Accel
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Accel is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and SaaS. 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:
- 2431
- 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
- $4.4M–$40M
- Series B
- $9.5M–$75M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 306 (13%)
- SaaS 133 (5%)
- Information Technology 131 (5%)
- E-Commerce 113 (5%)
- Artificial Intelligence 110 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 412 (17%)
- Series B 367 (15%)
- Seed 255 (10%)
- Series C 250 (10%)
- Series D 134 (6%)
Country
- United States 551 (23%)
- India 154 (6%)
- United Kingdom 66 (3%)
- Germany 22 (1%)
- France 21 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Abhinav Chaturvedi
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 35 | Find email | |
Amit Kumar
Partners
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Partners | Total investments: 54 | Find email | |
Amy Saper
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Anand Daniel
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 54 | Find email | |
Andrei Brasoveanu
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 53 | Find email | |
| See all 58 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Nuance Labs
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Nuance Labs, an AI research company, is developing the first human foundation model that understands and displays emotion in real time using voice, facial emotions, and body language. | $50M / Series A / Sep 14, 2026 | |
Swish
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Swish is a fast food delivery platform that transforms convenience and flexibility. | $24M / Series B / Sep 10, 2026 | |
Forus
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From PA generation to appeals, enrollments, & pharmacy navigation, Forus handles the end-to-end medication access process. Forus supports every drug, insurance, and pharmacy to help patients get access to life-changing medications. | $150M / Series C / Sep 08, 2026 | |
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Forus
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From PA generation to appeals, enrollments, & pharmacy navigation, Forus handles the end-to-end medication access process. Forus supports every drug, insurance, and pharmacy to help patients get access to life-changing medications. | $150M / Series C / Sep 08, 2026 | |
Fundly.ai
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Fundly.ai is a fintech platform embedded in the healthcare vertical to provide innovative financing and allied solutions to the pharma distribution tail, specialty players, and brands. | $4M / Seed / Sep 08, 2026 | |
atira
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atira develops industry-specific AI agents for sales engineering and quoting in complex manufacturing. Its AI Sales Engineering Agent platform supports the sales engineering lifecycle by helping teams handle technical and commercial quoting activities. The company provides the software to manufacturing organizations that manage complex products andcustomer requirements. | $15M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | |
Sorare
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Sorare is a global fantasy football game where managers can trade official digital collectibles. It is on a mission to make crypto fun and accessible to all through fantasy football. Based in Paris, Sorare provides a soccer team management game with digital NFT cards that fans can collect and trade.Founded in December 2018, Sorare currently sold$1.8 million worth of cards in December 2020. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 03, 2026 | |
Linear
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Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that. | $99M / Secondary Market / Aug 26, 2026 | |
Keenable
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Keenable develops web search infrastructure for artificial intelligence labs and AI agents, providing tools that allow systems to retrieve and use information from the internet. Its Search API supports web-page search and content retrieval, giving developers programmable access to web data for AI applications and agent workflows. The company alsooffers Time Machine, a point-in-time search API that allows users to search historical versions of web pages and retrieve content from specific snapshots. Keenable provides cloud and on-premises deployment options and supports integration through developer APIs and documentation. Its products are designed for applications that require web grounding, information retrieval, and search capabilities within AI systems. | $26M / Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | |
Flash
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Flash reinvented the food vouchers in Brazil creating an all in one instrument leveraging a MasterCard, a daily used App and an HR platform | $28.8M / Series D / Aug 19, 2026 | |
| See all 2431 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Accel invest in?
Accel invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2,431 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Accel's check size?
Accel typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed, $4.4M–$40M at Series A and $9.5M–$75M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Accel participates 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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