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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)

  • 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

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