired by SoFi



GoFundMe

Series A

2015

Tim Cadogan (CEO)

Andy Ballester

Brad Damphousse

Crowdfunding platform



Invoice 2go

Series A

2014

Mark Lenhard (CEO)

Chris Strode

Invoice app for professionals

Acquired by Bill.com

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Lightspeed

Series A

2012

Dax Dasilva

Point-of-sale management software for restaurant and retail

CN: LSPD



Lower

Series A

2021

Dan Snyder

Mike Baynes

Grayson Hanes

Chris Miller

Direct-to-consumer mortgage lender

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Monzo

Initial Growth Investment

2018

TS Anil (CEO)

Tom Blomfield

Jonas Huckestein

UK-based digital bank



OzForex

Series A

2010

Matthew Gilmour

International money transfer service

ASX: OFX



Pismo

Series B

2021

Ricardo Josua

Daniela Binatti

Juliana Motta

Marcelo Parise

Processing platform for banking and payments

Acquired by Visa

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Pond5

Series A

2014

Tom Crary (CEO)

Tom Bennett

Marcus Engene

Content marketplace for filmmakers

Acquired by Shutterstock



QMC

Initial Growth Investment

2014

Rafael Somoza

Jose Stella

Puerto Rico-based wireless cellular telecommunication tower provider

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SeatGeek

Series B

2014

Jack Groetzinger

Russell D'Souza

Mobile-focused ticketing platform for events



Socure

Initial Growth Investment

2021

Johnny Ayers

Digital identity verification and fraud solutions



Tenable

Series A

2012

Renaud Deraison

Ron Gula

Jack Huffard

Amit Yoran (CEO)

Cybersecurity risk monitoring

NASDAQ: TENB



The Zebra

Series B

2017

Keith Melnick (CEO)

Adam Lyons

Joshua Dziabiak

Auto and home insurance comparison platform



Venmo

Seed

2010

Andrew Kortina

Iqram Magdon-Ismail

Mobile payment solutions for consumers‍

Acquired by Braintree/PayPal



Zepz

Seed

2012

Mark Lenhard (CEO)

Ismail Ahmed

International money transfer service



WyzAnt

Series A

2013

Andrew Geant

Mike Weishuhn

Online marketplace for finding private tutors

Acquired by IXL Learning

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John Locke

Partner at Accel

John Locke

Partner at Accel

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

Accel

Partner

2014 - Current

Principal

2012 - 2014

Associate

2010 - 2012

Housatonic Partners

Senior Associate

2007 - 2010

Summit Partners

Associate

2006 - 2007

Education

Princeton University

2002 - 2006

Investments

SeatGeek

Sysdig

Socure

Lower

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