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Stebbings: Accel made $2.5 billion and Paige Craig 1,000x on Scale
“Excel made 2.5 billion dollars. Well done, Daniel Levine. Amazing seed bet early. Paige Craig led a pre-seed, a thousand extra turn.”
Sivulka: Excel reached 90% finance market penetration in 18-24 months
“If you look at finance and how fast, ah, Excel went to 90% market penetration in finance. 1985 to 1986. Literally 18 months to 24 months, Excel took over all of finance. Everyone switched from using a calculator, the HP 12 C, to using Excel.”
Stebbings: Hopin Raised $174M+ in 13 Months
“In just 13 months, Johnny's raised over a hundred and seventy four million dollars for Hopin, from the likes of Excel, IVP, Slack, North Zone, Co-Two, Salesforce, and of course, TwentyVC fund disclaimer.”
Eggers: Lightspeed's Series A in Riverbed returned hundreds of millions
“The first big early stage outcome we had was Riverbed, where we were in the Series A with our friends at Excel, and that returned, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to our investors.”
UiPath has raised over $977M in venture funding
“To date, UiPath has raised over nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world, including Sequoia, Excel, Meritech, IVP, Capital G, Kleiner, CoTo, and more.”
GM Pension Fund has invested in every Accel fund since Accel I
“GM had been an investor in venture funds since the late seventies. They're invested in Excel, for example, all the way on from Excel number one all the way on through.”
Ilkka Paananen raised over $143M for Supercell prior to Tencent acquisition
“Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and Lifeline to name a fe…”