Accel
Founded in 1983, Accel is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies in the cloud, software as a service, consumer, enterprise, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, media, and business products & services sectors. The firm has additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore.
Total Deals
14
Lead Investor
7
Avg Round
$2.1B
Top Stage
Later Stage VC
Stages:
Later Stage VC: 9
Early Stage VC: 5
Industries:
Business/Productivity Software: 10
Network Management Software: 4
Investment History
Chronological investment activity
Stage
Anthropic
Later Stage VC
Sep 2025
$13B
$183B
Anthropic
Later Stage VC
Business/Productivity Software
Sep 2025
$13B
$183B val
+9 co-investors
Perplexity AI
Lead
Later Stage VC
Jul 2025
$600M
$18B
Perplexity AI
Later Stage VC
Lead
Business/Productivity Software
Jul 2025
$600M
$18B val
+9 co-investors
Scale AI
Later Stage VC
Jun 2025
$14.3B
$74.1B
Scale AI
Later Stage VC
Business/Productivity Software
Jun 2025
$14.3B
$74.1B val
+9 co-investors
Scale AI
Lead
Later Stage VC
Dec 2023
$1B
$14B
Scale AI
Later Stage VC
Lead
Business/Productivity Software
Dec 2023
$1B
$14B val
+9 co-investors
Snyk
Later Stage VC
Jan 2022
$379M
$8.6B
Snyk
Later Stage VC
Network Management Software
Jan 2022
$379M
$8.6B val
+9 co-investors