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Accel

Venture Capital · Founded 1983 · Palo Alto, United States

#4 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.1% of investors worldwide

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

1,156 Portfolio companies+33% in 5 years
211 Unicorns
32 Decacorns
2,313 Investments
Aug 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

Accel’s biggest current holdings.

Accel is a named shareholder in 73 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $32.9B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 12 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 GopuffFood · Decacorn 5.5% $40.0B $2.2B
  2. 2 VercelEnterprise Software · Unicorn 18.5% $9.3B $1.7B
  3. 3 1PasswordSecurity · Unicorn 22.2% $6.8B $1.5B
  4. 4 VintedEnterprise Software · Unicorn 15% $9.4B $1.4B
  5. 5 CelonisEnterprise Software · Decacorn 10.5% $13.0B $1.4B
  6. 6 SupabaseEnterprise Software · Unicorn 11.5% $10.5B $1.2B
  7. 7 14% $8.6B $1.2B
  8. 8 22.5% $5.0B $1.1B
  9. 9 9% $12.0B $1.1B
  10. 10 8% $12.5B $1.0B
  11. 11 6% $15.0B $900M
  12. 12 9.5% $9.0B $855M

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 shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

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.

$104B IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $1.5TMedia
Cisco
IPO · 1990
Now $493BTelecom
Verizon
IPO · 1983
Now $382BMedia
$2.4B IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $225BSecurity
$6.6B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $215BSecurity
Qualcomm
$445M IPO · 1991
Now $183BTelecom
Adobe Systems
IPO · 1986
Now $107BMedia
$30B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $90BMusic
$60B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
Nebius
$12B IPO · 2011
Now $48BHosting
$4.4B IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $38BEnterprise Software
$36B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $6.6BEnterprise Software
04 · Portfolio analysis

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.

By countryCount
  1. USA718
  2. India195
  3. UK80
  4. Germany31
  5. France27
  6. Israel26
  7. Mexico26
  8. Singapore16
  9. Canada14
  10. Brazil13
  11. Australia11
  12. Sweden9
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software383
  2. Fintech172
  3. Marketing121
  4. Media117
  5. Security111
  6. Telecom85
  7. Health64
  8. Food44
  9. Transportation40
  10. Fashion36
  11. Real Estate34
  12. Gaming33
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A489
  2. Seed366
  3. Series B+293
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage517
  2. Late Growth390
  3. Early Growth318
  4. Mature17
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside Accel’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 1,156 tracked.

Flipkart
Home Living · Decacorn
$36B
Anysphere | Cursor
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$50B
Gopuff
Food · Unicorn
$8.5B
Ola
Transportation · Unicorn
$7.3B
Swiggy
Food · Unicorn
$8.4B
Helsing
Security · Decacorn
$18B
Wonder
Food · Unicorn
$9.0B
Meta
Media · Gigacorn
$1.5T
Cyera
Security · Decacorn
$12B
Spotify
Music · Decacorn
$90B
Thinking Machines Lab
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$12B
UiPath
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.6B
Monzo Bank
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.9B
Celonis
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$13B
Legendary Entertainment
Media · Unicorn
$3.5B
Deliveroo
Food · Unicorn
$2.7B
Scale
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$29B
Snyk
Security · Unicorn
$7.4B
Slack
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$23B
Netskope
Security · Unicorn
$5.7B
Bird
Transportation
$145M
Groupon
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Trade Republic
Fintech · Decacorn
$13B
Circle
Fintech · Decacorn
$15B
Bird
Telecom · Unicorn
$3.8B
Teya
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.4B
Cloudera
Security · Unicorn
$5.3B
Hopin
Event Tech
$38M
Mind Robotics
Robotics · Unicorn
$3.4B
Chaos Industries
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
Supabase
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$11B
Discord
Gaming · Decacorn
$15B
Letgo
Fashion · Unicorn
$1.5B
WorldRemit
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.0B
1Password
Security · Unicorn
$6.8B
Qualtrics
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Zetwerk
Robotics · Unicorn
$4.0B
True Anomaly
Security · Unicorn
$2.2B
Vercel
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$9.3B
Skydio
Robotics · Unicorn
$4.4B
Spinny
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.8B
Filevine
Legal · Unicorn
$3.0B
Rapido
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.0B
Cohesity
Security · Unicorn
$7.0B
SentinelOne
Security · Unicorn
$6.7B
Animoca Brands
Gaming · Unicorn
$5.9B
Klaviyo
Marketing · Unicorn
$4.0B
Personio
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$5.0B
Eruditus Executive Education
Education · Unicorn
$3.2B
Sorare
Gaming · Unicorn
$4.3B
Sysdig
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Kry
Health · Unicorn
$2.0B
Aura
Security · Unicorn
$1.6B
Myntra
Fashion
$580M
Melio
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
Socure
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
GoCardless
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.2B
Nuvemshop
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.1B
Urban Company
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$2.7B
Dropbox
Security · Decacorn
$11B
06 · Portfolio founders

Where 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States79
  2. India27
  3. Germany13
  4. United Kingdom13
  5. France11
  6. Argentina8
  7. Netherlands7
  8. Israel6
  9. Sweden6
  10. Canada5
UniversityCount
  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
  2. University of California, Berkeley12
  3. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich6
  4. Stanford University6
  5. Technical University Munich6
  6. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem5
  7. University of Oxford5
  8. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani4
  9. Harvard Business School4
  10. Harvard University4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google11
  2. IBM6
  3. McKinsey & Company6
  4. ITC5
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  6. Microsoft5
  7. Boston Consulting Group4
  8. Flipkart4
  9. PwC4
  10. Amazon3