Accel

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in early and growth-stage investments, focusing primarily on technology startups in sectors such as cloud computing, software, digital media, and fintech. With additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore, Accel employs localized strategies to identify and support entrepreneurs capable of building category-defining businesses. The firm has a notable portfolio featuring companies like Facebook, Spotify, and Slack, reflecting its commitment to fostering innovation across various industries. Accel manages several funds, targeting investments ranging from $5 million to $15 million, and has a robust global presence that includes partnerships in India and China.

Radhika Ananth

Vice President

Radhika Ananth

Vice President

Yudi Anugrah

Investor

Casey Aylward

Partner

Julien Bek

Principal

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Andrew Braccia

General Partner

Andrei Brasoveanu

Partner

Katie Brown

Investor

Miles Clements

Partner

Adrian Colyer

Venture Partner

Kevin Comolli

Founding Partner

Anand Daniel

Partner

Ben Dooley

CFO

Peter Doyle

Investor

Christine Esserman

Partner

C. Alex Estevez

Venture Partner

Candice du Fretay

Investor

Rohit Ganapathy

Investor

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Rishika Garg

Vice President

Martin Gibson

Technology Investor

Praachi Goenka

Investor

Bruce Golden

Partner

Graham Hutson

Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner

Myrel Iturrey

Investor

Tanay Jagani

Investor

Chitranjan Jain

Investor

Dinesh Katiyar

Partner

Sanjay Khatri

Investor

Richard Kotite

Vice President

Gagan Kumar

General Partner

Ping Li

Partner

John Locke

Partner

Zhenya Loginov

Partner

Steve Loughlin

Partner

Eknoor Malhotra

Investor

Arun Mathew

Partner

Jonathan Mendelson

Investor

Gonzalo Mocorrea

Investor

Vasant Natarajan

Partner

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Harry Nelis

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner

Maya S. Noeth

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Principal

Vijaysai Patnaik

Associate

Anagh Prasad

Investor

Varun Purandare

Principal and Investor

Ben Quazzo

Partner

Rafael Quintanilla

Investor

Aman Rai

Investor

Tim Rawlinson

Investor

Sagar Sanghvi

Partner

Antra Saxena

Investor

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Jess Segal

IR Partner

Karan Shah

Investor

Manasi Shah

Investor

Sarthak Singh

Investor

Robert E. Sternberg

Investor

Diksha Sundarka

Investor

Prayank Swaroop

Partner

Ryan Sweeney

General Partner

Charles Tananbaum

Investor

Humza Tariq

Investor

Yuvraj Wadhwa

Investor

Cecilia Wang

Vice President

Matt Weigand

Partner

Eric Wolford

Venture Partner

Richard Wong

General Partner

Ivan Zhou

Partner

Hendrik Nelis Ph.D

Partner

Past deals in Architecture

Openhouse

Series A in 2022
About Us If you think back to your school or college days, the best memories you have are those with your friends! Your first day in college, your best friend, your dorms, hanging in the corridors, your school canteen, all nighters before exams & chilling for weeks after exams - our school lives are filled with so many awesome interactions, experiences & memories. In each of them you’re with a friend, never alone! Humans always have, and will always continue to learn from one another. We are a social learning platform that allows us to learn the way we learn best - socially Founded by Stanford grads, Openhouse is backed by Accel and Matrix Partners. We have started building a stellar team from companies like Microsoft, Uber, etc., We are headquartered in Bangalore. Our Approach Covid-19 has reshaped every aspect of our lives and education is no exception. The world is learning to learn online but the main reason why online education hasn’t skyrocketed is because all platforms are designed to simply deliver content (whether pre-recorded or live). Online learning doesn’t feel natural, warm or relatable. Taking an analogy from the gaming world, edtech so far consists of single player games designed only for access but not engagement & retention. The only actions one can take is content consumption and practice via multiple choice questions. We, on the contrary, think education is an immersive multiplayer experience! If our children are going to learn online we will have to make it social. That’s how learning happens best. We believe we’re amongst the first few companies in the world trying to push the boundaries of edtech to a new era of highly social & community driven learning. PS: We believe that we need to hire people who are toughened by failure, not those coddled by success. Our Culture The best classrooms have an awesome learning culture. We think of our organisation as one large classroom, where each of us is a student trying to learn from & teach one another. We have all sorts of people here: humanists, tech junkies, educationists, designers & wanna be designers! Since we are a small organisation, we function like a tight-knit family where we care for each other’s work but also for each other’s lives. We’ve often heard that the first 50 team members set the culture & pace of an organisation, which is why we take time and carefully pick our team. If you grab a sneak peek into our tribe, you’d find us to be super real. We are all encouraged to call a spade a spade, even if this means disappointing a peer. Coming up with prospective solutions is good, but we care about how well the experience is crafted - aesthetics do matter. Think of Disneyland, Nike, Airbnb, WeWork, Apple: the best folks know not only how to deliver a product/service, but also make it beautiful. Most importantly, we are all students! Right across the team. from engineering to product, community to classroom, we think of how we’d feel if we were students – and this reminds us to keep learning and growing!

AssemblyAI

Series B in 2022
AssemblyAI Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a robust speech-to-text application programming interface (API) designed for developers. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a high-accuracy API powered by advanced deep neural networks, ensuring continuous improvements to its transcription capabilities. AssemblyAI's API allows developers to create customized chat interfaces and voice-powered applications, enabling the transcription of phone calls and other audio sources. The service is designed for easy integration, supporting multiple programming languages, and it can handle large volumes of audio files or streams with low latency. AssemblyAI also offers dedicated customer support, including access to account managers and engineers available around the clock to assist users.

Locofy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Locofy provides a service that converts designs into code. Locofy.ai aims to take away the menial work of engineers without adding complexity i.e. automating 50% or more of the current workflow starting with frontend code, allowing teams to convert their designs to code and an interactive and responsive live prototype (that runs on code), without writing a single line of code.

AssemblyAI

Series A in 2022
AssemblyAI Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a robust speech-to-text application programming interface (API) designed for developers. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a high-accuracy API powered by advanced deep neural networks, ensuring continuous improvements to its transcription capabilities. AssemblyAI's API allows developers to create customized chat interfaces and voice-powered applications, enabling the transcription of phone calls and other audio sources. The service is designed for easy integration, supporting multiple programming languages, and it can handle large volumes of audio files or streams with low latency. AssemblyAI also offers dedicated customer support, including access to account managers and engineers available around the clock to assist users.

Spacejoy

Seed Round in 2022
Spacejoy is an e-design studio that specializes in home design using interactive 3D technology. The company provides a platform that allows users to engage in do-it-yourself decoration and home design through an intuitive and user-friendly interface. By leveraging expert design principles, Spacejoy helps customers visualize their spaces and create personalized designs that align with their style and budget. This innovative approach democratizes home design, making it accessible for individuals to transform their living environments in real time.

Avenue

Seed Round in 2021
Avenue is a simple way for business teams to set up alerts from their database or data warehouse. Think PagerDuty for business operations teams. Operations teams create set-and-forget alerts on all their data, so they can be more proactive with their time (and monitor on more nuanced triggers than just what fits on their dashboard page). Avenue can improve response times to critical problems from several days to real-time by alerting directly on the data sources that customers already use.

Airkit

Series B in 2021
Airkit, Inc. is a digital customer-led automation platform based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in a low-code customer engagement platform that enables sales, service, and operations teams to create customized customer journeys. Its platform facilitates various customer interactions, including scheduling appointments, capturing information, accepting payments through multiple channels, and utilizing GPS for location-aware workflows. Through these features, Airkit empowers businesses to enhance customer satisfaction, drive revenue, and improve contact center productivity.

Spacejoy

Seed Round in 2020
Spacejoy is an e-design studio that specializes in home design using interactive 3D technology. The company provides a platform that allows users to engage in do-it-yourself decoration and home design through an intuitive and user-friendly interface. By leveraging expert design principles, Spacejoy helps customers visualize their spaces and create personalized designs that align with their style and budget. This innovative approach democratizes home design, making it accessible for individuals to transform their living environments in real time.

Airkit

Series A in 2020
Airkit, Inc. is a digital customer-led automation platform based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in a low-code customer engagement platform that enables sales, service, and operations teams to create customized customer journeys. Its platform facilitates various customer interactions, including scheduling appointments, capturing information, accepting payments through multiple channels, and utilizing GPS for location-aware workflows. Through these features, Airkit empowers businesses to enhance customer satisfaction, drive revenue, and improve contact center productivity.

Openhouse

Series A in 2019
About Us If you think back to your school or college days, the best memories you have are those with your friends! Your first day in college, your best friend, your dorms, hanging in the corridors, your school canteen, all nighters before exams & chilling for weeks after exams - our school lives are filled with so many awesome interactions, experiences & memories. In each of them you’re with a friend, never alone! Humans always have, and will always continue to learn from one another. We are a social learning platform that allows us to learn the way we learn best - socially Founded by Stanford grads, Openhouse is backed by Accel and Matrix Partners. We have started building a stellar team from companies like Microsoft, Uber, etc., We are headquartered in Bangalore. Our Approach Covid-19 has reshaped every aspect of our lives and education is no exception. The world is learning to learn online but the main reason why online education hasn’t skyrocketed is because all platforms are designed to simply deliver content (whether pre-recorded or live). Online learning doesn’t feel natural, warm or relatable. Taking an analogy from the gaming world, edtech so far consists of single player games designed only for access but not engagement & retention. The only actions one can take is content consumption and practice via multiple choice questions. We, on the contrary, think education is an immersive multiplayer experience! If our children are going to learn online we will have to make it social. That’s how learning happens best. We believe we’re amongst the first few companies in the world trying to push the boundaries of edtech to a new era of highly social & community driven learning. PS: We believe that we need to hire people who are toughened by failure, not those coddled by success. Our Culture The best classrooms have an awesome learning culture. We think of our organisation as one large classroom, where each of us is a student trying to learn from & teach one another. We have all sorts of people here: humanists, tech junkies, educationists, designers & wanna be designers! Since we are a small organisation, we function like a tight-knit family where we care for each other’s work but also for each other’s lives. We’ve often heard that the first 50 team members set the culture & pace of an organisation, which is why we take time and carefully pick our team. If you grab a sneak peek into our tribe, you’d find us to be super real. We are all encouraged to call a spade a spade, even if this means disappointing a peer. Coming up with prospective solutions is good, but we care about how well the experience is crafted - aesthetics do matter. Think of Disneyland, Nike, Airbnb, WeWork, Apple: the best folks know not only how to deliver a product/service, but also make it beautiful. Most importantly, we are all students! Right across the team. from engineering to product, community to classroom, we think of how we’d feel if we were students – and this reminds us to keep learning and growing!

Spacejoy

Seed Round in 2019
Spacejoy is an e-design studio that specializes in home design using interactive 3D technology. The company provides a platform that allows users to engage in do-it-yourself decoration and home design through an intuitive and user-friendly interface. By leveraging expert design principles, Spacejoy helps customers visualize their spaces and create personalized designs that align with their style and budget. This innovative approach democratizes home design, making it accessible for individuals to transform their living environments in real time.

Snaptrude

Seed Round in 2018
Snaptrude is an innovative design tool tailored for architects that transforms hand-drawn floorplan sketches into 3D Building Information Models (BIM) with minimal effort. The platform streamlines the concept design process, which typically requires multiple fragmented tools, allowing architects and design teams to save significant time and reduce costs associated with iterative design work. By facilitating real-time collaboration among users, Snaptrude enhances efficiency in building design while providing critical insights on budget, compliance, and environmental factors. This enables design teams to make informed decisions and create more sustainable structures in a fraction of the time traditionally required.

Airkit

Seed Round in 2017
Airkit, Inc. is a digital customer-led automation platform based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in a low-code customer engagement platform that enables sales, service, and operations teams to create customized customer journeys. Its platform facilitates various customer interactions, including scheduling appointments, capturing information, accepting payments through multiple channels, and utilizing GPS for location-aware workflows. Through these features, Airkit empowers businesses to enhance customer satisfaction, drive revenue, and improve contact center productivity.

Atomist

Series A in 2017
Atomist, Inc. owns and operates development automation platform that creates, ships, and improve software. Its features include code review, build, unit test, containerize, integration test, binary artifacts, container cluster managers, manual and scripted release steps, health checks, and performance monitoring. The company allows developer to develop, build, test, deploy, and monitor its own services. Atomist, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Aorato

Series A in 2014
Aorato protects your organization and Active Directory by automatically learning, profiling and predicting entity behavior. Aorato’s Directory Services Application Firewall (DAF™) protects Active Directory and leverages its central role in the network to secure organization from advanced targeted attacks. Nowadays, attackers compromise all types of entities (non-privileged and privileged users, devices, servers, etc.) in order to gain a foothold into the network. It is not enough anymore to track only privileged accounts to protect the organization against advanced attacks. DAF introduces a new approach. DAF detects suspicious activities through learning, profiling and predicting entities’ behaviors. The best part? DAF is a non-intrusive solution, transparent to Active Directory.

Parastructure

Seed Round in 2013
Parastructure is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by a team of Stanford University computer scientists. It specializes in developing data analysis and visualization software that empowers users to interpret and analyze data effectively. The company leverages advanced open-source infrastructure to create tools that enhance data analysis capabilities. Parastructure has received funding from Accel Partners and various prominent angel investors, positioning itself as a key player in the data analytics software market.

Arista Networks

Seed Round in 2012
Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments. It was founded to deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center and high-performance computing environments. With more than three million cloud networking ports being deployed worldwide, Arista delivers a portfolio of 1/10/40 and 100 GbE products that redefine network architectures, bring extensibility to networking, and dramatically change the price/performance of data center networks.

Arcot

Series B in 2008
Arcot Systems, Inc. specializes in authentication and digital signing solutions designed to protect and verify the digital identities of cardholders and merchants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a technology center in Bangalore, India, the company offers a range of products, including TransFort for Issuers and Merchants, which facilitate secure authentication processes; RiskFort, which addresses real-time fraud prevention; and SignFort, which streamlines document signing and approval. Additional solutions include WebFort and ArcotID for software-based authentication, as well as A-OK On-Demand for enhanced security in authentication. Arcot Systems caters to various sectors, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-commerce platforms, helping them mitigate online fraud and identity theft while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Arcot

Venture Round in 2007
Arcot Systems, Inc. specializes in authentication and digital signing solutions designed to protect and verify the digital identities of cardholders and merchants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a technology center in Bangalore, India, the company offers a range of products, including TransFort for Issuers and Merchants, which facilitate secure authentication processes; RiskFort, which addresses real-time fraud prevention; and SignFort, which streamlines document signing and approval. Additional solutions include WebFort and ArcotID for software-based authentication, as well as A-OK On-Demand for enhanced security in authentication. Arcot Systems caters to various sectors, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-commerce platforms, helping them mitigate online fraud and identity theft while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Acopia Networks

Series D in 2006
Acopia Networks provides intelligent file virtualization solutions. It offers Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automate data management tasks and eliminates the disruption associated with storage management operations; and FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allows enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

Arcot

Series A in 2005
Arcot Systems, Inc. specializes in authentication and digital signing solutions designed to protect and verify the digital identities of cardholders and merchants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a technology center in Bangalore, India, the company offers a range of products, including TransFort for Issuers and Merchants, which facilitate secure authentication processes; RiskFort, which addresses real-time fraud prevention; and SignFort, which streamlines document signing and approval. Additional solutions include WebFort and ArcotID for software-based authentication, as well as A-OK On-Demand for enhanced security in authentication. Arcot Systems caters to various sectors, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-commerce platforms, helping them mitigate online fraud and identity theft while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Acopia Networks

Series C in 2004
Acopia Networks provides intelligent file virtualization solutions. It offers Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automate data management tasks and eliminates the disruption associated with storage management operations; and FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allows enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

Atrica

Series D in 2003
Atrica specializes in providing carrier Ethernet solutions tailored for metropolitan area networks. The company's product lineup includes core switches, aggregation switches, edge switches, and a service platform specifically designed for Ethernet networks. Atrica also offers a range of services such as Ethernet Internet access, Ethernet transparent LAN, T1 private line, Ethernet private line, and Ethernet private network services. Its solutions cater to various clients, including incumbent local service providers, competitive carriers, cable operators, and enterprises, enhancing their network capabilities and broadband offerings for both business and residential customers.

Acopia Networks

Series B in 2003
Acopia Networks provides intelligent file virtualization solutions. It offers Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automate data management tasks and eliminates the disruption associated with storage management operations; and FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allows enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

Acopia Networks

Series A in 2002
Acopia Networks provides intelligent file virtualization solutions. It offers Acopia ARX series intelligent file virtualization devices that automate data management tasks and eliminates the disruption associated with storage management operations; and FreedomFabric network operating system software, which allows enterprises to manage unstructured file data by automating various storage management tasks and eliminating the disruptions associated with those tasks.

Arcot

Venture Round in 2001
Arcot Systems, Inc. specializes in authentication and digital signing solutions designed to protect and verify the digital identities of cardholders and merchants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a technology center in Bangalore, India, the company offers a range of products, including TransFort for Issuers and Merchants, which facilitate secure authentication processes; RiskFort, which addresses real-time fraud prevention; and SignFort, which streamlines document signing and approval. Additional solutions include WebFort and ArcotID for software-based authentication, as well as A-OK On-Demand for enhanced security in authentication. Arcot Systems caters to various sectors, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-commerce platforms, helping them mitigate online fraud and identity theft while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Atrica

Series B in 2001
Atrica specializes in providing carrier Ethernet solutions tailored for metropolitan area networks. The company's product lineup includes core switches, aggregation switches, edge switches, and a service platform specifically designed for Ethernet networks. Atrica also offers a range of services such as Ethernet Internet access, Ethernet transparent LAN, T1 private line, Ethernet private line, and Ethernet private network services. Its solutions cater to various clients, including incumbent local service providers, competitive carriers, cable operators, and enterprises, enhancing their network capabilities and broadband offerings for both business and residential customers.

Atrica

Series A in 2000
Atrica specializes in providing carrier Ethernet solutions tailored for metropolitan area networks. The company's product lineup includes core switches, aggregation switches, edge switches, and a service platform specifically designed for Ethernet networks. Atrica also offers a range of services such as Ethernet Internet access, Ethernet transparent LAN, T1 private line, Ethernet private line, and Ethernet private network services. Its solutions cater to various clients, including incumbent local service providers, competitive carriers, cable operators, and enterprises, enhancing their network capabilities and broadband offerings for both business and residential customers.

Arcot

Venture Round in 2000
Arcot Systems, Inc. specializes in authentication and digital signing solutions designed to protect and verify the digital identities of cardholders and merchants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a technology center in Bangalore, India, the company offers a range of products, including TransFort for Issuers and Merchants, which facilitate secure authentication processes; RiskFort, which addresses real-time fraud prevention; and SignFort, which streamlines document signing and approval. Additional solutions include WebFort and ArcotID for software-based authentication, as well as A-OK On-Demand for enhanced security in authentication. Arcot Systems caters to various sectors, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-commerce platforms, helping them mitigate online fraud and identity theft while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
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