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Dinesh Katiyar

Partner at Accel

San Francisco Bay Area

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Series A

  • Min Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $70,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

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14752 people

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19695 people

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Investors at Accel

47 people

Investments

RapidCanvas

Seed

Total Funding: $8M

Effectiv

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Spendflo

Seed

Total Funding: $15M

Akridata

Series A

Total Funding: $15M

CreatorStack

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

VComply

Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Delightree

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Eder Labs (dba ColorIt)

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Simility

Seed

Total Funding: $23M

PrimaryIO

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Work Experience

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Accel

2011

  • Partner

    2011

    Focused on early-stage cross-border (India-US) investments. Investments include Akridata, Delightree, Effectiv, Entytle, Mindtickle, Prodigal, RapidCanvas, SpendFlo, vComply, Zinier Past investments include Collegefeed (acq AfterCollege), Paxata (acq DataRobot), Simility (acq PayPal), TeaPot (acq Stripe)

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Briza

2024

  • Volunteer

    2024

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Dékuple

2009

  • Board of Advisors

    2009

    Dekuple (previously ADLPerformance) is a publicly listed performance marketing company

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SayNow (acquired by Google)

2005 - 2011

  • Co-founder & Advisor

    2005 - 2011

    Acquired by Google. Voice-based group communication platform for mobile phone users.

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Citrix Systems

2009 - 2010

  • VP Product Management

    2009 - 2010

    Worked across wide range of virtualization and cloud products - virtual desktop management, datacenter automation, analytics and metering, virtualized rich media delivery, desktop and mobile clients, end-user experience, enterprise app stores

TheStoreBook

2007 - 2008

  • Co-founder & VP, Products

    2007 - 2008

    Innovative advertising solutions for local businesses using voice and web

Small Device (acquired by Digital Chocolate)

2005 - 2007

  • CEO

    2005 - 2007

    Acquired by Digital Chocolate. Mobile applications company with ~70 employees when acquired. Operations across US and India.

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Motorola

2004 - 2005

  • Mobile Strategy

    2004 - 2005

    Various initiatives around Java+Linux mobile platform, next-gen mobile user interfaces, and 3G/4G IP scenarios.

Kanexa

2001 - 2003

  • Co-founder

    2001 - 2003

    Enterprise solutions for service portfolio management - services profitability analysis for product companies

iLeverage (acquired by E.piphany)

1997 - 2000

  • Founder & CEO

    1997 - 2000

    Acquired by E.piphany. Internet e-commerce company that helped online merchants cross-sell on each others' sites