Rich Wong
Life Member at Council on Foreign Relations
Rich Wong
Life Member at Council on Foreign Relations
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2006 - Current
Accel Partners is a leading venture capital & growth equity firm, managing over $25B in capital with offices in Palo Alto, New York, London, and Bangalore. Accel has been fortunate to invest in a range of leading technology companies such as: Atlassian, Slack, Facebook, UiPath, Docusign, Scale, Miro, Snyk, Rovio, Admob, MoPub, Airwatch, Checkr, Venmo, Braintree, Etsy, Qualtrics, SunRun, Supercell, and many others .. Led Accel's investments in: Active - Atlassian (Series A - 1st outside investor and BoD member, public: TEAM) - Checkr (Series A - ongoing) - Dovetail. (Series A - ongoing) - Instabug (Seed/Series A - ongoing) - Middesk (Seed - ongoing) - Napkin.AI (Seed - ongoing) - Process.st. (Series A - ongoing) - Pyn (Seed/Series A - ongoing) - Truora (Seed/Series A - ongoing) - UIPath (Series A/B - public: PATH) Former - Admob (Series B - acquired by Google) - Airwatch (Series A - acquired by VMWare) - Dealer.com (Series A - acquired by Dealertrack) - MoPub (Seed/Series A - acquired by Twitter) - Osmo (Series B - acquired by BYJUS) - Parature (Series B - acquired by Microsoft) - Rovio (Series A - public: ROVIO.HE) - ServiceChannel (Series A - acquired by Fortive (FRTV) ) - Swiftkey (Series B - acquired by Microsoft) - SunRun (Series B - public: RUN) - TUNE (Series A - acquired by Constellation) - URX (Series A - acquired by Pinterest)
Life Member
2024
Director Board of Directors
2010
(NASDAQ: TEAM) ... Leading provider of collaboration & product development software. -- First outside investor and BoD member in Atlassian in 2010 - http://bit.ly/1kfOn2s -- Launched IPO in December 2015 ( NASDAQ: TEAM) - NY Times - http://nyti.ms/1MAU3Th -- A Unicorn That's Actually Rare - Bloomberg - http://bv.ms/1Y0vEdG — Crossed over $100 billion in market cap in October 2021
Director, Board Of Directors
2018
(NYSE: PATH) .... UiPath is the leader in the fast-growing robotic process automation (RPA) space. The company was founded in Bucharest, Romania by CEO Daniel Dines and team, and is now headquartered in New York
Investor/Board Observer
2021
Board of Directors
2014
Series A investor and first outside BoD member in Checkr - the leading provider of Trust, Background and Identity APIs http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/10/14/checkr-raises-9-million-led-by-accel-for-new-hire-background-checks/
Board of Directors
2019
Led the seed investment of MiddeskHQ - a business identity API to enable frictionless B2B transactions Forbes profile in Oct 2019 -- https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickdaso/2019/10/07/middesk-raises-4m-from-accel-and-sequoia-to-provide-frictionless-trust-between-businesses/#4ce0dcd7093b
Director Board of Directors
2019
Director Board of Directors
2020
Director Board of Directors
2016
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Congratulations to the SwiftKey Team on its Acquisition by Microsoft!
Talks about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and SwiftKey acquisition