Jim Swartz

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Jim Swartz founded Accel with Arthur Patterson in 1983.

Over 50 years in venture capital, Jim has been a lead director of more than 50 successful companies. He was instrumental as a founder/mentor of Accel London and in the founding of Meritech Capital.

Before Accel, Jim was the founding general partner of Adler & Company, which he started with Fred Adler in 1978 after his tenure as a vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital. A long time industry leader, Jim is a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and the 2007 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.

He serves as Chair of the Swartz Foundation, Co-Chair of the Christian Center of Park City and MVYouth, and Director Emeritus of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation.

As an active philanthropist, Jim’s initiatives include academic, arts, athletic, health, scholarship, and social impact programs including founding Impact Partners, the leading funder of social impact documentaries. He has won two Oscars for Producing the 2018 Best Documentary, Icarus, and for Executive Producing the 2023 Best Documentary, Navalny.

Jim grew up in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, graduated from Harvard in Engineering and has a M.S. in Industrial Administration and an Honorary Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon, where he sponsors the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.

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PictureTel
Series B
1988

Norman Gaut

Brian Hinman

Acquired by Polycom

Polycom
Series A
1991

Brian Hinman

Jeff Rodman

NASDAQ: PLCM

Quokka Sports
Series B
1998

John Bertrand

Al Ramadan

Dick Williams

NASDAQ: QKKA

Remedy Corporation
Series A
1991

Lawrence Garlick

David Mahler

Doug Mueller

NASDAQ: RMDY

Riverbed Technology
Series A
2002

Jerry Kennelly

Steve McCanne

Application performance infrastructure solutions

NASDAQ: RVBD

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