Accel

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It focuses on early and growth-stage technology startups, investing across software, cloud, data analytics, mobile technology, consumer services, fintech, security, healthcare, and information technologies. Accel seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that define new categories and drive growth. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Braintree, and Lookout Security, among others.

Pratik Agarwal

Principal

Casey Aylward

Partner

Mahendran Balachandran

Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner

Past deals in Aerospace

Chaos Industries

Series C in 2025
Chaos Industries is a technology company focused on defense and critical industries, developing advanced sensing, detection, and communication capabilities. It leverages Coherent Distributed Networks to enhance sensing, detection, and communication across platforms and emphasizes time synchronization to enable highly mobile, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. The company delivers integrated, software-defined solutions for defense, government, and industrial applications in challenging environments.

True Anomaly

Series C in 2025
True Anomaly develops space security and resilience solutions by integrating autonomous spacecraft operations, artificial intelligence, and mission-specific software. The company designs, builds, and fields technologies that enable secure and sustainable access to orbital environments for defense agencies, allied governments, and commercial operators. Its offerings improve orbital situational awareness, maintain operational continuity, and support long-term space sustainability across critical infrastructure and strategic missions.

Nabhdrishti Aerospace

Seed Round in 2025
Nabhdrishti Aerospace specializes in the design and development of advanced small gas turbines, focusing on indigenous technology that offers higher efficiency and cost-effectiveness compared to competitors. The company aims to serve various sectors, including hybrid electric urban air mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cruise missiles, and decentralized power generation. By providing state-of-the-art gas turbines, Nabhdrishti Aerospace empowers clients to utilize cleaner fuels, ultimately contributing to reduced emissions and fostering green technology.

Chaos Industries

Series B in 2024
Chaos Industries is a technology company focused on defense and critical industries, developing advanced sensing, detection, and communication capabilities. It leverages Coherent Distributed Networks to enhance sensing, detection, and communication across platforms and emphasizes time synchronization to enable highly mobile, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. The company delivers integrated, software-defined solutions for defense, government, and industrial applications in challenging environments.

Aalyria

Series A in 2022
Aalyria specializes in advanced networking technologies for seamless connectivity across diverse environments such as land, sea, air, near space, and deep space. Its mission is to deliver hyper-fast, ultra-secure communications networks.

Gravity Sketch

Series A in 2022
Gravity Sketch develops intuitive multi-platform tools for three-dimensional (3D) creation, collaboration, and design. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in London, UK.

World View

Series C in 2018
World View Enterprises, Inc., established in 2012 and headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, specializes in space travel services for research, education, and scientific purposes. The company pioneers the exploration of the stratosphere, offering stratospheric remote sensing services and space tourism experiences. World View's innovative, patented technology enables long-duration, high-resolution data collection and affordable alternatives to traditional imagery providers. With over 115 successful stratospheric flights and 10,274,598 vertical feet flown, the company has earned the trust of NASA and other organizations, providing meaningful space tourism and valuable data services to both public and private sectors.

Skydio

Series B in 2018
Skydio designs, manufactures, and supports AI-powered drones for consumers, enterprises, and government customers. Its drones use computer vision technology to recognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict future movements, enabling autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance.

Skydio

Series A in 2016
Skydio designs, manufactures, and supports AI-powered drones for consumers, enterprises, and government customers. Its drones use computer vision technology to recognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict future movements, enabling autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance.

Skydio

Seed Round in 2015
Skydio designs, manufactures, and supports AI-powered drones for consumers, enterprises, and government customers. Its drones use computer vision technology to recognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict future movements, enabling autonomous flight and obstacle avoidance.
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