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Accel
Global VC firm with growing defense and national security investment focus.
Accel is a global venture capital firm founded in 1983 with over $60 billion in AUM. The firm has backed iconic companies including Facebook, CrowdStrike, and Slack. Accel has been increasingly active in defense technology, with investments in Helsing and True Anomaly, alongside its deep enterprise security and AI practice.
Overview
- Firm
- Accel Partners LLC
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA
- Founded
- 1983
- AUM
- $60B+
- Stages
- Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth
- Thesis
- Exceptional founders building global category-defining companies across enterprise, security, and defense technology.
- www.linkedin.com/company/accel/
- X / Twitter
- x.com/accel
- Website
- www.accel.com/
Portfolio companies4
- CompanyHelsingEuropean AI defense software and autonomous systems company.
- CompanyTrue AnomalySpace defense technology - spacecraft and software for orbital security missions.
- CompanyFractileUK AI-inference-chip startup (SRAM-based, DRAM-less architecture) backed by Founders Fund and the NATO Innovation Fund.
- CompanyCambridge AerospaceUK counter-drone startup building the Skyhammer interceptor family (range 30km+, top speed 700km/h) for drones and low-speed cruise missiles; UK Ministry of Defence agreed in April 2026 to buy hundreds of Skyhammer systems.
Partners0
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Frequently asked
- What is Accel?
- Exceptional founders building global category-defining companies across enterprise, security, and defense technology.
- How much does Accel manage?
- Accel manages $60B+ in assets, and was founded in 1983.
- What stages does Accel invest at?
- Accel invests at Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth.
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Global VC firm with over $60B AUM; investor in Helsing and True Anomaly
Accel: PortfolioReported2025-01-01