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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 520
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 05.09.2025 | IQM Corpor... | iqm.com | $320M | Finland |
| 05.09.2025 | n8n | n8n.io | $391.47M | Germany |
| 02.09.2025 | CityMall | citymall.live | $158.5M | 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 | $1.53B | Germany |
| 31.07.2025 | Arivihan | arivihan.com | $4.2M | India |
| 30.07.2025 | Prophet Se... | prophet.security | $41M | United Sta... |
| 29.07.2025 | Prophet Se... | prophetsecurity.ai | $30M | - |
| 23.07.2025 | WIOM by i2... | wiom.in | $44M | India |
| 17.07.2025 | Lovable | lovable.dev | $207.5M | Sweden |
| 01.07.2025 | Campfire | campfire.ai | $35M | - |
| 23.05.2025 | OpenFX | openfx.com | $23M | - |
| 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 | $739.81M | India, Kar... |
| 25.01.2025 | BPR Hub | bprhub.com | $2.6M | - |
| 17.10.2024 | SimpliSmar... | simplismart.ai | $7M | - |
| 08.10.2024 | Zepz | zepzpay.com | $724M | Canada, On... |
| 01.10.2024 | Nurix AI | nurix.ai | $27.5M | - |
| 18.09.2024 | e6data | e6data.com | $10M | United Sta... |
| 31.07.2024 | Ema | ema.co | $75M | - |
| 18.06.2024 | Decagon AI | decagon.ai | $266M | - |
| 07.05.2024 | Swypex | swypex.com | $4M | - |
| 19.04.2024 | Spintly | spintly.com | $4.91M | India, Goa... |
| 14.03.2024 | RapidCanva... | rapidcanvas.ai | $23.5M | United Sta... |
| 04.10.2023 | Rainforest | rainforestpay.com | $28.5M | United Sta... |
| 17.08.2023 | Project Di... | projectdiscovery.io | $25M | - |
| 07.06.2023 | Insify | insify.com | $27.85M | Netherland... |
| 19.05.2023 | Stacklok | stacklok.com | $17.5M | United Sta... |
| 26.08.2022 | Jboss | jboss.org | - | United Sta... |
| 14.07.2022 | Detect Tec... | detecttechnologies.com | $40M | India, Tam... |
| 14.07.2022 | AssemblyAI | assemblyai.com | $170M | United Sta... |
| 13.07.2022 | Provus Inc | provusinc.com | $1.61B | United Sta... |
| 28.06.2022 | Gloat | gloat.com | $172M | United Sta... |
| 22.06.2022 | Appsmith | appsmith.com | $51.5M | India, Kar... |
| 17.06.2022 | Wonder | wonder.com | $964M | United Sta... |
| 09.03.2022 | Money View | moneyview.in | $179.81M | India, Kar... |
| 30.11.2021 | Raycast | raycast.com | $47.7M | United Kin... |
| 19.10.2021 | Pismo | pismo.io | $108M | Brazil, Sã... |
| 28.09.2021 | Gem | gem.com | $109M | - |
| 13.09.2021 | commerceto... | commercetools.com | $285.56M | Germany, B... |
| 29.07.2021 | Tenderly | tenderly.co | $55.34M | Serbia, Ce... |
| 20.05.2021 | Trade Repu... | traderepublic.com | $1.25B | Germany, B... |
| 02.03.2021 | Xendit | xendit.co | $514.6M | Indonesia,... |
| 17.02.2021 | Ola | olacabs.com | $4.37B | India, Kar... |
| 27.01.2021 | VenWiz | venwiz.com | $11.3M | India, Kar... |
| 13.01.2021 | Webflow | webflow.com | $472M | United Sta... |
| 15.12.2020 | Taxdoo | taxdoo.com | $106.06M | Germany, H... |
| 20.10.2020 | Slintel | slintel.com | $29.9M | - |
| 15.10.2020 | Humio | humio.com | $49.14M | - |
| 10.08.2020 | Checkly | checklyhq.com | $32.26M | Germany, B... |
| 10.08.2020 | Ermetic | ermetic.com | $97M | United Sta... |
| 28.07.2020 | Pyn | pynhq.com | $10.4M | Australia,... |
| 24.07.2020 | Bumble | bumble.com | - | United Sta... |
| 24.07.2020 | CyCognito | cycognito.com | $153M | United Sta... |
| 17.07.2020 | EduPristin... | edupristine.com | - | India, Mah... |
| 08.07.2020 | Zomentum | zomentum.com | $17.1M | - |
| 08.07.2020 | Securden, ... | securden.com | $11.7M | United Sta... |
| 16.06.2020 | Hopin | hopin.to | $1.02B | United Kin... |
| 14.04.2020 | Aavenir | aavenir.com | $8M | United Sta... |
| 26.03.2020 | Quiph | qtalk.io | $1.6M | India, Kar... |
| 13.02.2020 | Clover Ven... | clover.ag | $6.42M | - |
| 12.11.2019 | BRYTER | bryter.io | $22M | - |
| 21.09.2019 | Spacejoy | spacejoy.com | $5M | United Sta... |
| 20.08.2019 | Infra.Mark... | infra.market | $2.02B | India, Mah... |
| 19.08.2019 | Ally | gotoally.com | $8M | - |
| 17.07.2019 | Fortify | 3dfortify.com | $50M | United Sta... |
| 17.06.2019 | Bounce | bounceshare.com | $461.5M | India, Kar... |
| 05.04.2019 | BlackBuck ... | blackbuck.com | $744.1M | India, Kar... |
| 27.03.2019 | ZETWERK | zetwerk.com | $853M | India |
| 04.02.2019 | brumbrum | brumbrum.it | $35.31M | Italy, Lom... |
| 13.11.2018 | Spinny | spinny.com | $1.08B | India, Har... |
| 21.09.2018 | CareStack™... | carestack.com | $91M | United Sta... |
| 17.04.2018 | Cogoport | cogoport.com | $56.09M | Netherland... |
| 30.01.2018 | BrowserSta... | browserstack.com | $250M | Ireland, L... |
| 14.12.2017 | HomeLane | homelane.com | $134.57M | India, Kar... |
| 12.12.2017 | Simility, ... | simility.com | $28.15M | United Sta... |
| 19.09.2017 | GoCardless | gocardless.com | $1.16B | Australia,... |
| 08.06.2017 | Algolia | algolia.com | $336.76M | United Sta... |
| 24.05.2017 | G2 | g2crowd.com | $253.3M | United Sta... |
| 01.05.2017 | Fortigo | 4tigo.com | $10M | - |
| 27.04.2017 | Mech Mocha | mechmocha.com | $9.1M | India, Kar... |
| 07.03.2017 | AgroStar | agrostar.in | $124.7M | India, Mah... |
| 16.02.2017 | Opal | workwithopal.com | $25.6M | United Sta... |
| 12.02.2017 | SigTuple | sigtuple.com | $33.1M | India, Kar... |
| 04.11.2016 | Bizongo | bizongo.in | $3M | India, Mah... |
| 05.10.2016 | OpenGamma | opengamma.com | $71.3M | United Kin... |
| 04.10.2016 | Moglix | moglix.com | $661.2M | Singapore |
| 31.08.2016 | Mihup | mihup.com | $8.2M | India, Kar... |
| 04.07.2016 | CureFit | cure.fit | $1.09B | India, Kar... |
| 28.06.2016 | FabHotels.... | fabhotels.com | $46.4M | India, Har... |
| 23.06.2016 | Sentry (se... | sentry.io | $215M | United Sta... |
| 23.06.2016 | Sentry | getsentry.com | $155M | - |
| 07.06.2016 | Celonis | celonis.de | $2.37B | Czechia, P... |
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| 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 | 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| - | Accel Origins Series: Qualtrics Co-Founder & CEO Ryan Smith | [source: Accel] Founders have uncommon drive and ambition. At Accel, we’re fortunate to back many impressive founders who are building marquee technology companies — so we understand that much of the entrepreneurial journey is about hanging... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Funding Circle's IPO: The Founder Factor | Every investor is looking for the company that is going to stand out from the crowd: the category winner in the making. The trouble is, there is no proven recipe for identifying these winners at an early stage. Anyone in business can tell y... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Spotlight On: Leading in Times of Crisis | The Covid-19 pandemic has turned every business plan into a question mark. Companies of all sizes are having to rapidly re-assess almost everything, from how they organize their people to the viability of products and services, their pricin... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Spotlight On: “First Team” Behavior | In our last interview with , former senior engineering lead at Cloudera and Google, he shares the general characteristics that he looks for when hiring on his team—what he calls "First Team" behavior. By building a team that prio... |
| - | Qualtrics' CEO Ryan Smith's Big Life Hack | [Source: Fortune] How do you juggle a growing family and a rocket-fueled tech company? If you’re Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, it takes detailed self-analysis—and a whole lot of Mountain Dew. Plenty of executives, especially parents, are h... |
| - | 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 Investment in Chainalysis: Meet the startup that brought down the biggest dark web marketplace | While still very much in its infancy when it comes to development and adoption, a decentralized financial system has the ability to be massively disruptive and important for decades to come. However, in order for cryptocurrency to achieve t... |
| - | Congratulations, Galileo | We wanted to congratulate Clay and Marie Wilkes and the Galileo family on today’s $1.2B sale of Galileo to SoFi. Knowing the Wilkes, and the tremendous work they do via the in communities around the world, the last thing they’d want to do... |
| - | Introducing our newest London Partner, Luca Bocchio | When you meet Luca, it’s hard to miss his strong sense of curiosity and passion for all things entrepreneurship and venture. We first got to know Luca as a co-investor in Wallapop, where he met our partner Sonali De Rycker, and we soon fou... |
| - | Welcome, Eli Collins, Accel’s Technologist-in-Residence | We’re thrilled to welcome back to the Accel family in a newly formed role: Technologist-in-Residence. We first got to know Eli when he joined as an early employee and served as Chief Technologist and Vice President for nearly a decade. P... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Growth of a viral product: backing Miro | As an investor, I look for many things in a company before I consider supporting it. But there is one factor above all that gets me on the next plane to spend time with its team – a user base that loves the product. Many companies spend hu... |
| - | Announcing our two newest London Partners, Seth Pierrepont & Andrei Brasoveanu | Venture capital is inherently a people business; it’s about spotting, cultivating and partnering with exceptional talent. That takes time, determination and hunger to figure out. For that reason, we couldn’t be more pleased to announce that... |
| - | Welcome Kendall Collins as Accel Executive in Residence | We’re excited to welcome to the Accel Family as our latest Executive in Residence (EIR). Kendall has served in many roles during his career, most recently as the GM of Enterprise Technology at where he spearheaded the development of spat... |
| - | Our Investment in Vercel | Fourteen years ago, , an early service offered by Amazon’s new cloud business, AWS. It directly targeted developers. Companies targeting developers and their infrastructure have become some of the most valuable in the world as amongst oth... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | Spotlight On: Building Great Teams | This is the first post in our “Spotlight On” series where , interviews different business leaders on what constitutes a great team—as well as tips on how to build, grow and effectively manage one. At Accel, we have the good fortune of work... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Deepening Our Longstanding Commitment to India with Our Sixth Fund | Recently, we closed our sixth India fund—$550 million of new capital that will be primarily invested in seed and early stage startups across what we believe to be one of the most vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems in the world: India. Acce... |
| - | Signed, sealed, delivered: DocuSign hits the Nasdaq | Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the company makes its public market debut. What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in 2003, when it’s visionary team set out to ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 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... |
| - | 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, ... |
| - | Our Series A in Process Street | We’re excited to lead the Series A in , a no-code workflow builder that’s rapidly gaining bottoms-up adoption across a diverse set of customers and industries. In particular, we’re thrilled to be joined on this journey by our friends at At... |
| - | Slack: It’s Always Been About the People | I’ve struggled with how to properly capture the emotion of this historic day for Slack. The company's history is filled with all of the elements of a storybook inspired entrepreneurial tale; a grand vision, a pivot, a meteoric rise, and tod... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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). |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | Accel Origins Series: Cloudera Co-Founder & CTO Amr Awadallah | [source: Accel] Founders have uncommon drive and ambition. At Accel, we’re fortunate to back many impressive founders who are building marquee technology companies — so we understand that much of the entrepreneurial journey is about hanging... |
| - | Reflecting on 2016 and Looking Ahead to 2017 | This November, we gathered our global founders and CEOs in San Francisco for our Accel Connect event. For part of the day, we discussed the current environment, independent of founders’ stage, as well as the changing requirements for buildi... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Simility: Future Forward with PayPal | In 2015, Accel made a seed investment in Simility, a machine learning-based fraud detection platform, and we subsequently led the Series A in 2017. It’s always rewarding to see our companies grow in impact and importance and today is no dif... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Announcing Our Series A in MessageBird: Giving Voice to Developers Worldwide | On a recent trip to Amsterdam, I stood on a street corner facing a frustrating but familiar issue: I was using a ridesharing app, attempting to text and call the driver to coordinate a pick-up location, but neither my messages nor my calls ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 (... |
| - | Securing the Modern Enterprise | [Source: Ping Li, Accel] Hardening security was top-of-mind and will remain a focus throughout 2016. CIOs need new systems and processes in a world where we’re constantly defending against new threats and neutralizing those that have alread... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | The Future of AI | [Source: Wired] It’s hard to think of a single technology that will shape our world more in the next 50 years than artificial intelligence. As machine learning enables our computers to teach themselves, a wealth of breakthroughs emerge, ran... |
| - | Our Investment in Transcend | Today we’re announcing our latest Seed round in the fiercely talented team at , a data privacy infrastructure company. Companies globally are figuring out what it means to build for today’s privacy-conscious environment—and how developers... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | Scaling tips from John Chambers: Part 1 - Spotlight on culture and talent | For the leader of any fast-growing company, every day brings a new challenge. A CEO has to manage issues of strategy, culture, talent, customer service and reputation – often all at once. At VivaTech this month, we got an insight into the ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Spotlight On: How to Deliver When the Stakes are High and the Pace is Fast | Welcome to the second installment in our three-part interview series with Amol Kulkarni, Chief Product Officer for CrowdStrike. , Amol discussed why he decided to join CrowdStrike after a long and successful career at Microsoft, and what w... |
| - | Our investment in Hopin: Connecting people | At Accel we have a long history of backing platforms that bring people closer together. We were seed or Series A investors in Facebook and Slack, and we have been working with Miro, the online visual collaboration tool, since 2017. Within t... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Latest State of Hardware Report from Fictiv | [source: Fictiv] To transform an idea into a commercially-viable hardware product requires vast reserves of curiosity, creativity, and grit. But there are so many valuable learnings along the way that can make the process of hardware develo... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Tenable's IPO | Congratulations, team Tenable, on today’s IPO, a moment 16 years in the making. We’ve been fortunate to work with Tenable for the last six years of this journey, having led the first outside investment in the company ($50 million Series ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | DJI's New Mavic Pro Drone Fits in the Palm of Your Hand | [Source: The Verge] Over the last year, the clearest trend in the drone industry has been a move toward units that are smaller and more portable. The Mavic Pro, DJI’s latest offering, follows this same trend. Unveiled today, it is about hal... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Our Series A Investment in Simility | Today we’re excited to share our Series A investment in , the most advanced online fraud-detection platform on the market today. We first met Simility CEO and co-founder, and his co-founders, and , when we led their seed investment in ... |
| - | 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... |
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| 06.09.2025 | From CityMall To FirstClub — Indian Startups Raised $186 Mn This Week | SUMMARY Twenty startups cumulatively raised $186.1 Mn in the first six days of September, a 90% jump from $98.2 Mn secured across 18 deals last week Ecommerce startups dominated the funding trend this week, with eight startups securing $78.... |
| 05.09.2025 | Indian E-commerce Challenger CityMall Secures $47 Million for Growth | CityMall, an Indian value e-commerce platform, secured $47M in Series D funding led by Accel. Total funding now $165M. It targets underserved Tier II/III/IV towns, offering affordable products via a unique community-led model. The funding f... |
| 05.09.2025 | ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $180 million this week, up 28% on-year | Synopsis Despite the higher value, the number of deals during the week was down at 19 transactions, compared to 51 in the corresponding week last year. iStock Startups raised around $180.3 million between August 30 and September 5, a 28.3% ... |
| 05.09.2025 | [Weekly funding roundup Aug 29-Sept 5] VC inflow shows a modest increase | The month of September began on a modest note for the Indian startup ecosystem, with venture capital funding recording a marginal increase as the total amount raised during the week hovered around the $100 million range. The total VC fundin... |
| 05.09.2025 | +++ IQM +++ n8n +++ Unicorn +++ EPIX Sports +++ Lea-Sophie Cramer +++ DeepL +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 5. September). #STARTUPLAND SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. E... |
| 04.09.2025 | FirstClub Raises USD 23 Mn in Series A Round at USD 120 Mn Valuation The Series A round was led by Accel and RTP Global, with participation from Blume Founders Fund, 2am VC, Paramark Ventures, and Adi... | Quick-commerce platform FirstClub has secured USD 23 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel and RTP Global. The round also saw participation from Blume Founders Fund, 2am VC, Paramark Ventures, and Aditya Birla Ventures. With this... |
| 04.09.2025 | FirstClub, Reveal HealthTech, House of Zelena, others bag funding | Ayyappan R, founder, FirstClub Quick commerce startup FirstClub, healthtech ventures Reveal HealthTech, FlexifyMe, and RxMen, maternity clothing brand House of Zelena, and cleantech startup QuantE Energy have secured funding across early-st... |
| 03.09.2025 | PremjiInvest, Gaja Capital, Accel, others team up to back Indian deep-tech startups | At least eight venture capital and private equity firms from the US and India have teamed up to launch the India Deep Tech Investment Alliance (IDTA) to mobilise private capital and expertise for deep-tech companies in the South Asian natio... |
| 03.09.2025 | US, Indian VCs Launch ‘India Deep Tech Alliance’ To Invest Over $1 Bn In Startups | SUMMARY The founding members of IDTA are Accel, Blume Ventures, Gaja Capital, Ideaspring Capital, Premji Invest, Tenacity Ventures, Venture Catalysts, and Celesta Capital Celesta Capital founding managing partner Sriram Viswanathan unveiled... |
| 03.09.2025 | Elev8 Venture Partners successfully closes $160 M first fund | Navin Honagudi, a former partner at Kae Capital, founded Elev8 Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that closed its first fund at Rs 1,400 crore, or roughly $160 million. The fund will support startups in the fintech, enterprise softwar... |
| 03.09.2025 | Urban Company Files INR 1,900 Cr IPO The issue will open on September 10 and close on September 12, with shares to be listed on both the BSE and NSE. | Urban Company Ltd has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) worth INR 1,900 crore. The issue comprises a fresh share sale of INR 472 crore and an offer for sale of INR 1,428 crore by existing investors including Accel, Bessemer Venture... |
| 02.09.2025 | Hitachi's CVC unit ropes in India head from Accel | Premium Credit: Thinkstock Hitachi Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Japanese industrial giant Hitachi Group, has hired a senior executive from venture capital firm Accel to beef up its investment team in India, VCCircle ... |
| 02.09.2025 | Accel Leads USD 47 Mn Investment in CityMall In 2022, CityMall had secured USD 75 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. | Gurugram-based value e-commerce startup CityMall has raised USD 47 million (about INR 414 crore) in its latest funding round led by Accel. The Series D round also saw participation from existing investors Waterbridge Ventures, Citius, Gener... |
| 02.09.2025 | Ecommerce startup CityMall grabs $47M funding led by Accel | CityMall, the Gurugram-based value ecommerce startup, has raised $47 million in its Series D round led by Accel. The round also saw participation from existing backers, including Waterbridge Ventures, Citius, General Catalyst, Elevation Ca... |
| 02.09.2025 | Warburg Pincus, Accel, ChrysCap-backed cos line up for IPOs | Premium Credit: Mukul Mudgal/VCCircle A slew of venture capital and private equity-backed companies have received the approval of capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to float initial public offerings (IPO... |
| 02.09.2025 | India's CityMall raises $47m led by Accel, breaking three-year funding gap | - |
| 02.09.2025 | Accel leads $47 mn Series D in CityMall | (From left) CityMall founders Angad Kikla, Rahul Gill, and Naisheel Verdhan Online commerce startup CityMall has raised $47 million (around Rs 414 crore) in a Series D round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Waterbrid... |
| 27.08.2025 | Report: Vercel is raising new funding at $9B valuation amid AI growth Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Front-end development startup Vercel Inc. is reportedly raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding. Sources told Bloomberg today that Accel is leading the investment. The cash infusion is expected to value Vercel at about $9 bil... |
| 23.08.2025 | Shivalik Small Finance Bank Secures INR 100 Crore Investment to Fuel Digital Expansion | Shivalik Small Finance Bank secured INR 100 crore equity funding. SMBC Asia Rising Fund led the round; existing investors Accel, Lightspeed, Quona Capital, and Sorin Investments joined. Funds will fortify technology, expand key teams, and e... |
| 22.08.2025 | Cybersecurity firm Netskope files to go public on the Nasdaq | Cybersecurity firm Netskope said in an initial public offering filing that it will debut on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “NTSK.” The company joins a growing list of companies testing a reopening window in the IPO market and during a b... |
| 20.08.2025 | Shivalik Small Finance Bank received Rs 100 Cr from SMBC, Accel, Lightspeed, others | In order to change from being an urban cooperative bank to a small finance bank, Shivalik Small Finance Bank (SSFB) has raised Rs 100 crore in equity capital. The corporate venture capital division of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SM... |
| 19.08.2025 | Silicon Valley’s AI deals are creating zombie startups: ‘You hollowed out the organization’ | Regulatory hurdles surrounding M&A have led tech giants to use an alternative tactic to acquire talent in artificial intelligence. Meta and Google have spent billions of dollars to bring in AI leaders, who are leaving their companies be... |
| 19.08.2025 | Credgenics Acquires Arrise to Strengthen Debt Collections Network Together, Credgenics and Arrise aim to grow their combined annual revenue to INR 850 crore over the next three years. | Credgenics, a SaaS platform for debt collections and resolution, has acquired Arrise, a business process outsourcing firm focused on the BFSI sector. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 2019, Arrise curr... |
| 18.08.2025 | BlueStone IPO: Saama To Exit With 10.6X Returns, Accel To Rake In INR 135 Cr | SUMMARY VC firm Saama Capital, which is exiting the company by selling 41 Lakh shares via the OFS, is set to rake in over 10X returns on its investments at the upper end of BlueStone’s IPO price band of INR 492 to INR 517 Accel India will n... |
| 16.08.2025 | [Weekly funding roundup Aug 9-16] VC inflow into Indian startups on the rise | Indian startups see venture capital (VC) funding steadily rise in August as the startup ecosystem clocks a few large number of deals. In the second week of August, startups raised a total of $324 million across 27 deals in VC funding compar... |
| 15.08.2025 | Dealmakers' Digest: Hottest Startup Cheques This Week (August 09–14) This week's deals highlight investor appetite for health savings platforms, instant groceries, luxury retail, AI storytelling, and ... | The Indian startup ecosystem witnessed an impressive flow of capital this week, with companies across medtech, quick commerce, life sciences, luxury retail, AI-powered content creation, and on-demand services raising significant funds. From... |
| 14.08.2025 | ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $338 million this week, up 65% on-year | Synopsis The number of deals during the week fell to 26 transactions, compared to 33 in the corresponding week of the previous year. ETtech Startups raised around $337.6 million between August 9 and 14, a 64.9% increase from the $204.7 mill... |
| 14.08.2025 | Sands Capital Offloads BlackBuck Shares Worth INR 136 Cr | SUMMARY The investment firm first offloaded 12.9 Lakh shares of BlackBuck at INR 515.72 each, followed by another 13.4 Lakh shares at INR 515.61 apiece In the past two months, Wellington Management, Peak XV Partners and Accel have trimmed t... |
| 14.08.2025 | Shivalik Small Finance Bank Secures INR 100 Cr in Equity Funding Led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund The focus will be on developing scalable solutions aimed at India's underserved micro, small, and medium e... | Shivalik Small Finance Bank (SSFB) has announced that it has raised INR 100 crore in equity capital in a funding round led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund from Japan, the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. The ro... |
| 12.08.2025 | Bessemer Venture Partners wraps up dream exit as portfolio firm taps new backer | Pro Vishal Gupta, Partner-India, Bessemer Venture Partners Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, which joined the ranks of global peers Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners to roll out a fund focused on India three... |
| 11.08.2025 | Truemeds Secures $85 Million to Revolutionize India's Healthcare Access | Truemeds, a leading e-pharmacy, secured $85 million in Series C funding. Accel and Peak XV Partners led the investment. This significant capital injection accelerates its mission. The company targets India's vast non-metro regions. It deliv... |
| 11.08.2025 | Truemeds closes $85 million funding led by Accel and Peak XV Partners | Synopsis Truemeds, a telehealth platform, has received $85 million in funding. Accel and Peak XV Partners led the investment round. The company plans to expand its fulfillment centers and team. They will also establish a technology hub in B... |
| 11.08.2025 | +++ helpcode.ai +++ n8n +++ Lemon Markets +++ Lilium +++ Seriengründer:innen +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Montag, 11. August). #STARTUPLAND SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Es e... |
| 11.08.2025 | Truemeds Closes $85 Mn Series C Funding Round | SUMMARY Truemeds has closed its $85 Mn Series C fundraise from Accel, Peak XV Partners, WestBridge Capital and Info Edge Ventures The freshly raised capital would be deployed to fund its expansion strategy The round was raised in two tranch... |
| 11.08.2025 | India: Truemeds raises $85m in round led by Accel, Peak XV | - |
| 11.08.2025 | Accel, Peak XV lead Truemeds’ $85 mn Series C round | Truemeds founders Akshat Nayyar (left) and Dr Kunal Wani Truemeds, an online pharmacy and telehealth platform for chronic care, has raised $85 million (around Rs 748 crore) in its Series C financing. The funding was completed in two closes-... |
| 11.08.2025 | Truemeds raises $85M to target non-metro markets | Epharmacy and telehealth platform Truemeds has raised $85 million in Series C funding to accelerate its push into smaller cities and towns. The financing, completed in two tranches, was led first by Accel and later by Peak XV Partners, with... |
| 11.08.2025 | Truemeds Secures USD 85 Mn Series C Funding to Expand Affordable Healthcare Access The Series C round's first close was led by Accel, followed by a second close led by Peak XV Partners, with significa... | Mumbai-based e-pharmacy and telehealth platform Truemeds has raised USD 85 million in its Series C funding round led by Accel and Peak XV Partners. The round was completed in two tranches. WestBridge Capital and Info Edge Ventures also part... |
| 07.08.2025 | AI Redefines Cybersecurity: Prophet Security Closes $30M Series A | Prophet Security clinched $30 million in Series A funding. Accel spearheaded the investment. Bain Capital Ventures also participated. This capital drives aggressive platform expansion. It boosts market strategy. Prophet's Agentic AI SOC Pla... |
| 07.08.2025 | Prophet Security: $30 Million Series A Raised For Agentic AI For Security Operations Centers | Prophet Security, a leader in agentic AI for Security Operations Centers (SOCs), has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures. This funding will support the expansion of its ... |
| 07.08.2025 | CodeKarma, MangoPoint, and NPrep Raise Early-Stage Funding The below brands have announced their latest funding rounds. | Developer Productivity Startup CodeKarma Raises USD 2.5 Mn Round CodeKarma has raised USD 2.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Prosus, Accel, and Xeed Ventures. SenseAI Ventures and Stargazer Ventures also participated in the rou... |
| 06.08.2025 | Tech Wave: Startups Secure Multi-Million Dollar Funding Across Diverse Sectors | Multiple startups secured major early-stage funding. DPDzero raised $7M for AI debt collection. Gladful, Hylenr, Cautio, CodeKarma, Capitalmind, TPlusA India, and Qbeast also attracted capital. This diverse investment surge underscores robu... |
| 06.08.2025 | Arivihan Raises $4.2M in Funding | Arivihan, a Bengaluru, India-based edtech startup, reportedly raised $4.2m in funding. The round was co-led by Prosus and Accel with participation from GSF Investors. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its develop... |
| 06.08.2025 | Several investors staring at paper loss as Bluestone cuts valuation ask in IPO | Pro Credit: Pixabay Early-stage venture capital investors in Bengaluru-based jewellery firm Bluestone, such as Saama Capital, Accel Partners, and Kalaari Capital, are sitting on a multi-bagger as the company floats its initial public offeri... |
| 06.08.2025 | Navigating the Raise Fundraising in a year no one wanted to write cheques | Closing a £5m funding round in a down market is no small feat. For Charlotte Lucy Hall, co-founder of background checking platform Zinc, the process was defined not just by the financial climate, but by a set of overlapping personal and pro... |
| 06.08.2025 | Software productivity platform CodeKarma raises $2.5 million from Prosus, Accel, others | Synopsis CodeKarma founder and chief executive Ananth Vanchi told ET that the company plans to use the funds to accelerate product development and innovation, expand into markets like the US, and hire new talent. The funding comes amid the ... |
| 06.08.2025 | DPDzero, Gladful, Hylenr, Cautio, CodeKarma, others raise early-stage funding | The Hylenr team Claims collection startup DPDzero, food brand Gladful, nuclear energy firm Hylenr, dashcam maker Cautio, software development platform CodeKarma, portfolio manager Capitalmind, furniture fittings and hardware company TPlusA ... |
| 06.08.2025 | Arivihan raises $4.17 M Pre-series A funding from Prosus, Accel | GSF Investors participated in a $4.17 million Pre-Series A round led by Prosus and Accel for Bengaluru-based edtech firm Arivihan. Its AI skills, language support, and marketing and distribution in three new states will all be enhanced with... |
| 06.08.2025 | CodeKarma raised $2.5 M Pre-seed funding from Prosus, Accel, and Xeed | Prosus, Accel, and Xeed Ventures led a $2.5 million pre-seed fundraising round for CodeKarma, a developer productivity firm. The round also included participation from Stargazer Ventures and SenseAI Ventures. The money raised will go into s... |
| 05.08.2025 | Diese deutschen DefenseTech-Startups sollten alle kennen | Alles rund um Rüstungsthemen galt in Deutschland jahrelang als Tabu-Thema. Jetzt entstehen jedoch immer mehr deutsche Startups, die auf Technologie für das Schlachtfeld setzen. Und auch Investoren verlieren ihre Scheu vor dem Trendthema Def... |
| 05.08.2025 | What's Holding Back India's Security Startups? Investors worry whether Indian founders can build cybersecurity products that scale globally, says Srinivas Shekar, Co-Founder of Pantherun Technologies | Despite being the second most targeted country for cyberattacks in 2024, India's cybersecurity startups continue to lag behind fintech and SaaS in attracting venture capital. According to estimates, the global cybersecurity market was value... |
| 01.08.2025 | Metaforms Secures $9M, Redefining Market Research with AI | AI startup Metaforms clinched $9 million in Series A funding. Peak XV Partners led the round. Nexus Venture Partners and Together Fund joined. Metaforms automates market research via AI agents. It streamlines survey programming, data proces... |
| 01.08.2025 | Prosus and Accel Lead USD 4.17 Mn Round in Arivihan for AI-Driven Education Push With the new funds, Arivihan plans to deepen its focus on Class 12 students preparing for state boards, CBSE, and NEET ... | Bengaluru-based edtech startup Arivihan has secured USD 4.17 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Prosus and Accel, with participation from GSF Investors. The startup intends to use the fresh capital to strengthen its artificial i... |
| 31.07.2025 | Arivihan Secures $4.17M for AI Edtech Expansion in India | Indian edtech Arivihan secured $4.17M in new funding. Prosus and Accel led the round, with GSF Investors participating. The AI-powered platform provides personalized tutoring for students, especially in Tier II and III cities. Funds will ex... |
| 31.07.2025 | Figma’s top VCs are sitting on $24 billion worth of stock after massive IPO pop | Figma’s biggest outside investors — Index Ventures, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia — are holding about $24 billion in Figma shares after the design software company’s NYSE debut. It’s a much-needed IPO for Silicon Valley venture firm... |
| 31.07.2025 | Edtech Startup Arivihan Nets $4.2 Mn | SUMMARY The funding round was co-led by Prosus and Accel, with participation from GSF Investors The startup plans to use the fresh capital for expansion and strengthening its AI research and language support capabilities The startup was par... |
| 31.07.2025 | STAN, Metaforms, Arivihan, Snooplay, Heizen bag early-stage funding | Heizen founders (L to R) Nijansh Verma, Aman Arora and Abhilasha Singh Gaming startup STAN, AI platform Metaforms, learning platform for school students Arivihan, toy marketplace Snooplay and software-delivery startup Heizen have secured ch... |
| 31.07.2025 | Edtech firm Arivihan raises $4.17 million from Prosus, Accel | Synopsis GSF Investors participated in the funding round. The edtech firm that offers automated, personalised coaching for school students will use the funds to expand into UP, Bihar, and Chhattisgarh; grow its AI research and language supp... |
| 31.07.2025 | AI-edtech startup Arivihan raises $4.17M from Prosus, Accel | Bengaluru-based AI tutoring startup Arivihan has secured $4.17 million in a pre-Series A funding round from Prosus Ventures and Accel. The deal marks Prosus Ventures’ first investment in India’s edtech sector since its fallout with BYJU'S. ... |
| 30.07.2025 | Prophet Security Raises $30M in Series A Funding | Prophet Security, a Menlo Park, CA-based provider of an agentic AI for security operations centers (SOCs), raised $30M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures. The company intends to ... |
| 30.07.2025 | Legion Raises $38 Million, Emerges from Stealth | Legion, a browser-native AI Security Operations Center (SOC), is reporting a $38 million Seed round while emerging from stealth mode. The company notes that it has previously raised an early seed round. According to a note from the company,... |
| 30.07.2025 | Legion Raises $38M in Seed and Series A Funding | From left to right Eyal Fisher (CTO), Michael Gladishev (VP R&D), Ely Abramovitch (CEO). Credit Ella Barak Legion, a NYC-based browser-native AI Security Operations Center (SOC) platform, emerged from stealth with $38M in Seed and Serie... |
| 29.07.2025 | Amagi Founders Bought Shares Worth INR 9 Cr Ahead Of Filing DRHP | SUMMARY The cofounders’ LLP, Vinculum Advisors, bought 3.5 Mn equity shares at INR 25 apiece from existing investors Accel, Norwest Venture, Premji Invest, among others Following the acquisition of shares, Vinculum Advisors LLP’s stake in t... |
| 29.07.2025 | 25 aufstrebende Startups, die nicht aus Berlin sind | Startups aus Bayern sammelten im ersten Halbjahr dieses Jahres knapp 2,1 Milliarden Euro Venture Capital ein – 262 % mehr als im ersten Halbjahr 2024 und fast genauso viel wie im gesamten Jahr 2024, als gerade einmal 2,3 Milliarden Euro in ... |
| 29.07.2025 | Ledger Lines to Neural Nets: Re-engineering Medical Coding for the GPU Age | Jot Sarup Singh, Co-founder and CPTO at RapidClaims In 1971, a small team at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, led by Dr. Howard Bleich and Dr. Warner Slack, booted up the hospital’s first Center for Clinical Computing. Their PDP-11 minicomput... |
| 29.07.2025 | AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems f... |
| 28.07.2025 | Google’s Opal Embraces the Vibe Coding Trend: Build AI Apps with Just Prompts | Image: Google Google has launched Opal, an experimental tool designed to make building AI-powered applications as easy as typing an idea. The tool enables users to build and share “mini apps” by simply describing what they want in plain Eng... |
| 25.07.2025 | Swiggy reshapes board post-IPO as SoftBank, Accel nominees exit | - |
| 25.07.2025 | Swiggy Reconstitutes Board Post IPO; SoftBank & Accel Representatives Exit | SUMMARY While Faraz Khalid, chief executive of UAE-based ecommerce company Noon, has joined Swiggy’s board as an independent director, SoftBank’s Sumer Juneja and Accel partner Anand Daniel have resigned from the board The company has recon... |
| 25.07.2025 | “Wir wickeln einen E-Commerce-Umsatz von über 10 Milliarden ab” | Das Hamburger TaxTech Taxdoo, 2016 von Christian Königsheim und Roger Gothmann gegründet sammelte in den vergangenen Jahren bereits rund 75 Millionen Euro ein – unter anderem von den bekannten Investoren Accel, Tiger Global und Visionaries ... |
| 24.07.2025 | Lovable Redefines Software Creation, Achieves Unicorn Status at $1.8 Billion | Lovable, a Swedish AI software innovator, secured $200M in Series A funding, reaching a $1.8B valuation. It's Europe's newest unicorn. Its "vibe coding" platform lets anyone build apps with natural language. The company hit $100M ... |
| 24.07.2025 | From source to socket: London’s Fuse Energy raises €8.5 million and launches gas supply to power mass market growth | Fuse Energy, a UK electricity supplier, has today announced the closing of an €8.5 million follow-on investment and its entry into the domestic gas market, marking a significant milestone as the company seeks to provide a seamless, all-in-o... |
| 24.07.2025 | Google Empowers Indian Developers to Lead the Global AI Wave Central to the update was the introduction of Google's latest AI advancements for India, including localised deployment of its high-perform... | Google has announced a suite of new artificial intelligence initiatives tailored to empower Indian developers and startups. The announcements reflect Google's deep commitment to fostering innovation in India and accelerating the country's g... |
| 23.07.2025 | Auxano exits Wiom with strong returns from early-stage bet | Pro Brijesh Damodaran Nair, co-founder, CEO, Auxano Capital Auxano Capital, a leading early-stage investment firm, has fully exited its investment in Delhi-based internet service provider Wiom following the company’s $40-million (Rs 345-cro... |
| 23.07.2025 | Lovable becomes fastest software company ever to reach $100M ARR | Swedish unicorn AI platform Lovable today announced that it has just surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in just eight months, and has amassed more than 2.3 million active users. This makes Lovable the #1 fastest-growin... |
| 23.07.2025 | Bengaluru Tops Karnataka's USD 1.7 Bn Tech Funding in H1 2025: Report Fintech and enterprise applications led sectoral funding, attracting the highest capital. Among investors, Accel topped with the m... | Karnataka's tech sector recorded a total funding of USD 1.7 billion in the first half of 2025, marking a significant decline from previous periods, as per the latest semi-annual report. The report, which assesses the state's tech funding ac... |
| 23.07.2025 | Sweden’s Lovable becomes fastest growing software company ever by skyrocketing to $100 million ARR in 8 months | Stockholm-based Lovable, the AI platform that lets anyone build end-to-end software by talking to AI, today announced that it has just surpassed $100 million (€85 million) in ARR in just eight months, and has amassed more than 2.3 million a... |
| 21.07.2025 | SS&C покупает британскую фондовую сеть Carlyle Calastone примерно за $1 млрд | Компания SS&C, штаб-квартира которой находится в Уиндзоре, штат Коннектикут, планирует профинансировать сделку за счет собственных средств и заемных средств, говорится в ее заявлении. Агентство Reuters сообщало в январе, что Carlyle, уп... |
| 18.07.2025 | Sameer Brij Verma Raises USD 150 Mn for New Early-Stage Venture Fund, Northpoint Capital Northpoint Capital will focus on early-stage investments, aiming to back between 15 and 20 startups with initia... | Sameer Brij Verma, the former managing director at Nexus Venture Partners, has secured USD 150 million for his new solo general partner (GP) fund, Northpoint Capital, according to people familiar with the matter. Northpoint Capital will foc... |
| 18.07.2025 | CEE Tech Weekly: Founders Abroad Making Global Headlines | Company: Welcome to The Recursive’s new weekly roundup covering key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Each edition brings you the latest in funding, ... |
| 17.07.2025 | RapidClaims Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2025 North American Healthcare IT-Software and Services Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition for Excellence in AI-Driven RCM Automation | Recognized for driving operational efficiency and accelerating customer acquisition through AI-powered automation and a highly adaptive deployment model SAN ANTONIO, July 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce ... |
| 17.07.2025 | Шведская компания по программированию в стиле Vibe Lovable достигла оценки в 1,8 млрд | Раунд серии A оценил компанию в $1,8 млрд, говорится в заявлении Lovable в четверг. Bloomberg News сообщал в прошлом месяце, что компания ведет переговоры о привлечении средств. Основанная в 2023 году, Lovable разрабатывает технологии, кото... |
| 17.07.2025 | Lovable becomes Europe’s latest unicorn, following $200M funding round | Lovable, the hyped Swedish coding startup, has become Europe's latest unicorn, after a $200m funding round. The Series A funding round, which gives Lovable a valuation of $1.8bn, was led by Accel, with existing investors 20VC, ByFounders, C... |
| 17.07.2025 | Lovable Closes $200M Series A Funding | Lovable, a Stockholm, Sweden based AI platform that lets anyone build end-to-end software by chatting with AI, closed a $200M Series A funding round. The round, which valued Lovable at $1.8B, was led by Accel with participation from existin... |
| 16.07.2025 | Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Raises USD 2 Bn for New AI Venture Thinking Machines The round was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and included participation from major industry players such... | Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, has raised around USD 2 billion in funding at a valuation of USD 12 billion. The round was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Hor... |
| 16.07.2025 | Healthtech Startup Truemeds Bags $20 Mn From Peak XV | SUMMARY Truemeds has raised fresh INR 174 Cr from Peak XV Partners as part of its Series C round The recent funding round values the company north of $400 Mn This is in addition to Truemeds’ INR 375.2 Cr Series C funding led by Accel India ... |
| 15.07.2025 | Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2 billion for new AI startup Thinking Machines Lab | Mira Murati said that her new AI startup Thinking Machines Lab has raised $2 billion in fresh capital. Murati previously worked as the chief technology officer of OpenAI, and she was named interim CEO of OpenAI after Sam Altman was briefly ... |
| 12.07.2025 | LetsVenture enters growth-stage investment market, rebrands to LVX | LetsVenture, a Bengaluru-based venture capital firm, has strategically evolved from its early-stage beginnings by rebranding as LVX as it enters the growth-stage investing space. In addition to providing investor education and alternative f... |
| 11.07.2025 | Accel expands pre-seed program with launch of Accel Atoms AI and Atoms X | - |
| 11.07.2025 | India to Lead the Next AI Wave, First-Mover Companies Have the Edge: Experts Indian startups are uniquely positioned to lead this revolution given their talent density, cost advantages, and global min... | Delivering a keynote at the Vibe Summit 2025 event, Pratik Pal, Chairman's Office - Data and AI Initiative, Tata Group, explained why enterprises from India will lead the next AI wave, with a global market potential of USD 50 billion. Accor... |
| 11.07.2025 | LetsVenture Rebrands as LVX As part of its rebranding, LVX will operate through three verticals: LVX Start for early-stage funding, LVX Grow for scaling startups, and LVX School for investor and found... | Bengaluru-based investment firm LetsVenture has officially rebranded itself as LVX, marking a strategic expansion into growth-stage funding. The move reflects the company's goal to evolve into a full-lifecycle investment platform, supportin... |
| 08.07.2025 | Apollo Hospitals Acquires Accel-Backed Healthtech Startup Onco | SUMMARY Without revealing the financial details of the deal, sources told Inc42 that the acquisition took place in December last year Founded by Jain and Dr Amit Jotwani in 2016, Onco raised $13 Mn in funding from investors like Accel, Rain... |
| 07.07.2025 | India's Fintech Funding Dips 26% in H1 2025, Retains Third Spot Globally: Tracxn India's fintech sector attracted USD 889 million in funding during the first half of 2025, reflecting a 26 per cent dro... | India's fintech sector attracted USD 889 million in funding during the first half of 2025, reflecting a 26 per cent drop from the USD 1.2 billion raised in the second half of 2024, according to market intelligence platform Tracxn. Compared ... |
| 07.07.2025 | VIBE 2025 Set to Transform Industry-Specific AI Adoption in 48 Hours | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Upekkha, the India–US accelerator that has backed over 100 SaaS and AI startups, has announced VIBE 2025 (Vertical Intelligence & BEyond), the world’s first summit dedicated exclusively to vertical AI. Schedu... |
| 04.07.2025 | Good Glamm in restructuring talks with lenders, CEO admits delays in payments | Good Glamm CEO Darpan Sanghvi Beauty and personal care company Good Glamm Group is in talks with its lenders to restructure its debts even as it struggles to secure cash to cover operational costs and pay its employees and vendors, its chie... |
| 01.07.2025 | Campfire Ignites a New Era in ERP with $35 Million Series A Funding | In the heart of Silicon Valley, a new flame is rising. Campfire, a San Francisco-based startup, has secured $35 million in Series A funding. This round, led by Accel, marks a significant milestone for the company. It’s not just about the mo... |
| 01.07.2025 | Campfire: $35 Million Series A Raised For AI-Native ERP Platform | Campfire, a company specializing in AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, announced that it has raised $35 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Accel, with contributions from existing and new investors ... |
| 01.07.2025 | Campfire Raises $35 Million Series A Led by Accel to Build the Next-Generation AI-Driven ERP | As AI reshapes enterprise software, Campfire’s rapid growth signals a new era for finance and accounting teams. Campfire, the rapidly emerging leader in AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, today announced it has raised $3... |
| 01.07.2025 | Sahi Launches Web Terminal to Power High-Performance Trading for Desktop Traders | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Sahi, the next-generation trading platform, announced today the launch of its Web trading terminal designed to cater to India’s rapidly growing community of high-frequency and professional retail traders seeking ... |
| 30.06.2025 | Infra.Market: Building a Future with $50 Million in New Funding | In the bustling world of construction, Infra.Market is laying down its foundation for growth. The company recently secured an additional $50 million in debt financing from MARS Growth Capital. This strategic move is more than just a financi... |
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