Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. The firm specializes in early and growth-stage investments, focusing on sectors such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), consumer products, enterprise solutions, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, media, and business services. Accel is dedicated to supporting a global community of entrepreneurs, identifying and backing those with the potential to drive the growth of next-generation industries. The firm's portfolio includes notable companies like Atlassian, Dropbox, and Facebook, showcasing its commitment to fostering innovation and growth in the technology landscape.
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Pratik Agarwal
Principal
Radhika Ananth
Vice President and Investor
Casey Aylward
Partner
Mahendran Balachandran
Partner, India
Julien Bek
Principal
Luca Bocchio
Partner
Andrei Brasoveanu
Partner
Katie Brown
Investor
Abhinav Chaturvedi
Partner
Ethan Choi
Partner
Miles Clements
Partner
Adrian Colyer
Venture Partner
Kevin Comolli
Partner
Anand Daniel
Partner
Ben Dooley
CFO
Peter Doyle
Investor
Sameer Gandhi
Partner
Martin Gibson
Technology Investor
Graham Hutson
Investor
Sara Ittelson
Partner
Dinesh Katiyar
Partner
Shekhar Kirani
Partner, India
Richard Kotite
Vice President
Gagan Kumar
General Partner
Daniel Levine
Partner
Ping Li
Partner
John Locke
Partner
Zhenya Loginov
Partner
Arun Mathew
Partner
Jonathan Mendelson
Investor
Subrata Mitra
Founder
Gonzalo Mocorrea
Investor
Vasant Natarajan
Partner
Vas Natarajan
Partner
Harry Nelis
Partner
Nate Niparko
Partner
Rachit Parekh
Investor
Vijaysai Patnaik
Associate
Prashanth Prakash
Co-Founder and Partner, India
Varun Purandare
Principal and Investor
Ben Quazzo
Investor, Venture and Growth
Rafael Quintanilla Loeillet
Early-Stage Investor
Tim Rawlinson
Investor - Growth
Tracy Sedlock
Chief Operating Partner
Manasi Shah
Vice President and Investment Team Member
Sarthak Singh
Investor
Ryan Sweeney
General Partner
Charles Tananbaum
Investor
Humza Tariq
Investor
Jonathan Turner
Partner
Cecilia Wang
Vice President and Investor
Matt Weigand
Partner
Eric Wolford
Venture Partner
Ivan Zhou
Partner
Richard Wong
Partner
Bruce Golden
Partner
Steve Loughlin
Partner
Barath Shankar Subramanian
Senior Analyst
David Waltcher
Investor
Past deals in Social Network
Slay
Seed Round in 2024
SLAY is a social gaming company that has developed a platform focused on promoting mental well-being through anonymous interactions. The platform encourages positive social media engagement by prompting users with questions that they must answer by complimenting another user anonymously. This approach aims to foster a supportive online environment, particularly for teenagers, by normalizing positive interactions and reinforcing good mental health practices in the digital space.
FreeUp
Series A in 2023
Pan-India social marketplace for peer-to-peer transaction
Slay
Pre Seed Round in 2023
SLAY is a social gaming company that has developed a platform focused on promoting mental well-being through anonymous interactions. The platform encourages positive social media engagement by prompting users with questions that they must answer by complimenting another user anonymously. This approach aims to foster a supportive online environment, particularly for teenagers, by normalizing positive interactions and reinforcing good mental health practices in the digital space.
Openhouse
Series A in 2022
Openhouse is a community learning center focused on fostering active and holistic education both inside and outside the classroom. Founded by Stanford graduates and headquartered in Bangalore, the organization aims to create a social learning platform that enhances the educational experience by emphasizing collaboration and interaction among students and teachers. Unlike traditional online education, which often lacks engagement, Openhouse seeks to transform learning into an immersive and community-driven experience. The center provides a physical space where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together to exchange skills, ideas, and knowledge, ultimately nurturing critical thinking and leadership skills among students. Backed by notable investors, Openhouse is committed to redefining the boundaries of educational technology by emphasizing the importance of social learning and a supportive culture within its organization.
Knoetic
Series B in 2022
Knoetic is an innovative online platform designed specifically for Chief People Officers, combining a social network and a SaaS analytics tool to provide comprehensive workforce insights. The startup has gained traction with its unique "Insight Engine," which integrates an exclusive community of over 1,000 CPOs, known as CPOHQ, directly into its analytics software. This integration allows CPOs to access both quantitative and qualitative data, enhancing their ability to make informed decisions regarding employee retention, compensation, and hiring. Knoetic's user base includes top technology companies such as Lyft, Squarespace, and Dollar Shave Club, reflecting its appeal within the industry. By facilitating discussions on pressing challenges like remote work transitions and scaling during hypergrowth, Knoetic supports CPOs in building impactful presentations and addressing complex workforce issues. The company recently secured $18 million in Series A funding, indicating strong investor confidence in its mission to empower human resource leaders with data-driven insights.
Trinkerr
Series A in 2021
Trinkerr is a Social Trading Platform. Trinkerr helps users to follow real-time investors' portfolios and replicate them in a single click.
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.
Knoetic
Series A in 2021
Knoetic is an innovative online platform designed specifically for Chief People Officers, combining a social network and a SaaS analytics tool to provide comprehensive workforce insights. The startup has gained traction with its unique "Insight Engine," which integrates an exclusive community of over 1,000 CPOs, known as CPOHQ, directly into its analytics software. This integration allows CPOs to access both quantitative and qualitative data, enhancing their ability to make informed decisions regarding employee retention, compensation, and hiring. Knoetic's user base includes top technology companies such as Lyft, Squarespace, and Dollar Shave Club, reflecting its appeal within the industry. By facilitating discussions on pressing challenges like remote work transitions and scaling during hypergrowth, Knoetic supports CPOs in building impactful presentations and addressing complex workforce issues. The company recently secured $18 million in Series A funding, indicating strong investor confidence in its mission to empower human resource leaders with data-driven insights.
BeReal.
Series A in 2021
BeReal. enables users to spontaneously post photos of their daily lives with their pals. Everyone receives a simultaneous notification each day at a different time to take and share a photo within two minutes.
Couchbase
Series G in 2020
Couchbase, Inc. is a provider of NoSQL databases tailored for enterprises, particularly for web and mobile applications. The company offers a comprehensive Couchbase platform that includes Couchbase Server, a high-performance distributed database, Couchbase Lite, an embedded database for mobile devices, and Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between mobile devices and the cloud. Additionally, Couchbase provides a cloud-native autonomous database management platform through its Kubernetes Operator and a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) known as Couchbase Cloud. The platform is designed to handle massive data volumes in real time, making it suitable for industries such as social networking, online gaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Manchester, United Kingdom, Couchbase was founded in 2008 and rebranded from Membase, Inc. in 2011. The company focuses on empowering developers to create innovative and personalized customer experiences through its agile and scalable database solutions.
Bumble
Series A in 2020
Bumble is a social networking platform that combines dating, friend-finding, and professional networking into a single app. Founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd and based in Austin, Texas, Bumble emphasizes equitable and healthy relationships, allowing users to connect based on their interests. In heterosexual matches, only female users can initiate contact with male matches, while same-sex matches permit either party to reach out first. Users can sign up via their phone number or Facebook profile and can choose to search for romantic partners, friends in "BFF mode," or professional connections through Bumble Bizz. The platform also operates another app, Badoo, which facilitates connections among users globally, further expanding its reach in the online dating market.
Openhouse
Series A in 2019
Openhouse is a community learning center focused on fostering active and holistic education both inside and outside the classroom. Founded by Stanford graduates and headquartered in Bangalore, the organization aims to create a social learning platform that enhances the educational experience by emphasizing collaboration and interaction among students and teachers. Unlike traditional online education, which often lacks engagement, Openhouse seeks to transform learning into an immersive and community-driven experience. The center provides a physical space where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together to exchange skills, ideas, and knowledge, ultimately nurturing critical thinking and leadership skills among students. Backed by notable investors, Openhouse is committed to redefining the boundaries of educational technology by emphasizing the importance of social learning and a supportive culture within its organization.
Hush - Community for Employees
Seed Round in 2018
A community for employees to get real information about any company and openly participate in career and workplace discussions. Over 1 Million Indian employees use the community every month.
Hush - Community for Employees
Seed Round in 2018
A community for employees to get real information about any company and openly participate in career and workplace discussions. Over 1 Million Indian employees use the community every month.
Couchbase
Series F in 2016
Couchbase, Inc. is a provider of NoSQL databases tailored for enterprises, particularly for web and mobile applications. The company offers a comprehensive Couchbase platform that includes Couchbase Server, a high-performance distributed database, Couchbase Lite, an embedded database for mobile devices, and Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between mobile devices and the cloud. Additionally, Couchbase provides a cloud-native autonomous database management platform through its Kubernetes Operator and a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) known as Couchbase Cloud. The platform is designed to handle massive data volumes in real time, making it suitable for industries such as social networking, online gaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Manchester, United Kingdom, Couchbase was founded in 2008 and rebranded from Membase, Inc. in 2011. The company focuses on empowering developers to create innovative and personalized customer experiences through its agile and scalable database solutions.
Couchbase
Series E in 2014
Couchbase, Inc. is a provider of NoSQL databases tailored for enterprises, particularly for web and mobile applications. The company offers a comprehensive Couchbase platform that includes Couchbase Server, a high-performance distributed database, Couchbase Lite, an embedded database for mobile devices, and Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between mobile devices and the cloud. Additionally, Couchbase provides a cloud-native autonomous database management platform through its Kubernetes Operator and a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) known as Couchbase Cloud. The platform is designed to handle massive data volumes in real time, making it suitable for industries such as social networking, online gaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Manchester, United Kingdom, Couchbase was founded in 2008 and rebranded from Membase, Inc. in 2011. The company focuses on empowering developers to create innovative and personalized customer experiences through its agile and scalable database solutions.
Discord
Series A in 2013
Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services for individuals and communities to connect and interact. Initially designed for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as hiking clubs, art communities, and study groups. The platform enables seamless communication through voice-over-internet protocol and instant messaging, accessible on both desktop and mobile devices. This versatility allows users to engage with friends and communities effectively, whether for leisure or collaborative activities, without compromising performance during gaming or other online interactions.
Couchbase
Series D in 2013
Couchbase, Inc. is a provider of NoSQL databases tailored for enterprises, particularly for web and mobile applications. The company offers a comprehensive Couchbase platform that includes Couchbase Server, a high-performance distributed database, Couchbase Lite, an embedded database for mobile devices, and Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between mobile devices and the cloud. Additionally, Couchbase provides a cloud-native autonomous database management platform through its Kubernetes Operator and a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) known as Couchbase Cloud. The platform is designed to handle massive data volumes in real time, making it suitable for industries such as social networking, online gaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Manchester, United Kingdom, Couchbase was founded in 2008 and rebranded from Membase, Inc. in 2011. The company focuses on empowering developers to create innovative and personalized customer experiences through its agile and scalable database solutions.
Kekanto
Series B in 2013
Kekanto is a social network that facilitates the exchange of reviews and recommendations regarding various places and services. Founded in 2010 and based in São Paulo, it serves as a community platform for individuals who enjoy exploring their city, sharing their opinions, and connecting with others. Kekanto's software functions as a city guide, utilizing a social discovery engine powered by local insights. This enables users to access updates on attractions and venues while engaging with the community through comments and reviews. The platform aims to enhance the experience of discovering and enjoying local offerings.
Discord
Seed Round in 2012
Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services for individuals and communities to connect and interact. Initially designed for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as hiking clubs, art communities, and study groups. The platform enables seamless communication through voice-over-internet protocol and instant messaging, accessible on both desktop and mobile devices. This versatility allows users to engage with friends and communities effectively, whether for leisure or collaborative activities, without compromising performance during gaming or other online interactions.
Lenddo
Series A in 2012
Lenddo is the world's first online community that empowers the emerging middle class to use online social connections to demonstrate their creditworthiness and access affordable, life-improving financial services.
BranchOut
Series C in 2012
BranchOut is a professional community platform designed to help users enhance their careers by sharing and capturing everyday moments in the workplace. By enabling individuals to create Professional Timelines, BranchOut allows users to showcase their professional skills, expertise, and achievements through photos and updates. With over 30 million users, it is recognized as the largest professional community on Facebook. The platform facilitates professional networking by providing opportunities for users to find employment leads, sales prospects, and recruiting connections, thereby helping individuals to build their professional brands effectively.
Dragonplay
Series A in 2012
Dragonplay is a prominent developer of free-to-play social games designed for smartphones and social networks. The company's primary goal is to connect people through gaming, allowing users to engage with friends and others across multiple platforms, including Facebook and mobile devices. With a strong emphasis on user experience, Dragonplay aims to delight and connect users globally while upholding high standards of security and privacy. The company has established itself as a leading developer in the social gaming sector, particularly noted for its successful title, Live Holdem Poker Pro, which helped to solidify its reputation in the industry.
Gudville
Series A in 2012
Gudville is a social action network that offers a home for discovering and sharing personal causes. The Gudville platform makes it very easy for people to share their passion for social causes across their circles of friends, discover new causes, and track engagement with a variety of support actions. Gudvillers share their stories to inspire volunteers, raise funds, sign petitions and conduct polls. From its twin bases in Palo Alto, Calif. and Bangalore, India, Gudville will expand worldwide throughout 2013. Gudville offers a home to causes at www.gudville.com. Follow Gudville on Twitter at @MyGudville and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gudville.
Kekanto
Series A in 2011
Kekanto is a social network that facilitates the exchange of reviews and recommendations regarding various places and services. Founded in 2010 and based in São Paulo, it serves as a community platform for individuals who enjoy exploring their city, sharing their opinions, and connecting with others. Kekanto's software functions as a city guide, utilizing a social discovery engine powered by local insights. This enables users to access updates on attractions and venues while engaging with the community through comments and reviews. The platform aims to enhance the experience of discovering and enjoying local offerings.
Schematic Labs
Series A in 2011
Schematic Labs is a mobile technology company focused on creating entertainment applications for Android and iOS devices. Specializing in mobile social entertainment, the company develops software that allows users to share music and engage with others in a social context. Through its innovative applications, Schematic Labs aims to enhance the way users experience and interact with music on their mobile devices.
Couchbase
Series C in 2011
Couchbase, Inc. is a provider of NoSQL databases tailored for enterprises, particularly for web and mobile applications. The company offers a comprehensive Couchbase platform that includes Couchbase Server, a high-performance distributed database, Couchbase Lite, an embedded database for mobile devices, and Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between mobile devices and the cloud. Additionally, Couchbase provides a cloud-native autonomous database management platform through its Kubernetes Operator and a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) known as Couchbase Cloud. The platform is designed to handle massive data volumes in real time, making it suitable for industries such as social networking, online gaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Manchester, United Kingdom, Couchbase was founded in 2008 and rebranded from Membase, Inc. in 2011. The company focuses on empowering developers to create innovative and personalized customer experiences through its agile and scalable database solutions.
Azumio
Series A in 2011
Azumio Inc. is a Palo Alto, California-based developer of health and fitness mobile applications aimed at improving overall human health. Founded in 2011, the company offers a range of applications, including Instant Heart Rate, Fitness Buddy, and the Argus platform. Argus serves as a comprehensive lifestyle service that facilitates activity and diet tracking while fostering a social network centered on health and fitness. The platform integrates various applications, such as Sleep Time and Glucose Buddy, and also connects with third-party wearable devices. Azumio leverages advanced technologies, including AI and deep learning, to enhance food recognition and provide users with valuable insights into their health and wellbeing.
BranchOut
Series B in 2011
BranchOut is a professional community platform designed to help users enhance their careers by sharing and capturing everyday moments in the workplace. By enabling individuals to create Professional Timelines, BranchOut allows users to showcase their professional skills, expertise, and achievements through photos and updates. With over 30 million users, it is recognized as the largest professional community on Facebook. The platform facilitates professional networking by providing opportunities for users to find employment leads, sales prospects, and recruiting connections, thereby helping individuals to build their professional brands effectively.
Vostu
Series C in 2010
Vostu, Ltd. is a social game development company based in George Town, Cayman Islands, with a studio located in Buenos Aires. Founded in 2007, Vostu specializes in creating engaging social and mobile games, which are distributed through popular platforms such as Google Play and the iOS app store. The company focuses on the Latin American market, leveraging its regional expertise to develop games that appeal to local audiences.
YellowDog Media
Series A in 2010
YellowDog Media (previously Yardsellr) is an online marketplace which uses social networks to connect buyers and sellers. Yardsellr believes that people are natural born buyers and sellers. In the tradition of neighborhood garage- and yard-sales, we make it easy for you to list and sell, or find and buy whatever you want. Best of all, the buying and selling is done by regular people like you. That means you get great prices from folks you can trust within your network or within a friend's network. When you put something up for sale, Yardsellr will spread the word about your item within your online "neighborhood" - social and messaging networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google to start. (We'll be adding more ways to spread the word about what you have for sale, so stay tuned.) Yardsellr makes it easy to show your stuff for sale to potential buyers no matter where they are online. For the buyer, it's just as easy. Yardsellr knows that destination sites like Craigslist and eBay have become pretty crowded and hard to use. It's tough to know who you can trust and even harder to find great deals from everyday people. Our "For Sale" page is available anywhere online where a buyer is hanging out. And checkout is a breeze for buyers and sellers. Great deals are only a click or two away when you discover and buy with Yardsellr.
migme
Series C in 2010
Migme Limited is a global digital media company focused on emerging markets offers migme, a fan-based social entertainment platform that offers chat, content, and microblogging services. It enables users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts with each other. The site’s revenue is generated via gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Migme Limited was founded in 2005 and is listed and registered in Australia, with headquarters in Singapore.
Couchbase
Series B in 2010
Couchbase, Inc. is a provider of NoSQL databases tailored for enterprises, particularly for web and mobile applications. The company offers a comprehensive Couchbase platform that includes Couchbase Server, a high-performance distributed database, Couchbase Lite, an embedded database for mobile devices, and Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between mobile devices and the cloud. Additionally, Couchbase provides a cloud-native autonomous database management platform through its Kubernetes Operator and a fully-managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) known as Couchbase Cloud. The platform is designed to handle massive data volumes in real time, making it suitable for industries such as social networking, online gaming, advertising, and e-commerce. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an office in Manchester, United Kingdom, Couchbase was founded in 2008 and rebranded from Membase, Inc. in 2011. The company focuses on empowering developers to create innovative and personalized customer experiences through its agile and scalable database solutions.
Mode Media
Series D in 2008
Mode Media, a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month, was founded in Silicon Valley in 2004 with a simple, yet powerful idea—to help people discover relevant content by combining the power of human curation of premium content with technology that distributes the right content to the right people at the right time. Today, Mode Media is building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators powered by distribution and streaming technology that delivers targeted native videos, content and branded entertainment at scale in real-time. Mode.com is an owned & operated social networking platform where creators can upload videos and build content stories. Content on Mode is curated by professional editors and distributed in user feeds—personalized by the Mode content algorithm technology. Since launch six months ago, Mode has grown from zero to 31 million unique monthly users, and crossed over 1 billion streamed video views.
migme
Series B in 2008
Migme Limited is a global digital media company focused on emerging markets offers migme, a fan-based social entertainment platform that offers chat, content, and microblogging services. It enables users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts with each other. The site’s revenue is generated via gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Migme Limited was founded in 2005 and is listed and registered in Australia, with headquarters in Singapore.
migme
Series A in 2007
Migme Limited is a global digital media company focused on emerging markets offers migme, a fan-based social entertainment platform that offers chat, content, and microblogging services. It enables users to post bite-sized blogs, send messages, and exchange virtual gifts with each other. The site’s revenue is generated via gifts, games, avatar items, emoticons, and stickers. Migme Limited was founded in 2005 and is listed and registered in Australia, with headquarters in Singapore.
Mode Media
Series C in 2006
Mode Media, a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month, was founded in Silicon Valley in 2004 with a simple, yet powerful idea—to help people discover relevant content by combining the power of human curation of premium content with technology that distributes the right content to the right people at the right time. Today, Mode Media is building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators powered by distribution and streaming technology that delivers targeted native videos, content and branded entertainment at scale in real-time. Mode.com is an owned & operated social networking platform where creators can upload videos and build content stories. Content on Mode is curated by professional editors and distributed in user feeds—personalized by the Mode content algorithm technology. Since launch six months ago, Mode has grown from zero to 31 million unique monthly users, and crossed over 1 billion streamed video views.
WeeWorld
Series B in 2006
WeeWorld is a social game and virtual world for teens with a mainstream appeal, reaching a global audience of more than 29M registered WeeMees. WeeWorld's goal is to provide a fun, visual environment that encourages self-expression and creativity. Garnering more than 2M unique users each month on its destination site, www.weeworld.com, WeeWorld's growth has been driven by organic, word-of-mouth traffic (90 percent), as well as through strategic partnerships (10 percent) with AOL, Microsoft, Skype and a host of API partner sites such as USA Networks. WeeWorld is a free, trusted site for dynamic self-expression, creation and communication. Through a palette of features, clothes, accessories, hobbies, etc., WeeWorld users can create their personalized WeeMee avatar, connect with friends, decorate their own visual space, send animated messages, play games and more. Thanks to WeeWorld's open platform, WeeMees are portable to all major social networks and blogging sites, in addition to instant messaging platforms, e-mail signatures and mobile phones.
Mode Media
Series B in 2005
Mode Media, a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month, was founded in Silicon Valley in 2004 with a simple, yet powerful idea—to help people discover relevant content by combining the power of human curation of premium content with technology that distributes the right content to the right people at the right time. Today, Mode Media is building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators powered by distribution and streaming technology that delivers targeted native videos, content and branded entertainment at scale in real-time. Mode.com is an owned & operated social networking platform where creators can upload videos and build content stories. Content on Mode is curated by professional editors and distributed in user feeds—personalized by the Mode content algorithm technology. Since launch six months ago, Mode has grown from zero to 31 million unique monthly users, and crossed over 1 billion streamed video views.
SocialNet.com
Series B in 2000
SocialNet, Inc. operated a Web-based social networking service.
SocialNet.com
Series A in 1998
SocialNet, Inc. operated a Web-based social networking service.
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