Accel, established in 1983, is a prominent venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. The firm specializes in investing in early and growth-stage technology startups, focusing on sectors such as software, cloud technologies, consumer services, enterprise, healthcare, fintech, and security. Accel's portfolio includes notable companies like Atlassian, Facebook, Slack, and Spotify, reflecting its ability to identify and support entrepreneurs building businesses that drive next-generation industries.
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Casey Aylward
Partner
Mahendran Balachandran
Partner, India
Luca Bocchio
Partner
Andrei Brasoveanu
Partner
Katie Brown
Investor
Abhinav Chaturvedi
Partner
Ethan Choi
Partner
Miles Clements
Partner
Adrian Colyer
Venture Partner
Kevin Comolli
Partner
Ben Dooley
CFO
Peter Doyle
Investor
Christine Esserman
Partner
Sameer Gandhi
Partner
Sara Ittelson
Partner
Myrel Iturrey
Investor
Dinesh Katiyar
Partner
Richard Kotite
Vice President
Gagan Kumar
General Partner
Daniel Levine
Partner
John Locke
Partner
Zhenya Loginov
Partner
Steve Loughlin
Partner
Arun Mathew
Partner
Jonathan Mendelson
Investor
Subrata Mitra
Partner
Gonzalo Mocorrea
Investor
Vasant Natarajan
Partner
Vas Natarajan
Partner
Harry Nelis
Partner
Nate Niparko
Partner
Rachit Parekh
Investor
Vijaysai Patnaik
Associate
Varun Purandare
Principal and Investor
Ben Quazzo
Investor, Venture and Growth
Rafael Quintanilla Loeillet
Early-Stage Investor
Tim Rawlinson
Investor - Growth
Matthew Robinson
Investor
Sagar Sanghvi
Partner
Tracy Sedlock
Chief Operating Partner
Karan Shah
Investor
Manasi Shah
Vice President and Investment Team Member
Sarthak Singh
Investor
Robert Sternberg
Investor
Barath Shankar Subramanian
Senior Analyst
Charles Tananbaum
Investor
Humza Tariq
Investor
Jonathan Turner
Partner
Cecilia Wang
Vice President and Investor
Matt Weigand
Partner
Richard Wong
Partner
Ivan Zhou
Partner
Past deals in Consumer Electronics
Swish Robotics
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Uppercase
Series B in 2024
Uppercase is a direct-to-consumer company specializing in sustainable travel accessories. The company focuses on creating thoughtfully designed products that utilize a curated material library, incorporating fresh color schemes and innovative branding details. Its travel gear is crafted from recycled plastic bottles and features custom-developed hardware, all while employing environmentally-sensitive packaging materials. This commitment to sustainability enables Uppercase to provide eco-friendly products that cater to environmentally conscious consumers.
Minoan Experience
Seed Round in 2022
Minoan Experience offers a customizable retail platform designed to enhance the appeal of short-term rentals and boutique hotels. The company provides property-related products and services that aim to make guest stays unique and comfortable. By integrating exclusive discounts from popular consumer brands, Minoan Experience allows properties to create a shoppable digital narrative. This platform enables guests to purchase products directly through property-specific websites, fostering a deeper connection to the brands featured in their accommodations.
Mensa Brands
Series B in 2021
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale digital brands. Mensa brands are investing working capital picking up equity in other D2C startups and scaling their brands' presence online. Its platform helps expertise in driving growth, product, merchandising, technology, supply chain, product, and access to global markets that help founders get a lucrative financial exit. At the same time, they transform their business through a successful partnership.
Mensa Brands
Venture Round in 2021
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale digital brands. Mensa brands are investing working capital picking up equity in other D2C startups and scaling their brands' presence online. Its platform helps expertise in driving growth, product, merchandising, technology, supply chain, product, and access to global markets that help founders get a lucrative financial exit. At the same time, they transform their business through a successful partnership.
Mensa Brands
Series A in 2021
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale digital brands. Mensa brands are investing working capital picking up equity in other D2C startups and scaling their brands' presence online. Its platform helps expertise in driving growth, product, merchandising, technology, supply chain, product, and access to global markets that help founders get a lucrative financial exit. At the same time, they transform their business through a successful partnership.
OnsiteGo
Series B in 2020
OnsiteGo is a prominent device-care provider in India, specializing in extended warranty, damage protection, annual maintenance contracts, and on-demand repair services for electronic devices and home appliances. The company offers a range of plans that are accessible through retail stores and online marketplaces, facilitating a seamless experience for customers seeking repair and maintenance solutions. By collaborating with online retail platforms and partnering with brand-authorized service centers, OnsiteGo ensures that customers receive convenient services, including pick-up, servicing, and delivery of their damaged products at no additional cost. The company's commitment to customer satisfaction is reflected in its high Net Promoter Score, which positions it as a leader in after-sales services. With a focus on enhancing the post-purchase ownership experience, OnsiteGo aims to provide reliable and efficient care for devices and appliances.
Eder Labs (dba ColorIt)
Venture Round in 2019
Color is a personalised shopping assistant, that understands the user deeply and personally through language, it creates a persona graph that dynamically evolves with the user’s journey on the Internet. Color helps create a meaningful and personalised product curation, while ensuring personal data remains in the control of the user.
Letgo
Series C in 2017
Letgo is a mobile platform founded in 2015, facilitating local buying and selling of second-hand goods. With over 100 million downloads and 400 million listings, it's one of America's most popular apps for trading items, ranging from electronics and vehicles to clothing and furniture. Letgo's innovative features, such as image recognition and instant chat, simplify the process of listing items and connecting buyers and sellers. The platform's user-friendly interface allows users to snap a photo, and letgo automatically suggests a title, price, and category for the listing.
Letgo
Series B in 2016
Letgo is a mobile platform founded in 2015, facilitating local buying and selling of second-hand goods. With over 100 million downloads and 400 million listings, it's one of America's most popular apps for trading items, ranging from electronics and vehicles to clothing and furniture. Letgo's innovative features, such as image recognition and instant chat, simplify the process of listing items and connecting buyers and sellers. The platform's user-friendly interface allows users to snap a photo, and letgo automatically suggests a title, price, and category for the listing.
HelloTech
Series A in 2015
HelloTech, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that offers in-home and online information technology support services. Founded in 2014, it provides a range of solutions including computer setup, virus removal, data backup, smart TV installation, iOS training, and technology consultation. With a focus on enhancing the consumer experience, HelloTech utilizes a vetted and background-checked on-demand workforce to assist individuals in managing and upgrading their home technology. The company aims to simplify technology adoption and troubleshooting for consumers, ensuring they can fully enjoy the benefits of modern technology.
Shopmonk
Venture Round in 2015
Shopmonk is an online marketplace that specializes in technology-related products, offering a diverse range of items such as digital devices, smartphones, and watches. The platform connects consumers with various global brands, providing access to a wide selection of technology at competitive prices. By focusing on a broad portfolio of digital equipment, Shopmonk aims to enhance the shopping experience for customers seeking reliable deals on the latest tech products.
Zansaar
Seed Round in 2015
Zansaar is an online retail platform based in Bangalore, India, specializing in a diverse selection of home products. Launched in 2012, the company provides a comprehensive range of functional and stylish items, including furniture, kitchen essentials, décor, and outdoor products. Zansaar also caters to children's needs and offers fine foods and collectibles. By focusing on well-designed products at competitive prices, Zansaar aims to meet the various requirements of customers seeking to enhance their living spaces.
HelloTech
Seed Round in 2015
HelloTech, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that offers in-home and online information technology support services. Founded in 2014, it provides a range of solutions including computer setup, virus removal, data backup, smart TV installation, iOS training, and technology consultation. With a focus on enhancing the consumer experience, HelloTech utilizes a vetted and background-checked on-demand workforce to assist individuals in managing and upgrading their home technology. The company aims to simplify technology adoption and troubleshooting for consumers, ensuring they can fully enjoy the benefits of modern technology.
OnsiteGo
Seed Round in 2015
OnsiteGo is a prominent device-care provider in India, specializing in extended warranty, damage protection, annual maintenance contracts, and on-demand repair services for electronic devices and home appliances. The company offers a range of plans that are accessible through retail stores and online marketplaces, facilitating a seamless experience for customers seeking repair and maintenance solutions. By collaborating with online retail platforms and partnering with brand-authorized service centers, OnsiteGo ensures that customers receive convenient services, including pick-up, servicing, and delivery of their damaged products at no additional cost. The company's commitment to customer satisfaction is reflected in its high Net Promoter Score, which positions it as a leader in after-sales services. With a focus on enhancing the post-purchase ownership experience, OnsiteGo aims to provide reliable and efficient care for devices and appliances.
HelloTech
Seed Round in 2015
HelloTech, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that offers in-home and online information technology support services. Founded in 2014, it provides a range of solutions including computer setup, virus removal, data backup, smart TV installation, iOS training, and technology consultation. With a focus on enhancing the consumer experience, HelloTech utilizes a vetted and background-checked on-demand workforce to assist individuals in managing and upgrading their home technology. The company aims to simplify technology adoption and troubleshooting for consumers, ensuring they can fully enjoy the benefits of modern technology.
OnsiteGo
Series A in 2015
OnsiteGo is a prominent device-care provider in India, specializing in extended warranty, damage protection, annual maintenance contracts, and on-demand repair services for electronic devices and home appliances. The company offers a range of plans that are accessible through retail stores and online marketplaces, facilitating a seamless experience for customers seeking repair and maintenance solutions. By collaborating with online retail platforms and partnering with brand-authorized service centers, OnsiteGo ensures that customers receive convenient services, including pick-up, servicing, and delivery of their damaged products at no additional cost. The company's commitment to customer satisfaction is reflected in its high Net Promoter Score, which positions it as a leader in after-sales services. With a focus on enhancing the post-purchase ownership experience, OnsiteGo aims to provide reliable and efficient care for devices and appliances.
Flipkart
Series G in 2014
Flipkart, established in 2007, is a leading Indian e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Bengaluru. It offers a vast array of products, spanning over 70 categories and 30 million items, including electronics, home appliances, fashion, and health care. With a workforce of 33,000 and 75 million registered users, Flipkart facilitates over 10 million daily visits and delivers approximately 8 million shipments monthly. Founded by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the company was acquired by Walmart in 2018. Flipkart Ventures, its venture arm, invests in seed to series B-stage companies.
Myntra
Venture Round in 2014
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
Dropcam
Series C in 2013
Dropcam is a provider of cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring services that enables users to stay connected with their homes, businesses, and pets from anywhere. The company offers Dropcam and Dropcam Pro cameras, which pair with a web-based platform to facilitate remote monitoring, recording, and playback of live video feeds. This service allows users to easily check in on their surroundings through smartphones, tablets, or computers, enhancing security and peace of mind. The combination of hardware and cloud services positions Dropcam as a leader in home monitoring solutions.
Flipkart
Series E in 2013
Flipkart, established in 2007, is a leading Indian e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Bengaluru. It offers a vast array of products, spanning over 70 categories and 30 million items, including electronics, home appliances, fashion, and health care. With a workforce of 33,000 and 75 million registered users, Flipkart facilitates over 10 million daily visits and delivers approximately 8 million shipments monthly. Founded by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the company was acquired by Walmart in 2018. Flipkart Ventures, its venture arm, invests in seed to series B-stage companies.
Myntra
Venture Round in 2013
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
Myntra
Series E in 2013
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
Flipkart
Series D in 2012
Flipkart, established in 2007, is a leading Indian e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Bengaluru. It offers a vast array of products, spanning over 70 categories and 30 million items, including electronics, home appliances, fashion, and health care. With a workforce of 33,000 and 75 million registered users, Flipkart facilitates over 10 million daily visits and delivers approximately 8 million shipments monthly. Founded by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the company was acquired by Walmart in 2018. Flipkart Ventures, its venture arm, invests in seed to series B-stage companies.
Dropcam
Series B in 2012
Dropcam is a provider of cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring services that enables users to stay connected with their homes, businesses, and pets from anywhere. The company offers Dropcam and Dropcam Pro cameras, which pair with a web-based platform to facilitate remote monitoring, recording, and playback of live video feeds. This service allows users to easily check in on their surroundings through smartphones, tablets, or computers, enhancing security and peace of mind. The combination of hardware and cloud services positions Dropcam as a leader in home monitoring solutions.
Dropcam
Series A in 2011
Dropcam is a provider of cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring services that enables users to stay connected with their homes, businesses, and pets from anywhere. The company offers Dropcam and Dropcam Pro cameras, which pair with a web-based platform to facilitate remote monitoring, recording, and playback of live video feeds. This service allows users to easily check in on their surroundings through smartphones, tablets, or computers, enhancing security and peace of mind. The combination of hardware and cloud services positions Dropcam as a leader in home monitoring solutions.
Myntra
Series C in 2011
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
LetsBuy.com
Series A in 2011
Letsbuy.com aims to be one of the largest Internet retailers of branded computer technology and digital lifestyle products with more than 5000 products from top international and domestic brands. Our business philosophy is simple: offer consumers and businesses what they want, when they want it. Our direct association with all the major brands means our customers will always find special deals on great products from the biggest names in the industry. And to help our customers choose the right products, we make it easy to find availability, pricing, reviews and ratings. At Letsbuy.com, our focus has always been on helping customers save time and money. This is why we’ve invested in building a website that allows them to securely manage their accounts without intervention. It’s the empowering, 24/7 self service approach that ensures we keep our customers satisfied, and our prices competitive.
Parallocity
Series A in 2010
Parallocity provides advanced automated defect detection tools for mission critical software development. Parallocity's customers include leaders in industries from networking to storage, security, web and cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and more. These companies cannot afford the time, cost, and potential damage to their brands that result from elusive software defects that go undetected even with rigorous testing. Once such errors ship in production code they can cause anomalous program behavior, security breaches, system crashes, and even catastrophic failure. That's why these firms have licensed tools based on Parallocity's Zeus Virtual Machine® (ZVM) Dynamic Analysis Framework with automated runtime defect detection and integrated code analytics. ZVM's patent pending technology represents a breakthrough in dynamic runtime analysis by virtue of its performance, memory-efficiency, and scalability. When integrated into the software development workflow and regression test environment, Parallocity's ZVM-based tools represent the best chance of catching critical errors prior to production release. With funding from Accel Partners, Parallocity is enabling the rapid paradigm shift in software development to highly concurrent, multi-threaded applications that will allow companies to leverage the performance benefits of parallel processing on current and next generation multi-core processors.
Myntra
Series B in 2010
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
Flipkart
Series A in 2009
Flipkart, established in 2007, is a leading Indian e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Bengaluru. It offers a vast array of products, spanning over 70 categories and 30 million items, including electronics, home appliances, fashion, and health care. With a workforce of 33,000 and 75 million registered users, Flipkart facilitates over 10 million daily visits and delivers approximately 8 million shipments monthly. Founded by Binny and Sachin Bansal, the company was acquired by Walmart in 2018. Flipkart Ventures, its venture arm, invests in seed to series B-stage companies.
Myntra
Series A in 2008
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
Gigle Networks
Series B in 2007
Gigle Networks is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in developing system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with an office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, the company focuses on providing solutions for multimedia home networking. Their technology enables the extension of both wired and wireless Ethernet throughout homes, eliminating the need for new wiring. This innovative approach enhances connectivity and multimedia distribution within residential environments.
Artimi
Series B in 2007
Artimi is a fabless semiconductor company focused on the development, marketing, and sale of semiconductors, software, and reference designs aimed at providing high-speed wireless connectivity for portable consumer electronics. The company specializes in silicon solutions that leverage ultra wideband technologies to enable high bandwidth wireless communication. Its product offerings include MAC controllers, evaluation kits for wireless USB, and reference design kits for various devices such as hard disk drives and printers. Through these products, Artimi supports advancements in wireless connectivity in the consumer electronics sector.
Myntra
Seed Round in 2007
Myntra is an e-commerce company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products, aiming to make these accessible to a broad audience. It operates an online marketplace that features a comprehensive catalog of current season products, including private fashion labels and a range of apparel and accessories. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing consumers to navigate through a diverse selection of authentic merchandise. Myntra emphasizes customer convenience by offering various payment options, including cash on delivery. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to disrupt conventional retail and enhance the shopping experience for its users.
Artimi
Series B in 2006
Artimi is a fabless semiconductor company focused on the development, marketing, and sale of semiconductors, software, and reference designs aimed at providing high-speed wireless connectivity for portable consumer electronics. The company specializes in silicon solutions that leverage ultra wideband technologies to enable high bandwidth wireless communication. Its product offerings include MAC controllers, evaluation kits for wireless USB, and reference design kits for various devices such as hard disk drives and printers. Through these products, Artimi supports advancements in wireless connectivity in the consumer electronics sector.
Gigle Networks
Series A in 2006
Gigle Networks is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in developing system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with an office in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, the company focuses on providing solutions for multimedia home networking. Their technology enables the extension of both wired and wireless Ethernet throughout homes, eliminating the need for new wiring. This innovative approach enhances connectivity and multimedia distribution within residential environments.
2Wire
Series D in 2001
2Wire, based in San Jose, California, specializes in providing broadband service delivery platforms for companies that serve consumers. The company focuses on developing integrated solutions to deliver broadband services and content throughout homes or small offices. 2Wire's products leverage its expertise in software and hardware to enable home and small business users to fully utilize the benefits of broadband. Additionally, 2Wire offers service providers a flexible platform to manage feature-rich Internet, telephony, entertainment, and other enhanced broadband application services. Its product range includes residential gateways, multi-service media platforms, intelligent home servers, remote management systems, call center customer support, and intelligent gateways that function as modems, routers, wireless access points, and firewalls.
Lightbit
Venture Round in 2000
Lightbits Labs, Inc., established in 2015, specializes in data storage solutions for enterprise private clouds, Software-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers. Headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Israel and New York, the company offers LightOS, a Software Defined Storage solution that integrates with existing datacenter infrastructure, and LightField, a Storage Acceleration Card supporting the LightOS stack. Lightbits' innovative NVMe/TCP protocol enables high-performance block storage, simplifying scalability and reducing costs for cloud-native applications in diverse environments.
2Wire
Series C in 2000
2Wire, based in San Jose, California, specializes in providing broadband service delivery platforms for companies that serve consumers. The company focuses on developing integrated solutions to deliver broadband services and content throughout homes or small offices. 2Wire's products leverage its expertise in software and hardware to enable home and small business users to fully utilize the benefits of broadband. Additionally, 2Wire offers service providers a flexible platform to manage feature-rich Internet, telephony, entertainment, and other enhanced broadband application services. Its product range includes residential gateways, multi-service media platforms, intelligent home servers, remote management systems, call center customer support, and intelligent gateways that function as modems, routers, wireless access points, and firewalls.
Nymble
Nymble specializes in the development of smart kitchen appliances aimed at both commercial and residential markets. The company offers a cloud-based cooking robot that simplifies the cooking process for busy individuals. Its appliances feature a built-in camera that allows users to monitor their food while it cooks. Additionally, Nymble employs artificial intelligence to ensure precise thermal control, preventing food from burning and facilitating the preparation of fresh, healthy meals with minimal effort. Through these innovations, Nymble aims to enhance the cooking experience and promote healthier eating habits.
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