After Accel
- 20%Joined a big company3
- 80%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Accel most often go to a long tail of companies. The median tenure is 2y
Not Accel's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 32 people on a map of 67,181, No. 770 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 32Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1753% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1547% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 11m to 3y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta.
15 recorded departures to 15 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
13%4Meta4 of 30 recorded arrivals shown, 26 more from 24 other companies0 of 15 recorded departures shown, 15 more to 15 other companies
How long people stay
29%<1y
19%1-2y
29%2-4y
16%4-7y
6%7y+
31 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 32 joined, 15 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Accel Scholar23
- Scholar5
2 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley84.4%
- Stanford15.6%
The 2 most listed schools among the 32 people here with a school on file.
27 of the 32 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley and 5 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
8 of the 32 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
84% of the people who have worked at Accel and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Accel
Everyone on the map
- 84%SF Bay Area27 · map 41%
- 9%New York3 · map 18%
All 32 people who worked at Accel list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Accel: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Accel, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 32 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Accel: 17 are there now, 15 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Meta: 4 people.
- Median tenure at Accel: 2y, middle half 11m to 3y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Accel, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 20% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Accel Scholar, then Scholar.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 27 of the 32 people here with one on file (84.4%). Then Stanford (5).
- 84% of the 32 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 25% of the 32 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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