Accel-KKR is a technology-focused private equity

Private equity

Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

 firm focused on control investments in middle-market companies. The firm invests primarily in software and IT-enabled businesses. Accel-KKR has a particular focus on going-private transactions, divisional buyouts of larger companies and buyouts and recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held
private companies.

The firm was founded in February 2000 as a partnership between leading venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm Accel Partners

Accel Partners

Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....

 and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, one of the oldest and largest leveraged buyout

Leveraged buyout

A leveraged buyout occurs when an investor, typically financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company's equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage...

 firms. Since inception, Accel-KKR has raised over $1 billion of investor commitments, including $600 million for its third fund which closed in September 2008. Companies owned by Accel-KKR include:

• Alias Systems Corporation
  Alias Systems Corporation
  Alias Systems Corporation , headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a software company that produced high-end 3D graphics software. The company was formed in 1995 when Silicon Graphics bought Alias Research, which was founded in 1983, and Wavefront Technologies, founded in 1984, then merged...
  
  
• Applied Predictive Technologies
  Applied Predictive Technologies
  Applied Predictive Technologies is a software company that provides business analytics software to other businesses, along with support, training, and consulting services for its software. APT's clients include Starbucks, Subway, Royal Bank of Canada, and more than 40 of the Fortune 500 across a...
  
  
• CRS Retail Systems
• Endurance International Group
  Endurance International Group
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• IntrinsiQ
• M2 Technology Partners
• Model N, Inc.
  Model N, Inc.
  Model N, Inc. is a software company that is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California with offices in Princeton, Chicago, Hyderabad, and London...
  
  
• Saber
• Savista
• Systems & Software, Inc.

Previous investments from which Accel-KKR has since exited include:

• iTradeNetwork Sold to Roper Industries in 2010

External links

• Accel-KKR (company website)