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Accel Partners is a leading early and growth-stage venture capital firm. We are dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class companies.
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Location: United States, California, Palo Alto
Employees: 51-200
Phone:+1 650-614-4800
Founded date: 1983
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C; Series D; Series E; IPO
Portfolio 593
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 12.09.2026 | Fundly | fundly.ai | $4.9M | India |
| 09.09.2026 | Harvey | harvey.ai | $4.24B | United Sta... |
| 09.09.2026 | Cognition | cognition.ai | $28.4B | United Sta... |
| 03.09.2026 | Atira | atira.ai | $17.5M | Germany |
| 25.08.2026 | Keenable | keenable.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.08.2026 | Cambridge ... | cambridgeaerospace.com | $300M | United Kin... |
| 04.08.2026 | Delightree | delightree.com | $28M | United Sta... |
| 29.07.2026 | Fixxly | fixxly.in | $5.5M | India |
| 24.07.2026 | Paper.xyz | paper.xyz | $43.3M | United Sta... |
| 22.07.2026 | Arrakis Cl... | arrakis.ai | $38M | United Kin... |
| 20.07.2026 | Plazza | plazza.in | $16.4M | - |
| 10.07.2026 | Axle Energ... | axle.energy | $34M | United Kin... |
| 29.06.2026 | QOSMIC | qosmic.space | $3.33M | India |
| 17.06.2026 | Twenty | twenty.co | $130M | United Sta... |
| 13.06.2026 | Zumutor Bi... | zumutor.com | $10.2M | India |
| 12.06.2026 | Rekise | rekise.com | $9.7M | India |
| 11.06.2026 | Cyera | cyera.io | $1.36B | Israel |
| 10.06.2026 | Rotomate | rotomate.ai | - | Finland |
| 04.06.2026 | Pluang | pluang.com | $143M | Indonesia |
| 22.05.2026 | Modal Labs | modal.com | $451M | United Sta... |
| 21.05.2026 | Viktor | viktor.ai | $80.39M | United Sta... |
| 21.05.2026 | Primer | primer.io | $173.27M | United Kin... |
| 18.05.2026 | Sprouts AI | sprouts.ai | $9M | - |
| 15.05.2026 | Rapido | rapido.bike | $863.85M | India |
| 13.05.2026 | Forus | forus.com | $310M | United Sta... |
| 13.05.2026 | Fractile | fractile.ai | $376.4M | United Kin... |
| 11.05.2026 | Ciridae | ciridae.com | $20M | - |
| 04.04.2026 | PALMONAS | palmonas.com | $140.37M | India |
| 04.04.2026 | gnani.ai | gnani.ai | $128.05M | India |
| 28.03.2026 | Kandou Bus | kandou.com | $560.3M | Switzerlan... |
| 24.03.2026 | WeSort.Ai ... | wesort.ai | $121.69M | Germany |
| 18.03.2026 | Tracebit | tracebit.com | $30M | United Sta... |
| 17.03.2026 | Surf AI | surf.ai | $57M | United Sta... |
| 12.03.2026 | Mind Robot... | mindrobotics.com | $1.02B | United Sta... |
| 10.03.2026 | Legora | legora.com | $930M | Sweden |
| 10.03.2026 | Armadin In... | armadin.com | $190M | United Sta... |
| 02.03.2026 | Bounce.io | bounce.io | $9.8M | India |
| 25.02.2026 | Basis | getbasis.ai | $134M | United Sta... |
| 25.02.2026 | SolveAI | solve.ai | $50M | United Kin... |
| 24.02.2026 | Basis | basis.com | $103.6M | United Sta... |
| 12.02.2026 | Anthropic | anthropic.com | $267.3B | United Sta... |
| 06.02.2026 | Sapiom | sapiom.ai | $15.75M | United Sta... |
| 05.02.2026 | Material D... | materialdepot.in | $10M | India |
| 04.02.2026 | Fibr AI | fibr.ai | $7.5M | India |
| 30.01.2026 | Ethos | ethoslife.com | $604.5M | United Sta... |
| 15.01.2026 | Higgsfield | higgsfield.ai | $588M | United Sta... |
| 08.01.2026 | Cyera | cyera.com | $1.54B | Israel |
| 02.01.2026 | Knight Fin... | knightfintech.com | $23.6M | India |
| 02.01.2026 | Wow Momo | wowmomo.com | $59.8M | India |
| 02.01.2026 | Arya | arya.ag | $218.8M | India |
| 22.12.2025 | PowerUp Mo... | powerup.money | $12M | - |
| 18.12.2025 | Fuse | fuseenergy.com | $79.94M | United Kin... |
| 11.12.2025 | Port IO | port.io | $100M | - |
| 10.12.2025 | PermitFlow | permitflow.com | $59.5M | United Sta... |
| 14.11.2025 | Cursor | cursor.com | $3.2B | United Sta... |
| 10.11.2025 | Gamma | gamma.app | $87M | United Sta... |
| 06.11.2025 | Kaizen | kaizenlabs.co | $21M | United Sta... |
| 04.11.2025 | VoidZero | voidzero.dev | $12.5M | Singapore |
| 03.11.2025 | Synthesia | synthesia.io | $2.24B | United Kin... |
| 29.10.2025 | ConductorO... | conductorone.com | $126M | United Sta... |
| 24.10.2025 | Pave Bank | pavebank.com | $44.2M | United Kin... |
| 23.10.2025 | Generation... | generationlab.com | $11M | - |
| 15.10.2025 | Flint Mobi... | flint.com | $20.4M | United Sta... |
| 15.10.2025 | Energy Rob... | energy-robotics.com | $15.94M | Germany |
| 15.10.2025 | WellTheory | welltheory.com | $26.2M | United Sta... |
| 14.10.2025 | Clove | clove.com | $14M | United Kin... |
| 14.10.2025 | dezerv. | dezerv.in | $320.57M | India |
| 14.10.2025 | HouseEazy | houseeazy.com | $34.19M | India |
| 06.10.2025 | Filigran | filigran.io | $114.6M | France |
| 03.10.2025 | Supabase | supabase.com | $710M | United Sta... |
| 02.10.2025 | Dash0 | dash0.com | $379.5M | United Sta... |
| 01.10.2025 | Vercel | vercel.com | $863M | United Sta... |
| 01.10.2025 | Periodic L... | periodiclabs.ai | $300M | United Sta... |
| 25.09.2025 | Filevine | filevine.com | $516.3M | United Sta... |
| 16.09.2025 | ECO SOUL | ecosoulhome.com | $30M | United Sta... |
| 16.09.2025 | Vega | vega.io | $65M | United Sta... |
| 16.09.2025 | Nory | nory.ai | $64.39M | United Kin... |
| 05.09.2025 | IQM Corpor... | iqm.com | $58.47M | Finland |
| 05.09.2025 | n8n | n8n.io | $321.32M | Germany |
| 02.09.2025 | CityMall | citymall.live | $205.5M | India |
| 14.08.2025 | Shivalik S... | shivalikbank.com | $11.59M | India |
| 11.08.2025 | Truemeds I... | truemeds.in | $127.78M | India |
| 06.08.2025 | Code Karma | codekarma.ai | $2.5M | India |
| 06.08.2025 | Zinc | zinc.work | $6.74M | United Kin... |
| 05.08.2025 | Helsing | helsing.ai | $4.53B | Germany |
| 31.07.2025 | Arivihan | arivihan.com | $4.2M | India |
| 30.07.2025 | Prophet Se... | prophet.security | $41M | - |
| 29.07.2025 | Prophet Se... | prophetsecurity.ai | $30M | - |
| 23.07.2025 | WIOM by i2... | wiom.in | $44M | India |
| 17.07.2025 | Lovable | lovable.dev | $2.12B | Sweden |
| 01.07.2025 | Campfire | campfire.ai | $100M | United Sta... |
| 23.05.2025 | OpenFX | openfx.com | $117M | United Sta... |
| 21.05.2025 | Zoca | zoca.com | $6M | - |
| 21.05.2025 | biostate.A... | biostate.ai | $16M | - |
| 07.05.2025 | Posha | posha.com | $8M | - |
| 02.04.2025 | RapidClaim... | rapidclaims.ai | $14.1M | United Sta... |
| 24.03.2025 | Apna Mart | apnamart.in | $25M | India, Jha... |
| 03.02.2025 | Captain Fr... | captainfresh.in | $771.39M | India |
| 25.01.2025 | BPR Hub | bprhub.com | $2.6M | - |
| 17.10.2024 | SimpliSmar... | simplismart.ai | $7M | - |
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News 150
| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.08.2020 | Congrats to Bumble on 100 Million Users | At Accel we are passionate about backing exceptional founders with unique insights and the courageousness to reshape the way we live our lives. Daniel Ek changed the way we listen to music, Stewart Butterfield changed the way we work, Lynda... |
| 29.07.2020 | Securing Access in the Public Cloud: Our Investment in Ermetic | Widespread cloud adoption has created a new security challenge for enterprises. The cloud environment that underpins speed, efficiency, and flexibility from an infrastructure perspective is also fragmented, complex, and opaque from a securi... |
| 17.07.2020 | UiPath: The First European Cloud Decacorn is Born | As we boarded our flight back to London in early February 2017, leaving behind the Bucharest winter, our team was incredibly excited by the two days we spent with Daniel and his team. Yet, it was hard to imagine that a short three and half ... |
| 17.07.2020 | Accel 2020 Euroscape: "Decacorn Unleashed" - Apply now to be included! | - This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on . The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at in October. Last year, for Europe to mark its first Decacorn. We are so h... |
| 26.06.2020 | The Rise of Open Source Software in Europe | We are seeing a significant change in the global business landscape, and attention within technology circles has focused on verticals where adoption levels have been surging over the past few months, in areas such as e-commerce, logistics, ... |
| - | Welcome, Paula Judge | On the heels of announcing a number of great additions to our team including , , and , we’re excited to announce another addition to Accel: , who has joined us as VP of Talent. Paula joins us from Palo Alto Networks where she led the ... |
| - | Our Series A in Galileo | Our investment today in , a $77M ‘Series A’ that we’re leading with our friend Ryan Smith (Qualtrics Founder & CEO), hits on two foundational themes for Accel. The first is our continued excitement about backing bootstrapped, profitab... |
| - | Congratulations PagerDuty on your IPO! | We’re thrilled to congratulate the PagerDuty team on their public debut today, the latest amazing milestone in a ten-year journey. Like many of our most successful companies, PagerDuty was a business born out of founder frustration—in this... |
| - | Spotlight on High-Velocity Enterprise Sales, with Instana's Frank Swain | A strong sales operation is critical for companies to scale quickly. Your sales team has to be geared for growth every bit as much as your product and strategy functions. This was the subject of the latest Accel Breakfast, building on our p... |
| - | Open Adoption Software: 2016 Year In Review | [Source: Jake Flomenberg, Accel] Introduction to the Open Adoption Software market 2016 was another strong year in the world of open source software. We learned without a shadow of a doubt that the world’s largest businesses not only use ... |
| - | Welcome, Amy Saper | We are excited to introduce the newest member of our venture team, ! Amy joins us after many years at Stripe where she held a variety of product marketing roles and helped launch and market a myriad of products, including their Connect pr... |
| - | Why Keith Melnick, former KAYAK president, became The Zebra’s New CEO | : So you’re working with us again… : I know. Getting the band back together. : Why’d you get excited about this? : When we started KAYAK in 2004, we knew consumers didn’t want to search 10 different airline or hotel sites to plan their t... |
| - | Our Continued Investment in Scale: Accelerating and Democratizing Access to AI | announced a new milestone today and Ashlee Vance covered the news for . Scale also wrote about the news and what it means for their team in their blog . Accel is thrilled to have been a part of the Scale story for the last three years an... |
| - | ForeScout's IPO | On the occasion of today’s IPO, we’d like to offer our congratulations to the entire ForeScout team. Since 2001, when we first backed and the founding team, the people at ForeScout have created an important cybersecurity company protecting... |
| - | Introducing Rylo | came out of stealth today — the company has introduced a small camera and revolutionary mobile app that seamlessly captures everything around you and creates stunning, unique video footage that’s easy to share. The simplicity by which it ca... |
| - | Welcome, Ethan Choi | At Accel, we continue to add talent to our team to help us find (and support) the next great generation of entrepreneurs. Recently, we announced Maya Noeth joining to work primarily with consumer growth businesses. Today, we’re thrilled to... |
| - | Conversation with Amit Yoran of Tenable on Cybersecurity | The conversation you’re about to listen to has been a big part of the national conversation of late -- cybersecurity. We recently hosted a gathering between journalists and the CEOs of some of our most prominent cybersecurity companies to ... |
| - | Notes from Accel Symposium: The Rise of AI/ML & RPA in the Intelligent Enterprise | This past month, Accel had the pleasure of hosting thought-leaders in finance, technology, and operations from many of the world’s largest corporations at our HQ in downtown Palo Alto for a discussion on the rapid growth in applying AI (art... |
| - | Our Series A in Blameless | We’re excited to announce our Series A investment in , a complete workbench for teams implementing site reliability engineering (“SRE”) at their companies. At Accel, we’re pretty long on tools and services that help product teams design (... |
| - | Investing Outside Silicon Valley, “Prepared Minds” and How to Build Strong Boards | Next up in the Accel series is partner, . Rich shares much of his background with Harry in his interview, including how he got his start in venture capital 11 years ago with Accel. He serves on boards including , & , and he led the... |
| - | Congratulations, RiskRecon on Joining Mastercard! | This week, RiskRecon begins the next stage of its journey within Mastercard, completing an that was first announced over the holidays. It's a graduation day of sorts as we say farewell to our formal involvement with RiskRecon, and are exci... |
| - | Spotlight on Product Leadership with Celonis’s Anthony Deighton | For any technology company, the strategy and process behind product development is perhaps the defining success factor. Every product team must walk fine lines: between what is desirable and feasible; between what the customer wants now and... |
| - | Our Investment in Deviceplane | Every day it seems we meet incredible teams bringing intelligent hardware to life. It's no surprise, as the preconditions have never been better. Last decade's mobile wave drove innovation across the component stack, from processing, to sen... |
| - | Reflecting on How to Foster Lasting Success, AI & ML and Cybersecurity | Harry Stebbings from wrapped up 2017 with a series of podcast interviews with the Accel team. While the series offers a deep-dive on the topics, trends and companies that our team collectively thinks about—it’s also a peek into the learnin... |
| - | The Golden Age of Video | [Source: Accel] We’re in the golden age of video as consumers demand new and faster ways – from professionals and amateurs alike – to fill their appetite for mobile content (powered by new mobile broadband video capabilities). |
| - | Our Series B in Radar | We’re excited to lead the Series B in , a location data platform company. They’re fast becoming the standard for how developers manage and express location-based experiences in mobile apps, all in a privacy-first way. That need is growing... |
| - | 2019 Accel Euroscape – The Rise of European SaaS continues | The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as last month. Who would have thought five years ago that a Romanian SaaS company would be valued at $7 billion and... |
| - | Our Series A in Gem | Accel led the Series A in . Gem is building the Talent CRM. Head over to for more on the company and funding round. I first met the Gem team over six years ago in 2012. Steve and I worked (and played video games) together at Dropbox, Nic... |
| - | Bringing DevOps to the Enterprise: Our Series B Investment in XebiaLabs | In today’s fierce technology market, the best application development teams recognize that increasing the cadence of updates while maintaining quality are both necessary to remain competitive. A friend of mine who runs a large financial ser... |
| - | SaaS War: Europe Awakens | [Source: Philippe Botteri, Accel] Software is eating the world, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is eating software. Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software ... |
| - | A Quantified Autonomous Future | [Source: Accel] The march towards a quantified, autonomous future continues thanks to the confluence of predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision technologies. These areas will continue to revolutio... |
| - | Spotlight On: Rising to Tech Challenges | , in this third and final segment, we will touch on some tech industry challenges like workload, scale, and diversity, as well as the current crisis around COVID-19. As you will see from our interview with Amol, he will often view a challen... |
| - | Our Investment in Trade Republic: Investing in Smart Investing | Accel’s global approach to investing means that we’re used to literally going the extra mile to find and back iconic companies. In the case of Trade Republic it was quite a few extra miles, including several attempts to meet founders Thomas... |
| - | Our Series A Investment in BrowserStack — a 6 Year Courtship | Today we’re excited to announce our $50 million Series A investment into , a web and mobile testing tool that allows engineers and teams to quickly and efficiently test their applications across over a thousand browsers and devices. We ... |
| - | Backing a Banking Revolutionary: Our Investment in Monzo | Over the years at Accel, we’ve backed many businesses reshaping large consumer categories with delightful user experiences. Spotify with music, Etsy and Flipkart with commerce or Deliveroo with food are great examples. One of the largest ... |
| - | Welcome Paul Levine, Accel’s Newest Executive-in-Residence | It’s our pleasure to announce that , the former president and chief operating officer of Trulia, has joined the Accel family as an executive-in-residence (EIR). We’ve known Paul for quite awhile now. (Accel partner), (GoFundMe CEO and... |
| - | Welcome Elain Szu, Accel’s Newest Executive-in-Residence | We’re excited to share that Elain Szu has joined the Accel family as an executive-in-residence (EIR). Elain joins us most recently from Twitter, where she led product marketing for Twitter’s exchange business after Twitter Accel portfol... |
| - | The Accel Effect | [source: Fortune India] Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Ryan Valles had a business meeting in Koramangala, a 30-minute drive from his home Lavelle Road. Like any resident, Valles knew the best way to get there was by autorickshaw, so hopped in... |
| - | Accelerating Change in Automotive: our Investment in brumbrum | Trust, reliability and convenience are not words you would normally associate with the car-buying market. It’s an industry surrounded by the uneasy sense that the consumer might not be getting a good, or even fair, deal. But while automoti... |
| - | Our Investment in Guru | Rick Nucci and Mitch Stewart founded Guru around one simple belief: that the information you need to do your job should find you. We’ve all witnessed the coordinated movement of work from centralized content repositories (SharePoint) to ema... |
| - | Segment: Organizing the World's Customer Data | We’re so excited to share that we’ve co-led a . Much has changed since we first led Segment’s Series A five years ago. They've become the runaway leader in their market, the standard for how companies stitch together customer data. They... |
| - | Our seed investment in Zenaton - building workflows should be easy | We’re thrilled to be announcing our seed investment in , a cloud-based developer tool company that makes building workflows easy. Nearly all businesses have process-related workflows that govern how their users interact with their servi... |
| - | Our Investment in Ethos: Reinventing Life Insurance | Today Accel is announcing our Series B investment into , the fastest growing company in digital life insurance. While the US life insurance industry is one of the largest markets in the world with hundreds of billions of premium dollars u... |
| - | Congratulations, Heptio Team! | Almost three years ago to the day, I wrote a welcoming as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to Accel. I first met Joe through a mutual acquaintance who suggested that we chat since I wanted to understand more about the burgeoning container/mic... |
| - | Welcome, Maya Noeth | At Accel, we’ve been fortunate to partner with many bold, exceptional entrepreneurs – people we refer to as “originals”. These Accel originals have reshaped facets of our everyday lives, everything from how we communicate (Facebook), collab... |
| - | Enterprise automation and conversational AI: Our investment in Rasa | Enterprise automation has come of age in recent years. As software technologies from process mining to robotic process automation (RPA) demonstrate their value and gain mass adoption, enterprise investment in these areas is accelerating. KP... |
| - | To become a public company, start operating like one early on | After their long post-financial crisis slump, European tech IPOs are starting to rebound. Tech companies raised more money on European public markets between 2015–17 (€5.3bn) than in the previous seven years combined. With venture capital h... |
| - | Flipkart: From an Accel-led $800K seed in 2008 to $4B+ in cash in 2017 | [source: Flipkart] Flipkart Group, India’s leading e-commerce marketplace, has announced an investment — a mix of primary and secondary capital — from SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s largest technology-focused investment fund. This is the... |
| - | 2017 Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card | The 2017 Report Card measures attitudes and perception of 700 enterprise IT security practitioners across the globe. The report quantifies how security professionals rate their enterprise’s ability to both assess cybersecurity risks and mit... |
| - | Cloudera's IPO | [source: Ping Li] Today, Cloudera became a publicly-traded company. It’s another milestone in the company’s 9-year history, and it’s a momentous one. We’ve been the initial investors in hundreds of startups over 35 years, so we appreciate h... |
| - | Our Continued Support of Sentry | its Series B. Accel is investing again, upping our stake even further. We are proud to be the company’s largest shareholder. Sentry announced the funding a couple of months ago, but I was about to welcome my first child and didn’t get a c... |
| - | Rovio’s revenue increased by 94% in the second quarter | Rovio Entertainment Ltd.’s strong growth continued in the second quarter of 2017, with the company’s revenue increasing to EUR 86.2 million (EUR 44.5 million in Q2/2016). The year-on-year revenue increase was 94.0%, mainly due to the contin... |
| - | Origin Stories: Lynda Weinman & Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com | When Lynda and Bruce began collaborating more than twenty years ago, they didn’t set out to build the global learning platform we know today as Lynda.com. They were just following their love for education and design. Their origin story mirr... |
| - | Millennial money myths: The truth about homes, cars and ownership | [Source: CNBC; Accel & Qualtrics] When it comes to trying to get inside the head of millennials, don't buy the buzz about the "don't own" economy. The success of start-ups like Netflix, Spotify and Uber have led to prediction... |
| - | Our Series A in ReadMe | Accel led the Series A in . TechCrunch , and I’m excited to give my perspective on the company. We about and investing in APIs at Accel. We think they are the new black. As the API ecosystem matures there is an opportunity to... |
| - | Intelligent Machines | We’re in the golden age of video as consumers demand new and faster ways – from professionals and amateurs alike – to fill their appetite for mobile content (powered by new mobile broadband video capabilities). |
| - | Our Seed in Facet | We're announcing our seed round behind the outstanding team at , a system for creative marketing teams. Visual storytelling is core to today's fastest growing brands. It could be the synthetic glow on a Peloton rider, or the feeling of ad... |
| - | Our Investment in Ada: Automating Customer Support with Personalized Experiences | We’re excited today to announce our investment in Ada, the company leading the transformation of ‘automation-first customer support.’ Ada is the leader in the Automated Customer Experience (ACX) space and has built a unique no-code platform... |
| - | Global Reach, Local Empathy: The Companies Powering the Future of Retail | If you’ve read the news or followed the stock market over the last two years, you’re likely aware of Amazon’s historic growth. And if you happen to have shopped at Whole Foods (owned by Amazon), streamed a show on Netflix (hosted by Amazon ... |
| - | Spotlight On: What Cybersecurity Has to Offer | Welcome to the latest post in our “Spotlight On” series where Accel Talent Partner, Peter Clarke, interviews different business leaders on what constitutes a great team—as well as tips on how to build, grow and effectively manage one. For t... |
| - | Welcoming Amit Jhawar to Accel as a Venture Partner | We’re thrilled to announce that our longtime friend, , is joining Accel as a Venture Partner. In this role, he’ll advise our companies and help make new investments. We’ve gotten to know Amit over the last decade where he played a foundat... |
| - | Enterprise Collaboration | [Source: Siliconbeat] Slack may still be a young startup itself, but that hasn’t prevented the corporate chat platform from playing VC and placing bets on a handful of smaller up-and-coming companies. The is an in-house investment arm the... |
| - | Congratulations, HotelTonight on Joining Airbnb! | We first met co-founders, CEO , Chief Architect and Board Member, , over eight years ago when we co-led in their seed round. What initially struck us was their audacious vision to change a deeply ingrained user behavior and redefine wha... |
| - | Origin Stories: Jayshree Ullal, Arista | As a student at an all-girl Catholic school in India, Jayshree was always drawn to math and science — interests that didn’t fit the norm. But she persisted. She decided to dedicate herself to becoming an engineer after her father was transf... |
| - | The Next Wave in Software: Open Adoption Software (OAS) | [Source: Jake Flomenberg, Accel] There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology — software that is open to change and free to adopt — has gone from the exception to the rule ... |
| - | You Hear One Thing About Millennials. The Data Says Another. | [Source: Brian O’Malley, Accel] Older generations have historically despised the younger ones as frivolous, good-for-nothing, and responsible for ruining the world. The perception of millennials today is no different. One telephone survey f... |
| - | Introducing Accel Scholars at UC Berkeley | ( Last week, we the launch of our Accel Scholars program, in partnership with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at UC Berkeley. Despite the fact that Cal has produced than any other university, among the... |
| - | Overhauling road freight: our investment in sennder | Freight forwarding is a market that is large but extremely fragmented, business critical yet lacking in transparency. In short, it’s a market offering significant room for optimisation, for both its suppliers and customers, which a cohort o... |
| - | Spotlight on Developer Community and Go-To-Market | Recently at Accel we hosted Dev Connect, an event bringing together leaders from developer-focused companies to share advice, ideas and best practices. As the role and voice of developers and DevOps within enterprises has grown over recent... |
| - | The Power of Persistence | Today we announced that Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority interest in Sonatype. We are excited about this partnership propelling Sonatype further into a leadership position as a company crucially at the center of open source dev... |
| - | Backing a category creator: our partnership with Celonis | Any start-up is an exercise in bravery and ambition, but the bravest of all venture into fields that are themselves unproven or non-existent. Celonis is one of those businesses, and we are delighted to announce our follow-on investment in t... |
| - | Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia | Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec. Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain... |
| - | The Dropbox IPO | Congratulations to all Dropboxers past and present on today’s IPO. It would be hard to capture and recognize each and every important step along the remarkable ten-year journey that started with the early seed of promise and grew Dropbox in... |
| - | Scaling Culture: Staying True to your Origins | Culture is imperative to the success of companies, no matter the size. For the past two years, the Accel People Summit has brought together the top minds in talent and HR to discuss the best ways to take care of our people. This year, we we... |
| - | Spotify’s Direct Listing | We'd like to offer our congratulations to Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon and the entire Spotify team on today's ground-breaking NYSE listing. Much has already been written about the company's unconventional path to the public markets, and it d... |
| - | What comes next | Last year, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of Accel’s founding. And as much as our industry and business have changed over those decades, it is remarkable how consistent our guiding philosophies have been. The way we practice investing h... |
| - | Why Building a People Roadmap is Just as Critical as Building a Product Roadmap | Our talent partner, , talked to for his podcast, “ .” You can listen to the episode in full where they discuss best hiring practices for startup founders and CEOs. We’ve also included some highlights gleaned from his conversation, “Inve... |
| - | PillPack: Improving medication management | Huge congratulations to TJ Parker, Elliot Cohen and the entire PillPack team on yesterday’s acquisition by Amazon. If you’ve ever experienced a loved one struggling with the complexity of multiple medications, you instinctively feel the ne... |
| - | Reflecting on 2018 and 2019 Predictions | 2018 capped off another year of tech surprises that ran the gamut from Apple becoming the first publicly traded company to reach a $1T valuation (and then quickly losing that distinction just a few months later) to an explosion of scooters ... |
| - | Seeing through the cloud: Humio’s Series A round | The widespread rise of cloud native platforms and applications is one of the most powerful enterprise technology trends of the last decade. Now we are seeing the next phase of that development: the evolution of tools that help companies nav... |
| - | Our Series A in Catalyst | We're excited to announce our Series A in , a fast emerging SaaS company building the platform for customer success. Today's technology companies live and die by their customer experience; customer success management is vital to maintainin... |
| - | The Next Step of AI: Our Continued Investment in Scale | , with coverage from , , and amongst others. Over the last 40+ years the biggest macro-trend in technology has been software. Software has dramatically increased the productivity of work, affecting many aspects of the world and making... |
| - | Spotlight On: Executing an Effective Candidate Search | This is Part II in our 3-part interview series with former SVP of Engineering at Cloudera and VP of Engineering at Google, on how to build great teams. , Dan shared his best practices for how to approach filling talent gaps on your team, ... |
| - | Tiny Companies Need Tiny Board | [Source: Fred Destin, Accel] I got a call from a brilliant young French entrepreneur the other day asking me about composing the board for his startup as he was closing his seed round. It seemed like every angel writing a check wanted to be... |
| - | Congratulations, Productiv: Pioneering the Concept of Application Engagement | Over the last few years, the rapid and massive adoption of SaaS applications has driven immense productivity gains for companies. But this explosion has also led to companies having hundreds of SaaS apps and millions in spend with no concep... |
| - | Selecting your next launch country | [Source: Philippe Botteri, Accel] International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. While both the U.S. and Europe are consumer markets of more than 300 million people, grasping this... |
| - | Deepening Our Partnership with UiPath: Leading a $153 Million Series B | At Accel, we share a core belief that category-defining technology companies are founded all over the world. While Silicon Valley remains an epicenter of technology innovation, we have a long history of investing in innovation hubs around t... |
| - | Shifting into 6th gear: Accel’s belief in Europe | At Accel, we are convinced that innovation and talent can come from anywhere and believe in a world where all entrepreneurs should have access to the same opportunities, regardless of whether they are in San Francisco, Berlin, Bangalore, or... |
| - | Our Series A in Webflow | Today, we’re thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Webflow, a uniquely powerful platform that’s democratizing software development for millions of designers, freelancers, marketers and agencies around the world. Webflow’s visual d... |
| - | Raising the data privacy bar: our investment in Privitar | Many of our portfolio companies, and the enterprises they sell into, have made data central to their decision making processes. As a result, we’ve seen a maturing of the data function within these organizations — not only to maximize data q... |
| - | Responsibility. | As we watch the terrible tragedy of George Floyd unfold, and witness the subsequent wave of protests that wash over our nation, it is impossible not to be moved by the deep anguish felt by minorities and communities of color everywhere, and... |
| - | Our investment in Tines.io: Levelling up security operations through automation | At Accel, we were early to invest in , backing UiPath, Celonis, and many others at the Series A. The value this technology brings by eliminating repetitive, mundane tasks and enabling workers to focus on higher-value work is significant. F... |
| - | Our Series A in Luko: Bringing customer love to home insurance | Sometimes as an investor you identify a market you want to get involved in, but it takes a lot of work to find the company you believe can really define it. Home insurance has been one of these markets for us – huge in size, dominated by le... |
| - | Experience Management: A Modern Take on Employee Engagement | Customers have grown accustomed to everyday digital engagements. However, when those customers step into the office, they endure antiquated technology. This makes relating employee experiences and satisfaction to customer service important ... |
| - | The API-ification of business | [Source: TechCrunch] Uber isn’t just Uber. It’s Google Maps, Checkr background checks, Braintree payments, and Twilio texts. The best way to do business isn’t to build it all in-house. Top companies are increasingly piecing together a compo... |
| - | Our Continued Investment in Narvar | Almost three years ago to the day, , the premium post-purchase customer engagement platform. At the time, the concept of establishing a post-purchase relationship was still relatively new — and needless to say, widely neglected. Most compa... |
| - | Flipkart: Realizing the India Opportunity | Today we’re witnessing a breakout moment for Indian entrepreneurship and its rapidly expanding consumer technology and retail sectors. The news that for an initial stake of approximately 77 percent in Flipkart is, to put it mildly, monumen... |
| - | Congratulations, Demisto! | Today announced that it’s joining Palo Alto Networks and we couldn’t be more excited. We first met the Demisto founders more than four years ago when they were just getting started. , , and had a simple idea for a complex issue: They ... |
| - | RelateIQ founder Steve Loughlin on joining Accel as an investor | [Source: Steve Loughlin, Accel] All early stage companies start as incredible possibilities. From this beginning, the journey that entrepreneurs and their teams experience is a truly unique set of moments — some good, some challenging, bu... |
| - | Delivering Time with Clockwise | There is a massive problem around how we all spend our time. Inside modern workplaces it’s far too common to spend the day running between meetings, tasks, messages, and distractions. Our best and brightest people are starved for time to g... |
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| 18.09.2026 | Cognition AI Closes $2 Billion Series E | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Coding startup Cognition AI, has raised $2 billion in a Series E funding round at a valuation of $48 billion. >> Click here for more funding data on Cognition AI >> To export Cognition AI funding data to PDF ... |
| 17.09.2026 | Accel expands its harvest from a decade-long bet in India | Pro Credit: Thinkstock Global venture capital firm Accel, which raised $550 million for its ninth India-focussed fund to invest in local ...... New to VCCircle.com? Subscribe to VCCircle PRO and get privileged access to exclusive curated ar... |
| 16.09.2026 | Swish Fuels Massive Expansion with $24 Million Investment | Swish, a leading quick food delivery innovator, secured $24 million in fresh capital. Bertelsmann India Investments spearheaded the funding round. Existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, and Hara Global also committed. This substan... |
| 16.09.2026 | B2B pharma distribution startup Fundly.ai raises $4 M from Accel, Multiply | In a funding round headed by current investors Accel and Multiply Ventures, as well as participation from former RBL Bank executive director Rajeev Ahuja and other angel investors, Mumbai-based B2B drug distribution firm Fundly.ai has raise... |
| 15.09.2026 | Lending platform Moneyview cuts IPO size, halves fresh issue from Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 750 crore | Moneyview, an Indian fintech and digital lending platform, has halved the fresh issue in its proposed IPO to Rs 750 crore from Rs 1,500 crore. The company has also reduced the offer-for-sale (OFS) component to about 10.04 crore equity share... |
| 13.09.2026 | AI Presentation Powerhouse: Presentations.AI Reaches 12 Million Users, Reshaping Business Communications | Presentations.AI transforms business communication. This AI PowerPoint maker now serves over 12 million users. It pushes past basic slide creation. Enterprises demand more. The platform delivers automatic branding. It offers native editable... |
| 13.09.2026 | Savvy Wealth Secures $100M Series C to Transform Independent Wealth Management | Savvy Wealth closed a $100 million Series C funding round. The AI-native registered investment advisor empowers independent financial professionals. Halo Fund led the oversubscribed investment. Total funding now exceeds $200 million. This c... |
| 12.09.2026 | From Pixxel To Swish — Indian Startups Raised Over $321.9 Mn This Week | SUMMARY Between September 7 and September 11, 20 startups raised a combined $321.9 Mn, an 82.4% increase from the $176.5 Mn raised by 22 startups in the previous week Advanced Hardware & Technology was the week’s most-funded sector, wit... |
| 12.09.2026 | Accel Offloads ₹156 Cr Stake In BlackBuck Via Block Deal | SUMMARY As per NSE data, Accel sold the shares at ₹576.05 apiece to rake in the amount. The shares that flooded the market were lapped up by AMC Abakkus Investment Managers Accel is trimming its stake in BlackBuck to book profits amid a hea... |
| 12.09.2026 | B2B pharma platform Fundly.ai raises $4 million to expand commerce, payments and credit business | Mumbai-based B2B pharma platform Fundly.ai has raised $4.9 million in a funding round led by existing investors Accel and Multiply Ventures. Advertisment The round also included former RBL Bank executive director Rajeev Ahuja and a group of... |
| 11.09.2026 | Luca Bocchio joins Balderton as Partner after more than a decade in European VC | Balderton today announced the appointment of Luca Bocchio as Partner, where he will focus on early-stage investments. Bocchio joins the firm after more than a decade as an investor in the European technology ecosystem, most recently as a Pa... |
| 10.09.2026 | European Tech Accelerates: AI Sales Automation Leads $17.5M Round, M&A Heats Up | Atira, a Munich AI powerhouse, secured $17.5 million in a combined Seed and Pre-seed round, led by Accel. This funding fuels its mission to automate complex industrial sales engineering, transforming a $128 billion global market. The invest... |
| 10.09.2026 | Global Tech Power Shifts: AI Fuels Geopolitical Race, Reshapes Industries | Global tech roils. Mistral AI nets €3B, fueling Europe's AI ambition. China pours billions into compute. Advanced chip manufacturing sprints forward. AI elevates cyber threats, raising consumer hardware costs. Regulators target tech giants,... |
| 10.09.2026 | Venture Capital Redefines Future: Billions Flow to Strategic Control, Embedded AI, and Deep Tech Frontiers | Venture capital's focus has sharpened. Investors now target control: scarce physical capacity, regulated workflows, and hard-to-replicate networks. Billions flow into companies mastering these bottlenecks. Reusable rockets, autonomous aircr... |
| 10.09.2026 | AI Reshapes Global Tech: Cognition Leads $48 Billion Software Revolution | Cognition AI secured $2 billion, reaching a $48 billion valuation in just four months. Its Devin AI redefines software engineering. It operates as an autonomous agent, planning, writing, testing, and deploying code. This massive investment ... |
| 10.09.2026 | Swish Raises $24 Mn To Expand Quick Food Delivery Network | SUMMARY Swish has raised $24 Mn in a funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments, with participation from existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, and Hara Global. The funding gives Swish more capital to expand its kitchen-le... |
| 10.09.2026 | +++ Christian Lindner +++ Gründen in 24 Stunden +++ Atira +++ MöbelFirst +++ Stockholm +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Donnerstag, 10. September). #STARTUPLAND: SUPER EARLY BIRD ENDET IN 13 TAGEN STARTUPLAND – one day, unlimite... |
| 10.09.2026 | Quick food-delivery startup Swish raises another $24 mn in less than six months | Swish founders Aniket Shah, Ujjwal Sukheja, and Saran S. Bengaluru-based foodtech startup Swish has secured $24 million (around Rs 229 crore) in fresh capital in a round led by Bertelsmann India Investments (BII), barely six months after it... |
| 10.09.2026 | 100 days to save EU Inc: Europe’s tech leaders warn against watering down landmark reform | Europe’s startup founders and investors today released a letter warning that EU Inc, the proposed European company statute designed to let businesses incorporate under one common framework and operate across all 27 Member States, could beco... |
| 10.09.2026 | 10-minute food delivery startup Swish raises $24 million from BII, Accel, others | Swish, the full-stack, vertically integrated 10-minute food delivery platform, today announced that it has raised $24 million in a funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments (BII), with participation from existing investors Accel, B... |
| 10.09.2026 | Presentations.ai Slide Generator for Investor Pitch Decks and Sales PPT’s 2026 Update – 12 Million Users Trust The AI Powerpoint Maker To Automate and Scale Professional AI Slide Generation With Brand... | The AI slide generator category is moving beyond tools that turn prompts into attractive slides. Business presentations often need to carry company branding, incorporate changing business data and remain editable inside Microsoft PowerPoint... |
| 09.09.2026 | Cognition AI raises $2B at $48B valuation, nearly doubling its value in just four months | Cognition AI has raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, nearly doubling its value in four months and making the maker of Devin one of the most highly valued private AI companies in the software industry. The Series E round was led by... |
| 09.09.2026 | Savvy Wealth Closes $100M Series C | NEW YORK, NY, Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor (RIA) for independent financial advisors, announced the successful close of its $100 million Series C funding round. >> Click here for more funding data on Savvy ... |
| 09.09.2026 | Cognition Raises $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation, Closing In on Cursor | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google. Cognition, the U.S. startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, has raised more than $2 billion in a Series E round. The deal values the company at $48 billion. For comparison, SpaceX paid ... |
| 09.09.2026 | Savvy Wealth Raises $100M to Expand AI Wealth Platform | Savvy Wealth Raises Major Series C Funding Savvy Wealth has raised $100 million in Series C funding. The AI-native registered investment adviser is focused on independent financial advisors. Halo Fund led the oversubscribed round. The inves... |
| 09.09.2026 | Startup Funding News Today, September 9, 2026: Cognition AI, Algomatic Dynamics, QNu Labs, VideoGen & More | Today’s funding activity offers a revealing snapshot of where VC firms are placing their biggest bets. Investors will still write enormous checks for AI companies showing extraordinary commercial velocity, but below the megadeals, money is ... |
| 09.09.2026 | Top Tech News Today, September 9, 2026: Google, Meta, OpenAI, Xiaomi & More | It’s Wednesday, September 9, 2026, and the last day in tech was not a product cycle. It was an argument about power. OpenAI says an AI cracked a Millennium Prize math problem in 88 hours, then walked straight into a fight over credit. Meta ... |
| 09.09.2026 | Cognition Raises $2 Billion At $48B Valuation To Push AI Coding Company | Every company wants to build more software. But there aren’t enough software engineers. Teams leave features unbuilt, delay security fixes, and push upgrades because they run out of engineering time. The pitch of AI coding tools is simple: ... |
| 08.09.2026 | Forus Triples Raises $150M to Put AI Agents in Every Medical Practice | What You Should Know Forus, the AI-powered network connecting physicians, retail and specialty pharmacies, commercial payers, and biopharma manufacturers, announced a $150M Series C financing round at a $3B valuation. The round triples the ... |
| 08.09.2026 | Forus Raises $150M at $3B Valuation to Expand AI Healthcare Network | Forus Raises $150M Series C Financing Forus has raised $150 million in Series C funding. Bain Capital Ventures led the round. Existing investors also returned with further backing. Participants included Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Acc... |
| 08.09.2026 | Американский разработчик ИИ для программистов привлек $2 млрд и достиг оценки $48 млрд | Американский стартап Cognition AI, разработчик ИИ-инструментов для программирования, привлек $2 млрд в новом раунде финансирования, в результате чего оценка компании выросла до $48 млрд — почти вдвое всего за несколько месяцев. Раунд возгла... |
| 08.09.2026 | Sapiom Receives $35M Series A Round | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sapiom, the platform builders use to ship, run, and scale AI agents, has announced a $35 million Series A. >> Click here for more funding data on Sapiom >> To export Sapiom funding data to PDF and Excel, clic... |
| 08.09.2026 | “We have a chance to build Britain’s first one trillion dollar company,” says executive at top UK chip startup | A top executive at one of the UK‘s hottest AI startups has made the bold claim that it has the potential to be Britain's first one trillion dollar company. Carmen Alfonso Rico is a VC-turned-angel investor-turned operator. Rico, who started... |
| 08.09.2026 | Fundly.ai Raises $4 Mn To Scale Pharma Payments, Commerce Infra | SUMMARY B2B pharma distribution startup Fundly.ai has raised $4 Mn in a pre-Series A funding round co-led by existing investors Accel and Multiply The startup is looking to connect ordering, payments, settlements, and credit across India’s ... |
| 08.09.2026 | Startup Funding News Today, September 8, 2026: Mistral AI, Stoke Space, ARC Ride & More | Startup funding is splitting into two very different markets this morning: enormous conviction bets on strategic infrastructure and smaller early-stage rounds built around highly specific operating problems. The two largest verified financi... |
| 08.09.2026 | Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 8, 2026: Accel, Atomico, Bessemer, General Catalyst, Thrive Capital, Y Combinator & More | Venture capital’s clearest signal today isn’t AI by itself. It is capital moving toward systems that control scarce physical capacity, regulated workflows, or hard-to-replicate operating networks. In just the past 12 hours, investors poured... |
| 08.09.2026 | Madison hits jackpot, Accel logs high returns as D2C firm floats IPO | Pro Credit: 123RF.com Private equity investor Madison India Capital is set to score spectacular returns on its investment in a direct-to-...... New to VCCircle.com? Subscribe to VCCircle PRO and get privileged access to exclusive curated ar... |
| 08.09.2026 | Forus Scores $150M Series C at $3B Valuation | NEW YORK, NY, Forus, the AI network accelerating medicine, today announced $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation. >> Click here for more funding data on Forus >> To export Forus funding data to PDF and Ex... |
| 07.09.2026 | AI PowerPoint Maker for Sales Decks, Investor Decks and Board Presentations Reaches 12 Million Users in 2026 – Presentations.ai Trusted by Leading Global Enterprise Users | The market for AI presentation software is entering a new phase in 2026 as businesses move beyond tools that convert prompts into slides and demand presentations that stay on-brand, remain editable in PowerPoint and connect to live business... |
| 04.09.2026 | Atira erhält 15 Millionen – Pyure übernimmt klima&so – Callstack kauft Margelo | Im #DealMonitor für den 4. September werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor... |
| 04.09.2026 | RentoMojo sets IPO price band at Rs 384-404, issue opens September 9 | Furniture and appliance rental platform RentoMojo has fixed a price band of Rs 384 to Rs 404 per share for its initial public offering (IPO), which will raise Rs 1,256 crore at the upper end and value the company at roughly Rs 4,206 crore, ... |
| 03.09.2026 | Atira raises $17.5M to bring AI orchestration to industrial sales | Munich-based AI company Atira has raised $15 million in seed funding to expand its platform for automating industrial sales engineering. The round was led by Accel, with participation from UVC, Fortino, Booom and industry investors includin... |
| 03.09.2026 | Equentis led $2 M Pre–series A funding raised by DocPharma | In a pre-Series A fundraising round headed by Equentis, DocPharma, a rapid commerce supply chain platform for healthcare that complies with prescription regulations, has raised $2 million. A group of strategic angel investors, Vinners, and ... |
| 03.09.2026 | Atira Raises $17.5M in Funding | Atira, a Munich, Germany-based provider of a multi-agent sales engineering platform for industrials, raised $17.5M in funding. The round included a $15M Seed round led by Accel and a $2.5M Pre-seed round, with participation from UVC, Fortin... |
| 28.08.2026 | Linear Completes $99 Million Tender At $2.5 Billion Valuation As ARR Tops $100 Million And Net Retention Hits 177% | Linear has completed a $99 million tender offer that allowed current and former employees to sell a portion of their vested equity at a $2.5 billion company valuation. Existing investors Accel and 01A participated alongside new investors Sa... |
| 26.08.2026 | Keenable Raises $26 Million to Build a Search Engine Made for AI Agents | For 25 years, Google built searches for people. When using Google, all you’re required to do is type a few words, click on the top-most search result, and carry on. However, things are quite different with AI. An AI agent might need to read... |
| 26.08.2026 | Everyone says software is dead. SaaS startup Linear just doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion. | Artificial intelligence was supposed to kill software-as-a-service. Linear didn't get the memo. The startup behind a popular product management tool has doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion and surpassed $100 million in annual recurring re... |
| 25.08.2026 | Keenable Raises $26 Million Seed As 100 Billion-Document Search Index Targets AI Knowledge Access | Keenable has emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding led by Accel to build independent web search infrastructure designed specifically for artificial intelligence models and agents. Conviction also participated in the financin... |
| 25.08.2026 | Keenable Raises $26M in Seed Funding | Keenable, a San Francisco, CA-based independent web search infrastructure for AI, raised $26M in seed funding. The round was led by Accel with participation from Conviction and angels from Amazon, ClickHouse, Databricks, Google, Snowflake a... |
| 20.08.2026 | Производитель ИИ-чипов Fractile ведет переговоры об оценке в $6,5 млрд после сделки с Anthropic | Британский стартап Fractile, разрабатывающий чипы для задач искусственного интеллекта и уже заключивший сделку с Anthropic PBC, ведет переговоры о раунде финансирования с оценкой в $6,5 млрд — более чем в шесть раз выше уровня, зафиксирован... |
| 19.08.2026 | Higgsfield's Meteoric Rise: $5.4B Valuation Propels AI Video Forward | Higgsfield, an AI video creation platform, secured $400M in Series B funding. The investment pushes its valuation to $5.4B, quadrupling it in eight months. The company delivers AI tools for professional creators, marketers, and businesses. ... |
| 19.08.2026 | KKR to acquire minority stake in BookMyShow to back live entertainment growth in India | Funds managed by global investment firm KKR have agreed to acquire a minority stake in Indian ticketing and live entertainment platform BookMyShow for an undisclosed amount. Advertisment The investment is intended to support BookMyShow's ne... |
| 19.08.2026 | Pocket's popular AI notetaker launched 8 months ago. Revenue is soaring, but can it last? | AI hardware has had more misses than hits. Pocket wants to change that. The AI notetaker hardware startup says it has reached a $100 million run rate eight months after launching. While the tech graveyard is already littered with failed AI ... |
| 19.08.2026 | KKR Acquires Minority Stake In BookMyShow To Scale Live Entertainment Across India | KKR has agreed to acquire a minority stake in BookMyShow, one of India’s leading entertainment platforms, as the investment firm backs the company’s expansion across live entertainment and its broader full-stack entertainment offering. The ... |
| 17.08.2026 | $1 billion NYC-startup Dash0 acquires Berlin tech company to build software that fixes itself | The American software startup Dash0 is going on a shopping spree: the New York City-headquartered observability company, founded by Mirko Novakovic, is acquiring Berlin-based startup Polar Signals, the companies announced on Monday. The acq... |
| 17.08.2026 | Higgsfield Raises $400M in Series B Funding | Higgsfield, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI video and image creation platform for professional creators, brands, agencies, and studios, raised $400M in Series B funding, at a $5.4B valuation. The round was led by DST Global with... |
| 15.08.2026 | Cambridge Aerospace Secures $300M Amid Skyrocketing Air Defense Demand | Cambridge Aerospace, a UK-based defense technology firm, has raised $300 million in Series C funding. This round pushes its valuation to $3.4 billion. The company develops advanced, low-cost air defense and counter-drone systems. It protect... |
| 14.08.2026 | Zetwerk files updated IPO papers, plans fresh issue of up to Rs 2,600 crore | Zetwerk, a B2B technology-led contract manufacturing platform, has filed updated IPO documents with SEBI for a proposed public offering that includes a fresh issue of shares worth up to Rs 2,600 crore. Advertisment The Bengaluru-based compa... |
| 13.08.2026 | AI Reshapes Tech: Billions in Investment, Billions in Users, Billions at Risk | The artificial intelligence revolution accelerates. Google's Gemini app now serves over one billion users. Massive investments target AI infrastructure, as IBM and Together AI finalize a $240 million deal for an Nvidia-powered cluster. AI c... |
| 13.08.2026 | Legal AI startup Legora seeks $10 billion valuation, nearly doubling its worth in just four months | Swedish legal AI startup Legora is seeking a valuation of at least $10 billion in early fundraising talks, potentially nearly doubling its $5.6 billion valuation from just four months ago and putting another European AI company into decacor... |
| 12.08.2026 | Accel raises $550 million India Fund to back AI, fintech and manufacturing startups | Venture capital firm Accel has raised $550 million for its ninth early-stage India fund, as it increases its focus on AI, consumer businesses, fintech and advanced manufacturing. Advertisment The India fund forms part of a $3.5 billion fund... |
| 12.08.2026 | Accel Closes Ninth India Fund With $550 Mn Corpus To Invest In AI, Deeptech | SUMMARY Accel has closed its ninth India-focused fund with a $550 Mn corpus, as part of a larger $3.5 Bn raise across four funds to expand its AI investments globally. The new India fund gives Accel fresh capital to back the next generation... |
| 12.08.2026 | Accel returns to India market with $550 million fund, betting on AI-led startup wave | - |
| 12.08.2026 | Monzo and Lovable backer Accel raises enlarged $800M early-stage fund | The VC giant, which has backed Lovable, Synthesia and other current prominent European startups, has raised an enlarged $800m fund to invest in early-stage startups across Europe and Israel as part of an overall $3.5bn raise to invest in ea... |
| 12.08.2026 | Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400 million at $13.3 billion valuation as ARR nears $600 million | Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in just eight months as the two-year-old company races toward $600 million in annual recurring revenue. Men... |
| 11.08.2026 | Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup | Kevin Weil, the former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for a new AI science startup, in the latest example of AI pushing into science. Weil is aiming to raise $150 million in the round, accor... |
| 10.08.2026 | Cambridge Aerospace Raises $300M At $3.4B Valuation | Funding Boosts Low-Cost Air Defence Cambridge Aerospace has raised $300 million in Series C funding at a $3.4 billion valuation in a financing round announced today. DFJ Growth led the round with support from Lux, Accel, Lakestar, Never Lif... |
| 10.08.2026 | Cambridge Aerospace's valuation leaps to $3.4BN as raises $300M | UK defence technology startup Cambridge Aerospace has raised $300m at a $3.4bn valuation, a significant uplift on its valuation just a few months ago. The Series C funding round in the counter-drone startup was led by US investor DFJ Growth... |
| 10.08.2026 | Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 10, 2026: Accel, Coatue Management, General Atlantic, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, & More | The biggest funding news today underscores how investors are doubling down on critical infrastructure – from national security and AI data centers to energy storage and fintech – even as deal activity remains focused on proven themes. A UK ... |
| 10.08.2026 | Cambridge Aerospace Raises $300M in Series C Funding | Cambridge Aerospace, a Cambridge, UK-based provider of an air defence platform and low-cost interceptor systems for Allied forces, raised $300M in Series C funding at $3.4 Billion valuation. The round was led by DFJ Growth, with participati... |
| 09.08.2026 | Хедж-фонд Situational Awareness после огромных убытков вложил $400 млн в стартап по производству чипов | Хедж-фонд Situational Awareness на этой неделе инвестировал $400 млн в Source Foundry — частную компанию, разрабатывающую новые технологии производства чипов. С учетом более ранних вложений совокупная сумма инвестиций фонда в стартап достиг... |
| 08.08.2026 | Binance vs Redotpay lawsuit: Alleged fraud, customer diversion to rival product, claim over $470 million loss—10 points | Binance Holdings' affiliates have filed a lawsuit against the founders of Hong Kong-based crypto payments firm RedotPay for alleged fraud, accusing them of diverting hundreds of thousands of customers to a rival product, and claiming over $... |
| 07.08.2026 | Delightree Secures $25M for AI Operating System Expansion | Delightree, a Denver-based innovator, secured $25 million in a funding round. Accel led this significant investment. The company develops an advanced AI operating system. This system empowers franchise and multi-unit businesses. It unifies ... |
| 06.08.2026 | Sapiom Raises $35M in Series A Funding | Sapiom, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform that specializes in AI agents management, raised $35M in Series A financing. The round was led by Dragonfly with participation from Accel, Gradient, Coinbase Ventures, Operator Collec... |
| 04.08.2026 | Delightree Raises $25M To Expand AI Operating System For Franchise Businesses | Delightree Raises $25M To Scale AI Operations Platform Delightree, which is developing an AI-driven operating system for the multi-unit industry (e.g., franchises), has raised $25 million in funding to accelerate the growth of its engineeri... |
| 04.08.2026 | Delightree Raises $25M in Funding | Delightree, a Denver, CO-based provider of an AI operating system for franchise and multi-unit brands, raised $25M in funding. Backers included Innovius, Accel, Timber Grove Ventures, and Emergent. The company intends to use the funds to ex... |
| 03.08.2026 | Olix Raises $312M at $3.3B Valuation To Scale Specialized AI Inference Silicon | As AI has exploded over the last few years, there have been different types of AI chips designed to solve different tasks. Olix raises $312 million to create one chip that handles every part of an AI model’s work. New York firm Fundomo led ... |
| 02.08.2026 | India's Tech Surge: Millions Flow into AI, Quick Commerce, and Investment Platforms | Indian startups attract significant early-stage funding. AI platform Revspot secures $4.8M Series A. It automates lead generation. Quick commerce firm Fixxly raises $5.5M seed for building materials delivery. Alternative asset manager Hegdi... |
| 31.07.2026 | Vector Legal: Reshaping Startup Law with AI and Accountability | Vector Legal secures significant seed funding. The San Francisco-based firm offers a new model. It combines legal software with experienced attorneys. This hybrid approach slashes costs for startups. It streamlines complex legal processes. ... |
| 30.07.2026 | Vector Legal Closes $5.19M Seed Funding Round | Vector Legal, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-native law firm and legal technology platform for startups, closed a $5.19m seed financing. The round was led by Base10 Partners, shortly after completing Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch. The comp... |
| 29.07.2026 | Fixxly raises $5.5 million to build AI-powered building materials delivery platform | Indian building-materials delivery startup Fixxly has raised $5.5 million in seed funding from Accel, Fireside Ventures and Lightspeed India Partners. Advertisment The startup said it will use the investment to strengthen its technology pla... |
| 29.07.2026 | Fixxly, Revspot, Hegdinvst raise early-stage funding | (From left) Revspot co-founders Varun Garg, Darshan Subash, and Chirag Wadhera Quick commerce startup Fixxly, lead generation platform Revspot, and alternative investment manager Hegdinvst have raised funding in separate early-stage rounds.... |
| 29.07.2026 | Building materials quick commerce startup Fixxly raises $5.5M in seed round | Fixxly, a quick commerce platform catering to the building materials sector, has secured $5.5 million in seed funding from Accel, Fireside Ventures, and Lightspeed India Partners. The company plans to deploy the capital towards enhancing it... |
| 28.07.2026 | Latest Harambeans cohort open for applications | The Harambeans, who were founded in 2008, identify as “visionaries transforming Africa’s challenges into opportunities” and an “alliance of determined entrepreneurs who are building Africa’s future.” In the past ten years, Harambeans has gi... |
| 28.07.2026 | Tines Launches 3B to Help Enterprises Govern AI Workflows, Apps and Agents | After tripling its enterprise customer base, Tines rebuilt its platform for a world where every employee can build with AI. DUBLIN and BOSTON, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tines, the intelligent workflow company trusted by enterprises incl... |
| 27.07.2026 | Arrakis Secures $30M Series A to Revolutionize Industrial AI Deployment | Arrakis secured $30 million in Series A funding, bringing total investment to $38 million. Blossom Capital led the round. The company deploys advanced AI agents for industrial operations. Key sectors include aerospace, energy, and manufactu... |
| 24.07.2026 | AegisAI Scores $36M Series A Round | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, AegisAI, the email security company building its own large language models (LLMs) to defend the inbox, has announced a $36 million Series A round. >> Click here for more funding data on AegisAI >> To export A... |
| 24.07.2026 | Paper Receives $34M Series A Round | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Paper, the design platform for the agentic era, has announced its $34 million Series A with Accel and ICONIQ. >> Click here for more funding data on Paper >> To export Paper funding data to PDF and Excel, cli... |
| 24.07.2026 | AegisAI Raises $36M in Series A Funding | AegisAI, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an email security platform empowered by autonomous AI defense agents, raised $36M in Series A funding. The round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from Accel and Foundation Capital... |
| 23.07.2026 | Venture capital & startup funding roundup, July 23, 2026: Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, ICONIQ, Sequoia & more | The money moved in one direction today: toward AI systems that are expensive to build, hard to copy, and increasingly tied to real-world deployment rather than software demos. In the trailing 12-hour window, the 10 most important disclosed ... |
| 22.07.2026 | Arrakis Raises $30 Million Series A To Expand Platform For Deploying AI Agents Across Industrial Operations | Arrakis has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its platform for deploying artificial intelligence agents across industrial operations. Blossom Capital led the round, with participation from existing investor Accel. The financi... |
| 22.07.2026 | OpenAI and Datadog leaders back AI deployment startup Arrakis | London-based AI deployment startup Arrakis has emerged from stealth, having raised nearly $40m in just over three months. Arrakis was founded by former Accel investor Rafael Quintanilla, along with former Palantir executive Haroun Beltaifa,... |
| 22.07.2026 | Arrakis Raises $38M to Scale AI Deployment for Industrial Operations | Arrakis Raises Funding To Accelerate Industrial AI Adoption London-based AI deployment company Arrakis announced it has raised roughly $38 million to scale its platform, which helps industrial companies inject AI agents into the critical wo... |
| 21.07.2026 | Twenty Raises Additional $30 Million From Khosla Ventures At $1.2 Billion Valuation | Twenty has raised an additional $30 million from Khosla Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation. The investment follows the cyber defense company’s recently announced $100 million Series B, which was led by Accel at a $1 billion valuation. The... |
| 20.07.2026 | Quick commerce player Plazza, beauty brand Lngvty bag early-stage funding | Team behind Plazza Plazza, a quick commerce platform for medicine delivery, has raised a $15 million (around Rs 145 crore) Series A funding round co-led by Accel, Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners. Existing investors All In Capit... |
| 20.07.2026 | Quick pharma startup Plazza to expand store network with $15 mn funding | Quick medicine delivery platform Plazza has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Accel, Elevation Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors All In Capital and Better Capital. The fun... |
| 20.07.2026 | Plazza Bags $15 Mn To Expand Quick Medicine Delivery Business | SUMMARY Plazza has raised $15 Mn in a Series A round led by Accel, Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners Investors are increasingly backing specialised quick commerce models despite the regulatory and operational complexity of medici... |
| 18.07.2026 | Wonder Secures $650M; Food Tech Platform Valued at $9B | Wonder, a leading food technology platform, recently secured $650 million in Series D financing. This substantial investment pushes its pre-money valuation to $9 billion. The new capital will accelerate Wonder's aggressive expansion strateg... |
| 17.07.2026 | Fireworks AI Ignites Enterprise AI with $1.5 Billion Funding | Fireworks AI just secured $1.5 billion in Series D funding, now valued at $17.5 billion. This capital injection accelerates global compute infrastructure and engineering expansion. The platform empowers enterprises to develop and deploy spe... |
| 16.07.2026 | Axle Energy Secures $25M for Global Grid Transformation | Axle Energy, a UK-based virtual power plant pioneer, has secured $25 million in Series A funding. The investment, led by Energize Capital, will dramatically accelerate its global expansion. Axle’s platform connects distributed energy resour... |
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