Accel

5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 26, 2025 by Dax Dasilva · said 25 times in 8 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Pablo Srugo (9), Jon Noronha (4), Helen Hastings (4), Dax Dasilva (4), Ross McNairn (1), Michel Tricot (1), Guy Podjarny (1), Dylan Fox (1)

tap a year for its mentions
00103205202420252026episodesmentions
035202420252026episodes it came up in
0022.545202420252026episodesmentions per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Accel, oldest first

May 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Lightspeed did not transition to the cloud until raising from Accel VC
“It wasn't until like we brought in a VC that we actually transitioned to the cloud. And that was actually, that was a huge part of the transformation that we did with Excel that was huge, hugely successful and allowed us to do everything we're doing now.”
Dax Dasilva May 26, 2025 ▶ 42:29 He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Ligh... · PMF Show
Sep 4, 2025
Disclosure
Noronha: Gamma raised $3M seed from Accel, reaching ~$5-6M total funding
“I think we raised three million at that time on top of maybe like two and change we'd raised before that. So we're at around five or six total at this point.”
Jon Noronha Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 20:12 Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
Sep 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Noronha: Accel Provided Little Supervision and Acted as Cheerleaders
“They have massive funds. They have tons of customers. They're like, you tell us when you need us, but they were not, like, checking in regularly. And think of anything, they were cheerleaders. Like, They're like, wow, the product's getting so much better so fa…”
Jon Noronha Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 27:55 Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
Sep 4, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Noronha: Gamma's Accel seed was only possible due to 2021 market froth
“So we raised a proper seed round from Excel. I actually think that was only possible because it was an incredibly frothy time. But it turned out to be crucial because we didn't really have traction yet.”
Jon Noronha Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 19:49 Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
Sep 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Noronha: Gamma raised a $12M Series A from Accel in December 2023
“So we ended up raising twelve million Series A from Excel, and that was, yeah, roughly December, twenty-twenty-three. And that's the last time we fundraised.”
Jon Noronha Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 57:03 Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 250 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.