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Congratulations to the SwiftKey Team on its Acquisition by Microsoft!
Talks about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and SwiftKey acquisition
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Rich Wong
Life Member at Council on Foreign Relations
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Rich Wong is a General Partner at Accel Partners, with a strong background in IT strategy and venture capital. He has made notable investments in companies like Instabug, Truora, and UiPath, and serves on the board of directors for various tech startups.
Wong's career highlights include his role as a General Partner at Accel Partners and his involvement in successful investments in companies such as Instabug and UiPath.
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)
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Life Member
2024
Council on Foreign Relations operates as a non-partisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher.
Raised $2,312,565.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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
UiPath is a software company that designs and develops robotic process automation and artificial intelligence applications.
Raised $1,993,025,000.00 from Turkgen Ventures.
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/
Checkr is a software company that automates and speeds up the process of professional background checks.
Raised $678,999,991.00 from Irving Investors.
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
Middesk is an identity platform that automates business verification and underwrites decisions.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Gaingels, Accel, Canapi Ventures, Insight Partners and Sequoia Capital.
Director Board of Directors
2019
Director Board of Directors
2020
Process Street is a SaaS platform that allows teams create, track, and optimize business process workflows.
Raised $15,158,000.00 from Blackbird Ventures, Richard Wong, Gokul Rajaram, New Ground Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Accel, AngelPad, Bill Bartee and Atlassian.
Director Board of Directors
2016