Accel is a venture-capital and growth-investment firm founded by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz in 1983. It invests through funds with different stage and geographic mandates.
The profile covers the Accel investment-firm brand, formerly styled Accel Partners. Individual funds own investments and may have different holdings and results; this is not a profile of Accel-KKR or other similarly named businesses.
Accel’s path from Silicon Valley to Facebook, Australian software and Indian commerce explains its global model. A new wave of 2026 funds tests whether close early relationships can remain an advantage at much greater scale.
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