Accel Partners Launches $100mm Big Data Fund

Accel's Big Data Fund aims to fund transformative early stage and growth companies throughout the Big Data ecosystem, from next generation storage and data management platforms to a wide range of revolutionary software applications and services - i.e. data analytics, business intelligence, collaboration, mobile, vertical applications and many more. We believe the future multi-billion software companies will be emerge from the Big Data ecosystem.

The Big Data Fund will be managed by Accel Partners globally. Accel will also collaborate closely with pioneering entrepreneurs and technologists in Big Data who will lend their expertise as formal fund advisors - Doug Cutting (Apache Hadoop), Gil Ebaz (Factual), Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera), Jeff Heer (Stanford), Hilary Mason (Bit.ly), Jay Parikh (Facebook), Anand Rajaram (@WalmartLabs) and Kenny Van Zant (Solarwinds).

To the exciting entrepreneurs working on Big Data - we look forward to hearing from you! To submit a startup idea to be considered for investment, send an email to Big Data Fund.

Big Data Fund Launch at Hadoop World Keynote

Accel's Big Data Fund Investments

Accel's Prior Investments in Big Data