Sonali De Rycker is a General Partner at Accel's London office, one of the most influential venture capitalists in Europe. Originally from Mumbai, India, she joined Accel in 2008 after stints at Goldman Sachs and Atlas Venture, and has since backed some of the continent's most defining tech companies — Spotify, Monzo, BeReal, Synthesia, and Speak among them. Ranked No. 2 on Forbes Midas List Europe in 2019 and consistently in the top 15, she is known for her founder-first investment philosophy, her global deal-sourcing across 45+ cities, and a sharp conviction that Europe's next chapter will be written in AI.
Tom Blomfield OBE is a British serial entrepreneur best known as co-founder and former CEO of Monzo, the UK's most-loved challenger bank that grew to serve 15% of the UK population. He previously co-founded GoCardless (now valued at $2.3B) and today serves as a Group Partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he advises the next generation of billion-dollar company builders. An Oxford-trained lawyer turned product obsessive, he raised £1 million in 96 seconds for Monzo's crowdfund, burned out spectacularly at the top, and re-emerged as one of tech's most candid voices on AI, the future of work, and entrepreneurial risk.