# The Accelerator Group

> The Accelerator Group is a VC fund in Mclean backing Software and Finance. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mclean, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tag-the-acceleration-group
- Website: http://www.acceleration-group.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1tagteam

The Accelerator Group is a VC fund in Mclean focused on Software and Finance. Based in London, The Accelerator Group (TAG) has been an advisor and investor in early stage and start-up companies since 1995. They focus on the Internet services, eCommerce and multi-channel retail sectors, investing primarily in the US and Europe.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2M |
| Series A | $1M–$6M |
| Series B | $7M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 30% |
| Finance | 3 | 15% |
| Internet | 3 | 15% |
| Analytics | 3 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 15% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 35% |
| Series A | 6 | 30% |
| Series B | 3 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 40% |
| United States | 7 | 35% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Campbell | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-campbell |
| Joseph Berkowski | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-berkowski |
| K. R. Mohan | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k-r-mohan |
| Robin Klein | Founding Partner | 53 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robin-klein |
| Saul Klein | Founding Partner | 62 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saul-klein |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wise | Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive,products and services that meet the needs of clients.Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England. | $25M | Series B | Jun 09, 2014 |  |
| Zemanta | Zemanta brings the power of programmatic advertising to native. Zemanta One is the only cross-channel media buying platform specifically designed for the promotion and distribution of marketing content. The world's largest brands and leading digital agencies use Zemanta's programmatic platform to scale, automate and optimize their entirenative advertising programs.Founded in 2007, Zemanta is based in New York with offices across North America and Europe. | $2M |  | Nov 05, 2013 |  |
| Riskified | Riskified empowers businesses to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. We have built a next-generation platform that allows online merchants to create trusted relationships with their consumers. Leveraging machine learning that benefits from a global merchant network, our platform identifies theindividual behind each online interaction, helping merchants—our customers—eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. We drive higher sales and reduce fraud and other operating costs for our merchants and provide superior consumer experiences, as compared to our merchants’ performance prior to onboarding us. | $1.7M | Seed | Jul 08, 2013 |  |
| Wise | Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive,products and services that meet the needs of clients.Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England. | $6M | Series A | May 13, 2013 |  |
| Wise | Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive,products and services that meet the needs of clients.Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 17, 2012 |  |
| Skimlinks | Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform, supporting publishers’ creation of a new revenue stream that allows them to be less dependent on advertising. Commerce can contribute as much as a quarter of publishers’ overall revenue. Skimlinks technology automatically earns publishers a share of sales they drive throughmonetized product links in commerce-related content. These links generate revenue when clicked on by readers who go on to make a purchase as a result. In its platform, Skimlinks offers a growing suite of innovative solutions designed to increase the number of clicks and earnings per click of commerce-related content. It also aggregates access for publishers to over 60 affiliate networks, enabling them to earn commission from 27,000 merchants around the world instantly. Annual ecommerce transactions in Skimlinks’ network totalled $1 billion in 2017. Clients include over half of the top 100 US & UK publishers by revenue including Conde Nast, Hearst, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Trinity Mirror, MailOnline, and more. |  | Series B | Nov 11, 2011 |  |
| ERPLY | ERPLY provides SaaS-based solutions for commercial retail inventory that handles data across physical shops, online stores, and warehouses. It also offers real-time dashboards with relevant data.The company’s software is integrated with other platforms, including a range of accounting and web-shop outlets; and mobile credit card readers forhandheld mobile devices to deliver payments for large and small businesses. It offers its solutions to retail stores to build customer relationships and track valuable inventory; car service markets to maintain cars and schedule and assign jobs; salons and spas to avoid double booking; and cafes and delis.ERPLY was founded in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | $2M | Seed | Mar 22, 2010 |  |
| Skimlinks | Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform, supporting publishers’ creation of a new revenue stream that allows them to be less dependent on advertising. Commerce can contribute as much as a quarter of publishers’ overall revenue. Skimlinks technology automatically earns publishers a share of sales they drive throughmonetized product links in commerce-related content. These links generate revenue when clicked on by readers who go on to make a purchase as a result. In its platform, Skimlinks offers a growing suite of innovative solutions designed to increase the number of clicks and earnings per click of commerce-related content. It also aggregates access for publishers to over 60 affiliate networks, enabling them to earn commission from 27,000 merchants around the world instantly. Annual ecommerce transactions in Skimlinks’ network totalled $1 billion in 2017. Clients include over half of the top 100 US & UK publishers by revenue including Conde Nast, Hearst, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Trinity Mirror, MailOnline, and more. | $1.5M | Series A | Dec 17, 2009 |  |
| FreeAgent | FreeAgent is one of the UK's largest, and most popular, online accounting services, helping thousands of freelancers and small businesses manage their company accounts in our unique, simple, stress-free way. We're going from strength to strength, and we're on track to fundamentally change the relationship small businesses have withtheir accounts. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2009 |  |
| Zemanta | Zemanta brings the power of programmatic advertising to native. Zemanta One is the only cross-channel media buying platform specifically designed for the promotion and distribution of marketing content. The world's largest brands and leading digital agencies use Zemanta's programmatic platform to scale, automate and optimize their entirenative advertising programs.Founded in 2007, Zemanta is based in New York with offices across North America and Europe. | $1.6M |  | Aug 01, 2009 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does The Accelerator Group invest in?

The Accelerator Group invests primarily in Software, Finance and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The Accelerator Group's check size?

The Accelerator Group typically joins rounds of $1M–$2M at Seed, $1M–$6M at Series A and $7M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Accelerator Group participates in.

### How do I contact The Accelerator Group?

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### Who are the partners at The Accelerator Group?

The team at The Accelerator Group includes John Campbell (Principal), Joseph Berkowski (Director) and K. R. Mohan (Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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