Accel Partners – Venture Capital – VC

Types/sectors – information technology, internet, digital media, mobile, networking, software, and services.
Stages of investing – early stage.
History – founded in 1983. Accel entered into a joint-venture in 2000 with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to form Accel-KKR a technology-focused private equity investment firm focused on control investments of middle-market companies.In addition to Accel’s continued investments in early-stage startups from thAccel X early stage fund, Accel announced its $480 million growth fund in December 2008.
Fund value – $8.8 billion
Founders and partners – founded by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz.There are many excellent partners such as Mahendran Balachandran, Philippe Botteri, Andrew Braccia, Jim Breyer, James Cameron and others.
Notable investments, and value – Cohesity $55M Series B round, Bluestone.com $15.8M Series C, UrbanClap $10M Series A and many others.
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA.