Accel

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Total investments 1306

Average round size

The average size of a deal this fund participated in

$29M

Portfolio companies 777

Rounds per year 34.37

Lead investments 227

Follow on index

How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds

0.49

Exits 272

Key employees 25

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United States, Palo Alto

Stages of investment

Early Stage Venture

Late Stage Venture

Seed

Areas of investment

Software
Internet
SaaS
Enterprise Software
Information Technology

Notable deals

Company	Industry	Round	Round Size	Date	Investors	Location
Privacera	Big Data Business/Productivity Software Cloud Security Compliance Cyber Security Database Software SaaS	1	$50M	09 Mar 2021	Sapphire Ventures Point72 Ventures Insight Partners Cervin Ventures Battery Ventures Accel	California San Francisco United States
Sentry	Application Performance Management Developer Tools Real Time Software Web Apps	1	$60M	18 Feb 2021	Bond Accel New Enterprise Associates	California San Francisco United States
Fictiv	3D Printing Hardware Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering	1	$35M	17 Feb 2021	Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation M2O Private Fund Advisors Honeywell Venture Capital G2VP Adit Ventures Accel 40 North Ventures	California San Francisco United States
	Artificial Intelligence CRM Enterprise Software Machine Learning Sales Automation	1	$35M	10 Feb 2021	Atlassian Ventures Unusual Ventures Salesforce Ventures Menlo Ventures Accel	California Oakland United States
Flink	Banking Financial Services FinTech Trading Platform	1	$12M	04 Feb 2021	ALLVP Raptor Group Accel Clocktower Technology Ventures	Mexico Mexico City
Scratchpad	CRM Information Technology Productivity Tools SaaS Sales Sales Automation Software	1	$13M	03 Feb 2021	Accel Craft Ventures	California San Francisco United States
Fashinza	B2B Fashion Manufacturing Marketplace	1	$2M	20 Jan 2021	SAIF Partners Accel	Gurugram Haryana India
Personio	Employment Human Resources Recruiting SaaS	1	$125M	18 Jan 2021	Northzone Global Founders Capital Picus Capital Index Ventures Meritech Capital Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners Accel	Bavaria Germany Munich
Jellyfish	Information Technology Management Information Systems Software Software Engineering	1	$31M	12 Jan 2021	Wing Venture Capital Insight Partners Accel	Boston Massachusetts United States

News

Stairwell secures $20M Series A to help organizations outsmart attackers

– Stairwell, a threat-hunting platform, raised $20m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Sequoia Capital and joined by Accel.
– The funding will be used to further advance the Inception platform and to increase the startup’s headcount.
– The Inception platform is launching in early release for a limited number of customers, with full general availability scheduled for 2022.

Sorare Raises $680M in Series B Funding; Valued at $4.3 Billion

– Sorare is a Paris, France, NFT-based fantasy football platform.
– The company raised $680m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Softbank with participation from Atomico, Bessemer Ventures, D1 Capital, Eurazeo, IVP, Liontree and existing investors Benchmark, Accel and Headline, as well as football players Gerard Piqué, Antoine Griezmann, Rio Ferdinand and César Azpilicueta.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth within football while also replicating its model in other sports, expand its team by hiring across key roles, and launch marketing campaigns with partners, athletes, and media companies.