Accel
VC Fund
Bangalore, India
Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries.Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.
- Total investments:
- 166
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$9.5M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$35M
- Series B
- $8.2M–$65M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 39 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 34 (20%)
- Information Technology 23 (14%)
- E-Commerce 15 (9%)
- Financial Services 12 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (26%)
- Series A 43 (26%)
- Series B 24 (14%)
- Series C 13 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (5%)
Country
- India 52 (31%)
- United States 45 (27%)
- United Kingdom 9 (5%)
- Germany 4 (2%)
- France 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Braccia
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
Dinesh Katiyar
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Holly Bennett
VP of Ecosystem and Portfolio Development
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VP of Ecosystem and Portfolio Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Richard Wong
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 31 | Find email | |
Ryan Sweeney
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 43 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
FirstClub
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FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes. | $23M / Series A / Sep 03, 2025 | |
CityMall
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CityMall is a community commerce platform focused on 300 million new to internet users living in small cities, towns, and villages in India. CityMall is focused on Grocery, Fresh and Packaged FMCG, Electronics, Fashion categories. So far e-commerce has primarily benefited residents of the top 8 metropolitan cities in India. Key reasons for this arelack of trust, lack of familiarity with browsing and transacting online, low average order values (which makes economic viability a challenge for the platforms), lack of credit in online channels (which neighbourhood stores offer).CityMall is a highly efficient channel to serve these consumers through "Community Leaders". They are the "Social" & "Geographical" connectors between end consumers and CityMall. They help us in customer acquisition, localized sales & marketing to capture customers' share of wallet, and the last mile logistics in their communities, thus making the community-led model more suitable for small towns, cities, and villages. Founded by IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee alumni with 8+ years of entrepreneurial experience, Citymall aims to create hundreds of thousands of such micro-entrepreneurs and empower them to create the go-to e-commerce platform for Bharat.CityMall is backed by top-tier VCs like General Catalyst, Elevation, Accel, Jungle Ventures and Waterbridge. | $47M / Series D / Sep 01, 2025 | |
Framer
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Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok. | $100M / Series D / Aug 27, 2025 | |
Shivalik Small Finance Bank
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The bank is technology focussed and is powered by Infosys Finacle Core Banking and Digital Banking Suite including internet and mobile banking. The cloud based architecture provides the bank with unmatched agility to cost effectively manage scale and power its growth. The Bank is live on all retail payment platfroms including UPI, IMPS,NEFT/RTGS and is a direct member of the National Financial Switch. The bank has over 4.5 lakh unique customers including 15,000 self-help groups and operates through 31 branches and over 250 banking agents across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Uttarakhand. As on March 31, 2021, the total deposit base of the bank stood at Rs 1245 Crores and total advances stood at Rs 805 Crores. The Bank is a corporate agent for distribution of insurance products of New India Assurance Co. Ltd. (General Insurance), Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd., Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Star Health & Allied Insurance Company (Health Insurance) and Life Insurance Corporation of India. Its key technology partners also include Infosys (Edgeverve), FIS and Ctrl-S. | $11.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 14, 2025 | |
Truemeds
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Truemeds is a health-tech startup. Its mission to make medicine affordable for chronic patients. | $20M / Secondary Market / Aug 10, 2025 | |
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Truemeds
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Truemeds is a health-tech startup. Its mission to make medicine affordable for chronic patients. | $65M / Series C / Aug 10, 2025 | |
CodeKarma
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CodeKarma is a software productivity platform powered by AI, designed to empower developers and engineering teams by delivering real-time production insights directly into the developer workflow. Its core purpose is to help teams accelerate code understanding, eliminate technical debt, and continuously improve software quality, performance, andmaintainability throughout the software development lifecycle. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 06, 2025 | |
Arivihan
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Arivihan is an automated virtual learning environment that puts a personal tutor right in each student's pocket. | $4.2M / Seed / Jul 31, 2025 | |
Legion Security
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Legion presents an AI SOC companion browser extension that enables scalable automation using in-house knowledge. | $30M / Series A / Jul 30, 2025 | |
Prophet Security
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Prophet Security provides security operations by automating the triage, investigation and response process. | $30M / Series A / Jul 29, 2025 | |
| See all 166 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Accel invest in?
Accel invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 166 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. 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–$9.5M at Seed, $6.5M–$35M at Series A and $8.2M–$65M 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 Andrew Braccia (General Partner), Dinesh Katiyar (Partner) and Holly Bennett (VP of Ecosystem and Portfolio Development), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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