Accel is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore, India. Accel describes itself as "the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere," backing founders from seed and early stage through growth worldwide. The firm invests across enterprise software and SaaS, consumer, artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, infrastructure and developer tools, security, media, and healthcare, and operates dedicated funds for the US, Europe/Israel, and India/Southeast Asia. Accel is known for its "prepared mind" investment philosophy and for backing category-defining companies including Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, CrowdStrike, UiPath, Qualtrics, Spotify, Flipkart, Swiggy, Freshworks, 1Password, Vercel, Scale AI, Anthropic, and Perplexity. Its portfolio spans more than 100 unicorns, dozens of IPOs, and hundreds of acquisitions. In 2024 Accel raised a $650M fund for European and Israeli startups, and in 2025 raised a fund for India and Southeast Asia. This profile tracks Accel's identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
aid: accel
name: Accel
description: >-
Accel is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded in 1983 by
Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto, California,
with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore, India. Accel
describes itself as "the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere,"
backing founders from seed and early stage through growth worldwide. The firm
invests across enterprise software and SaaS, consumer, artificial
intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, infrastructure and developer tools,
security, media, and healthcare, and operates dedicated funds for the US,
Europe/Israel, and India/Southeast Asia. Accel is known for its "prepared
mind" investment philosophy and for backing category-defining companies
including Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, CrowdStrike, UiPath, Qualtrics,
Spotify, Flipkart, Swiggy, Freshworks, 1Password, Vercel, Scale AI, Anthropic,
and Perplexity. Its portfolio spans more than 100 unicorns, dozens of IPOs,
and hundreds of acquisitions. In 2024 Accel raised a $650M fund for European
and Israeli startups, and in 2025 raised a fund for India and Southeast Asia.
This profile tracks Accel's identity and its portfolio graph across the API
Evangelist network.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Early Stage
- Growth Equity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Enterprise
- Developer Tools
- Cybersecurity
- Fintech
- Consumer
- United States
- Global
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/accel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
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common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.accel.com/
- type: Portfolio
url: https://www.accel.com/companies
- type: Portfolio
url: portfolio/accel-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://www.accel.com/team
- type: Team
url: team/accel-team.yml
- type: News
url: https://www.accel.com/news
- type: Podcast
url: https://www.accel.com/podcasts
- type: Jobs
url: https://jobs.accel.com/
- type: Contact
url: https://www.accel.com/contact-us
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accel-vc/
- type: Twitter
url: https://x.com/accel
- type: Crunchbase
url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/accel
- type: Features
data:
- "Stage: Seed, Early (Series A), Growth"
- "Sectors: enterprise software & SaaS, consumer, AI, fintech, cybersecurity, infrastructure & developer tools, security, media, healthcare"
- "Geography: Global (United States, Europe, Israel, India, Southeast Asia)"
- "AUM: ~$20B+ (third-party estimate, not firm-published)"
- "Founded: 1983"
- "Founders: Arthur Patterson, Jim Swartz"
- "HQ: Palo Alto, CA"
- "Offices: Palo Alto, San Francisco, London, Bangalore"
- "Recent funds: $650M Europe/Israel (2024); India/Southeast Asia fund (2025)"
sources:
- https://www.accel.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accel_(company)
updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: Accel
url: https://www.accel.com/