Amit Kumar
Partner at Accel
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2016 - Current
Leading seed and series A investments in early-stage teams
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2024
Investor
2023
Investor
2022
Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing.
Raised $31,750,000.00 from Infinity Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Matrix, Ardent Venture Partners, Accel, Tech Square Ventures and BoxGroup.
Board Member
2021
Coast is a financial services platform that provides fleet fuel cards and expense management solutions for various industries.
Raised $165,500,000.00 from ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Avid Ventures, Insight Partners, Thomvest Ventures and Vesey Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Unit helps tech companies build financial features into their products.
Raised $169,600,000.00 from Aleph, Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital), Flourish Ventures, StepStone Group, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Insight Partners and Accel.
Board Member
2021
ModernLoop is a platform to automates and streamlines interview coordination to ensure a great hiring experience
Raised $12,100,000.00 from Webb Investment Network, Accel, Stewart Butterfield, Sean Behr and Quiet Capital.
Investor
2020
Airbyte is an open-source data integration engine that helps to sync data from applications to warehouses.
Raised $181,200,000.00 from Altimeter Capital, Thrive Capital, Benchmark, Coatue, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel and Accel.
Board Member
2020
Board Member
2019
Headway is a mental healthcare system that helps users have access to affordable healthcare.
Raised $325,500,000.00 from Forerunner, Global Founders Capital, Spark Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital.
Education
BS
2000 - 2003
Investments
Latest Articles
Accel - Helping Platforms Offer a Modern Payments Experience: Our Seed Investment in Rainforest
Talks about modern payments experience, Rainforest platform and Accel investment
Accel - Building the Foundations for Digital Entrepreneurship: Our Seed Investment in Winden
Talks about digital entrepreneurship, neobank and Winden
Accel - Rewiring the Mental Healthcare System: Our Seed and Series A Investment in Headway
Talks about mental healthcare system, therapy affordability and mental health crisis