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.
Pigment is trying to overhaul the painful experience of using error-prone spreadsheets and inflexible software to forecast the future of businesses. Instead of a rigid annual planning process, Pigment’s platform allows users to take control over their business data – presenting an intuitive, full-spectrum view of the company that allows users to play with multiple future scenarios in real-time through charts, simulations, and continuous modeling.
Simsim is building a horizontal e-commerce platform keeping in mind the shopping behaviour of the Indian consumer and the need for trust and solutions in the local language. Lack of models catering to these needs of the customers has led to low overall penetration of online sales in the country. The next wave of online commerce in India will be enabled by solving for these unmet needs of the customer. Simsim uses a unique combination of content and commerce to help customers discover the right products for themselves.
Simsim is building a horizontal e-commerce platform keeping in mind the shopping behaviour of the Indian consumer and the need for trust and solutions in the local language. Lack of models catering to these needs of the customers has led to low overall penetration of online sales in the country. The next wave of online commerce in India will be enabled by solving for these unmet needs of the customer. Simsim uses a unique combination of content and commerce to help customers discover the right products for themselves.