Accel

Accel is an American venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz, with a focus on seed, early, and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies. With offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco, London, India, and China, Accel invests globally in sectors such as big data, software, digital media, cloud technologies, mobile technology, and consumer services. The firm has over three decades of experience in supporting entrepreneurs and has backed numerous successful companies, including Atlassian, Dropbox, Facebook, and Spotify. Accel's investment strategies are tailored to local markets, and it aims to empower entrepreneurs to create category-defining businesses that contribute to the growth of next-generation industries.

Pratik Agarwal

Principal & Investor

Sankalpana Agrawal

Investment Team

Radhika Ananth

Vice President

Casey Aylward

Partner

Mahendran Balachandran

Partner & Investor

Ayush Banerjee

Investment Team

Lakshay Bansal

Investment Team

Yashwini Bansal

Investment Team

Carlo Biggio

Vice President

Nir Blumberger

Venture Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner & Investor

Andrew Braccia

Partner

Andrei Brasoveanu

Partner

Abhinav Chaturvedi

Partner

Miles Clements

Investor, Principal & Partner

Kevin Comolli

Founding Partner & Investor

Siddhant Dang

Investor

Anand Daniel

Partner

Kevin Efrusy

Partner

Ben Fletcher

Partner

Sameer Gandhi

Partner & Investor

Vandit Gandotra

Investment Team

Rishika Garg

Senior Associate

Harjas Gulati

Investor

Zhicheng Ho

CFO for China office

Graham Hutson

Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner & Investor

Myrel Iturrey

Investor

Henry Jefferies

Investor

Dinesh Katiyar

Partner

Sophiya Khan

Investment Team

Ping Li

Partner

John Locke

Partner

Steve Loughlin

Partner

Arun Mathew

Partner & Investor

Gananath Misra

Investment Team

Subrata Mitra

Partner

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Hendrik W. Nelis

General Partner

Harry Nelis

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner & Investor

Maya S. Noeth

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Investment Team

Seth Pierrepont

Partner & Investor

Ben Quazzo

Partner

Sonali De Rycker

Partner & Investor

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Karan Shah

Investor

Manasi Shah

Investor

Diksha Sundarka

Investor

Prayank Swaroop

Partner

Yuvraj Wadhwa

Investor

Cecilia Wang

vice_president

Lucy Wimmer

Head of Marketing

Rich Wong

General Partner & Investor

Pranay Yadav

Investor

Richard Yanowitch

Venture Partner

Past deals in Collaboration

Whimsical

Series A in 2021
Whimsical is a visual workspace for teams. Share your ideas visually. Lightning fast.

Folk

Seed Round in 2021
They are reinventing contact management for teams and individuals. Folk is introducing a better way to organize contacts and map your network, share it with other members of your organization, and turn contact groups into actionable views. As contacts are highly valuable for businesses, they are building a product which is secure and collaborative by design.

Folk

Seed Round in 2021
They are reinventing contact management for teams and individuals. Folk is introducing a better way to organize contacts and map your network, share it with other members of your organization, and turn contact groups into actionable views. As contacts are highly valuable for businesses, they are building a product which is secure and collaborative by design.

Fluorine

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Relationships are fundamental for any business, so we're here to empower them. Fluorine is a global collaboration hub that simplifies collaboration and makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. We help teams create workflow apps in minutes to run their processes, projects, and everyday work. Let's simplify work and promote collaboration-- together.

Miro

Series B in 2020
Miro offers a collaborative whiteboard platform that is designed to allow distributed teams to work effectively together. Support includes running brainstorming sessions and workshops to planning projects and designing new products and services. Miro has over 7 million users and 20,000 paying customers, including 80% of the Fortune 100. Miro provides seamless integrations with applications like Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, Sketch, Slack, Trello, Box, and Google Drive to support existing workflows of their customers. Miro brings the benefits of a collaborative whiteboard session to everyone in a global company regardless of their location with a secure and scalable solution. The service is available either in a browser or via desktop, Android or iOS app. It can also be used on tablets and interactive whiteboards.

Skeps

Funding Round in 2020
We are a blockchain based company in the Fintech domain. Our product enables lenders to collaborate better amongst each other

Frame.io

Series C in 2019
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Frame.io

Series C in 2019
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Skeps

Seed Round in 2019
We are a blockchain based company in the Fintech domain. Our product enables lenders to collaborate better amongst each other

Miro

Series A in 2018
Miro offers a collaborative whiteboard platform that is designed to allow distributed teams to work effectively together. Support includes running brainstorming sessions and workshops to planning projects and designing new products and services. Miro has over 7 million users and 20,000 paying customers, including 80% of the Fortune 100. Miro provides seamless integrations with applications like Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, Sketch, Slack, Trello, Box, and Google Drive to support existing workflows of their customers. Miro brings the benefits of a collaborative whiteboard session to everyone in a global company regardless of their location with a secure and scalable solution. The service is available either in a browser or via desktop, Android or iOS app. It can also be used on tablets and interactive whiteboards.

Frame.io

Series B in 2017
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Frame.io

Series A in 2016
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Frame.io

Seed Round in 2015
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Versly

Seed Round in 2010
Versly was acquired by Cisco on August 29, 2011. Versly enables collaboration right inside the applications you already use such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint. It integrates seamlessly with email while also delivering the next generation web and mobile apps.

Zimbra

Series C in 2006
Zimbra offers open-source e-mail, address book, calendar, tasks, and collaboration software. The company offers Zimbra Collaboration Server, which provides post-PC email, calendar, and collaboration solutions that solve the challenges faced by organizations mired in legacy communications infrastructure; and Zimbra Desktop, which aggregates information across accounts such as Zimbra, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas with additional offices in San Mateo, California; London; Tokyo; Singapore; and Pune, India.

Groove Networks

Series F in 2003
Groove networks provided a "virtual office" through software that allowed teams of people to work together over a network. Groove software offered organizations both a desktop application for joint work and a set of customizable, open collaboration capabilities that enhance the utility and value of existing solutions. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005, and has been re-released as a software. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx

Groove Networks

Series D in 2001
Groove networks provided a "virtual office" through software that allowed teams of people to work together over a network. Groove software offered organizations both a desktop application for joint work and a set of customizable, open collaboration capabilities that enhance the utility and value of existing solutions. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005, and has been re-released as a software. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx

Groove Networks

Series C in 2000
Groove networks provided a "virtual office" through software that allowed teams of people to work together over a network. Groove software offered organizations both a desktop application for joint work and a set of customizable, open collaboration capabilities that enhance the utility and value of existing solutions. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005, and has been re-released as a software. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx