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Accel Partners
Type	Private Ownership
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Industry	Private Equity
Products	Venture capital, Growth capital
Website	www.accel.com

Accel Partners is a leading global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.

The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai.

Founded in 1983, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies including: Actuate, AdMob, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Baidu, BBN, Brightcove, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Focus Media, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, Glam Media, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, JBoss, Kayak, Knewton, Macromedia, metroPCS, Mu Sigma, Polycom/PictureTel, Portal Software, QlikTech, Rapt, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Riverbed Technology, Sohu.com, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, XenSource, and Zimbra.

In addition to Accel’s continued investments in early-stage startups from the Accel X early stage fund, Accel announced its $480 million growth fund in December of 2008. This fund will focus on growth equity opportunities across a broad range of sectors, including: information technology, internet, digital media, mobile, networking, software, and services. As with Accel’s early-stage efforts, Accel Growth Fund will play an active role in helping entrepreneurs and management teams build category-defining, global businesses.

In 2000, Accel entered into a joint-venture with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to form Accel-KKR a technology-focused private equity investment firm focused on control investments of middle-market companies.

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