Investing Profile

John Locke(1)

VCInvestor
Partner at Accel
accel.com/people/john-lockeSan Francisco Bay Area
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John Locke's investing connections

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Connected to Pete Flint (NFX).

Networks John is a member of
NewCo Network
1586 CONNECTIONS
Top-Patents Network
1030 CONNECTIONS
BHP Development Network
64 CONNECTIONS
Accel Partners Network
51 CONNECTIONS
Accel Partners Network
51 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Accel Partner
Investment Range
$15.0M - $70.0M
Sweet Spot
$25.0M
Investments On Record
36
Current Fund Size
$18.3B

John Locke is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

John Locke's Investments On Record (23)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Campfire
Series BOct 2025$65M
Series AJun 2025$39M
$110M
Co-investors: Christine Esserman (Accel), Jordan Angelos (Ribbit Capital), Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Angus Davis (Foundation Capital), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Karim Atiyeh
Filevine
Series ESep 2025$260M
$420M
Co-investors: Rebecca Liu-Doyle (Insight Partners), John Mayfield (Album VC)
SeatGeek
Series EAug 2022$240M
Series DApr 2017$57M
Series CApr 2015$62M
Series BAug 2014$35M
$400M
Co-investors: David Frankel (Founder Collective), Paul Sethi (2048 Ventures), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Miles Clements (Accel), Matthew Witheiler (Wellington Management), Jay Hoag (TCV), Aviad Eyal (Entrée Capital Ventures), Jason Finger (The Finger Group), Jose Marin (Serendipity Investments), Andrew Blachman (Marketplace Capital), Thomas D. Lehrman (Teamworthy Ventures), Nasir Jones (QueensBridge Venture Partners), Kal Vepuri (Brainchild), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Rob Glaser, Arie Abecassis
CoinTracker
Series AJan 2022$100M
$100M
Co-investors: Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Ryan Shea (Stacks), Steve Jang (Kindred Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Michael Vuong (Intuit Ventures), Aaron Harris, Baris Gultekin
Sysdig
Series GDec 2021$350M
Series FApr 2021$190M
Series COct 2017$25M
$740M
Co-investors: Ping Li (Accel), Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), TJ Rylander (Next47), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures), Ben Holzman (Venture Guides)
Socure
Series ENov 2021$450M
$650M
Co-investors: Rory O'Driscoll (Scale Venture Partners), Gaurav Jain (Founder Collective), Merritt Hummer (Bain Capital Ventures), Dan Rosen (Commerce Ventures), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Luis Valdich (Citi Ventures), Sergey Gribov (Flint Capital), Stewart Pond (Operator Stack), Alessandr Piol (Alpha Prime Fund), Manuel Silva Martinez (Mouro Capital), Jonathan Lehr (Work-Bench), Amit Jhawar
Pismo
Series BOct 2021$110M
$120M
Co-investors: Ethan Choi (Khosla Ventures), Romero Rodrigues (Headline (formerly e.ventures))
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Series AJun 2021$100M
$100M

John Locke's Experience

Partner Accel2014 - Present
Partner Accel PartnersPresent
Principal Accel PartnersPresent
Associate Accel PartnersPresent
Senior Associate Top-PatentsPresent
Senior Associate NewCoPresent
Senior Associate BHP DevelopmentPresent
Principal Accel2012 - 2014
Associate Accel2010 - 2012
Senior Associate Housatonic Partners2007 - 2010
Associate Summit Partners2006 - 2007