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Steve Loughlin

ROLE PARTNERAT ACCELMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JULY 31, 2026
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Steve Loughlin is a partner at Accel, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. He joined Accel in 2016 after co-founding and serving as CEO of RelateIQ, a relationship intelligence platform that was acquired by Salesforce for $390 million in 2014. He focuses on early-stage investments in sectors including AI, cloud and SaaS, and security, and holds board seats at companies such as Ironclad, Monte Carlo, and Split.io. He holds BA and MBA degrees from Stanford University.

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funding·Sourcery·JULY 31, 2026

Keith Block and Smith Point that invested in our company at our series C. They're, you know, operators from Salesforce. They've started their own VC fund... Steve from Excel, Steve Laughlin, Rebecca from Insight. Like they're just always like pushing the company and pushing me and in, in great ways.

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Steve Loughlin · Partner at Accel — 1 mention on Teahose