Accel is a global venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California that makes seed, early-stage and growth-stage investments in technology companies across enterprise software, consumer internet, cloud infrastructure, AI and related sectors; it has additional offices and investment activity in London, India and other regions and is known for early backing of high-growth companies such as Facebook, Slack, Dropbox, Spotify and others, partnering with founders from inception through successive financing rounds and long-term scaling.