Enduring Impact

In two decades, we have founded multiple companies and advised many others as board member as well as lead investor. In total, we have substantially touched 16 companies that have achieved market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion following IPOs, or have been acquired for more than $1 billion.

Team Bios

  1. Wing

    1. 2016

      1. First Wing Exit: Oracle acquires Palerra

        All Palerra Milestones

      2. Ruckus Wireless acquired by Brocade

        All Ruckus Wireless Milestones

      3. Jasper acquired by Cisco

        All Jasper Milestones

    2. 2014

      1. MobileIron IPO

        All MobileIron Milestones

      2. Opower IPO

        All Opower Milestones

    3. 2013

      1. Nimble Storage IPO

        All Nimble Storage Milestones

      2. First Wing IPO - FireEye

        All FireEye Milestones

      3. Wing closes first fund - $160 million of capital commitments

    4. 2011

      1. First Wing investment - Platfora

        All Platfora Milestones

    5. 2010

      1. Peter and Gaurav team up

  2. Careers at Accel and Sequoia

    1. 2007

      1. Peter leads launch of Accel India

    2. 2004

      1. Gaurav's first venture exit - Netscaler acquired by Citrix

        All NetScaler Milestones

    3. 2003

      1. Gaurav and Ashar Aziz incubate NetForts at Sequoia (later re-named FireEye)

        All FireEye Milestones

      2. Peter named Managing Partner at Accel

    4. 2001

      1. Gaurav co-founds Ruckus Wireless

        All Ruckus Wireless Milestones

    5. 2000

      1. Gaurav joins Sequoia

    6. 1998

      1. Peter's first venture exit - Northpoint Communications IPO

        All Northpoint Communications Milestones

      2. Redback IPO

        All Redback Networks Milestones

    7. 1995

      1. Peter joins Accel

      2. Peter's first venture investment - co-leads the Series A financing of Redback

        All Redback Networks Milestones

  3. Operating Careers

    1. 1995

      1. Gaurav co-founds Redback Networks

        All Redback Networks Milestones

    2. 1994

      1. Peter leads the SGI collaboration with Team New Zealand to win the America's Cup

        Amy Wagner, Peter, Forest Baskett (SGI), Jim Clark (SGI), and Kevin Ryan (SGI)

    3. 1991

      1. Peter moves to Silicon Valley and joins Silicon Graphics as a Product Manager

    4. 1989

      1. Gaurav joins SynOptics Communications as a Principal Engineer