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
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/accel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
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/