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 Navigation and mapping

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.

Carto

Series C in 2021
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science. Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform. Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including BBVA, BCG, New York City, and Twitter and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space.

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.

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.

DeepMap

Series B in 2018
DeepMap is solving the HD mapping and localization and big data management challenge for L4/5 autonomous vehicles. They are based in Palo Alto, CA, and have blue-chip investors supporting a world-class team from Google Earth, Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Baidu Maps. Autonomous mobility will have a huge impact on society and we are excited to be able to help make it a safe reality in partnership with automotive industry companies.

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.

DeepMap

Series A in 2017
DeepMap is solving the HD mapping and localization and big data management challenge for L4/5 autonomous vehicles. They are based in Palo Alto, CA, and have blue-chip investors supporting a world-class team from Google Earth, Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Baidu Maps. Autonomous mobility will have a huge impact on society and we are excited to be able to help make it a safe reality in partnership with automotive industry companies.

Carto

Series B in 2015
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science. Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform. Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including BBVA, BCG, New York City, and Twitter and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space.