The 38-year-old partner has stopped making new Accel investments, though he remains at the firm and keeps board seats at Scale AI, Vercel and Sentry.
Accel recently told limited partners Levine may pursue personal investing or raise his own fund and would likely become the firm's fourth emeritus partner.
The firm said no specific disagreement or incident prompted the move. Levine joined Accel in 2010 and backed Scale early, helping generate about $2 billion after Meta bought a 49% stake.
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