# Accenture Technology Ventures

> Accenture Technology Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Internet and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2019
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.accenturetechventures.com/

Accenture Technology Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Internet and Software. Accenture Technology Ventures is the venture capital arm of CIBC World Markets Corp.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 43% |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Developer Tools | 2 | 29% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 43% |
| Series D | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 86% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optimizely | Optimizely provides customer experience optimization, allowing businesses to dramatically drive up the value of their digital products, commerce, and campaigns through its best-in-class experimentation software platform. By replacing digital guesswork with evidence-based results, Optimizely enables product and marketing professionals to accelerateinnovation, lower the risk of new features, and drive up the return on investment from digital by up to 10X. Over 26 of the Fortune 100 companies choose Optimizely to power their global digital experiences. Optimizely’s impressive customer list includes eBay, FOX, IBM, The New York Times, and many more global enterprises.Optimizely was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Series D | Jun 18, 2019 |  |
| Akumina | Akumina is the Employee Experience Platform that helps global enterprises quickly create personalized digital experiences that help every employee in every role work smarter, not harder.By offering a customizable, brandable, and multilingual platform that seamlessly integrates with leading enterprise cloud applications, Akumina delivers acontextual, collaborative, and engaging workplace experience to every user on any device. | $7.5M | Series A | Dec 05, 2018 |  |
| Maana | Maana is the pioneer in knowledge-centric technology. The Maana Knowledge Platform accelerates knowledge discovery to increase profitability. Maana’s patented Knowledge Graph— a breakthrough invention — at the core of the platform expedites extracting knowledge from data silos, to reveal the relationships within the context of an asset or processcompanies wish to optimize. Global companies such as GE, Chevron, and Shell are increasing profitability with Maana by operationalizing insights into line-of-business applications for thousands of employees to make faster data-driven decisions. Investors include Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, Frost Data Capital, GE Ventures, Intel Capital, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, and Shell Technology Ventures. Maana is privately held with offices in Palo Alto, California, and Bellevue, Washington. | $28M | Series C | Dec 19, 2017 |  |
| Interwise | Interwise provides voice, Web, and video conferencing solutions for the enterprise. The company offers AT&T Connect, an IP software, which is used for voice conferences, Web meetings, virtual training, Web seminars, Webcasts, broadcasts, and recordings. It serves technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, insurance, automotive, and retailindustries. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in Israel, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, and Germany. | $34M | Series C | Oct 29, 2001 |  |
| Wicom Communications | (WiCom) Research Group is part of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies. | $12M | Series C | Sep 19, 2001 |  |
| Rivio | Rivio is the fastest-growing segment of the B2B eCommerce and eServices marketplace: small business. In association with industry-leading partners, Rivio is committed to effecting positive change by helping small businesses run more efficiently and produce better results. Rivio delivers integrated, Web-based business services that streamline theflow of work, ideas and information throughout small businesses. Leading organizations such as Bank of America, SOFTBANK Venture Capital and Marsh & McLennan Capital fund Rivio's efforts | $12M | Series D | May 21, 2001 |  |
| Workbrain | Workbrain provides the most widely deployed web-based workforce management solution for large enterprises. The company is the only provider of Total Workforce Management that helps organizations plan, deploy, and manage their workforce to reduce costs, increase sales, and boost employee satisfaction. Clients such as British Airways, General Mills,Target Corporation, and Lifespan choose Workbrain's industry-focused workforce management solutions to integrate workforce planning, labor forecasting, workforce scheduling, time and attendance, and workforce analytics on a single platform. | $20M | Series B | May 14, 2001 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [3i Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3i-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ABS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abs-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Avanade — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bank of America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-america) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CICC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cicc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Accenture Technology Ventures invest in?

Accenture Technology Ventures invests primarily in Internet, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Accenture Technology Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Accenture Technology Ventures closed in Jun 2019. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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