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

Miles Clements

Partner

Adrian Colyer

Venture Partner

Ben Dooley

CFO

Peter Doyle

Investor

Christine Esserman

Partner

Ben Fletcher

Partner

Sameer Gandhi

Partner

Martin Gibson

Technology Investor

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

Gonzalo Mocorrea

Investor

Vasant Natarajan

Partner

Vas Natarajan

Partner

Nate Niparko

Partner

Maya Noeth

Partner

Rachit Parekh

Principal

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

Manasi Shah

Vice President and Investment Team Member

Karan Shah

Investor

Sarthak Singh

Investor

Robert Sternberg

Investor

Diksha Sundarka

Investor

Prayank Swaroop

Partner

Charles Tananbaum

Investor

Humza Tariq

Investor

Jonathan Turner

Partner

Cecilia Wang

Vice President

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.

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 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 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 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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