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Accel

Venture capital firm · Palo Alto, USA · Founded 1983 · Active in 2026

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230 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #7 · 230 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Enterprise value ↑ 64% 5y
$3.0T
Unicorns ↑ 28% 5y
215
Decacorns ↑ 9% 5y
25
Thoroughbreds ↑ 26% 5y
225
Featured in #7Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 Top 0.5%by Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes

Accel was founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz, and is one of the longest-running venture firms in tech. The 'Prepared Mind' philosophy — deep thesis work before each bet — has guided the firm for over four decades. Accel runs separate U.S. (Palo Alto), Europe (London), and India practices.

Signature bets include Jim Breyer's Facebook Series A, Slack, Atlassian, Spotify, UiPath, and Crowdstrike.

Portfolio analysis

The 230 Accel Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA150
  2. India19
  3. UK9
  4. Germany8
  5. France8
  6. Canada6
  7. Sweden4
  8. Singapore4
  9. New Zealand2
  10. Australia2
  11. Finland2
  12. Ireland2
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech40
  2. Other B2B Software40
  3. Cybersecurity32
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces26
  5. AI23
  6. Marketing21
  7. Other20
  8. Transportation7
  9. Energy5
  10. Health Tech & Medtech4
  11. Edtech4
  12. Biotech & Life Sciences3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+89
  2. Series A89
  3. Seed34
01 · Portfolio market map

Accel's 230 Power Law outcomes.

Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
230 of 230 Power Law outcomes
Logos hosted by Dealroom; click any chip to open the company in app.dealroom.co. The dot inside each chip shows the company's highest tier — red Gigacorn, violet Centicorn/Decacorn, lavender Unicorn, blue Thoroughbred, green Colt. Tiers are inclusive: a Unicorn (e.g. Klarna) also matches the Thoroughbred filter, a Decacorn also matches Unicorn and Thoroughbred, and so on up the ladder. Colt is a separate axis (high-growth, smaller revenue) and only matches itself. Map dots use the same colour code; hover for details. Sectors are mutually exclusive (priority-ordered classification). Stage entered = the round Accel first invested in (where data is available — coverage 93%).
02 · Origin of portfolio founders

Where Accel's founders come from — and where they study.

408 founders across the 230 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States132
India74
United Kingdom19
Germany17
France16
Canada16
Israel13
Denmark12
Russia9
Finland8
+25 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University18
Harvard University17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology16
Berkeley13
University of Waterloo11
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi9
University of Oxford9
Harvard Business School8
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich5
University of Cambridge5
+147 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google29
Microsoft24
Yahoo!13
Amazon11
Meta9
eBay6
Apple6
Brightcove6
Salesforce5
OpenAI5
+173 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company. Explore the full Sequoia infographic on Thoroughbreds & Unicorns →
03 · Key people

Key people at Accel.

Philippe Botteri
Philippe Botteri
Partner · London
Forbes Midas 2025 · #59
UiPath
 Daniel Levine
Daniel Levine
Partner · Palo Alto
Forbes Midas 2025 · #69
1Password
 Rich Wong
Rich Wong
Partner · Palo Alto
Forbes Midas 2025 · #91
Atlassian
Photos sourced from public partner pages (firm websites + Wikipedia). Roster and Midas ranks are sourced from the official Forbes 2025 Midas List (compiled by Forbes & TrueBridge Capital Partners). Notable-deal attributions are the most-cited public lead deal for each partner; corrections welcome at [email protected].
04 · Compare with peers

How does Accel stack up?

Accel in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Share of new unicorns per year

% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by year
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

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Data as of 15 Apr 2026 · Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset · Methodology
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