Kevin Comolli

Partner

2000 - Current

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.

Partner

1996 - 2000

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.