Accel

Accel, established in 1983, is a prominent venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. The firm specializes in investing in early and growth-stage technology startups, focusing on sectors such as software, cloud technologies, consumer services, enterprise, healthcare, fintech, and security. Accel's portfolio includes notable companies like Atlassian, Facebook, Slack, and Spotify, reflecting its ability to identify and support entrepreneurs building businesses that drive next-generation industries.

Casey Aylward

Partner

Nir Blumberger

Venture Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Katie Brown

Investor

Ethan Choi

Partner

Miles Clements

Partner

Adrian Colyer

Venture Partner

Ben Dooley

CFO

Peter Doyle

Investor

Christine Esserman

Partner

Ben Fletcher

Partner

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Graham Hutson

Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner

Myrel Iturrey

Investor

Dinesh Katiyar

Partner

Richard Kotite

Vice President

Gagan Kumar

General Partner

John Locke

Partner

Zhenya Loginov

Partner

Steve Loughlin

Partner

Arun Mathew

Partner

Jonathan Mendelson

Investor

Subrata Mitra

Partner

Gonzalo Mocorrea

Investor

Vasant Natarajan

Partner

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Harry Nelis

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Investor

Vijaysai Patnaik

Associate

Varun Purandare

Principal and Investor

Ben Quazzo

Investor, Venture and Growth

Rafael Quintanilla Loeillet

Early-Stage Investor

Tim Rawlinson

Investor - Growth

Matthew Robinson

Investor

Sagar Sanghvi

Partner

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Jess Segal

Partner, Investor Relation

Ajay Sethi

Venture Partner

Karan Shah

Investor

Manasi Shah

Vice President and Investment Team Member

Sarthak Singh

Investor

Robert Sternberg

Investor

Charles Tananbaum

Investor

Humza Tariq

Investor

Jonathan Turner

Partner

Cecilia Wang

Vice President and Investor

Ivan Zhou

Partner

Past deals in Search Engine

SeatGeek

Series E in 2022
SeatGeek, Inc. is a mobile ticketing marketplace and ticket search engine that facilitates the buying and selling of tickets for sports, concerts, and theater events. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the company also maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, the Netherlands, Australia, and Italy. SeatGeek's platform aggregates ticket listings from various sources, presenting users with a comprehensive view of available options. It employs a unique feature called 'Deal Score,' which rates tickets on a scale from 0 to 100, helping consumers identify the best value for their purchases. Additionally, SeatGeek offers an event discovery tool that utilizes user preferences to suggest local events that align with individual tastes. By streamlining the ticketing process and providing detailed information about venues and pricing, SeatGeek aims to enhance the overall experience for fans.

Diem

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Diem is building a social search engine. It’s a dedicated place for people to search, collect, discover and share information, inspired by the way women have been passing knowledge to each other for centuries. Think of it like the best and biggest group chat you’ve ever been a part of, where all the important, silly, quick, private, and frenetic knowledge you share is organized and stored for everyone to benefit from. Diem incentivizes the community to generate content and harnesses this data to build proprietary search algorithms that will enable people to discover, and visualize, the collective knowledge of entire communities in just a few seconds. Diem was co-founded by Emma Bates & Divia Singh in 2020.

Algolia

Series C in 2019
Algolia is a search-as-a-service platform that empowers businesses to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences across various channels, including web, mobile, and voice. The company provides a robust application programming interface that enables developers to create and optimize search and discovery experiences tailored to consumer needs. Algolia's platform includes the necessary infrastructure and tools to facilitate seamless integration into websites and applications, enhancing user engagement and driving conversion rates. By focusing on delivering quick and relevant search results, Algolia helps organizations improve online interactions and increase revenue.

Algolia

Series B in 2017
Algolia is a search-as-a-service platform that empowers businesses to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences across various channels, including web, mobile, and voice. The company provides a robust application programming interface that enables developers to create and optimize search and discovery experiences tailored to consumer needs. Algolia's platform includes the necessary infrastructure and tools to facilitate seamless integration into websites and applications, enhancing user engagement and driving conversion rates. By focusing on delivering quick and relevant search results, Algolia helps organizations improve online interactions and increase revenue.

SeatGeek

Series D in 2017
SeatGeek, Inc. is a mobile ticketing marketplace and ticket search engine that facilitates the buying and selling of tickets for sports, concerts, and theater events. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the company also maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, the Netherlands, Australia, and Italy. SeatGeek's platform aggregates ticket listings from various sources, presenting users with a comprehensive view of available options. It employs a unique feature called 'Deal Score,' which rates tickets on a scale from 0 to 100, helping consumers identify the best value for their purchases. Additionally, SeatGeek offers an event discovery tool that utilizes user preferences to suggest local events that align with individual tastes. By streamlining the ticketing process and providing detailed information about venues and pricing, SeatGeek aims to enhance the overall experience for fans.

Algolia

Series A in 2015
Algolia is a search-as-a-service platform that empowers businesses to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences across various channels, including web, mobile, and voice. The company provides a robust application programming interface that enables developers to create and optimize search and discovery experiences tailored to consumer needs. Algolia's platform includes the necessary infrastructure and tools to facilitate seamless integration into websites and applications, enhancing user engagement and driving conversion rates. By focusing on delivering quick and relevant search results, Algolia helps organizations improve online interactions and increase revenue.

SeatGeek

Series C in 2015
SeatGeek, Inc. is a mobile ticketing marketplace and ticket search engine that facilitates the buying and selling of tickets for sports, concerts, and theater events. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the company also maintains offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, the Netherlands, Australia, and Italy. SeatGeek's platform aggregates ticket listings from various sources, presenting users with a comprehensive view of available options. It employs a unique feature called 'Deal Score,' which rates tickets on a scale from 0 to 100, helping consumers identify the best value for their purchases. Additionally, SeatGeek offers an event discovery tool that utilizes user preferences to suggest local events that align with individual tastes. By streamlining the ticketing process and providing detailed information about venues and pricing, SeatGeek aims to enhance the overall experience for fans.

ClearGraph

Seed Round in 2015
ClearGraph is a company that specializes in providing enterprise search solutions aimed at making data accessible to business users. Founded in 2014 and based in Palo Alto, California, ClearGraph employs a proprietary semantic search platform that leverages context awareness and natural language processing to interpret and respond to queries in plain English. This technology facilitates the analysis of enterprise data, enabling users to find and understand information quickly and efficiently. As of August 1, 2017, ClearGraph operates as a subsidiary of Tableau Software, expanding its capabilities in delivering intelligent data analysis at scale.

Zettata

Venture Round in 2014
Zettata specializes in developing software solutions for e-commerce search, aimed at enhancing the relevance of search results for users. The company offers a mobile application that connects individuals to pertinent information based on their current context, such as time, location, and intent. By leveraging advanced search technology, Zettata enables e-commerce businesses to significantly improve their conversion rates, ensuring that customers find the products they need more efficiently.

Rockmelt

Series B in 2011
Rockmelt is a social web browser developed on the Chromium platform, offering seamless integration with major social media networks, particularly Facebook and Twitter. The browser features a unique interface known as "Edges," which displays online friends and followed feeds with real-time update notifications. Rockmelt distinguishes itself with a dedicated search field that presents comprehensive search results in a dropdown format, enhancing user experience by allowing quick navigation between results from a single query. Additionally, the browser includes its own URL shortener, me.lt. It is compatible with both Windows and OS X operating systems. Rockmelt is supported by prominent figures in the tech industry, including Marc Andreessen and principal engineer Robert John Churchill, known for his previous work on Netscape Navigator.

Ingenuity Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Ingenuity Systems is a software platform designed to support life science researchers by providing access to crucial information services. The platform allows enterprise customers to facilitate the use of internal portals, search engines, and various software tools, enabling researchers to efficiently search, explore, visualize, and analyze biological and chemical data related to genes, proteins, and small molecules. By streamlining access to these resources, Ingenuity Systems enhances the research capabilities of its users, ultimately contributing to advancements in the life sciences field.

Kosmix

Series D in 2008
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

Xoopit

Series A in 2008
Xoopit is an email organizational tool designed to enhance the way users manage their email content. It employs an innovative indexing architecture similar to that of a web search engine, enabling users to efficiently retrieve meaningful information from their archived emails. Xoopit offers several features, including comprehensive email content search, the ability to incorporate links and maps from the web into emails, and a visual display of relevant information about senders in a conversation thread, such as profile pictures, recent exchanges, and shared attachments. By integrating personal indexing and search capabilities into everyday applications like webmail, Xoopit facilitates the browsing and sharing of files, photos, and videos, ultimately improving users' email management experience.

Kosmix

Series C in 2007
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

KAYAK

Series D in 2007
KAYAK is a global leader in travel search, empowering millions of travelers to make informed decisions. Since its 2004 inception in the US, KAYAK has expanded to over 60 countries, offering a comprehensive platform that compares prices from hundreds of travel websites for flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages. Its suite of tools includes KAYAK Trips, Explore, and Price Forecast. KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands, processing over 6 billion queries annually. The company, now part of Booking Holdings Inc., was founded by industry veterans including Steve Hafner, Paul English, Terrell Jones, and Greg Slyngstad.

EveryZing

Series B in 2007
EveryZing is a media merchandising platform that helps content producers and web publishers dynamically increase the volume of consumable online multimedia content while simultaneously enhancing its monetary value. Unlike other general web search and aggregation services that work only on meta data and tags, EveryZing leverages its unique speech to text, search, and optimization technologies to unlock the content within multimedia and automatically process and organize it to power a compelling ecosystem which easily connects media companies with publishers, consumers, and advertisers.

KAYAK

Series C in 2006
KAYAK is a global leader in travel search, empowering millions of travelers to make informed decisions. Since its 2004 inception in the US, KAYAK has expanded to over 60 countries, offering a comprehensive platform that compares prices from hundreds of travel websites for flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages. Its suite of tools includes KAYAK Trips, Explore, and Price Forecast. KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands, processing over 6 billion queries annually. The company, now part of Booking Holdings Inc., was founded by industry veterans including Steve Hafner, Paul English, Terrell Jones, and Greg Slyngstad.

AdECN

Series A in 2006
AdECN operates as a neutral exchange for online display advertising, utilizing an automated, real-time auction model. The company provides an open market where advertisers and advertising networks can present their ads through the Experclick platform. AdECN facilitates a sealed bid auction for ad impressions, enabling dynamic pricing and competition among advertisers. Additionally, the company employs various methods to match ads to potential viewers, including behavioral, contextual, and profile-based approaches, ensuring that advertisements are relevant and effectively targeted. By streamlining the buying and selling process of online ads, AdECN enhances efficiency for both advertisers and publishers in the digital advertising landscape.

Kosmix

Series B in 2006
Kosmix, established in 2005, is a Mountain View, California-based company that specializes in web navigation and content discovery. It offers a platform that organizes the internet into topic-based pages, presenting users with relevant videos, photos, news, and other content. Kosmix's advanced search engine allows users to filter results using multiple criteria, making it easier to find specific information. The company's content categorization engine also generates topic-specific homepages, helping users cut through online noise and find content that matters to them. Kosmix was founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, who previously co-founded Junglee and Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk. The company is backed by Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.

Perplexity

Perplexity is an artificial intelligence-based search engine platform that combines large language models with traditional search engines. It leverages natural language processing and generative AI technologies to deliver conversational responses to user queries, aiming to enhance the search experience beyond standard results. The platform is designed to facilitate the development of safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence, offering an open-source environment accessible to the public. This allows clients to acquire skills and knowledge in software development, positioning Perplexity as a bridge between conventional search capabilities and advanced AI-driven assistance.
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