Zhenya Loginov

Partner Accel

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Zhenya Loginov invests out of Accel’s London office, backing European and Israeli founders at the earliest stages, with a stated bias toward developer tools and enterprise SaaS. He is an operator turned investor of a specific kind: every senior job he held before venture was at an Accel-backed company, and each was about the commercial machinery of a software business rather than its product. He was Chief Operating Officer of Segment through the period it grew past 200 employees and was acquired by Twilio for $3.2 billion, then Chief Revenue Officer of Miro, running a go-to-market organisation across twelve offices and more than 700 people. Before that he led several functions at Dropbox. That is an unusual profile in European seed investing, where the operating experience on offer is more often product or engineering; what he brings to a founder is the part that comes after the product works.

Career Highlights

• Joined Accel’s early-stage team in London in October 2023, partnering with European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global businesses, with particular focus on developer tools and enterprise SaaS.
• Investments listed by Accel include Axle Energy, Framer, Keenable.ai, Lovable, Polars, Recraft, Synthflow AI and Viktor.
• Chief Revenue Officer of Miro from 2019 to 2023, leading a go-to-market organisation spanning twelve offices and more than 700 employees.
• Chief Operating Officer of Segment from 2016 to 2019, growing the global team past 200 people and helping carry the company to its $3.2 billion acquisition by Twilio.
• Held multiple functional leadership roles at Dropbox, including Head of User Operations and lead of its Austin office.
• A regular speaker at industry events including Slush and HumanX Amsterdam.

Professional Journey

Loginov studied mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University and later took an MBA at Harvard Business School. His documented operating career begins at Dropbox, where he led teams across a number of functional areas, including running user operations and heading the company’s Austin office — a general management assignment inside a company then scaling its support and operations functions faster than almost anything else in consumer software.

He moved to Segment as Chief Operating Officer. Segment built the customer data infrastructure layer that sits between a company’s applications and its analytics tools, and it was growing into an enterprise business at the time. Loginov’s remit was the operating and revenue side: the global team passed 200 people during his tenure, and the company was acquired by Twilio for $3.2 billion in 2020, shortly after he moved on.

His next role was Chief Revenue Officer of Miro, the visual collaboration platform, during its steepest growth years. Miro’s challenge was a familiar and difficult one — an extremely popular bottom-up product used by millions of individuals and small teams, which had to be converted into an enterprise sales motion without losing what made it spread in the first place. He ran that go-to-market organisation across twelve offices and more than 700 employees.

In October 2023 he joined Accel’s early-stage team in London. Accel had backed Dropbox, Segment and Miro, so the move was less a change of company than a change of seat. His investment focus is European and Israeli founders, with an explicit interest in developer tools and enterprise SaaS, and the portfolio he is associated with reflects a distinctly technical taste: the Polars dataframe library, the design tool Framer, the AI application builder Lovable, the generative design company Recraft, Synthflow AI, Keenable.ai, Axle Energy and Viktor.

Education

Harvard Business School

MBA

Lomonosov Moscow State University

MS, Mathematics