A side-by-side comparison of two Cybersecurity investors: Accel (Power Score 80/100) and Insight Partners (Power Score 82/100), both ranked among the most active firms tracked in this category.
| Accel | Insight Partners | |
|---|---|---|
| Power Score™ | 80/100 | 82/100 |
| Assets Managed | $20B+ | $90B+ |
| Founded | 1983 | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, CA | New York, NY |
| Sectors | Enterprise Software, Consumer, Security | Software, SaaS, Cybersecurity |
Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz founded Accel in 1983, betting on a strategy of deep specialization in specific technology categories rather than spreading investments broadly - an approach that was unusual at the time. That focus paid off most famously in 2005, when Accel led Facebook's Series A, a single investment that became one of the highest-multiple returns in venture capital history and cemented the firm's reputation for spotting category-defining companies early.
View full Accel profile →Founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock in New York, Insight built its identity on outbound sourcing long before that was common practice - in the firm's earliest years, the two co-founders would comb through trade publications by hand looking for software companies that were hiring, and therefore growing. That research-driven, find-them-before-anyone-else approach scaled into a firm managing tens of billions of dollars, still built around the same instinct to spot momentum early.
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