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Accel is a global venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. For over 40 years, it has supported companies through all stages of private growth, including Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath. 

Since 2008, Accel has focused on early to growth-stage investments in consumer internet, SaaS, fintech, healthtech, manufacturing, and AI. In January 2025, Accel raised a $650 million fund to invest in AI, consumer, fintech, and manufacturing startups in India and Southeast Asia. 

The firm has achieved major exits in India, including early investments and successful sales or IPOs in prominent companies such as Flipkart, Swiggy, Freshworks, Myntra, and Urban Company. The Flipkart exit alone was estimated to generate over $1.5 billion for Accel in August 2018.