# Richard Wong

> Richard Wong is a Series A investor at Accel (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 31 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: 31
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richpwong
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rwong
- Website: https://x.com/RWong
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rpwong

Richard Wong is a Series A investor at Accel in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Richard Wong is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Partner of Accel.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 26% |
| SaaS | 5 | 16% |
| Mobile | 5 | 16% |
| Productivity Tools | 3 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 10% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 35% |
| Series B | 7 | 23% |
| Series C | 3 | 10% |
| Series E | 3 | 10% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 52% |
| Australia | 2 | 6% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Napkin AI | Napkin empowers anyone to communicate their ideas visually. With Napkin, you can transform written content into customizable visuals that can be used across Google Docs, Slides, Canva, Slack, Word, PowerPoint, Email, Text, and more. Founded by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, the creators of AI gaming company Osmo, Napkin emerged from theirfrustration with lengthy documents and lackluster presentations despite making learning fun for millions of kids. Experiencing firsthand the power of compelling visuals, they founded Napkin to make it easy for anyone to level-up their business communication through compelling visual storytelling. Try it out at napkin.ai | $10M | Seed | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Luciq | Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications. It delivers real-time contextual throughout the application's life cycle that helps mobile application developers to detect bugs and errors on their application.The company was founded in 2014 and headquarteredin California, United States. | $46M | Series B | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Truora | Truora provides identity verification and fraud prevention tools that help businesses validate users and reduce risk in digital interactions. Its platform offers services such as background checks, identity authentication, and phone number verification to support secure onboarding and transactions. | $15M | Series A | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Truora | Truora provides identity verification and fraud prevention tools that help businesses validate users and reduce risk in digital interactions. Its platform offers services such as background checks, identity authentication, and phone number verification to support secure onboarding and transactions. | $15M | Series A | Apr 04, 2022 |  |
| Dovetail | Dovetail is the only AI-first insights hub that automatically centralizes and transforms scattered customer feedback into insights that help everyone in the enterprise make more customer-centric decisions.Join the ranks of Atlassian, The New York Times, Spotify, Universal, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first withDovetail and improve the quality of their thing. Founded in 2017 by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, Dovetail has 100+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco. | $63M | Series A | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Sprinter Health | Sprinter Health is a mobile healthcare provider that combines technology and a full-stack medical practice to reimagine care at home. We partner with healthcare organizations to drive engagement with proactive, preventive care by combining convenient in-home visits for hands-on diagnostics with support from virtual clinicians to close care gaps,develop care plans, and reconnect patients back into longitudinal care. | $33M | Series A | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Checkr | Checkr is a startup that provides either online access or an API that returns automatically generated background checks. Checkr uses the same data sources as traditional background check companies, but can usually turn it around a lot more quickly than traditional providers. Through Checkr’s advanced background check technology, companies canbetter understand the dynamics of the changing workforce, bring transparency and fairness to their hiring, and ultimately build a better future for workers.Checkr was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Denver, Colorado. | $250M | Series E | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Pyn | Pyn is a human resources company that improves employee communications using marketing techniques, such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering. It specializes in the fields of employee engagement, human, employment, and training. Pyn improves employee communications using marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling,and automated triggering.Pyn’s employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. | $8M | Seed | May 27, 2021 |  |
| Ledger Investing | Ledger Investing, Inc. was formed in 2016 to enable insurers to create substantial value by securitizing insurance risk while providing investors with an opportunity to invest directly in a new and growing asset class.The timing reflects the intersection of recent and unprecedented trends.A significant amount of capital has flowed intoinsurance from long-term institutional investors seeking direct access to pure insurance risks that are uncorrelated with broader capital markets.At the same time, technology is being used to drive revolutionary changes in business models across industries, including financial services - in particular, the creation of new marketplaces that efficiently bring buyers and sellers together in many consumer and commercial sectors.Ledger is backed by Y Combinator and operates from Washington DC. | $10.5M | Series A | Sep 01, 2020 |  |
| Pyn | Pyn is a human resources company that improves employee communications using marketing techniques, such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering. It specializes in the fields of employee engagement, human, employment, and training. Pyn improves employee communications using marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling,and automated triggering.Pyn’s employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. | $2.2M | Seed | Jul 27, 2020 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Marker](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marker) — VC Fund, 3 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 Richard Wong invest in?

Richard Wong invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 31 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 Richard Wong last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Richard Wong closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 31 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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