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 Penetration Testing

Securden

Series A in 2022
Securden, Inc. develops, owns, and operates a platform that helps to prevent identity thefts, malware propagation, cyber attacks, and insider exploitation. The company’s platform helps to reduce security risks, maintain control, operational efficiency, and productivity. Its products include windows privilege manager, privileged account manager, password vault for enterprises, enterprise privileged password management, password management for IT teams, secure remote access without VPN, and endpoint application control. It serves small, medium, and large enterprises. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

Cyera

Series A in 2022
Cyera is the next generation data security platform that empowers security teams to manage and protect all of their company’s sensitive data. The platform provides visibility and insight into your data, identities, and access, and delivers actionable guidance to remediate threats stemming from exposure, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. The most common use cases include incident response - detecting data exposures and suspicious data access - and attack surface minimization - enforcing least privileged access and removing unnecessary data. Cyera was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

CyCognito

Series C in 2021
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Checkly

Series A in 2021
Checkly Inc. is a monitoring and testing platform tailored for DevOps teams, specializing in the evaluation of API endpoints and critical site transactions. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts, Checkly provides a user-friendly dashboard that consolidates end-to-end testing and active monitoring functionalities. The platform focuses on JavaScript-based open-source tech stacks, allowing for easy integration into development workflows. Its technology includes features such as query parameters, transaction expiry alerts, and comprehensive dashboards, which facilitate the monitoring of essential transactions like logins and shopping carts. Additionally, Checkly offers the ability to take screenshots for instant insights, enabling developers to effectively oversee browser click flows from a single interface.

Tines

Series B in 2021
Tines Security Services Ltd. is a Dublin-based company that specializes in developing a cyber security automation platform. Established in 2018, Tines provides both cloud-based and on-premise solutions designed to automate workflow processes within security operations. The platform enables security teams to streamline various tasks by offering tools for workflow automation, API auto-completion, and crowd-sourced response mechanisms. Security analysts can create tailored automation stories to address complex workflows, thus enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in security management.

Snyk

Series E in 2021
Snyk Ltd. is a developer-focused cybersecurity company that provides a software-as-a-service platform designed to help organizations identify, fix, and monitor vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. The platform includes tools such as Snyk Code, which offers static application security testing, and container vulnerability management, which addresses vulnerabilities in Docker images. Snyk enables developers to scan their code for security issues directly within their code editors, providing alerts and remediation guidance based on an internal database of known vulnerabilities. The company also offers features for application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk has additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario, and has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7, Inc.

ProjectDiscovery

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a remote-first open-source software company intended to simplify security operations for hackers and developers. The company offers powerful and simplified attack surface management based on its open-source stack, enabling users to make complex security processes more visible and accessible in a simpler manner that can easily be integrated into their workflow.

CyCognito

Series B in 2020
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers..

Securden

Seed Round in 2020
Securden, Inc. develops, owns, and operates a platform that helps to prevent identity thefts, malware propagation, cyber attacks, and insider exploitation. The company’s platform helps to reduce security risks, maintain control, operational efficiency, and productivity. Its products include windows privilege manager, privileged account manager, password vault for enterprises, enterprise privileged password management, password management for IT teams, secure remote access without VPN, and endpoint application control. It serves small, medium, and large enterprises. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

Checkly

Seed Round in 2020
Checkly Inc. is a monitoring and testing platform tailored for DevOps teams, specializing in the evaluation of API endpoints and critical site transactions. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts, Checkly provides a user-friendly dashboard that consolidates end-to-end testing and active monitoring functionalities. The platform focuses on JavaScript-based open-source tech stacks, allowing for easy integration into development workflows. Its technology includes features such as query parameters, transaction expiry alerts, and comprehensive dashboards, which facilitate the monitoring of essential transactions like logins and shopping carts. Additionally, Checkly offers the ability to take screenshots for instant insights, enabling developers to effectively oversee browser click flows from a single interface.

SaaS Alerts

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of security software designed to protect and monetize customer SaaS applications. The company's software offers security notifications and alerts, abnormal user behavior detection, and SaaS security assessment to protect and monetize customer core applications and find gaps in management policy via user and data insights, enabling IT service providers to enhance security management.

UserTesting

Series F in 2020
UserTesting is a human insights platform that helps organizations make informed, customer-centric business decisions. It enables brands to target specific customer demographics, conduct usability studies, and engage in live conversations to gain valuable feedback. The platform captures real-time experiences through video, allowing companies to observe how users interact with their products, designs, and services. By packaging these insights into shareable video reels, organizations can facilitate discussions that enhance the customer experience, boost brand loyalty, and ultimately drive revenue growth. UserTesting's extensive panel of on-demand users further supports its mission to provide actionable insights that influence business strategies.

Tines

Series A in 2019
Tines Security Services Ltd. is a Dublin-based company that specializes in developing a cyber security automation platform. Established in 2018, Tines provides both cloud-based and on-premise solutions designed to automate workflow processes within security operations. The platform enables security teams to streamline various tasks by offering tools for workflow automation, API auto-completion, and crowd-sourced response mechanisms. Security analysts can create tailored automation stories to address complex workflows, thus enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in security management.

1Password

Series A in 2019
1Password is a secure, convenient password manager, providing businesses and families a safe way to share passwords, credit cards, and documents. It keeps important information secure with AES 256-bit encryption. With 1Password, users can keep all kinds of information easily organized with convenient categories and tags and find what they need with a customizable search. Founded in 2005, 1Password remembers and fills web forms with passwords, credit card information, and addresses—with a single click. It is focused on making security convenient and keeping customers happy. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario in Canada.

Snyk

Series B in 2019
Snyk Ltd. is a developer-focused cybersecurity company that provides a software-as-a-service platform designed to help organizations identify, fix, and monitor vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. The platform includes tools such as Snyk Code, which offers static application security testing, and container vulnerability management, which addresses vulnerabilities in Docker images. Snyk enables developers to scan their code for security issues directly within their code editors, providing alerts and remediation guidance based on an internal database of known vulnerabilities. The company also offers features for application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk has additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario, and has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7, Inc.

Snyk

Series B in 2018
Snyk Ltd. is a developer-focused cybersecurity company that provides a software-as-a-service platform designed to help organizations identify, fix, and monitor vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and container images. The platform includes tools such as Snyk Code, which offers static application security testing, and container vulnerability management, which addresses vulnerabilities in Docker images. Snyk enables developers to scan their code for security issues directly within their code editors, providing alerts and remediation guidance based on an internal database of known vulnerabilities. The company also offers features for application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, Snyk has additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario, and has established a strategic partnership with Rapid7, Inc.

RiskRecon

Series B in 2018
RiskRecon is the only continuous vendor monitoring solution that delivers risk-prioritized action plans custom-tuned to match your risk priorities, providing the world’s easiest path to understanding and acting on third-party cyber risk. Partner with RiskRecon to build your scalable, third-party risk management program to realize dramatically better risk outcomes. To learn more about RiskRecon’s approach, request a demo or visit the website at www.riskrecon.com.

Tenable

Series B in 2015
Tenable is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It specializes in exposure management solutions that provide organizations with visibility into their cyber risk across various assets, including traditional IT infrastructure and modern technologies like cloud workloads and Internet of Things devices. Tenable’s primary offerings include Tenable.io, a software-as-a-service platform for managing cyber exposure, and Tenable.sc, which can be deployed on-premises to assess vulnerabilities in traditional IT environments. The company has developed a reputation for continuous monitoring and vulnerability management, serving over 21,000 customers worldwide, including Fortune Global 500 companies and public sector organizations. Tenable also operates a venture fund to invest in early-stage companies focused on cybersecurity risk management.

Acalvio

Series A in 2015
Acalvio specializes in Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions that focus on detecting, engaging, and responding to malicious activities within organizations. The company employs patented innovations in deception technology and data science to provide a streamlined DevOps approach, facilitating easy deployment, monitoring, and management of its solutions. Acalvio's platform enhances threat intelligence by leveraging data from both internal and partner ecosystems, which helps organizations achieve a layered defense strategy. This approach not only reduces false positives but also fosters the extraction of actionable intelligence for effective remediation. By enabling early detection of advanced threats and improving security operations center (SOC) efficiency, Acalvio significantly reduces attacker dwell time and supports proactive threat-hunting capabilities for its clients.

UserTesting

Series C in 2015
UserTesting is a human insights platform that helps organizations make informed, customer-centric business decisions. It enables brands to target specific customer demographics, conduct usability studies, and engage in live conversations to gain valuable feedback. The platform captures real-time experiences through video, allowing companies to observe how users interact with their products, designs, and services. By packaging these insights into shareable video reels, organizations can facilitate discussions that enhance the customer experience, boost brand loyalty, and ultimately drive revenue growth. UserTesting's extensive panel of on-demand users further supports its mission to provide actionable insights that influence business strategies.

SentinelOne

Series A in 2014
SentinelOne is a cloud-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It specializes in autonomous endpoint protection, offering its Singularity platform, which provides comprehensive detection and response capabilities against various security threats. The platform integrates behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensic tools to address attacks that employ evasion techniques, ensuring real-time threat prevention. Recognized as a leader in the field, SentinelOne has received accolades for its innovative approach, including being named a Visionary in Gartner's Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant and featuring on the Forbes AI 50 list for its effective use of artificial intelligence. The company has also achieved independent certifications validating its solutions as true antivirus replacements across multiple operating systems. SentinelOne's founding team comprises experts from top cybersecurity firms, reflecting its strong foundation in the industry.

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.

SentinelOne

Seed Round in 2013
SentinelOne is a cloud-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It specializes in autonomous endpoint protection, offering its Singularity platform, which provides comprehensive detection and response capabilities against various security threats. The platform integrates behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensic tools to address attacks that employ evasion techniques, ensuring real-time threat prevention. Recognized as a leader in the field, SentinelOne has received accolades for its innovative approach, including being named a Visionary in Gartner's Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant and featuring on the Forbes AI 50 list for its effective use of artificial intelligence. The company has also achieved independent certifications validating its solutions as true antivirus replacements across multiple operating systems. SentinelOne's founding team comprises experts from top cybersecurity firms, reflecting its strong foundation in the industry.

Tenable

Series A in 2012
Tenable is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It specializes in exposure management solutions that provide organizations with visibility into their cyber risk across various assets, including traditional IT infrastructure and modern technologies like cloud workloads and Internet of Things devices. Tenable’s primary offerings include Tenable.io, a software-as-a-service platform for managing cyber exposure, and Tenable.sc, which can be deployed on-premises to assess vulnerabilities in traditional IT environments. The company has developed a reputation for continuous monitoring and vulnerability management, serving over 21,000 customers worldwide, including Fortune Global 500 companies and public sector organizations. Tenable also operates a venture fund to invest in early-stage companies focused on cybersecurity risk management.

Impermium

Seed Round in 2011
Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup focused on protecting internet sites from account hijacking and malicious user behavior. Over its three-year history, the company has secured more than 1.5 million sites and processed over 8 billion transactions. Impermium's advanced risk-evaluation platform enhances account management by detecting fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions in real-time. Utilizing a combination of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of known malicious actors, the platform effectively prevents fraudulent user account registrations at high transaction rates. By monitoring the web in real-time, Impermium enables organizations to combat user-generated spam, account hacking, and other forms of online fraud and abuse.

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.

Altor Networks

Series B in 2010
Altor Networks specializes in virtualization security solutions aimed at enhancing the security of virtualized data centers and internal clouds. The company’s flagship product, the Altor VF virtual firewall, provides unprecedented visibility and control over virtual network traffic, significantly improving the security of virtual servers while minimizing administrative tasks. Designed to be compatible with major virtualization platforms like VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, Altor's technology enables enterprises to implement robust security measures tailored to their specific needs. Key features include the enforcement of rule-based security policies on individual or groups of virtual machines, protection during VMotion events without interrupting connections, and the ability to mirror network traffic for low-cost intrusion detection. Additionally, Altor's solutions automatically enforce security policies on newly created or unauthorized virtual machines, ensuring comprehensive protection across the virtual environment.

Imperva

Series D in 2008
Imperva, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting critical business data and applications across cloud and on-premises environments. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Imperva offers a comprehensive suite of security solutions, including its SecureSphere product line, which provides database, file, and web application security. The company also offers services like Incapsula for cloud-based website security and distributed denial-of-service protection. Other notable products include ThreatRadar, which delivers security intelligence, CounterBreach for safeguarding data from internal threats, and Camouflage Data Masking for creating functional data while protecting sensitive information. Imperva serves a diverse clientele, including banks, retailers, insurers, technology firms, and government agencies, through a network of distributors and resellers, ensuring visibility and control over high-value business data.

Altor Networks

Series A in 2008
Altor Networks specializes in virtualization security solutions aimed at enhancing the security of virtualized data centers and internal clouds. The company’s flagship product, the Altor VF virtual firewall, provides unprecedented visibility and control over virtual network traffic, significantly improving the security of virtual servers while minimizing administrative tasks. Designed to be compatible with major virtualization platforms like VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, Altor's technology enables enterprises to implement robust security measures tailored to their specific needs. Key features include the enforcement of rule-based security policies on individual or groups of virtual machines, protection during VMotion events without interrupting connections, and the ability to mirror network traffic for low-cost intrusion detection. Additionally, Altor's solutions automatically enforce security policies on newly created or unauthorized virtual machines, ensuring comprehensive protection across the virtual environment.

Perplex City

Venture Round in 2006
Perlex City is an online game filled with puzzles and ciphers. The game blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, allowing players to interrogate suspects over the phone, search police files for evidence, decipher coded emails and check newspapers for clues, all while working with tens of thousands of players around the world.

Imperva

Series C in 2006
Imperva, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in protecting critical business data and applications across cloud and on-premises environments. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Imperva offers a comprehensive suite of security solutions, including its SecureSphere product line, which provides database, file, and web application security. The company also offers services like Incapsula for cloud-based website security and distributed denial-of-service protection. Other notable products include ThreatRadar, which delivers security intelligence, CounterBreach for safeguarding data from internal threats, and Camouflage Data Masking for creating functional data while protecting sensitive information. Imperva serves a diverse clientele, including banks, retailers, insurers, technology firms, and government agencies, through a network of distributors and resellers, ensuring visibility and control over high-value business data.
Counterpane delivers Managed Security Monitoring to some of the best-known corporations in e-commerce, finance, healthcare, hosting, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and transportation.
Counterpane delivers Managed Security Monitoring to some of the best-known corporations in e-commerce, finance, healthcare, hosting, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and transportation.
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