KC

Kevin Comolli

Partner at Accel

United States

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $70,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Private Equity
Corporate Development
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Due Diligence
Mergers
Investments
Strategic Partnerships
IPO
Valuation

Education

Work Experience

Accel

2000

  • Partner

    2000

    Kevin has been active in international start-ups, general management, and venture capital investing for over 40 years. Kevin joined Accel in 2000 as the Founding Partner of Accel London and focuses primarily on software, Internet and mobile businesses. Kevin led Accel London's early stage investments in Supercell (acquired by SoftBank), Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM), Etsy (Nasdaq: ETSY), Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS), SimpliVity (acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterpise), Aorato (acquired by Microsoft), Playfish (acquired by Electronic Arts), Diligent (acquired by IBM), Icera (acquired by Nvidia), Alfresco (acquired by THL), Cape Clear (acquired by Workday), Semmle (acquired by GitHub), E8 (acquired by Amazon), Knewton (acquired by Wiley) and Rasa. Kevin has led Accel London's early stage investments which have created over 10,000 jobs and in aggregate via M&A and IPO's realizations and current market cap of over $75 billion. Kevin was an active member of the Davos World Economic Forum for over 10 years where he helped develop their Technology Pioneers Program/Platform. Kevin has been named multiple times to the Forbes Midas List of The World's Best VC Tech Investors and VC investor of the year by Investor Allstars.

1996 - 2000

  • Partner

    1996 - 2000

1994 - 1996

  • Executive Director

    1994 - 1996

  • Various board, general management, marketing and engineering roles

    1980 - 1994

    Kevin spent 14 years with Fanuc, the world-leader in robotics and numerical controls. Fanuc develops and deploys full automation systems incorporating advanced hardware, software and communications technology. Over his 14-year career with Fanuc, he held various board, general management, sales, marketing, and engineering positions in EMEA and the U.S.