Our deep focus means that entrepreneurs can count on us to be thought leaders in their domain. It also allows us to quickly recognize the subtle but breakthrough ramifications of an entrepreneur's ideas --critical for arriving at prompt and informed investment decisions. Our specialization also means that we are immersed in current industry dynamics, and are both active in and highly proficient at building companies that will lead the industry.

Since Accel's founding, we have focused on a small number of sectors that offer outstanding opportunity and to which we can bring a particular proficiency. Within these target sectors, we actively pursue a series of "prepared mind initiatives" that ultimately turn into new investments of category defining companies. These initiatives constantly evolve to embrace forces of change in the market, disruption in industry structure, innovations in technology, and most importantly the unique inspiration of our entrepreneurs.

At any given time, each partner is pursuing multiple prepared mind initiatives.