# Andy Rich

> Andy Rich is a private equity investor at Accel-KKR (Menlo Park) backing SaaS and Internet. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Accel-KKR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel-kkr)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-rich-25b9b137/

Andy Rich is a private equity investor at Accel-KKR in Menlo Park focused on SaaS and Internet. Andy Rich is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Managing Director of Accel-KKR. Andy previously worked at Peak Rock Capital and the Gores Group. Andy Rich attended the University of California, Berkeley.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 100% |
| Internet | 2 | 100% |
| Software | 2 | 100% |
| B2B | 1 | 50% |
| EBooks | 1 | 50% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## 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 |  |
| 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 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LLR Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/llr-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Accel-KKR

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Accel-KKR.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Rich invest in?

Andy Rich invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and Software startups, most often at Private Equity stage. Most of the 2 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 Andy Rich last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Rich closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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