Accel is a venture capital firm that backs technology companies from inception through growth, with a focus across AI, cloud and SaaS, security, consumer, enterprise, fintech, media, marketplaces, and IT security. Its portfolio examples on the company site include companies such as Discord, and its own site describes its investing work as spanning early-stage and late-stage investments across the Bay Area, London, and Bangalore. Accel was founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz. The firm’s team page names partners and executives including Andrew Braccia, Philippe Botteri, Sonali De Rycker, Miles Clements, Andrei Brasoveanu, Casey Aylward, Mahendran Balachandran, Abhinav Chaturvedi, Kevin Comolli, and Anand Daniel. Accel’s latest publicly reported fundraise in the supplied sources was a $650 million fund announced in May 2024 for early-stage companies in Europe and Israel; earlier reports also note a $550 million India-focused fund in 2019. Its offices are listed in Palo Alto in the Bay Area, London, and Bangalore.