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Casey Aylward

Partner, Accel

About

Casey Aylward is a former software engineer who joined Pinterest through the acquisition of URX, an Accel-backed startup, giving her the rare experience of having been an early engineer inside a company her current firm previously funded before returning as a partner. She specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, open-source software, and security investments, and is known for incubating companies at the earliest stages and writing publicly about technical infrastructure topics as a content-forward voice in these ecosystems. Casey Aylward is a former software engineer who joined Pinterest through the acquisition of URX, an Accel-backed startup, giving her the rare experience of having been an early engineer inside a company her current firm previously funded before returning as a partner. She specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, open-source software, and security investments, and is known for incubating companies at the earliest stages and writing publicly about technical infrastructure topics as a content-forward voice in these ecosystems.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
SaaS
Consumer
FinTech
AI
Cybersecurity

Investment details

Avg check size$1M - $70M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Africa
LatAm
India
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Canada
Israel
ANZ
MENA