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 Meeting Software

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.

Time is Ltd.

Seed Round in 2021
Time is Ltd. s.r.o., founded in 2017 and based in Prague, Czech Republic, specializes in workplace productivity analysis and insights. The company designs a software platform that integrates communication flows, calendar data, and various business tools such as Office 365, G Suite, and Slack, providing users with a unified dashboard for analyzing productivity. The platform employs machine learning to extract valuable insights from this aggregated data, helping organizations identify effective working patterns and reduce inefficiencies. Additionally, Time is Ltd. offers a meeting rating tool that enables users to provide feedback on the value of time spent in meetings, further enhancing productivity management. Founded by entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl, the company aims to support large corporations in optimizing their operations through improved data visibility.

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.

Airmeet

Series A in 2020
Airmeet serves as an all-in-one virtual events platform for event organizers, marketers, community builders, and enterprises. With a core focus on creating the interactive and immersive virtual events platform for knowledge professionals, Airmeet’s scalable platform supports a variety of event formats including fairs, expos, meetups, workshops, summits, town halls, and more, virtually. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Miro

Series B in 2020
Miro, formerly known as RealtimeBoard, Inc., is a company that specializes in a collaborative whiteboarding platform designed to enhance teamwork among distributed and remote teams. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Miro's platform enables users, including managers, designers, and marketers, to effectively collaborate, visualize ideas, and share work across various formats and channels. The platform supports a range of activities such as brainstorming sessions, project planning, and product design, facilitating agile methodologies and user experience research. Miro boasts over 7 million users and 20,000 paying customers, including a significant portion of Fortune 100 companies. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular applications like Atlassian JIRA, Slack, and Google Drive, allowing organizations to maintain existing workflows. Accessible via web browsers, desktop applications, and mobile devices, Miro's service ensures that collaboration is effective and secure, regardless of team members' locations. Additional offices are located in Los Angeles, Perm, and Amsterdam.

Assembly

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Assembly is a freemium peer to peer employee recognition platform

Time is Ltd.

Seed Round in 2019
Time is Ltd. s.r.o., founded in 2017 and based in Prague, Czech Republic, specializes in workplace productivity analysis and insights. The company designs a software platform that integrates communication flows, calendar data, and various business tools such as Office 365, G Suite, and Slack, providing users with a unified dashboard for analyzing productivity. The platform employs machine learning to extract valuable insights from this aggregated data, helping organizations identify effective working patterns and reduce inefficiencies. Additionally, Time is Ltd. offers a meeting rating tool that enables users to provide feedback on the value of time spent in meetings, further enhancing productivity management. Founded by entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl, the company aims to support large corporations in optimizing their operations through improved data visibility.

Miro

Series A in 2018
Miro, formerly known as RealtimeBoard, Inc., is a company that specializes in a collaborative whiteboarding platform designed to enhance teamwork among distributed and remote teams. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Miro's platform enables users, including managers, designers, and marketers, to effectively collaborate, visualize ideas, and share work across various formats and channels. The platform supports a range of activities such as brainstorming sessions, project planning, and product design, facilitating agile methodologies and user experience research. Miro boasts over 7 million users and 20,000 paying customers, including a significant portion of Fortune 100 companies. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular applications like Atlassian JIRA, Slack, and Google Drive, allowing organizations to maintain existing workflows. Accessible via web browsers, desktop applications, and mobile devices, Miro's service ensures that collaboration is effective and secure, regardless of team members' locations. Additional offices are located in Los Angeles, Perm, and Amsterdam.

Jifflenow

Venture Round in 2017
Jifflenow is a Meeting Automation Platform (MAP) that advances sales cycles with more meetings at events and briefing centers. It helps enterprises accelerate business growth by automating the scheduling, management, and analysis of strategic meetings at events, briefing centers, roadshows, executive sessions, and training forums. This advanced SaaS platform offers enterprise-class analytics, security, GDPR compliance, and integration with leading sales and marketing software. Jifflenow is the most trusted MAP with hundreds of enterprise customers, including more than 50 Fortune 1000 companies.

BlueJeans Network

Series E in 2015
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.

Jifflenow

Venture Round in 2015
Jifflenow is a Meeting Automation Platform (MAP) that advances sales cycles with more meetings at events and briefing centers. It helps enterprises accelerate business growth by automating the scheduling, management, and analysis of strategic meetings at events, briefing centers, roadshows, executive sessions, and training forums. This advanced SaaS platform offers enterprise-class analytics, security, GDPR compliance, and integration with leading sales and marketing software. Jifflenow is the most trusted MAP with hundreds of enterprise customers, including more than 50 Fortune 1000 companies.

BlueJeans Network

Series D in 2013
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.

Jifflenow

Venture Round in 2012
Jifflenow is a Meeting Automation Platform (MAP) that advances sales cycles with more meetings at events and briefing centers. It helps enterprises accelerate business growth by automating the scheduling, management, and analysis of strategic meetings at events, briefing centers, roadshows, executive sessions, and training forums. This advanced SaaS platform offers enterprise-class analytics, security, GDPR compliance, and integration with leading sales and marketing software. Jifflenow is the most trusted MAP with hundreds of enterprise customers, including more than 50 Fortune 1000 companies.

BlueJeans Network

Series C in 2012
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.

BlueJeans Network

Series B in 2011
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.

Versly

Seed Round in 2010
Versly was acquired by Cisco on August 29, 2011. Versly enables collaboration right inside the applications you already use such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint. It integrates seamlessly with email while also delivering the next generation web and mobile apps.

BlueJeans Network

Series A in 2009
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.

Groove Networks

Series F in 2003
Groove networks provided a "virtual office" through software that allowed teams of people to work together over a network. Groove software offered organizations both a desktop application for joint work and a set of customizable, open collaboration capabilities that enhance the utility and value of existing solutions. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005, and has been re-released as a software. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx

Groove Networks

Series D in 2001
Groove networks provided a "virtual office" through software that allowed teams of people to work together over a network. Groove software offered organizations both a desktop application for joint work and a set of customizable, open collaboration capabilities that enhance the utility and value of existing solutions. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005, and has been re-released as a software. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx

Groove Networks

Series C in 2000
Groove networks provided a "virtual office" through software that allowed teams of people to work together over a network. Groove software offered organizations both a desktop application for joint work and a set of customizable, open collaboration capabilities that enhance the utility and value of existing solutions. Groove Networks was acquired by Microsoft in March of 2005, and has been re-released as a software. See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx