Accel Partners
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| legal form | Private company |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat | Palo Alto , California |
| Branch | Venture capital |
| Website | www.accel.com |
Accel Partners is a venture capital - investment company . Founded in 1983 , the company is headquartered in Palo Alto , California with offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London and Shanghai.
Accel Partners manages 6 billion US dollars and has so far supported over 300 company formations such as Kayak , Etsy , Macromedia , metroPCS and Walmart.com . In 2000 there was a collaboration with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Accel Partners got on Facebook in May 2005 with $ 12.7 million . When it went public in 2012, Accel was the largest shareholder after Mark Zuckerberg (founder) with a 10% stake worth around 10 billion dollars .
Investments
- 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
- Real Networks
- Redback Networks
- ResearchGate
- Riverbed Technology
- SB nation
- Sohu.com
- Supercell
- UUNet
- Veritas
- Walmart.com
- Webroot
- XenSource
- Zimbra
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/accel-partners
- ↑ The Facebook owners. In: Handelszeitung from May 14, 2012