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Amit Kumar

Partner at Accel

San Francisco, California

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $70,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Skills

Mobile Internet
JavaScript
Algorithms
Video Games
Ruby
C++
Ruby on Rails
Entrepreneurship
AJAX
Scalability
Git
Python
Distributed Systems
Software Engineering
Software Design
Agile Methodologies
Start-ups
Software Development
Recommender Systems

Education

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Based in SF

3078 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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Investors at Accel

47 people

Investments

Coast

Series A

Total Funding: $100M

Rainforest

Seed

Total Funding: $29M

Rex

Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Kalder

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $3M

ModernLoop

Series A

Total Funding: $9M

Unit

Series B

Total Funding: $170M

Tailscale

Series A

Total Funding: $120M

Hubble

Seed

Total Funding: $21M

Winden

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Airbyte

Seed

Total Funding: $180M

Work Experience

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Accel

2016

  • Partner

    2016

    Leading seed and series A investments in early-stage teams across a number of consumer, B2B, and developer-oriented categories

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Rainforest

2022

  • Investor

    2022

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Coast

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

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Unit

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

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ModernLoop

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

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Airbyte

2020

  • Investor

    2020

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Tailscale

2020

  • Board Member

    2020

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Headway

2019

  • Board Member

    2019

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Chainalysis Inc.

2018

  • Investor

    2018

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Smallstep

2016

  • Investor

    2016

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Aashay Sanghvi

Founding Team, Advisor at Branch

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Partner at Lightspeed

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Chief Executive Officer at Reflect

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Andreas Vandris

Principal at Menlo Ventures

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Partner at Accel

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Author at The Ugly Duckling

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Principal at Afore

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Managing Partner at Afore Capital

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Partner at Sequoia Capital

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Lucy Guo

CEO at Passes

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Sara Ittelson

Partner at Accel

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Sarah Tavel

General Partner at Benchmark

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Seth Rosenberg

General Partner at Greylock Partners

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Steve Loughlin

Partner at Accel

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Talia Goldberg

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

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Vedika Jain

Partner at Weekend Fund

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Managing Partner at 01 Advisors

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Managing Partner at Avid Ventures

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Chief Executive Officer at Reflect

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Alex Roetter

Founder of Terraset

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Founder of Proof of Play

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Managing Partner at Afore Capital

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Partner at RTP Global

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Partner at Accel

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Managing Partner at Soma Capital

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Partner at NEA

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Anoushka Vaswani

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Arielle Zuckerberg

General Partner at Long Journey Ventures

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Arun Mathew

Partner at Accel

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Ashvin Patel

Founding Partner at E12 Ventures

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Aunkur Arya

Board Partner at Menlo Ventures

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Bastian Wetzel

Head of Acceleration Investments at CV Investor

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Ben Fletcher

Partner at Accel

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Ben Rubin

Founder of Here Not There Labs

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Benedict Evans

Independent analyst at Independent

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Benjamin Ling

General Partner at Bling Capital

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Bill Gates

Founder of Breakthrough Energy

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Blake Masters

COO at Thiel Capital

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Casey Aylward

Partner at Accel

Latest Articles

Medium•Aug. 2018

Our Series A Investment in Visor: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Gaming

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Accel

Accel - Helping Platforms Offer a Modern Payments Experience: Our Seed Investment in Rainforest

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Rainforest platform
Accel investment
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Accel - Building the Foundations for Digital Entrepreneurship: Our Seed Investment in Winden

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neobank
Winden
fintech investment
Accel
Accel

Accel - Rewiring the Mental Healthcare System: Our Seed and Series A Investment in Headway

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Accel - The Future of Private Networks: Our Series A in Tailscale

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Tailscale
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zero-trust architecture