Accel Partners
Accel Partners is a venture capital investment company. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London and Shanghai.
Accel Partners currently manages 6 billion U.S. dollars, and has supported over 300 start-ups like Facebook, Kayak, Macromedia, MetroPCS or Walmart.com. In 2000 a collaboration with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co..
Accel Partners rose in May 2005 with $ 12.7 million for a Facebook, currently holds a 10% share of the company worth about $ 5 billion, making it the largest shareholder after Mark Zuckerberg.
Portfolio Companies
- Actuate
- AdMob
- Alfresco
- Altor networks
- AMCC
- Atlassian
- Baidu
- BBN Technologies
- Brightcove
- ComScore
- Etsy
- Focus Media
- Foundry Networks
- Gameforge
- GetJar
- Gigle networks
- Glam Media
- Infinera
- Interwoven
- JBoss
- Kayak
- Knewton
- Macromedia
- MetroPCS
- Nimbula
- Polycom / PictureTel
- Portal Software
- QlikTech
- RealNetworks
- Redback Networks
- ResearchGate
- Riverbed Technology
- SB Nation
- Sohu.com
- UUNet
- Veritas
- Walmart.com
- Webroot
- XenSource
- Zimbra