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

Casey Aylward

Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Andrew Braccia

General Partner

Andrei Brasoveanu

Partner

Miles Clements

Partner

Adrian Colyer

Venture Partner

Kevin Comolli

Partner

Anand Daniel

Partner

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Martin Gibson

Technology Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner

Daniel Levine

Partner

Ping Li

Partner

John Locke

Partner

Arun Mathew

Partner

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Harry Nelis

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner

Ben Quazzo

Investor, Venture and Growth

Sagar Sanghvi

Partner

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Manasi Shah

VP(investor)

Matt Weigand

Partner

Eric Wolford

Venture Partner

Ivan Zhou

Partner

Past deals in Search Engine Optimization

Searchlight

Series A in 2021
​​Searchlight's Predictive Talent Platform provides assessments and analytics help companies improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness. Searchlight’s powerful People Science Engine measures and improves Quality of Hire by connecting candidate reference and self-assessment data to post-hire outcomes. Searchlight’s connected talent intelligence system pulls employee outcome data – such as enablement, performance, belonging– back into the recruiting process to surface predictive signals like competencies and soft skills. These real-time insights enable organizations to continuously learn as they hire and retain the right people. Searchlight is on a people-first mission to make hiring a win-win for everyone by understanding talent better.

Diem

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Diem is building a social search engine. It’s a dedicated place for people to search, collect, discover and share information, inspired by the way women have been passing knowledge to each other for centuries. Think of it like the best and biggest group chat you’ve ever been a part of, where all the important, silly, quick, private, and frenetic knowledge you share is organized and stored for everyone to benefit from. Diem incentivizes the community to generate content and harnesses this data to build proprietary search algorithms that will enable people to discover, and visualize, the collective knowledge of entire communities in just a few seconds. Diem was co-founded by Emma Bates & Divia Singh in 2020.

Strattic

Seed Round in 2020
Strattic converts CMS-based websites into serverless versions, making them faster, scalable, and virtually unhackable. It disconnects the dynamic WordPress site from the web and puts it on a different URL behind authentication so only site owners can access that site. Site owners can continue using their WordPress like they always have – marketing people can still add content, owners can still add plugins, and so on. Then, site owners can deploy their site with one click of a button and changes get deployed as a static site with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, essentially the front-end of the site without the underlying vulnerabilities.

Strattic

Seed Round in 2019
Strattic converts CMS-based websites into serverless versions, making them faster, scalable, and virtually unhackable. It disconnects the dynamic WordPress site from the web and puts it on a different URL behind authentication so only site owners can access that site. Site owners can continue using their WordPress like they always have – marketing people can still add content, owners can still add plugins, and so on. Then, site owners can deploy their site with one click of a button and changes get deployed as a static site with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, essentially the front-end of the site without the underlying vulnerabilities.

Algolia

Series C in 2019
Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers can easily find and discover what they want across the web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize delightful search and discovery experiences that increase online engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

Searchlight

Seed Round in 2019
​​Searchlight's Predictive Talent Platform provides assessments and analytics help companies improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness. Searchlight’s powerful People Science Engine measures and improves Quality of Hire by connecting candidate reference and self-assessment data to post-hire outcomes. Searchlight’s connected talent intelligence system pulls employee outcome data – such as enablement, performance, belonging– back into the recruiting process to surface predictive signals like competencies and soft skills. These real-time insights enable organizations to continuously learn as they hire and retain the right people. Searchlight is on a people-first mission to make hiring a win-win for everyone by understanding talent better.

Algolia

Series B in 2017
Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers can easily find and discover what they want across the web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize delightful search and discovery experiences that increase online engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

SeatGeek

Series D in 2017
SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals. The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a set of similar events. SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences. SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States.

Sourcepoint

Series B in 2017
Sourcepoint is the practical privacy platform trusted by the world's most influential brands. Supporting over 30 billion consumer touchpoints per month, Sourcepoint offers enterprise-grade privacy automation for complex, dynamic compliance challenges. Sourcepoint has offices in New York, Berlin and London. More information at sourcepoint.com.

Zarget

Series A in 2016
Zarget is a SaaS-based conversion rate optimization company that provides comprehensive solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses. The Zarget platform is a SaaS-based tool with a Chrome plugin capability that includes heatmapping, funnel analysis, A/B testing, split URL testing, live data reporting, and optimization features. Founded in 2015, Zarget is headquartered in Walnut, California.

Zarget

Seed Round in 2016
Zarget is a SaaS-based conversion rate optimization company that provides comprehensive solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses. The Zarget platform is a SaaS-based tool with a Chrome plugin capability that includes heatmapping, funnel analysis, A/B testing, split URL testing, live data reporting, and optimization features. Founded in 2015, Zarget is headquartered in Walnut, California.

Sourcepoint

Series A in 2015
Sourcepoint is the practical privacy platform trusted by the world's most influential brands. Supporting over 30 billion consumer touchpoints per month, Sourcepoint offers enterprise-grade privacy automation for complex, dynamic compliance challenges. Sourcepoint has offices in New York, Berlin and London. More information at sourcepoint.com.

Algolia

Series A in 2015
Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers can easily find and discover what they want across the web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize delightful search and discovery experiences that increase online engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

SeatGeek

Series C in 2015
SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals. The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a set of similar events. SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences. SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States.

Zettata

Venture Round in 2014
Zettata creates software for e-commerce search.

Kosmix

Series D in 2008
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

Xoopit

Series A in 2008
[Xoopit](https://www.xoopit.com/) is an email organizational tool. Xoopit has invented an email and web indexing architecture similar to a web search engine to help its users retrieve meaningful content from their archived email. Xoopit features: - email content search - add links, maps, etc. from the web to a mail being composed - exposes information about all senders on a thread: profile pics, recent conversations and attachments and media they've sent. testing

Kosmix

Series C in 2007
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.

EveryZing

Series B in 2007
EveryZing is a media merchandising platform that helps content producers and web publishers dynamically increase the volume of consumable online multimedia content while simultaneously enhancing its monetary value. Unlike other general web search and aggregation services that work only on meta data and tags, EveryZing leverages its unique speech to text, search, and optimization technologies to unlock the content within multimedia and automatically process and organize it to power a compelling ecosystem which easily connects media companies with publishers, consumers, and advertisers.

Kosmix

Series B in 2006
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix's categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don't know exactly what they're looking for. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. Kosmix is funded by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures and Jeff Bezos' personal investment company, Bezos Expeditions. Kosmix began as a vertical search engine, initially introducing health site www.RightHealth.com as a proof-of-concept for the Kosmix approach to Web navigation. RightHealth is now the #2 health site on the Web, according to Hitwise. In June 2008, Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a complete horizontal play.
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