Accel
also referred to as: accel partners · accel ventures
includes Accel Europe, Accel London
11 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jun 18, 2016 by Adam Valkin · said 67 times in 30 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (25), Sanjay Kumar (8), Mihai Tomlin (8), Shruti Ghatge (4), Craig McLuckie (3), Tom Kemp (2), Sunil Thomas (2), Guy Suter (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 26 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
- From 1 man design team to $400k/year consulting for Accel
- How he Grew AI Tool $25k to $250k MRR Last 12 Months, On track for $800k MRR This Year
- He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?
- SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage
- Sourcepoint Hits 500 Customers for Data Privacy Product, Will "definitely hit $50m in 2024"
- The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 1401 UserTesting CEO "We're at $65m in ARR Now, Hoping to Break $80m by EOY" across 3000 paying customers
- 1385 Atlassian Passes $1B ARR Run Rate, Thinking About Acquisitions of "System of Record" companies
- 1327 Prague Based Translation Tool Passes $5m in ARR, Bootstrapped
- 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- EP 589: HeptIo Growing Kubernetes Adoption With $8.5M Raised From Accel with Founder Craig McLuckie
- 736: How Mobile Analytics Company Went $0 to $4 Million in 12 Months
- EP 529: $10m Raised, Pre-Revenue, Notion.ai Adds AI to Email Messaging with Co-Founder Guy Suter
- 809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model
- 789: Google Bought Their Beacons to Distribute Free Wifi in India
- 737: 3000 Hotels Are Paying Them to Optimize Pricing, Investors Put in $50m
- 674: Sumo Logic Passes 1300 Customers, $140M+ Raised, Flirting W/ $100M ARR with CEO Ramin Sayar
- EP 590 :Particle.io Raises $14M, Passes $5M In Revenue, Helping Usher in IoT Connecting Keurigs to Internet with CEO Zach Supalla
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2017 →
Everything said about Accel, oldest first
Jun 18, 2016 neutral
Mar 5, 2017 positive
Accel and Madrona co-led Heptio's $8.5 million Series A round
“No, this was Axel and our partner there is Ping Li, and you know, he is someone that we got to know well, and we sort of really respected and my friend Joe had spent a year as an EIR at Axel before persuading me to make the jump. And we also have a stake from …”
Jul 30, 2017
Sep 21, 2017 neutral
Feb 19, 2018 neutral
Centrify raised Series A from Mayfield and Accel pre-revenue
“No, we actually we bootstrapped the business for about four or six months, so we didn't actually get to revenue, but we had, we got far enough long with a proof of concept that the early investors, the A round investors, which were Mayfield and Excel felt good…”
Feb 19, 2018 neutral
May 10, 2019
Atlassian Raised Zero Primary Capital Until Its 2015 IPO
“I mean, the first time that we raised primary capital was when we went public in 2015, 13 years after founding. We did two secondary rounds. We did a secondary round in 2010 with Excel, and then we did a secondary round with T. Rowe Price in 2013.”
May 17, 2020 neutral
May 17, 2020 positive
Mar 15, 2023
Mar 15, 2023
Accel bought out early angels to prevent founder dilution
“So there were some of the angel investors, which Axel wanted slightly more percentage in the company. So but they didn't want to dilute the primary equity of the founders like us, right? So they offered an exit to some of the earlier angel investors.”