Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 8
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Primary Job Title Partner, India
  • Primary Organization 
    Accel
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Shekhar Kirani is the Partner at Accel. He has over 25 years of experience in business and tech leadership roles across several startups and large companies in the US.

As part of Accel, Shekhar focuses on investing in early-stage software and mobile startups that help enterprises. He led investments in ANSR, BrowserStack, CareStack, ChargeBee,

Cogoport, FalconX, Freshworks, Zenoti, and several seed-stage companies.

Shekhar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Number of Partner Investments 35
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Feb 21, 2023
Chronicle
Accel
Yes
Seed Round - Chronicle
₹620.9M
Jan 17, 2023
Uniqode
Accel
Series A - Uniqode
$25M
Jun 22, 2022
Appsmith
Accel
Series B - Appsmith
$41M
Mar 16, 2022
Amagi Media Labs
Accel
Yes
Venture Round - Amagi Media Labs
$95M
Jan 11, 2022
Lincode
Accel
Venture Round - Lincode
$3M
Oct 27, 2021
OSlash
Accel
Yes
Seed Round - OSlash
$2.5M
Oct 5, 2021
Appsmith
Accel
Series A - Appsmith
$8M
Sep 10, 2021
Amagi Media Labs
Accel
Venture Round - Amagi Media Labs
$100M
Aug 18, 2021
Hashnode
Accel
Series A - Hashnode
$6.7M
Apr 27, 2021
CareStack
Accel
Series B - CareStack
$22.5M
Number of Current Jobs 3
Number of Past Jobs 6
Shekhar Kirani has 3 current jobs including Founder Circle Member at ProductNation/iSPIRT, Partner, India at Accel, and Partner - Accel Partners at LetsVenture. Additionally, Shekhar Kirani has had 6 past jobs including Team Member at Wipro.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Wipro
Team Member
LightSurf
Team Member
VeriSign
Country Manager and Vice President
LightSurf
Vice President
Qwest
Team Member
Texas Instruments
Team Member
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 8
Shekhar Kirani holds 8 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Freshworks, Advisor at IndianMoney, and Member of the Board of Directors at Uniqode.
Number of Events 2
Shekhar Kirani has participated in 2 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, GMIC Bangalore 2016 on Nov 16, 2016.