# Accel-KKR

> Accel-KKR is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Software and SaaS. See 131 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 131
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Fund size: $4.4B
- Last fund: Mar 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accel-kkr
- Website: http://www.accel-kkr.com

Accel-KKR is a private equity firm specializing in growth and middle-market investments. It also makes mezzanine investments. The firm seeks to invest in buyouts of divisions of larger companies, divisional carveouts, subsidiaries, and business units or operating assets from public companies; acquisitions and recapitalizations of closely heldprivate companies; and going-private transactions of small and micro-cap public companies. In buyouts, the firm specifically targets assets that are considered or are likely to be considered non-core assets that will typically include businesses with business models that are inconsistent or are incompatible with the parent and may have been under-invested in for some period. It pursues acquisition and recapitalization of private companies that prefer to remain private or which currently do not have the scale and/or growth profile to access the public markets but whose shareholders desire liquidity and/or access to growth capital including acquisition financing including founder and family-owned businesses. The firm pursues going-private transactions in public companies that are either subscale for the public markets or whose management teams have a business plan that is most appropriately executed as a private company. It primarily invests in the technology industry including software, Internet technologies, and IT-enabled services as well as in various sub-segments including enterprise and infrastructure software, vertical market application software, technical software, networking software, enterprise computing, and data storage, storage networking, data communications, telecommunications equipment, Internet services, business process outsourcing, supply chain, and professional IT services. It seeks to invest globally. The firm commits a wide range of capital, from less than $10 million to over $100 million, and typically invests in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $200 million. It prefers to acquire majority ownership positions, control investments, and minority growth investments. The firm is an affiliate of Accel Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Accel–KKR LLC was founded in February 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and London, United Kingdom.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | $12M–$17M |
| Private Equity | $11M–$84M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 88 | 67% |
| SaaS | 34 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 24 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 23 | 18% |
| Computer | 12 | 9% |

160 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 69 | 53% |
| Funding Round | 34 | 26% |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 4% |
| Series C | 4 | 3% |
| Series A | 2 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 79 | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 7% |
| Canada | 5 | 4% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |
| Chile | 3 | 2% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Malinowski | Senior Associate & Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-malinowski |
| Andrew Zbella | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-zbella |
| Andy Rich | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-rich |
| Ben Bisconti | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-bisconti |
| Cherie Callander | Office Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherie-callander |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UpKeep | UpKeep is the mobile-first CMMS/Enterprise Asset Management System helping maintenance teams deliver reliability for their facility. UpKeep has been named the #1 Maintenance Management Software by Gartner and have also been recognized as a top place to work in Los Angeles. UpKeep has over 160,000 registered users from small businesses to largeenterprises including Yamaha, Jet.com, Unilever, and Constellation Brands. |  | Private Equity | May 21, 2026 |  |
| UpKeep | UpKeep is the mobile-first CMMS/Enterprise Asset Management System helping maintenance teams deliver reliability for their facility. UpKeep has been named the #1 Maintenance Management Software by Gartner and have also been recognized as a top place to work in Los Angeles. UpKeep has over 160,000 registered users from small businesses to largeenterprises including Yamaha, Jet.com, Unilever, and Constellation Brands. |  | Private Equity | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Loftware | Loftware, Inc. is the global market leader in Enterprise Labeling Solutions with more than 5,000 customers in over 100 countries. Offering the industry’s most comprehensive labeling solution, Loftware’s enterprise software integrates SAP®, Oracle® and other enterprise applications to produce mission-critical barcode labels, documents, and RFIDSmart tags across the supply chain. Loftware’s design, native print, and built-in business rules functionality drives topline revenue, increases customer satisfaction, and maximizes supply chain efficiency for customers. With over 25 years of industry leadership, Loftware’s enterprise labeling solutions and best practices enable leading companies to meet their customer-specific and regulatory requirements with unprecedented speed and agility. Loftware’s strategy is to be the global market leader across all industries in developing innovative, enterprise–class, mission–critical solutions utilizing their seamless application integration, intelligent data transformation, flexible label and document design and proven software. Loftware will grow and profit by making their customers and partners successful by delivering highly differentiated, compliant, easily integrated, reliable and scalable software products; coupled with the domain expertise of their team of services and support professionals. |  | Secondary Market | May 11, 2026 |  |
| FastSpring | FastSpring is the trusted ecommerce partner for companies that sell software around the world. Companies using FastSpring’s full-service ecommerce solution sell more, stay lean, and compete big. Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in Santa Barbara with an office in Amsterdam. For more information, please visithttps://www.fastspring.com. |  | Private Equity | May 05, 2026 |  |
| FastSpring | FastSpring is the trusted ecommerce partner for companies that sell software around the world. Companies using FastSpring’s full-service ecommerce solution sell more, stay lean, and compete big. Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in Santa Barbara with an office in Amsterdam. For more information, please visithttps://www.fastspring.com. |  | Private Equity | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Staritas | Starita assists healthcare supply chain leaders worldwide in making more informed decisions, allowing them to better analyze market trends and manage all elements of their supply chain. |  | Private Equity | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| LeanDNA | LeanDNA is an analytics platform that enables manufacturers to optimize inventory, avoid shortages, and improve on-time delivery. Leveraging predictive analytics and prescriptive AI to power actionable, automated recommendations, the LeanDNA platform promotes real-time collaboration and standardization across systems, suppliers and sites, unlockingworking capital for the business. Its cloud-based predictive analytics and decision support software allows teams across the organization to work together in real time to hit inventory reduction goals.LeanDNA was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. |  | Private Equity | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| LeagueApps | LeagueApps is committed to a world where all kids and communities have the advantages of sport. Born and bred in New York City, it is the operating system and professional community for the most enterprising youth and local sports organizers—providing them with the solutions they need to succeed. LeagueApps works with thousands of fast-growing andinfluential youth sports organizations, as well as pro teams, leagues, and athletes. Through its software and NextUp platform, which provides organizers with opportunities for leadership development and networking, LeagueApps supports and strengthens the youth sports industry. It also runs FundPlay, a philanthropic program focused on sports-based youth development programs in underserved communities. |  | Private Equity | Oct 11, 2024 |  |
| Ntracts | Ntracts provider of contract management systems. |  | Private Equity | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Appspace, Inc. | The way we work is changing, as are the places we work. Appspace is part of this shift in the workplace experience. Appspace has all the tools enterprises need to drive awareness and productivity on a single, unified software platform. With over 120 experts in 12 countries, Appspace supports a network of partners and integrators to deliver the bestmodern workplace experiences for many of the most recognizable brands in the world. |  | Private Equity | Sep 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 131 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LLR Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/llr-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Shell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shell-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Smedvig Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smedvig-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Accel-KKR invest in?

Accel-KKR invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 131 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-KKR's check size?

Accel-KKR typically joins rounds of $12M–$17M at Debt Financing and $11M–$84M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Accel-KKR participates in.

### How do I contact Accel-KKR?

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### Who are the partners at Accel-KKR?

The team at Accel-KKR includes Adam Malinowski (Senior Associate & Vice President), Andrew Zbella (Principal) and Andy Rich (Managing Director), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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