Accel Management Co, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation, seed, start-ups, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, later stage, and growth capital companies. The firm prefers to invest in information technology, cloud computing and storage technologies and infrastructure, big data, consumer and business centric Internet, media including digital media, energy, enterprise applications and infrastructure, enterprise software and services, consumer internet, internet, education, healthcare and biotech, medical technology, social and mobile services, gaming, payments, technology, networking systems, retail consumer, security, semiconductors, technology enabled services, clean technology, web search, online advertising, SaaS, financial services, and open source software. It prefers to invest globally with a focus on Europe, including Finland, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, China, India, Israel, and the United States. The firm also seeks to invest in Brazil and Latin America. Within China, the firm targets light-emitting diodes, the smart grid, clean transmission, and solar photovoltaic material investments. Accel Management Co, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; New York, New York; New Delhi, India; China; and Bengaluru, India.