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# Accel Summer Intern 2026 at Accel

- **Company:** Accel
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $80k–$120k
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/accel/am9icG9zdDqEV9vb3qjLH8DFZNwUZlN5

## Job description

We are hiring exceptional college students to spend the summer on Accel’s investment team, in-person in San Francisco.

## What you’ll do

- Source & explore new companies across industries you care about
- Spend time with exceptional founders and help our team decide where we should lean in.
- Conduct deep research on technology, markets, and companies
- Support Accel portfolio companies on operational & strategic initiatives
- Learn the inner workings of venture, with the mentorship and training of Accel’s investment team

Successful interns will be candidates for full-time roles following graduation. This role is available to current juniors only.

## What we are looking for

Successful intern candidates will have track records of exceptional achievement. What we’re looking for includes:

- Exceptional interpersonal skills & a proven ability to communicate and collaborate with many types of people
- Creativity & curiosity
- Passion for technology, as evidenced by personal projects and/or academic interests
- Comfort in fast-moving, unstructured environments where you’ll need to take initiative
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills

We are particularly excited about candidates who have spent time in engineering / technical work environments and are excited to apply this experience to a new domain (investing).

Deadline

Applications are due by Friday, October 10th at 11:59pm PT but will be considered on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as you are able.

## About Accel

Founded in 1983, Accel is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere. We bring more than four decades of experience building and supporting hundreds of companies while powering a global community of entrepreneurs.

Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Crowdstrike, Cursor, Dropbox, Facebook, Gopuff, Headway, Linear, Perplexity, Qualtrics, Scale AI, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Thinking Machines, Vercel, Venmo, Webflow, and others.

## About Accel

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Accel is a global venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams from inception through all phases of private company growth, backing iconic companies like Facebook, Slack, and CrowdStrike.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital / Growth Equity Firm)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 1983
- **Founders**: N/A (founded as a partnership, Accel Partners)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Venture Capital and Private Equity
- **Target customers**: B2B — entrepreneurs and founders of early to late-stage technology companies; also serves as a limited partner to institutional investors
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "First partner to exceptional teams everywhere"

## Products & Services
- **Venture Capital Investing**: Provides seed, Series A, and early-stage investments in technology startups.
- **Growth Capital**: Later-stage investments for scaling companies.
- **Portfolio Support & Network**: Access to a vast network of operators, executives, and partners across Accel’s portfolio of 300+ companies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (private partnership)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of USD 50,000,000; 492 employees [in.linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/accel-vc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not an investee itself, but its portfolio includes **Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath** [accel.com](https://www.accel.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 17.0% YoY, adding 202 people [in.linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/accel-vc)
  - Global presence across 35 countries, with offices in Palo Alto, London, and Bangalore
  - 331,014 LinkedIn followers (+15.6% yearly)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: 40+ years of investing across enterprise software, consumer internet, infrastructure, security, and fintech.
- **Global network**: Operations in the US, UK, India, Brazil, and more, enabling cross-border scaling for portfolio companies.
- **Strong brand & track record**: Consistently backs category-defining companies (e.g., Slack, CrowdStrike, UiPath) and maintains strong relationships with top tech talent.
- **Extensive talent network**: Recruits from and sends alumni to top firms like Google, Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to invest in **AI, enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, and infrastructure** [accel.com](https://www.accel.com/companies)
- Expanding in **India and other emerging markets** (e.g., Bangalore office is a major hub)
- Deepening support for portfolio companies through **operational resources** and **talent acquisition** via Accel Jobs board

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Partnership-led, collaborative environment with a focus on long-term relationships and founder-first mentality.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Likely hybrid with offices in Palo Alto, London, Bangalore; specific policy not disclosed publicly.
- **Notable perks**: 
  - Access to a world-class network of founders and executives.
  - Opportunity to work across multiple high-growth portfolios.
  - Strong brand recognition and career mobility — alumni move to leading tech companies and VC firms.
- **Engineering culture**: While Accel is not a product company, its internal technology and data teams support investment analysis and portfolio operations.

## Sources
1. [Accel Official Website](https://www.accel.com/)
2. [Accel Team Page](https://www.accel.com/team)
3. [Accel LinkedIn](https://in.linkedin.com/company/accel-vc)
4. [Accel Companies Page](https://www.accel.com/companies)
5. [Accel Jobs Board](https://jobs.accel.com/jobs)