Accelerate is an accelerator and venture capital firm. Team members are concentrated in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Among the 30 companies in the known portfolio are Helcim, PulseMedica, Wyvern, PayShepherd, Quill and Northernmost.
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Investment focus
- Focus
- Digital HealthEdTechEnterprise SaaSEvidence-Based EducationGenerative AIGrantmakingHigher EdIdentityK-12LLMPaymentsSportsTechTutoring
Contacts
Who to pitch at Accelerate
Accelerate portfolio companies (30)
- Helcim
- PulseMedica
- Wyvern
- PayShepherd
- Quill
- Northernmost
- Truffle
- Tutored by Teachers
- Cellar Insights
- DrugBank
- Third Space Learning
- Areto Labs
- Immerse
- Userful
- Ambyint
- LoginRadius
- Ontopical
- WaitWell
- Zamplo
- Betmate
- Care Group
- ConsumerOptix
- Fairly Staffing
- OpenBook
- EnlightenAI
- Goblins
- LitLab.ai
- Math-A-Matics Tutoring
- Podsie
- University of Utah
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About Accelerate
The firm's listing covers sectors AI, Education, FinTech and Healthcare, and focus areas Digital Health, EdTech, Enterprise SaaS and Evidence-Based Education; known deals cluster at Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A.
The team counts 6 people in our database. Ryan Retcher (Founder and President), Kevin Huffman (CEO) and Matthew P. Steinberg (Investor) are shown as the contacts to pitch.
Across the known portfolio, 20 co-investors appear alongside Accelerate, including Verdex Capital, Scalegood Fund and Accelerate Ventures.
Frequently asked questions
What is Accelerate?
Accelerate is an accelerator and venture capital firm whose team is concentrated in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with a known portfolio of 30 companies. The portfolio comes from public investment records rather than from the firm, so deals that never surfaced publicly are not in it.
What does Accelerate invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Education, FinTech and Healthcare; listed focus areas include Digital Health, EdTech, Enterprise SaaS and Evidence-Based Education. Those tags come from the portfolio attached to the firm, so they describe what has been backed rather than a stated mandate for what comes next.
What stage does Accelerate invest at?
The known deals of Accelerate include Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds. Check that against your own round before reaching out: stage mismatch is the most common reason a well matched sector still goes nowhere.
Who should I pitch at Accelerate?
3 of the 6 people on file at Accelerate are listed as contacts for the firm. All 6 have their own profile page.
How do I contact Accelerate?
Any email address on file for the firm is masked on this page and readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The 6 people attached to the firm have their own pages, each showing whether an address is on file for them.
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