Accel

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. The firm specializes in early and growth-stage investments, focusing on technology sectors such as software, big data, cloud technologies, fintech, healthcare, and digital media. Accel is known for backing innovative entrepreneurs and has a history of investing in notable companies including Facebook, Dropbox, and Spotify. With over three decades of experience, Accel employs dedicated teams that utilize market-specific strategies to identify and support the next generation of industry leaders. The firm manages approximately $9.6 billion and carries out investments typically ranging from $5 million to $15 million, aiming to foster the development of world-class, category-defining businesses globally.

Pratik Agarwal

Principal

Sankalpana Agrawal

Investment Team

Radhika Ananth

Vice President

Casey Aylward

Partner

Mahendran Balachandran

Partner

Ayush Banerjee

Investment Team

Yashwini Bansal

Investment Team

Lakshay Bansal

Investment Team

Carlo Biggio

Vice President

Nir Blumberger

Venture Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner

Andrew Braccia

Partner

Andrei Brasoveanu

Partner

Abhinav Chaturvedi

Partner

Miles Clements

Partner

Kevin Comolli

Founding Partner

Siddhant Dang

Investor

Anand Daniel

Partner

Kevin Efrusy

Partner

Ben Fletcher

Partner

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Vandit Gandotra

Investment Team

Rishika Garg

Senior Associate

Bruce Golden

Partner

Harjas Gulati

Investor

Zhicheng Ho

CFO for China office

Graham Hutson

Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner

Myrel Iturrey

Investor

Henry Jefferies

Investor

Dinesh Katiyar

Partner

Sophiya Khan

Investment Team

Shekhar Kirani Ph.D

Partner

Daniel Levine

Partner

Ping Li

Partner

John Locke

Partner

Steve Loughlin

Partner

Arun Mathew

Partner

Gananath Misra

Investment Team

Subrata Mitra

Partner

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Hendrik W. Nelis

General Partner

Harry Nelis

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner

Maya S. Noeth

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Investment Team

Arthur C. Patterson

Co-Founder

Seth Pierrepont

Partner

Prashanth Prakash

Partner

Ben Quazzo

Partner

Sonali De Rycker

Partner

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Karan Shah

Investor

Manasi Shah

Investor

Barath Subramanian

Partner

Diksha Sundarka

Investor

Prayank Swaroop

Partner

Ryan Sweeney

General Partner

Yuvraj Wadhwa

Investor

Cecilia Wang

vice_president

Lucy Wimmer

Head of Marketing

Eric Wolford

Venture Partner & Investor

Rich Wong

General Partner

Pranay Yadav

Investor

Richard Yanowitch

Venture Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Instabug

Series B in 2022
Instabug is a computer software company that specializes in providing tools for mobile app developers to enhance application quality and performance. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Giza, Egypt, with operations in California, the company offers a platform that includes crash reporting, application performance monitoring, user surveys, and real-time contextual insights. These features enable developers to identify bugs and errors throughout the application's life cycle, facilitating a more efficient testing process. By leveraging crowdsourced feedback, Instabug helps developers pinpoint the exact conditions that lead to functionality issues, ultimately improving the overall user experience.

Causal

Series A in 2022
Causal is a developer of a business planning platform that offers a browser-based modeling tool designed to help organizations build models, visualize data, and communicate numerical information effectively. The platform features a visual modeling user interface that allows users to interact with data through graphical icons and audio indicators. This approach enables businesses to make informed predictions and perform analyses based on historical and current data, streamlining decision-making processes. Causal's emphasis on user-friendly design supports a more intuitive experience for users, facilitating better understanding and communication of complex data insights.

Radar

Series C in 2022
Radar Labs, Inc. specializes in location data infrastructure, providing a comprehensive toolkit for developers to create location-aware applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company enables businesses to harness location data through its platform, which supports features such as geofencing, place detection, and travel context detection. Radar’s offerings include mobile SDKs, APIs, and server-side integrations, allowing seamless connectivity with popular marketing and analytics tools. The platform also includes new APIs currently in private beta, which facilitate geocoding, location-based searches, and distance calculations. By empowering growth and product teams, Radar helps enhance user experiences with location-based services and insights.

Deepnote

Series A in 2022
Deepnote is a collaboration platform designed specifically for data scientists, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. The platform provides development software that facilitates real-time collaboration among users. Key features include versioning, code review, and the reusability of algorithms, which enhance the efficiency of data analysis projects. Additionally, Deepnote offers tools such as variables and plots, code intelligence, shortcuts, and a command palette, along with capabilities for creating dashboards or APIs. This combination of functionalities aims to streamline the workflow of data scientists and improve the overall quality of their work.

Raycast

Series A in 2021
Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools. The company's software offers a search bar to quickly search commands and the built-in store to discover and install extensions such as Jira or GitHub, enabling clients to make easy access to various applications.

Whimsical

Series A in 2021
Whimsical is a visual workspace for teams. Share your ideas visually. Lightning fast.

Causal

Seed Round in 2021
Causal is a developer of a business planning platform that offers a browser-based modeling tool designed to help organizations build models, visualize data, and communicate numerical information effectively. The platform features a visual modeling user interface that allows users to interact with data through graphical icons and audio indicators. This approach enables businesses to make informed predictions and perform analyses based on historical and current data, streamlining decision-making processes. Causal's emphasis on user-friendly design supports a more intuitive experience for users, facilitating better understanding and communication of complex data insights.

Raycast

Seed Round in 2020
Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools. The company's software offers a search bar to quickly search commands and the built-in store to discover and install extensions such as Jira or GitHub, enabling clients to make easy access to various applications.

Instabug

Series A in 2020
Instabug is a computer software company that specializes in providing tools for mobile app developers to enhance application quality and performance. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Giza, Egypt, with operations in California, the company offers a platform that includes crash reporting, application performance monitoring, user surveys, and real-time contextual insights. These features enable developers to identify bugs and errors throughout the application's life cycle, facilitating a more efficient testing process. By leveraging crowdsourced feedback, Instabug helps developers pinpoint the exact conditions that lead to functionality issues, ultimately improving the overall user experience.

Guru

Series C in 2020
Guru Technologies, Inc. operates a Google Chrome Web browser extension that connects user’s business applications and creates context-specific suggestions for their teams. Its solutions allow groups to ask a question to an entire group; make comments to everyone in the group; and distribute knowledge verification to the group. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Radar

Series B in 2020
Radar Labs, Inc. specializes in location data infrastructure, providing a comprehensive toolkit for developers to create location-aware applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company enables businesses to harness location data through its platform, which supports features such as geofencing, place detection, and travel context detection. Radar’s offerings include mobile SDKs, APIs, and server-side integrations, allowing seamless connectivity with popular marketing and analytics tools. The platform also includes new APIs currently in private beta, which facilitate geocoding, location-based searches, and distance calculations. By empowering growth and product teams, Radar helps enhance user experiences with location-based services and insights.

Deepnote

Seed Round in 2020
Deepnote is a collaboration platform designed specifically for data scientists, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. The platform provides development software that facilitates real-time collaboration among users. Key features include versioning, code review, and the reusability of algorithms, which enhance the efficiency of data analysis projects. Additionally, Deepnote offers tools such as variables and plots, code intelligence, shortcuts, and a command palette, along with capabilities for creating dashboards or APIs. This combination of functionalities aims to streamline the workflow of data scientists and improve the overall quality of their work.

Radar

Series A in 2019
Radar Labs, Inc. specializes in location data infrastructure, providing a comprehensive toolkit for developers to create location-aware applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company enables businesses to harness location data through its platform, which supports features such as geofencing, place detection, and travel context detection. Radar’s offerings include mobile SDKs, APIs, and server-side integrations, allowing seamless connectivity with popular marketing and analytics tools. The platform also includes new APIs currently in private beta, which facilitate geocoding, location-based searches, and distance calculations. By empowering growth and product teams, Radar helps enhance user experiences with location-based services and insights.

Radar

Seed Round in 2017
Radar Labs, Inc. specializes in location data infrastructure, providing a comprehensive toolkit for developers to create location-aware applications. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company enables businesses to harness location data through its platform, which supports features such as geofencing, place detection, and travel context detection. Radar’s offerings include mobile SDKs, APIs, and server-side integrations, allowing seamless connectivity with popular marketing and analytics tools. The platform also includes new APIs currently in private beta, which facilitate geocoding, location-based searches, and distance calculations. By empowering growth and product teams, Radar helps enhance user experiences with location-based services and insights.

Instabug

Seed Round in 2016
Instabug is a computer software company that specializes in providing tools for mobile app developers to enhance application quality and performance. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Giza, Egypt, with operations in California, the company offers a platform that includes crash reporting, application performance monitoring, user surveys, and real-time contextual insights. These features enable developers to identify bugs and errors throughout the application's life cycle, facilitating a more efficient testing process. By leveraging crowdsourced feedback, Instabug helps developers pinpoint the exact conditions that lead to functionality issues, ultimately improving the overall user experience.

Cloud9 IDE

Series A in 2011
Cloud9 IDE is a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment that allows web and mobile developers to collaborate in remote teams. It provides an online platform for Javascript and Node.js applications while supporting HTML, CSS, PHP, Java, Ruby, and many more additional programming languages. As it offers a development environment in the cloud, the developers has the ability to start cording immediately and collaborate with their peers. Cloud9 IDE’s primary objective is to expose the benefits of writing software in the cloud. Its growing team includes some of the best developers from Europe and California. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, C.A, Cloud9 IDE is a privately held company backed by [Accel](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/accel-partners) and [Atlassian](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/atlassian).

Aptana

Venture Round in 2009
Aptana provides a Web application development, deployment and management suite for organizations who use Web technologies including: JavaScript (Ajax), Ruby on Rails, and PHP. Aptana Studioâ„¢, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment for Web 2.0 sites and applications, has been downloaded over 4 million times and continues to grow at a rate of over 200,000 downloads monthly. Aptana's current cloud offering, Aptana Cloudâ„¢, further integrates Web application development, deployment, and management with cloud computing services to provide an efficient end-to-end solution for organizations of all sizes.

Aptana

Series B in 2007
Aptana provides a Web application development, deployment and management suite for organizations who use Web technologies including: JavaScript (Ajax), Ruby on Rails, and PHP. Aptana Studioâ„¢, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment for Web 2.0 sites and applications, has been downloaded over 4 million times and continues to grow at a rate of over 200,000 downloads monthly. Aptana's current cloud offering, Aptana Cloudâ„¢, further integrates Web application development, deployment, and management with cloud computing services to provide an efficient end-to-end solution for organizations of all sizes.