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title: "Accel: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American global venture capital firm. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco, California, with additional offices in London, and India."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-accel
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2578125
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accel_(company)
website: http://www.accel.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Accel

> Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American global venture capital firm. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco, California, with additional offices in London, and India.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: India
- Founded: 1983-01-01
- Headquarters: Palo Alto
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.accel.com/
- Employees: 300 (as of 2024-01-01)
- Also known as: Accel Partners
- Industries: venture capital

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/Accel
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accel-vc

## Key people

- Jim Swartz, founder (founder of Accel)
- Arthur Patterson, founder
- Jim Breyer (American venture capitalist (born 1961))

## Products

- venture capital

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Accel, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-accel#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578125, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accel_(company)

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