Accel
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Accel is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment. The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.
- Total investments:
- 2509
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
- Fund size:
- $750M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Accel invests in
Stages Accel invests in
Countries Accel invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 58 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$10M
- Series A
- $4.3M–$40M
- Series B
- $9.5M–$75M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 347 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 185 (7%)
- SaaS 160 (6%)
- Information Technology 158 (6%)
- E-Commerce 124 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 528 (21%)
- Series B 423 (17%)
- Seed 367 (15%)
- Series C 283 (11%)
- Series D 151 (6%)
Country
- United States 632 (25%)
- India 191 (8%)
- United Kingdom 75 (3%)
- Germany 26 (1%)
- France 24 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Abhinav Chaturvedi
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 35 | Find email | |
Amit Kumar
Partners
|
Partners | Total investments: 54 | Find email | |
Amy Saper
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Anand Daniel
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 55 | Find email | |
Andrei Brasoveanu
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 54 | Find email | |
| See all 58 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin is building the World's First General Purpose Construction Robot that automate interior finishing trades like drywall finishing, painting and more on real job sites. Construction is a $2T+ industry facing labor shortages, rising costs, and stagnant productivity. While manufacturing, logistics, and automotive have embraced automation, construction remains largely manual. Origin is developing the world’s first general-purpose construction robot — an AI-powered robotic system designed to work alongside human crews and operate power tools across multiple trades. Our robots are already deployed on live job sites in New York City in partnership with leading General Contractors and Trade Contractors. We are on a multi-decade mission to build intelligent robotic systems that enable scalable, high-quality, and cost-efficient construction. | $20M / Seed / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
| CosmoChute develops reusable robotic infrastructure and modular logistics platforms for operations on the lunar surface. The company designs and manufactures standardized, CubeSat-style rover platforms that transport and host scientific and commercial payloads. Its offerings include lunar environment shielding to manage thermal extremes and abrasive regolith, payload power and downlink systems, and PSR-capable payload hosting for missions into permanently shadowed regions. CosmoChute focuses on enabling surface interaction, optical science, and resource access by handling night survival, dust mitigation, and mobility challenges. Its systems are intended for use by space agencies, defense organizations, commercial enterprises, and research institutions seeking sustained lunar operations. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
| Scimplifi is a B2B fulfilment platform that provides customized solutions for sourcing and manufacturing of innovative chemistries. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine. | $750M / Series D / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Scuba is an AI-powered shared context engine and productivity platform built to serve as a unified "shared memory" for teams and their digital AI agents. | $34M / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Scuba is an AI-powered shared context engine and productivity platform built to serve as a unified "shared memory" for teams and their digital AI agents. | Pre-Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Sabi is a neurotechnology startup developing a wearable, non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to translate internal human speech directly into digital text. | $50M / Seed / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Founded by designers of such award-winning indie titles as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dustforce, Blaseball, and more, Gardens Interactive is a game studio focused on the future of online play, growing lush, living spaces that need to be cared for by their communities, and fostering meaningful, memorable stories between players around theworld. | $35M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
Armadin Security
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Armadin Security is an AI-powered cybersecurity company that specializes in real-time threat hunting. | $265M / Series B / Oct 01, 2026 | |
| Dodge AI is an enterprise automation platform that specializes in ERP maintenance. | $2.7M / Seed / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| See all 2509 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Accel invest in?
Accel invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2,509 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Accel invest in?
Accel typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed, $4.3M–$40M at Series A and $9.5M–$75M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Accel's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Accel took part in.
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Who are the partners at Accel?
The team at Accel includes Abhinav Chaturvedi (Partner), Amit Kumar (Partners) and Amy Saper (Partner), among 58 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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