| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.08.2020 | Congrats to Bumble on 100 Million Users | At Accel we are passionate about backing exceptional founders with unique insights and the courageou... |
| 29.07.2020 | Securing Access in the Public Cloud: Our Investment in Ermet... | Widespread cloud adoption has created a new security challenge for enterprises. The cloud environmen... |
| 17.07.2020 | Accel 2020 Euroscape: "Decacorn Unleashed" - Apply... | - This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and publishe... |
| 17.07.2020 | UiPath: The First European Cloud Decacorn is Born | As we boarded our flight back to London in early February 2017, leaving behind the Bucharest winter,... |
| 26.06.2020 | The Rise of Open Source Software in Europe | We are seeing a significant change in the global business landscape, and attention within technology... |
| - | Our Continued Investment in Narvar | Almost three years ago to the day,
, the premium post-purchase customer engagement platform. At the... |
| - | Congratulations, RiskRecon on Joining Mastercard! | This week, RiskRecon begins the next stage of its journey within Mastercard, completing an
that was... |
| - | Introducing Rylo | came out of stealth today — the company has introduced a small camera and revolutionary mobile app t... |
| - | Spotlight on Product Leadership with Celonis’s Anthony Deigh... | For any technology company, the strategy and process behind product development is perhaps the defin... |
| - | Introducing Accel Scholars at UC Berkeley | (
Last week, we
the launch of our Accel Scholars program, in partnership with the Electrical Engin... |
| - | Congratulations, Productiv: Pioneering the Concept of Applic... | Over the last few years, the rapid and massive adoption of SaaS applications has driven immense prod... |
| - | To become a public company, start operating like one early o... | After their long post-financial crisis slump, European tech IPOs are starting to rebound. Tech compa... |
| - | 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card | The 2017 Report Card measures attitudes and perception of 700 enterprise IT security practitioners a... |
| - | Spotlight on High-Velocity Enterprise Sales, with Instana's ... | A strong sales operation is critical for companies to scale quickly. Your sales team has to be geare... |
| - | Flipkart: From an Accel-led $800K seed in 2008 to $4B+ in ca... | [source: Flipkart] Flipkart Group, India’s leading e-commerce marketplace, has announced an investme... |
| - | Rovio’s revenue increased by 94% in the second quarter | Rovio Entertainment Ltd.’s strong growth continued in the second quarter of 2017, with the company’s... |
| - | Funding Circle's IPO: The Founder Factor | Every investor is looking for the company that is going to stand out from the crowd: the category wi... |
| - | Welcoming Amit Jhawar to Accel as a Venture Partner | We’re thrilled to announce that our longtime friend,
, is joining Accel as a Venture Partner. In th... |
| - | Our Series B in Radar | We’re excited to lead the Series B in
, a location data platform company. They’re fast becoming the... |
| - | What comes next | Last year, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of Accel’s founding. And as much as our industry and b... |
| - | Spotlight On: Leading in Times of Crisis | The Covid-19 pandemic has turned every business plan into a question mark. Companies of all sizes ar... |
| - | The Accel Effect | [source: Fortune India] Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Ryan Valles had a business meeting in Koramanga... |
| - | Spotlight On: “First Team” Behavior | In our last interview with
, former senior engineering lead at Cloudera and Google, he shares the g... |
| - | Qualtrics' CEO Ryan Smith's Big Life Hack | [Source: Fortune] How do you juggle a growing family and a rocket-fueled tech company? If you’re Qua... |
| - | Welcome, Paula Judge | On the heels of announcing a number of great additions to our team including
,
,
and
, we’re exc... |
| - | Our Investment in Chainalysis: Meet the startup that brought... | While still very much in its infancy when it comes to development and adoption, a decentralized fina... |
| - | Congratulations, Galileo | We wanted to congratulate Clay and Marie Wilkes and the Galileo family on today’s $1.2B sale of Gali... |
| - | Introducing our newest London Partner, Luca Bocchio | When you meet Luca, it’s hard to miss his strong sense of curiosity and passion for all things entre... |
| - | Welcome, Eli Collins, Accel’s Technologist-in-Residence | We’re thrilled to welcome
back to the Accel family in a newly formed role: Technologist-in-Residenc... |
| - | Our Investment in Deviceplane | Every day it seems we meet incredible teams bringing intelligent hardware to life. It's no surprise,... |
| - | Raising the data privacy bar: our investment in Privitar | Many of our portfolio companies, and the enterprises they sell into, have made data central to their... |
| - | Growth of a viral product: backing Miro | As an investor, I look for many things in a company before I consider supporting it. But there is on... |
| - | Announcing our two newest London Partners, Seth Pierrepont &... | Venture capital is inherently a people business; it’s about spotting, cultivating and partnering wit... |
| - | Welcome Kendall Collins as Accel Executive in Residence | We’re excited to welcome
to the Accel Family as our latest Executive in Residence (EIR).
Kendall h... |
| - | Our Investment in Vercel | Fourteen years ago,
, an early service offered by Amazon’s new cloud business, AWS. It directly tar... |
| - | Our Series A Investment in BrowserStack — a 6 Year Courtship... |
Today we’re excited to announce our $50 million Series A investment into
, a web and mobile testi... |
| - | Spotlight On: Building Great Teams | This is the first post in our “Spotlight On” series where
, interviews different business leaders o... |
| - | Backing a Banking Revolutionary: Our Investment in Monzo |
Over the years at Accel, we’ve backed many businesses reshaping large consumer categories with del... |
| - | Our Investment in Ethos: Reinventing Life Insurance | Today Accel is announcing our Series B investment into
, the fastest growing company in digital lif... |
| - | Notes from Accel Symposium: The Rise of AI/ML & RPA in t... | This past month, Accel had the pleasure of hosting thought-leaders in finance, technology, and opera... |
| - | Deepening Our Longstanding Commitment to India with Our Sixt... | Recently, we closed our sixth India fund—$550 million of new capital that will be primarily invested... |
| - | Signed, sealed, delivered: DocuSign hits the Nasdaq | Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the comp... |
| - | Our Investment in Guru | Rick Nucci and Mitch Stewart founded Guru around one simple belief: that the information you need to... |
| - | Our seed investment in Zenaton - building workflows should b... |
We’re thrilled to be announcing our seed investment in
, a cloud-based developer tool company tha... |
| - | Intelligent Machines | We’re in the golden age of video as consumers demand new and faster ways – from professionals and am... |
| - | Our Continued Investment in Scale: Accelerating and Democrat... | announced a new milestone today and Ashlee Vance covered the news for
. Scale also wrote about the ... |
| - | Spotlight On: Executing an Effective Candidate Search | This is Part II in our 3-part interview series with
former SVP of Engineering at Cloudera and VP of... |
| - | Our Series A in Process Street | We’re excited to lead the Series A in
, a no-code workflow builder that’s rapidly gaining bottoms-u... |
| - | Slack: It’s Always Been About the People | I’ve struggled with how to properly capture the emotion of this historic day for Slack. The company'... |
| - | Deepening Our Partnership with UiPath: Leading a $153 Millio... | At Accel, we share a core belief that category-defining technology companies are founded all over th... |
| - | The Golden Age of Video | [Source: Accel] We’re in the golden age of video as consumers demand new and faster ways – from prof... |
| - | Welcome Elain Szu, Accel’s Newest Executive-in-Residence |
We’re excited to share that Elain Szu has joined the Accel family as an executive-in-residence (EI... |
| - | Enterprise automation and conversational AI: Our investment ... | Enterprise automation has come of age in recent years. As software technologies from process mining ... |
| - | Our Series A in Catalyst | We're excited to announce our Series A in
, a fast emerging SaaS company building the platform for ... |
| - | Open Adoption Software: 2016 Year In Review | [Source: Jake Flomenberg, Accel]
Introduction to the Open Adoption Software market
2016 was anothe... |
| - | Accel Origins Series: Cloudera Co-Founder & CTO Amr Awad... | [source: Accel] Founders have uncommon drive and ambition. At Accel, we’re fortunate to back many im... |
| - | Reflecting on 2016 and Looking Ahead to 2017 | This November, we gathered our global founders and CEOs in San Francisco for our Accel Connect event... |
| - | Responsibility. | As we watch the terrible tragedy of George Floyd unfold, and witness the subsequent wave of protests... |
| - | Simility: Future Forward with PayPal | In 2015, Accel made a seed investment in Simility, a machine learning-based fraud detection platform... |
| - | Our Series A in Galileo | Our investment today in
, a $77M ‘Series A’ that we’re leading with our friend Ryan Smith (Qualtric... |
| - | Announcing Our Series A in MessageBird: Giving Voice to Deve... | On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I stood on a street corner facing a frustrating but familiar issue: I... |
| - | Cloudera's IPO | [source: Ping Li] Today, Cloudera became a publicly-traded company. It’s another milestone in the co... |
| - | A Quantified Autonomous Future | [Source: Accel] The march towards a quantified, autonomous future continues thanks to the confluence... |
| - | Our Seed in Facet | We're announcing our seed round behind the outstanding team at
, a system for creative marketing te... |
| - | RelateIQ founder Steve Loughlin on joining Accel as an inves... | [Source: Steve Loughlin, Accel] All early stage companies start as incredible possibilities. From th... |
| - | Shifting into 6th gear: Accel’s belief in Europe | At Accel, we are convinced that innovation and talent can come from anywhere and believe in a world ... |
| - | Backing a category creator: our partnership with Celonis | Any start-up is an exercise in bravery and ambition, but the bravest of all venture into fields that... |
| - | Our Series A in Blameless | We’re excited to announce our Series A investment in
, a complete workbench for teams implementing ... |
| - | Securing the Modern Enterprise | [Source: Ping Li, Accel] Hardening security was top-of-mind and will remain a focus throughout 2016.... |
| - | Spotlight on Developer Community and Go-To-Market | Recently at Accel we hosted Dev Connect, an event bringing together leaders from developer-focused c... |
| - | Spotlight On: What Cybersecurity Has to Offer | Welcome to the latest post in our “Spotlight On” series where Accel Talent Partner, Peter Clarke, in... |
| - | The Future of AI | [Source: Wired] It’s hard to think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next... |
| - | Our Investment in Transcend | Today we’re announcing our latest Seed round in the fiercely talented team at
, a data privacy infr... |
| - | Scaling Culture: Staying True to your Origins | Culture is imperative to the success of companies, no matter the size. For the past two years, the A... |
| - | Our Series A in ReadMe | Accel led the Series A in
. TechCrunch
, and I’m excited to give my perspective on the company.
W... |
| - | The Dropbox IPO | Congratulations to all Dropboxers past and present on today’s IPO. It would be hard to capture and r... |
| - | Reflecting on 2018 and 2019 Predictions | 2018 capped off another year of tech surprises that ran the gamut from Apple becoming the first publ... |
| - | Scaling tips from John Chambers: Part 1 - Spotlight on cultu... | For the leader of any fast-growing company, every day brings a new challenge. A CEO has to manage is... |
| - | The Next Step of AI: Our Continued Investment in Scale |
, with coverage from
,
, and
amongst others.
Over the last 40+ years the biggest macro-trend i... |
| - | Segment: Organizing the World's Customer Data |
We’re so excited to share that we’ve co-led a
.
Much has changed since we first led Segment’s Se... |
| - | Our Investment in Trade Republic: Investing in Smart Investi... | Accel’s global approach to investing means that we’re used to literally going the extra mile to find... |
| - | Congratulations, HotelTonight on Joining Airbnb! | We first met
co-founders, CEO
, Chief Architect
and Board Member,
, over eight years ago when we... |
| - | Experience Management: A Modern Take on Employee Engagement | Customers have grown accustomed to everyday digital engagements. However, when those customers step ... |
| - | Welcome, Ethan Choi | At Accel, we continue to add talent to our team to help us find (and support) the next great generat... |
| - | Spotlight On: How to Deliver When the Stakes are High and th... | Welcome to the second installment in our three-part interview series with Amol Kulkarni, Chief Produ... |
| - | Our investment in Hopin: Connecting people | At Accel we have a long history of backing platforms that bring people closer together. We were seed... |
| - | Enterprise Collaboration | [Source: Siliconbeat] Slack may still be a young startup itself, but that hasn’t prevented the corpo... |
| - | Latest State of Hardware Report from Fictiv | [source: Fictiv] To transform an idea into a commercially-viable hardware product requires vast rese... |
| - | Global Reach, Local Empathy: The Companies Powering the Futu... | If you’ve read the news or followed the stock market over the last two years, you’re likely aware of... |
| - | Congratulations, Heptio Team! | Almost three years ago to the day, I wrote a
welcoming
as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to Accel. I... |
| - | Tenable's IPO |
Congratulations, team Tenable, on today’s IPO, a moment 16 years in the making.
We’ve been fortun... |
| - | Our Continued Support of Sentry |
its Series B. Accel is investing again, upping our stake even further. We are proud to be the comp... |
| - | Flipkart: Realizing the India Opportunity | Today we’re witnessing a breakout moment for Indian entrepreneurship and its rapidly expanding consu... |
| - | DJI's New Mavic Pro Drone Fits in the Palm of Your Hand | [Source: The Verge] Over the last year, the clearest trend in the drone industry has been a move tow... |
| - | Welcome, Maya Noeth | At Accel, we’ve been fortunate to partner with many bold, exceptional entrepreneurs – people we refe... |
| - | Investing Outside Silicon Valley, “Prepared Minds” and How t... | Next up in the
Accel series is partner,
. Rich shares much of his background with Harry in his int... |
| - | The Next Wave in Software: Open Adoption Software (OAS) | [Source: Jake Flomenberg, Accel] There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy sof... |
| - | Welcome, Amy Saper | We are excited to introduce the newest member of our venture team,
!
Amy joins us after many years... |
| - | Our Series A Investment in Simility | Today we’re excited to share our Series A investment in
, the most advanced online fraud-detection ... |
| - | PillPack: Improving medication management | Huge congratulations to TJ Parker, Elliot Cohen and the entire PillPack team on yesterday’s acquisit... |