# Jim Swartz

> Jim Swartz is a Series A investor at Accel (San Francisco) backing Software and Logistics. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-swartz-63b47a4a/

Jim Swartz is a Series A investor at Accel in San Francisco focused on Software and Logistics. Jim Swartz is the Founding Partner of Accel and the Founder and Co-Chair of Christian Center of Park City. He attended Carnegie Mellon University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $725k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $6.1M–$50M |
| Series B | $10M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Logistics | 3 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 17% |
| Robotics | 2 | 11% |
| Warehousing | 2 | 11% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 22% |
| Series B | 4 | 22% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| World 1 League | World 1 League is on a mission to inspire, celebrate and reward the best athletes on the planet. Through Olympic-style sports challenges on social media, and first-of-its-kind live stadium events, W1 is transforming the way athletes, fans and brands engage.Founded by nine Olympians and backed by Mark Cuban and Jim Swartz, W1 is the firstprofessional sports league built specifically for social media. Our W1 Rankings system will finally answer the question of who’s the fastest, strongest and greatest in the world -- today rather than yesterday. Built by athletes for athletes, W1 aims to drive economic parity and celebrate open freedoms of expression. It’s time to reinvent the world of sport for a New Generation. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2021 |  |
| Nimble Robotics | Nimble builds AI-powered robots that pick and pack anything to enable the fastest, most affordable, and most sustainable on-demand order fulfillment. | $50M | Series A | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Nimble Robotics | Nimble Robotics specializes in AI-driven robots that automate the processes of picking and packing products, significantly enhancing efficiency in logistics. The company provides a complete eCommerce and omni-channel fulfillment service, allowing merchants to streamline their operations. | $50M | Series A | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| World 1 League | World 1 League is on a mission to inspire, celebrate and reward the best athletes on the planet. Through Olympic-style sports challenges on social media, and first-of-its-kind live stadium events, W1 is transforming the way athletes, fans and brands engage.Founded by nine Olympians and backed by Mark Cuban and Jim Swartz, W1 is the firstprofessional sports league built specifically for social media. Our W1 Rankings system will finally answer the question of who’s the fastest, strongest and greatest in the world -- today rather than yesterday. Built by athletes for athletes, W1 aims to drive economic parity and celebrate open freedoms of expression. It’s time to reinvent the world of sport for a New Generation. | $725K | Seed | Jan 05, 2021 |  |
| CorVent Medical | CorVent Medical is developing smart, versatile, lifesaving ventilators for critical care. The company's first product, the CorVent™ Single-Use Ventilator, was designed in partnership with Design Catapult, an industrial design firm recognized for their rapid ideation of medical and commercial products. The ventilator is currently pendingEmergency Use Authorization (EUA) issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ventilators, tubing connectors and accessories, which authorizes its use for the duration of the U.S. Health and Human Services COVID-19 public health emergency declaration. | $4.5M | Seed | May 11, 2020 |  |
| MetraTech | MetraTech Corp. simplifies and enables global commerce innovation, while helping businesses respond to an ever changing customer and partner relationship landscape. They empower businesses to embrace change through a unique agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solution that models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-partyagreements for customers, partners and suppliers. They automate business processes and business models to address rapidly changing or complex business strategies. Their products are deployed globally, and their customers use MetraTech to innovatively create and securely collect revenue, provide settlement to partners and manage their customer lifecycle in 12 languages, 28 currencies and 90 countries. Customers include Arkadin, Bell, Concur, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), CETIP, The City of Chicago, GRU Sao Paulo International Airport, GXS, Intercall, LifeLock, Microsoft, PGi, Telia Sonera, Telus, and Telmore. The company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. MetraTech is a venture-backed, privately held company whose investors include Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Vesbridge Partners. | $30M |  | Sep 16, 2012 |  |
| Ingenuity Systems | Founded in 1998 by Stanford graduate students, Ingenuity Systems is a company that is taking on the challenge of next-generation knowledge management for the life sciences community. It's long term focus on innovation in semantic search, ontology, and software development has created groundbreaking technologies that help life scienceresearchers more effectively search, explore, visualize, and analyze biological and chemical findings related to genes, proteins, and small molecules (e.g. drugs).All Ingenuity products, solutions, and services leverage the Ingenuity Knowledge Base - a repository of biological interactions and functional annotations created from millions of individually modeled relationships between proteins, genes, complexes, cells, tissues, metabolites, drugs, and diseases. These relationships include rich contextual details and are reviewed for accuracy. Products:IPA®, is software that helps researchers integrate and analyze complex 'omics data. IPA helps researchers understand biology at multiple levels by integrating data from a variety of experimental platforms and providing insight into the molecular and chemical interactions, cellular phenotypes, and disease processes of a biological system. IPA intelligently searches the Ingenuity®Knowledge Base for information on genes, proteins, chemicals, drugs, and molecular relationships to build biological models or get up to speed in a relevant area of research. IPA provides the right biological context to facilitate informed decision-making, advance research project design, and generate new testable hypotheses.Ingenuity® iReport(TM) is the fastest way to understand the biological meaning of expression data. It combines biological and statistical analysis for a rapid and accurate analysis of what genes are significantly differentially expressed in a dataset, and summarizes the affected biology. iReport includes novel interactive & visual tools that help researchers quickly identify the most interesting subset of genes for follow-up.Ingenuity(R) Variant Analysis(TM) combines analytical tools and integrated content to help researchers rapidly identify a short list of compelling variants from human resequencing data using selection criteria based both upon published biological evidence and their own knowledge of disease biology.Ingenuity is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has offices in Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. | $15.4M |  | Jul 01, 2010 |  |
| RGB Networks | RGB Networks, Inc. provides network video processing solutions. Its video intelligence architecture (VIA) based solutions include broadcast network processor for grooming, statistical multiplexing, transrating, digital program insertion, and digital overlays; dynamic bandwidth manager for personalized architectures, such as video-on-demand andswitched digital video; and modular media converter for ASI-to-gigabit Ethernet conversion. The company's VIA solutions also comprise modular video processor, an IPTV solution to deliver Internet protocol-based video services; simulcast edge processor for digital simulcast edge decoding applications; and universal scalable modulator, a multi-service digital edge QAM modulation and upconversion solution. Its video processing solutions enable multiple system operators and video service providers to implement switched digital networks. | $20M | Series D | Apr 01, 2008 |  |
| RGB Networks | RGB Networks, Inc. provides network video processing solutions. Its video intelligence architecture (VIA) based solutions include broadcast network processor for grooming, statistical multiplexing, transrating, digital program insertion, and digital overlays; dynamic bandwidth manager for personalized architectures, such as video-on-demand andswitched digital video; and modular media converter for ASI-to-gigabit Ethernet conversion. The company's VIA solutions also comprise modular video processor, an IPTV solution to deliver Internet protocol-based video services; simulcast edge processor for digital simulcast edge decoding applications; and universal scalable modulator, a multi-service digital edge QAM modulation and upconversion solution. Its video processing solutions enable multiple system operators and video service providers to implement switched digital networks. | $20M | Series C | Jun 22, 2006 |  |
| MetraTech | MetraTech Corp. simplifies and enables global commerce innovation, while helping businesses respond to an ever changing customer and partner relationship landscape. They empower businesses to embrace change through a unique agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solution that models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-partyagreements for customers, partners and suppliers. They automate business processes and business models to address rapidly changing or complex business strategies. Their products are deployed globally, and their customers use MetraTech to innovatively create and securely collect revenue, provide settlement to partners and manage their customer lifecycle in 12 languages, 28 currencies and 90 countries. Customers include Arkadin, Bell, Concur, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), CETIP, The City of Chicago, GRU Sao Paulo International Airport, GXS, Intercall, LifeLock, Microsoft, PGi, Telia Sonera, Telus, and Telmore. The company is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. MetraTech is a venture-backed, privately held company whose investors include Accel Partners, Meritech Capital and Vesbridge Partners. |  | Series D | Sep 01, 2005 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Meritech Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meritech-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Vesbridge Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vesbridge-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Comcast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-interactive-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Apax Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apax-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Accel

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Accel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abhinav Chaturvedi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-chaturvedi |
| Amit Kumar | Partners | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-kumar-4 |
| Amy Saper | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-saper |
| Anand Daniel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-daniel |
| Andrei Brasoveanu | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrei-brasoveanu |

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## FAQ

### What does Jim Swartz invest in?

Jim Swartz invests primarily in Software, Logistics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 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 Jim Swartz's check size?

Jim Swartz typically joins rounds of $725k–$4.5M at Seed, $6.1M–$50M at Series A and $10M–$23M 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 Jim Swartz participates in.

### When did Jim Swartz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jim Swartz closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 18 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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