Accel

Signals

• Kevin Comolli Managing General Partner
• Stuart Hanbury Chief Legal Officer
• Nafis Jamal Venture Partner
• Rich Wong General Partner
• Matt Park Venture Partner
• Kerry Wang Partner
• AJ Tennant Venture Partner
• Nancy Holloway Personal / Executive Assistant To Founding Partners
• Jennifer Paau Executive In Residence
• Rishika Garg Growth Investor
• Joe Schoendorf Partner
• Jared Okello Yongo Partner

+ 53 more tracked

Portfolio

Lovable Cognition Thinking Machines Modal Labs Modal Synthesia Monzo Atira Armadin Keenable Cognition AI Inc. Dodge AI Inc. Dodge AI Oak Lica Keenable.ai Inc. RapidCanvas Inc.

Latest developments

Q4 2026

◆ Accel invests in RapidCanvas Inc. Funding

◆ Modal raises a $750 million Series D to expand its cloud infrastructure for AI agents at a $15.75 billion valuation Funding

◆ Accel invests in Modal Funding

◆ Accel invests in Armadin Funding

• 16 Oct RapidCanvas raises $29M to develop custom AI applications for enterprises
• 15 Oct Modal becomes latest decacorn after $750M raise to build cloud infrastructure for AI agents
• 2 Oct Mandiant founder’s AI hacking startup Armadin raises $255.5M from a16z and Accel at a $2.5B+ valuation

Q3 2026

◆ Accel invests in Dodge AI Inc. Funding

◆ Accel invests in Dodge AI Funding

◆ Accel invests in Modal Labs Funding

◆ Modulate raises $25 million to expand its voice intelligence and voice-agent model platform Funding

◆ Dodge AI raises a $2.65 million seed round co-led by Accel and Google’s AI Futures Fund to deploy AI agents for enterprise software maintenance Funding

◆ Ando invests in Accel Funding

◆ Ema Unlimited Inc. invests in Accel Funding

◆ Ema raises $77 million in a Series B funding round to expand its enterprise AI agent platform Funding

◆ Nuance Labs invests in Accel Funding

◆ Cognition AI Inc. invests in Accel Funding

◆ Cognition raises a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation for its AI coding agent Devin Funding

◆ Accel invests in Thinking Machines Funding

◆ Accel reportedly in talks to lead a $1 billion funding round for Thinking Machines at a valuation of at least $40 billion Funding

◆ Accel invests in Atira Funding

◆ Atira raises $17.5 million seed funding to expand its AI orchestration platform for automating industrial sales engineering Funding

◆ Accel-backed Keenable raises $26 million to build and scale a web search index for AI agents Funding

◆ Accel closes a new $550 million India venture fund and a separate $800 million Europe and Israel early-stage fund as part of a $3.5 billion global fundraising effort Funding

• 29 Sep Accel and Google back Dodge AI’s ambitions to automate enterprise software maintenance with agents
• 29 Sep Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google’s AI fund to cut reliance on SAP consultants
• 28 Sep Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
• 24 Sep Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
• 23 Sep Ema raises $77M in funding to deploy AI employees across enterprise HR, IT and finance departments
• 15 Sep Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars
• 11 Sep Luca Bocchio joins Balderton as Partner after more than a decade in European VC
• 8 Sep AI coding startup Cognition raises $2B at $48B valuation as revenue nears $900M
• 4 Sep Thinking Machines in talks for $1B at $40B valuation as Mira Murati’s AI lab races ahead
• 3 Sep Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
• 3 Sep Exclusive: German startup Atira raises $17.5 million to streamline cumbersome industrial sales process
• 3 Sep Atira raises $17.5M to bring AI orchestration to industrial sales
• 25 Aug Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M
• 25 Aug Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
• 25 Aug Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
• 12 Aug Accel raises $800m for ninth early-stage Europe fund
• 12 Aug Monzo and Lovable backer Accel raises enlarged $800M early-stage fund
• 11 Aug Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
• 22 Jul OpenAI and Datadog leaders back AI deployment startup Arrakis
• 16 Jul Oak launches identity-control plane for managing humans, apps, and AI agents

Relationships

Investment & ownership

• Invests in Atira · 2 sources
• Invests in Thinking Machines · 2 sources
• Invests in Keenable · 2 sources
• Invests in Modal · 2 sources
• Invests in Oak · 1 source
• Invests in Monzo · 1 source
• Invests in Lovable · 1 source
• Invests in Synthesia · 1 source
• Invests in Cognition AI Inc. · 1 source

Products & technology

• Deploys Accel India Fund · 1 source
• Deploys Accel India fund (previous $650 million vehicle) · 1 source

People

• Employed by Luca Bocchio · 1 source