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.

Pratik Agarwal

Principal

Casey Aylward

Partner

Mahendran Balachandran

Partner

Luca Bocchio

Partner

Philippe Botteri

Partner

Past deals in Streaming

Myxt

Seed Round in 2023
Myxt is a platform designed for professional audio creators. It offers tools for managing music files, workflows, listening, sharing, reviewing, and payment. The platform enables collaboration among creators, their teams, and fans.

Myxt

Seed Round in 2021
Myxt is a platform designed for professional audio creators. It offers tools for managing music files, workflows, listening, sharing, reviewing, and payment. The platform enables collaboration among creators, their teams, and fans.

CreatorStack

Seed Round in 2021
CreatorStack is a digital media platform that supports content creators in launching and managing their creative careers. The company provides tools for online streaming and content creation, empowering creators to take control of their growth and achieve self-sufficiency. By enabling clients to build their brands, CreatorStack helps them unlock new and existing revenue streams, ensuring that they are not exploited by social media platforms for their work. The focus is on fostering an environment where creators can thrive and monetize their passions effectively.

Ampool

Venture Round in 2019
Ampool, Inc. is a technology company based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing an extensible in-memory platform that enhances analytic capabilities by integrating streaming and historical data. The company offers a cloud-native analytics engine known as the Ampool Active Data Store, which facilitates real-time data processing, including stream ingestion, batch analytics, and interactive queries. Designed for performance and reliability, the platform utilizes a memory-centric architecture that enables fast query processing while maintaining data integrity. Ampool serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, telecommunications, retail, media, and the Internet of Things, aiding organizations in achieving actionable insights and improving decision-making through advanced data analytics.

Raven[Ops]

Seed Round in 2018
Raven[Ops] is a company dedicated to supporting the robotics industry by providing essential data tools that enable developers to create and enhance robotic systems. The company's platform facilitates the collection, streaming, visualization, and logging of data, allowing robots to efficiently capture and analyze information across various domains, including perception and time-series data. By offering comprehensive feedback through concrete visual examples, Raven[Ops] helps developers identify areas for improvement in their robotic systems swiftly and effectively. The company's mission is to cultivate a robust ecosystem of innovative robotics companies by delivering the development tools and data infrastructure necessary for their success.

StreamSets

Series B in 2017
StreamSets, Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based DataOps platform that facilitates modern data integration for enterprises, enabling the continuous flow of big, streaming, and traditional data into data science and analytics applications. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers solutions such as StreamSets Control Hub for designing and monitoring data pipelines, StreamSets Data Collector as an open-source execution engine for managing both streaming and batch data, and StreamSets Transformer for building data transformations across various sources. The platform supports diverse use cases, including integration for data lakes and warehouses, cloud data storage adoption, and the powering of real-time applications. StreamSets serves enterprise clients both in the United States and internationally, with additional offices in locations including Sunnyvale, Austin, London, Barcelona, Bengaluru, and Sydney.

StreamSets

Series A in 2015
StreamSets, Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based DataOps platform that facilitates modern data integration for enterprises, enabling the continuous flow of big, streaming, and traditional data into data science and analytics applications. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers solutions such as StreamSets Control Hub for designing and monitoring data pipelines, StreamSets Data Collector as an open-source execution engine for managing both streaming and batch data, and StreamSets Transformer for building data transformations across various sources. The platform supports diverse use cases, including integration for data lakes and warehouses, cloud data storage adoption, and the powering of real-time applications. StreamSets serves enterprise clients both in the United States and internationally, with additional offices in locations including Sunnyvale, Austin, London, Barcelona, Bengaluru, and Sydney.

Spotify

Series E in 2012
Spotify offers a digital music-streaming service, providing on-demand access to songs across various devices. It enables users to search and discover music collections, build playlists, share music via social networks, and receive personalized recommendations based on listening history.

Spotify

Series D in 2011
Spotify offers a digital music-streaming service, providing on-demand access to songs across various devices. It enables users to search and discover music collections, build playlists, share music via social networks, and receive personalized recommendations based on listening history.

BitTorrent

Series C in 2008
BitTorrent, Inc. is an Internet technology company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in advanced technologies for efficient content delivery and file sharing. Founded in 2004, BitTorrent is known for its original BitTorrent software and the lightweight µTorrent client, which collectively serve over 150 million users worldwide. The company leverages its proprietary BitTorrent Protocol, which enables rapid transfers of large files by allowing users to download and upload pieces of files simultaneously from multiple sources. In addition to its core software, BitTorrent offers a range of products including BitTorrent DNA for content delivery, BitTorrent Live for streaming video, and BitTorrent Now for accessing music and video content. The company also provides solutions for consumer electronics through the BitTorrent Certified Devices program. With a commitment to innovation, BitTorrent continues to enhance the user experience of digital media sharing and access across various platforms and devices.

Wetpaint

Series C in 2008
Wetpaint.com, Inc. is a media company based in Seattle, Washington, primarily operating in North America and Europe. Founded in 2005 by Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint utilizes proprietary technology to create and monetize a portfolio of media properties, with a focus on social media engagement. The company's flagship online property, Wetpaint Entertainment, attracts over 12 million unique visitors monthly and offers content related to television, music, and celebrity lifestyles. Wetpaint also provides a social publishing platform that helps digital publishers grow their audience, offering customized solutions and training to media companies. As of December 2013, Wetpaint operates as a subsidiary of Viggle Inc.

Mode Media

Series D in 2008
Mode Media, founded in Silicon Valley in 2004, is a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month. The company aims to help people discover relevant content by combining human curation with technology that distributes content to the right audience at the right time. Mode Media is focused on building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators, utilizing distribution and streaming technology to deliver targeted native videos, content, and branded entertainment in real-time. With Mode.com as its owned social networking platform, creators can upload videos and create content stories that are curated by professional editors and personalized through the Mode content algorithm technology. Within six months of its launch, Mode has attracted 31 million unique monthly users and has exceeded 1 billion streamed video views.

RayV

Series B in 2007
RayV is a stealth company focused on delivering live television and video-on-demand (VOD) content to personal computers and connected devices via cloud technology. By offering its innovative platform to communication service providers, television channels, and content owners, RayV enables these entities to minimize infrastructure investments while enhancing their content delivery capabilities. The company is also rumored to be developing a peer-to-peer live broadcasting service that allows users to create and share high-quality video playlists online, requiring a download similar to other video sharing platforms.

Wetpaint

Series B in 2007
Wetpaint.com, Inc. is a media company based in Seattle, Washington, primarily operating in North America and Europe. Founded in 2005 by Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint utilizes proprietary technology to create and monetize a portfolio of media properties, with a focus on social media engagement. The company's flagship online property, Wetpaint Entertainment, attracts over 12 million unique visitors monthly and offers content related to television, music, and celebrity lifestyles. Wetpaint also provides a social publishing platform that helps digital publishers grow their audience, offering customized solutions and training to media companies. As of December 2013, Wetpaint operates as a subsidiary of Viggle Inc.

BitTorrent

Series B in 2006
BitTorrent, Inc. is an Internet technology company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in advanced technologies for efficient content delivery and file sharing. Founded in 2004, BitTorrent is known for its original BitTorrent software and the lightweight µTorrent client, which collectively serve over 150 million users worldwide. The company leverages its proprietary BitTorrent Protocol, which enables rapid transfers of large files by allowing users to download and upload pieces of files simultaneously from multiple sources. In addition to its core software, BitTorrent offers a range of products including BitTorrent DNA for content delivery, BitTorrent Live for streaming video, and BitTorrent Now for accessing music and video content. The company also provides solutions for consumer electronics through the BitTorrent Certified Devices program. With a commitment to innovation, BitTorrent continues to enhance the user experience of digital media sharing and access across various platforms and devices.

Mode Media

Series C in 2006
Mode Media, founded in Silicon Valley in 2004, is a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month. The company aims to help people discover relevant content by combining human curation with technology that distributes content to the right audience at the right time. Mode Media is focused on building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators, utilizing distribution and streaming technology to deliver targeted native videos, content, and branded entertainment in real-time. With Mode.com as its owned social networking platform, creators can upload videos and create content stories that are curated by professional editors and personalized through the Mode content algorithm technology. Within six months of its launch, Mode has attracted 31 million unique monthly users and has exceeded 1 billion streamed video views.

Mode Media

Series B in 2005
Mode Media, founded in Silicon Valley in 2004, is a top 10 U.S. media property with 136 million unique users a month. The company aims to help people discover relevant content by combining human curation with technology that distributes content to the right audience at the right time. Mode Media is focused on building the largest independent premium video and content platform for creators, utilizing distribution and streaming technology to deliver targeted native videos, content, and branded entertainment in real-time. With Mode.com as its owned social networking platform, creators can upload videos and create content stories that are curated by professional editors and personalized through the Mode content algorithm technology. Within six months of its launch, Mode has attracted 31 million unique monthly users and has exceeded 1 billion streamed video views.

Rhapsody Networks

Series B in 2001
Rhapsody Networks is an online entertainment platform that streams music from phones, computers and home audio devices. The company provides on-demand streaming services and offline downloads of music in various genres, such as pop, rock, and more. Rhapsody Networks was founded in 2007 and is located in Seattle, Washington.

Rhapsody Networks

Series A in 2000
Rhapsody Networks is an online entertainment platform that streams music from phones, computers and home audio devices. The company provides on-demand streaming services and offline downloads of music in various genres, such as pop, rock, and more. Rhapsody Networks was founded in 2007 and is located in Seattle, Washington.

FastForward Networks

Venture Round in 2000
FastForward Networks is a software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 1998. It specializes in developing streaming media technology and internet broadcasting software, aimed at enhancing content distribution for internet service providers. The company's innovative networking platform transforms the internet into a broadcast medium, facilitating efficient content delivery and improving user experiences.
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