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Accel
Venture capital firm · Founded 1983 · Active in 2026
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.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 237 Accel Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA155
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India19
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UK10
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France8
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Germany8
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Canada6
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Sweden4
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Singapore4
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New Zealand2
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Ireland2
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Australia2
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Finland2
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Other B2B Software42
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Fintech41
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Cybersecurity34
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eCommerce & Marketplaces26
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Marketing22
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AI22
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Other22
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Transportation7
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Health Tech & Medtech4
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Robotics4
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Energy4
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Edtech4
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Series B+92
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Series A92
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Seed34
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.
Accel portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
+46 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
Accel's 237 Power Law outcomes.
How does Accel stack up?
Accel in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location 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 unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
434 founders across the 237 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.
Key people at Accel.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Accel
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Accel on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Accel
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Accel — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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