Accel

Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and based in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. It focuses on early and growth-stage technology startups, investing across software, cloud, data analytics, mobile technology, consumer services, fintech, security, healthcare, and information technologies. Accel seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to build world-class companies that define new categories and drive growth. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify, Etsy, Cloudera, DJI, Braintree, and Lookout Security, among others.

Casey Aylward

Partner

Nir Blumberger

Venture Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner

Andrew Braccia

Partner

Andrei Brasoveanu

Partner

Katie Brown

Investor

Miles Clements

Partner

Adrian Colyer

Venture Partner

Kevin Comolli

Partner

Anand Daniel

Partner

Sonali De Rycker

Partner

Ben Dooley

CFO

Peter Doyle

Investor

Kevin Efrusy

Partner

Christine Esserman

Partner

Ben Fletcher

Partner

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Martin Gibson

Investor

Bruce Golden

Partner

Graham Hutson

Investor

Sara Ittelson

Partner

Myrel Iturrey

Investor

Siddarth Jain

Analyst

Dinesh Katiyar Ph.D

Partner

Richard Kotite

Vice President

Amit Kumar

Partner

Gagan Kumar

General Partner

Ping Li

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

Maya Noeth

Partner

Brian O'Malley

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Principal

Vijaysai Patnaik

Associate

Varun Purandare

Principal and Investor

Ben Quazzo

Partner

Rafael Quintanilla

Investor

Tim Rawlinson

Investor

Matt Robinson

Partner

Sagar Sanghvi

Partner

Tracy Sedlock

Chief Operating Partner

Jess Segal

Partner, Investor Relation

Ajay Sethi Ph.D

Venture Partner

Manasi Shah

Vice President and Investment Team Member

Karan Shah

Investor

Sarthak Singh

Investor

Robert Sternberg

Investor

Barath Shankar Subramanian

Principal

Diksha Sundarka

Investor

Prayank Swaroop

Partner

Ryan Sweeney

General Partner

Charles Tananbaum

Investor

Humza Tariq

Investor

Jonathan Turner

Partner

Cecilia Wang

Vice President

Matt Weigand

Partner

Eric Wolford

Venture Partner

Rich Wong

General Partner

Ivan Zhou

Partner

Candice du Fretay

Investor

Past deals in Search Engine

SeatGeek

Series E in 2022
Founded in 2009, SeatGeek operates a mobile ticketing marketplace and search engine for live sports, concerts, and theater events. It aggregates ticket listings from various sources, offering users a 'Deal Score' metric to assess ticket value. The platform also provides event discovery tools based on user preferences. SeatGeek is headquartered in New York with additional offices globally.

Welcome: Real time travel plans

Seed Round in 2021
Welcome provides an app that utilizes real-time search, a proprietary context-driven discovery mode that considers dozens of data points to make the most relevant and personalized recommendations in the exact moment the user opens the app.

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 enables companies to deliver fast, relevant digital experiences across web, mobile, and voice. Its API and tools allow developers and business teams to build and optimize search and discovery experiences that increase engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

Algolia

Series B in 2017
Algolia is a search‑as‑a‑service platform that enables companies to deliver fast, relevant digital experiences across web, mobile, and voice. Its API and tools allow developers and business teams to build and optimize search and discovery experiences that increase engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

SeatGeek

Series D in 2017
Founded in 2009, SeatGeek operates a mobile ticketing marketplace and search engine for live sports, concerts, and theater events. It aggregates ticket listings from various sources, offering users a 'Deal Score' metric to assess ticket value. The platform also provides event discovery tools based on user preferences. SeatGeek is headquartered in New York with additional offices globally.

Algolia

Series A in 2015
Algolia is a search‑as‑a‑service platform that enables companies to deliver fast, relevant digital experiences across web, mobile, and voice. Its API and tools allow developers and business teams to build and optimize search and discovery experiences that increase engagement, conversion rates, and revenue.

SeatGeek

Series C in 2015
Founded in 2009, SeatGeek operates a mobile ticketing marketplace and search engine for live sports, concerts, and theater events. It aggregates ticket listings from various sources, offering users a 'Deal Score' metric to assess ticket value. The platform also provides event discovery tools based on user preferences. SeatGeek is headquartered in New York with additional offices globally.

ClearGraph

Seed Round in 2015
ClearGraph is a company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2014 that specializes in enterprise search solutions aimed at making data accessible to business users. Its proprietary semantic search platform leverages context awareness and natural language processing to intelligently interpret and respond to queries in English, facilitating the discovery and understanding of enterprise data. The platform is designed to enable fast and actionable data analysis using everyday language, providing businesses with a user-friendly interface to interact with complex data sets. As of August 1, 2017, ClearGraph operates as a subsidiary of Tableau Software, focusing on enhancing data accessibility at scale.

Zettata

Venture Round in 2014
Zettata is a software development company specializing in e-commerce search solutions. It creates innovative software designed to deliver relevant search results, enhancing user experience and improving conversion rates for online retailers. The company's flagship product is a mobile application that leverages contextual data such as time, location, and user intent to provide swift and accurate search results.

Rockmelt

Series B in 2011
Rockmelt was a social web browser developed on Chromium technology, offering seamless integration with Facebook and Twitter through its unique "Edges" feature, displaying real-time updates from friends and followed feeds. It introduced an innovative search function that displayed complete results as dropdowns over webpages, facilitating easy navigation between different results. The browser also featured its own URL shortener, me.lt, and was supported on Windows and OS X platforms. Backed by notable Silicon Valley figure Marc Andreessen, Rockmelt's principal engineer was Robert John Churchill, previously the principal engineer for Netscape Navigator.

Ingenuity Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Ingenuity Systems is a developer of a software platform designed to support life science researchers by facilitating access to critical information. The platform enables enterprise customers to provide their researchers with resources through internal portals, search engines, and various software and workflow sources. This functionality allows researchers to effectively search, explore, visualize, and analyze biological and chemical data pertaining to genes, proteins, and small molecules, thereby enhancing their research capabilities and productivity 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 a developer of innovative email organizational tools designed to enhance user experience in managing and retrieving content from archived emails. By employing a unique indexing architecture akin to a web search engine, Xoopit enables users to efficiently search for meaningful information within their emails. The platform offers features such as comprehensive email content search, the ability to incorporate web links and maps into emails, and a detailed overview of all senders in a conversation, including profile pictures, recent interactions, and shared media. With its focus on personal indexing and search capabilities, Xoopit aims to streamline the way users browse and share files, photos, and videos within everyday applications like webmail.

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.

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.

AdECN

Series A in 2006
AdECN operates as a neutral exchange facilitating automated, real-time trading of online display advertising via auction-based bidding. The platform connects advertisers or networks with publishers, enabling efficient matching of ads to visitor profiles based on behaviour, context, or other criteria.

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 AI-driven search engine platform that combines large language models with traditional search engines. It uses natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI to provide conversational responses, bridging the gap between conventional search engines and interactive AI assistance.
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