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Accel vs Lightspeed Venture Partners
Accel lists 711 portfolio companies and has joined 350 funding rounds; Lightspeed Venture Partners lists 576 companies and has joined 242 rounds. Accel comes in most often at Seed (38% of its entries), Lightspeed Venture Partners comes in most often at Series A (31% of its entries). 30 companies are on both portfolios, among them Acko, Anthropic and Axonius.
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| Accel | Lightspeed Venture Partners | |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio companies | 711 | 576 |
| Funding rounds joined | 350 | 242 |
| Rounds led | 220 | 94 |
| Rounds, last 12 months | 121 | 141 |
| Typical round it comes in at | $5M to $20M | $20M to $100M |
| Sites no longer answering | 0% | 0% |
Where they come in
share of entries by stageAccelLightspeed Venture Partners
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| Accel | Lightspeed Venture Partners | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 1% | 0% |
| Seed | 38% | 25% |
| Series A | 32% | 31% |
| Series B | 13% | 18% |
| Growth | 17% | 26% |
Themes
share of checked companiesAccelLightspeed Venture Partners
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| Accel | Lightspeed Venture Partners | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 26% |
| Fintech | 14% | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 5% |
Companies both back
30Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded
Compare Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners as data
Pull both portfolios and every co-investor through one API key or MCP, and lay up to 20 firms side by side with POST /v1/overlap. A free account adds Ask AI searches and alerts when either firm adds a company.
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- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
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- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/accel.com/portfolio
# also
GET /v1/firms/lsvp.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/accel.com/coinvestors