Defendant

Accelo, Inc.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
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Top venue
D Del Judge Noreika
1 case

Company profile

Accelo, Inc. — commonly just "Accelo" — is a private, venture- and private-equity-backed software company. Founded in 2011 by a team in Wollongong, Australia (initially as AffinityLive), it is now headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an additional office in Wollongong. Third-party trackers (PitchBook, Crunchbase, CB Insights) list roughly 80–110 employees and about $11–14M in total disclosed funding; there is no public ticker. Reporting indicates a 2024 recapitalization/financing led by Bow River Capital, making Accelo PE-backed.

Accelo sells a cloud-based professional services automation (PSA) / "service operations" (ServOps) platform for agencies, consultancies, IT/MSPs, engineering, architecture, and accounting firms. The product unifies CRM and sales quoting, project management, service tickets, retainers/contracts, resource scheduling, timesheets and expense tracking, billing and invoicing, reporting, and a client portal, with integrations to QuickBooks, Xero, and HubSpot. Accelo describes itself as a client-work-management platform covering the "prospect to payment" lifecycle.

Litigation posture: Accelo appears in the tracked data solely as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff) — the profile of an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than an active two-way litigant.

Notable case: Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC v. Accelo, Inc., No. 1:23-cv-00001 (D. Del., Judge Noreika), filed January 1, 2023. Web 2.0 Technologies is widely characterized by defense-side commentators (e.g., Seyfarth Shaw's "NPE Showcase") as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents — here U.S. Patent Nos. 6,845,448 ("Online Repository for Personal Information") and 8,117,644 ("Method and System for Online Document Collaboration") — against numerous software defendants (including Trello and Workzone) in parallel Delaware suits. The Stanford NPE Litigation Database categorizes the plaintiff as asserting acquired patents; co-plaintiff Pennar Software Corporation was added. Accelo's docket shows a notice of settlement in principle and stipulated stay of deadlines filed January 4, 2024. Note that the case is in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.