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Accel
Venture Capital · Founded 1983 · Palo Alto, United States
Accel is a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all phases of private company growth
Accel’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Accel’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 73 companies where Accel is a named shareholder, worth about $31.8B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 73 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Accel’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Accel also appears inside investor groups in RedotPay, Thinking Machines Lab, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Accel’s biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Accel’s transaction record.
Where Accel’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 1,156 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA867
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India200
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UK98
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Denmark77
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Germany33
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Israel32
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France29
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Canada23
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Singapore19
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Slovenia16
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Australia15
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Poland14
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Enterprise Software459
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Fintech202
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Marketing142
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Health141
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Security125
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Media111
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Telecom76
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Food66
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Education63
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Transportation56
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Real Estate43
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Energy41
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Seed531
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Series A520
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Series B+387
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Breakout Stage594
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Early Growth527
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Late Growth414
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Mature23
Inside Accel’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 1,156 tracked.
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UrWhere Accel’s portfolio founders come from.
200 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States78
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India26
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Germany13
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United Kingdom13
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France11
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Sweden9
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Argentina8
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Netherlands7
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Israel6
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Canada5
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
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University of California, Berkeley12
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich6
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Stanford University6
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Technical University Munich6
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem5
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University of Oxford5
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani4
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Harvard Business School4
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Harvard University4
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Alphabet | Google11
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McKinsey & Company7
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IBM6
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ITC5
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
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Microsoft5
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Boston Consulting Group4
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Flipkart4
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PwC4
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Amazon3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Accel.
