Accel
Accel is a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all phases of private company growth. Learn more
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Company register number 04033881
Palo Alto California (HQ)
Notable known LPs: Nihal Mehta, SVB Capital, carnegie.org, TrueBridge Capital Partners, Adams Street Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Libertymutual, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, General Motors Hourly-Rate Employees Pension Plan, Employees' Retirement Plan of Duke University, Brighthouse Financial, Metlife Investors USA Insurance, HarbourVest Partners, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, BlackRock, Knightsbridge Advisers LLC, Cox Enterprises Master Trust, Knight Foundation, The Swartz Foundation Ua 110594, University of Michigan Endowment, Zero Gap Fund, BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Operating Engineers Trust Fund of Washington D.C. and Vicinity, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Retirement Benefit Plan, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Master Trust, Zhangjiang Haocheng, Seaver Institute, The Southern California Edison Company Retirement Plan, Greenspring Associates, HP Incorporated Master Trust, State of Michigan, Colorado PERA, Dow Employees' Pension Plan, Co-Op Retirement Plan, Qwest Pension Plan, Agilent Technologies Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan, Qwest Health Care Plan, Bessemer Trust, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, DeA Capital, KLP, State Universities Retirement System, Fish Canners - United Industrial Workers Pension Plan, Retirement Plan For Employees Of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Regents of the University of California, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Pension Plan, Rasmuson Foundation, Fairview Capital Partners, Christian Schools Pension Plan and Trust Fund, Centurylink Defined Benefit Master Trust, Hampshire Pension Fund, Pantheon Ventures, General American Life Insurance Company, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Boy Scouts of America Master Pension Trust - Boy Scouts of America Retirement Plan For Employees, University of Pittsburgh Endowment, National Automatic Sprinkler Industry Pension Fund, State of Michigan Retirement Systems, The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), Silicon Valley Community Foundation Endowment Pool, Washington State Investment Board, Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, Orange County Employees' Retirement System, Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation, Mesirow, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, FLAG Capital Management, SBC Master Pension Trust, Storebrand, Commonfund, Kaiser Permanente 401(k) Retirement Plan, Southern California Edison Company Retirement Plan Trust, Accolade Partners, HP Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan, Headlands Capital, Brown Advisory, Schroders Capital, Lucent Technologies Master Pension Trust, Arcano, Agilent Technologies Retirement Plan, Archer Daniels Midland, AirConditioning and Refrigeration Industry Retirement Trust Fund, Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LACERA, HP Pension Plan, Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, Stonehage Fleming, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Pension Fund, Bell Atlantic Master Trust, Legacy Plan of the National Retirement Fund, AustralianSuper, California Ironworkers Field Pension Trust, Mesirow Financial Private Equity Advisors, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation Long-Term Growth Pool, Horsley Bridge Partners, O'Connor, Hamilton Lane, MGB Erisa Master Trust, Archdiocese of Chicago, Castle Private Equity, Arizona State Retirement System, Invesco, IBM Personal Pension Plan, The Walt Disney Company Retirement Plan Master Trust
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EditFounded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of excellence and innovation in the global venture capital and growth equity business. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California; London, UK; and Bangalore, India; as well as in China via the IDG-Accel Partnership.
With over $6 billion under management, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies.
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