Andrew Braccia '98

Andrew Braccia ‘98 graduated with a degree in Business from the Eller College of Management. He joined Accel in 2007 and focuses on consumer oriented mobile and web services companies. Andrew was an early investor and on the boards of Slack (acquired by Salesforce), lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Squarespace, Vox Media, Cornershop (acquired by Uber), MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour), Hotel Tonight (acquired by Airbnb), Cloudera (public), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Gametime, and UserTesting. He also works closely with the teams at Braintree (acquired by PayPal). Prior to joining Accel, Andrew spent close to a decade in a variety of executive positions at Yahoo!

Andrew and his wife, Kirsten, live in the San Francisco Bay area with their four children. They have generously donated major gifts to the University of Arizona to assist with the construction of the new academic center for UA student athletes, material support for nursing students and their educational teams, and recently, to support COVID-19 initiatives