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Founded date: 1983
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C; Series D; Series E; IPO
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 17.10.2024 | SimpliSmar... | simplismart.ai | $7M | - |
| 08.10.2024 | Zepz | zepzpay.com | $559M | 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 | decagon.ai | $135M | - |
| 07.05.2024 | Swypex | swypex.com | $4M | - |
| 19.04.2024 | Spintly | spintly.com | $4.5M | India, Goa... |
| 14.03.2024 | RapidCanva... | rapidcanvas.ai | $7.5M | - |
| 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 | $364M | 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 | $697.67M | 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 | $682M | South Afri... |
| 04.02.2019 | brumbrum | brumbrum.it | $35.31M | Italy, Lom... |
| 13.11.2018 | Spinny | spinny.com | $775.9M | 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 | $118M | India |
| 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... |
| 07.06.2016 | Celonis | celonis.com | $2.38B | Germany, B... |
| 18.05.2016 | Shift Tech... | shift-technology.com | $320.78M | France, Il... |
| 11.05.2016 | Weaveworks | weave.works | $56.65M | United Kin... |
| 10.05.2016 | E8 Storage | e8storage.com | $12M | - |
| 09.05.2016 | Freshmarke... | zarget.com | $7.5M | - |
| 07.03.2016 | ninjacart | ninjacart.in | $228.03M | India, Kar... |
| 25.02.2016 | JUSPAY | juspay.in | $87.42M | India, Kar... |
| 27.01.2016 | JOB TODAY | jobtoday.com | $81M | Luxembourg |
| 24.11.2015 | Fever US | feverup.com | $407M | United Sta... |
| 23.11.2015 | RentoMojo | rentomojo.com | $77.86M | India, Kar... |
| 02.10.2015 | Neumob | neumob.com | $10.8M | United Sta... |
| 30.09.2015 | Lytmus | lytmus.com | $7.2M | United Sta... |
| 30.09.2015 | Lytmus | lytmus.io | $7.2M | United Sta... |
| 18.09.2015 | Curejoy | curejoy.com | $4.4M | United Sta... |
| 10.09.2015 | Microsoft ... | powerbi.microsoft.com | - | United Sta... |
| 10.09.2015 | CARTO | carto.com | $84M | United Sta... |
| 13.08.2015 | Scripbox | scripbox.com | $55.4M | India, Kar... |
| 28.07.2015 | Away | awaytravel.com | $1.38B | Liberia, M... |
| 08.05.2015 | Vedantu | vedantu.com | $200M | South Afri... |
| 27.04.2015 | Coverfox I... | coverfox.com | $49M | India, Mah... |
| 06.04.2015 | Swiggy | swiggy.com | $3.83B | United Kin... |
| 24.03.2015 | N1 investm... | n1.fund | $305M | Ukraine, K... |
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| 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, ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Fiverr Rings the NYSE Bell | What a great achievement for Micha Kaufman and the whole team at Fiverr, which made its debut on the NYSE today. They have built a company that is changing how the world works together, and which facilitate millions of transactions between ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Our Series A in Visor: Applying AI to Gaming | In an era where “consumer investing is dead”, there remains one evergreen category with constant innovation, widespread consumer adoption, and deep engagement—gaming. This phenomenon has been supercharged in recent years by the rise of the ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Our investment in Personio: The new OS for SMBs | Enterprise software has transformed the corporate world over the past two decades, creating hundreds of billions of dollars in value and reshaping how companies do business. Historically, however, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ha... |
| - | Reinventing the Service Desk with AI: Our Series A in Spoke | “How do I access the VPN?” “Where are our new employee on-boarding docs?” “How do I add dependents to my health plan?” “I dropped my phone, can I get it replaced?” Companies of all sizes struggle with resolving workplace service and inf... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Welcome Suresh Vasudevan, Accel’s Newest Executive-in-Residence | We’d like to extend a very warm welcome to , former president and CEO of , to the Accel family as an executive-in-residence (EIR). We first met Suresh in 2008 when we were recruiting him to run one of our portfolio companies, Omneon. Aft... |
| - | Flipkart raises $1.4B from Tencent, eBay & Microsoft and acquires eBay India | [source: Flipkart] The biggest investment in Flipkart’s 10-year history comes at an opportune moment for e-commerce in India. Tencent, eBay and Microsoft have made investments aggregating to $1.4 billion in Flipkart, India’s leading online ... |
| - | Spotlight on Inbound Marketing, with Lola.com CEO Mike Volpe | The market for Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) software is very large and still underserved. There are millions of SMBs in the US and Europe, but unfortunately these businesses have been difficult to reach. As many SMBs are becoming m... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Dear Qualtrics | —Ryan Sweeney |
| - | Welcome, Cherry Miao! | At Accel, we’ve talked a lot about the importance of building an enduring firm. To do that, it’s incumbent on us to continue to find and support the next generation of great investors. We recently announced the addition of two fantastic inv... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Re-orienting How People Interact | [Source: Accel] The social graph continues to reorient how people interact. We’ve long believed in the Facebook-led narrative that change and opportunity come from expansive social networks. We see this through companies like GoFundMe, whic... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Rovio's Unlikely Journey to their IPO | Congratulations to the Rovio team on this week’s milestone! It’s just one more step, and the hard work continues, but it's an important milestone in Rovio’s unique journey. We’re deeply appreciative of the Rovio team’s hard work through t... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Scaling tips from John Chambers: Part 2 – Spotlight on acquisitions and managing crises | At VivaTech this year, we were fortunate to be joined in conversation by former Cisco CEO and Executive Chairman John Chambers, who now invests in early-stage tech start-ups around the world. Alongside former Accel partner Joe Schoendorf, J... |
| - | Our Investment in RiskRecon: Addressing Today's Cybersecurity Blindspot | Today we’re excited to announce our Series B investment in RiskRecon, and shine some light on a team that has quietly been addressing one of today’s biggest blind spots in cybersecurity — risk from third-party vendors. Platform shifts in t... |
| - | Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking | Europe is fertile ground for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, as shown in our comprehensive look at SaaS last year, . Since then, momentum has only accelerated, and we’ve published a fresh edition of the top 100 European SaaS compan... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 (... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan | [Source: Fred Destin, Accel] Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. For SaaS compan... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | CRWD: Solving the Hard Problems First | In early 2013, George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch were stealthily working on their vision to protect the world’s companies from breaches. Both were committed to the idea that there would be a new way to secure endpoints, having realized th... |
| - | Our Series A In 1Password | We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with , creators of the world's most loved password manager. 1Password is trusted by millions of users globally, 50,000+ paying business customers, and 25% of the Fortune 100, including leading en... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Machine Learning a Key Ingredient for Startups | [source: The Wall Street Journal] Machine learning has caught the attention of venture capitalists, but in the form of individual startups to fund. Investors are looking for strong machine learning technology underlying the products of youn... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
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| 20.10.2024 | Eruditus Raises $150M Series F Funding | Eruditus, a Mumbai, India-based company which specializes in making education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world, raised $150M in Series F funding. The round was led by TPG’s The Rise Fund,... |
| 20.10.2024 | Decagon: AI-Based Customer Support Agent Company Raises $100 Million Total | Decagon, a leading innovator in AI customer support agents, announced it had raised $100 million, including its latest Series B funding round (quadrupling its valuation in just a few months). The $65 million round was led by Bain Capital Ve... |
| 19.10.2024 | The AI Revolution: Partners and Startups Race to Transform the Future | The world is on the brink of an AI revolution. Companies are gearing up for a seismic shift in how they operate. A recent Cisco study reveals that over a quarter of IT partners expect AI technologies to account for 76-100% of their revenue ... |
| 18.10.2024 | Eruditus Secures $150 Million to Fuel Growth and Shift Focus to India | In a bold move, Eruditus has raised $150 million in its Series F funding round, led by TPG’s The Rise Fund. This funding marks a significant milestone for the Mumbai-based edtech unicorn, which has seen a rollercoaster of growth and challen... |
| 18.10.2024 | Decagon's $100 Million Leap: Revolutionizing Customer Support with AI | In the bustling heart of San Francisco, a quiet revolution is brewing. Decagon, a trailblazer in AI customer support, has just secured a staggering $100 million in funding. This financial windfall, including a $65 million Series B round led... |
| 18.10.2024 | The AI Revolution: Navigating New Frontiers in Business and Governance | The world is in the midst of an AI revolution. Companies are racing to harness its power. But with great power comes great responsibility. As organizations dive deeper into artificial intelligence, they face a myriad of challenges. Data qua... |
| 18.10.2024 | Eruditus: $150 Million (Series F) Raised To Make Education Accessible And Affordable | Eruditus, a leader in making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments, announced today that it has raised a $150 million Series F fundraise led by TPG’s The Rise Fund with participation fro... |
| 18.10.2024 | Simplismart Secures USD 7 MN Series A Funding Led by Accel to Scale Enterprise MLOps Platform The funding will be used to enhance the company's R&D efforts and drive the growth of its enterprise-f... | Simplismart, a cloud-based MLOps workflow orchestration platform, has secured USD 7 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Shastra VC, Titan Capital, and notable angel investors like Akshay Kothari, Co-fou... |
| 18.10.2024 | Eruditus raises $150 Mn in Series F led by TPG’s The Rise Fund | Edtech unicorn Eruditus has raised $150 million in its Series F funding round, led by TPG’s The Rise Fund, part of TPG’s global impact investing platform. The round also saw participation from existing investors, including Softbank Vision F... |
| 18.10.2024 | Omnea: Procurement Platform Company Raises $20 Million (Series A) | Omnea – an AI-based procurement orchestration and supplier risk management platform – announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding to make procurement painless and give companies greater control over their spend. Accel led the fu... |
| 18.10.2024 | Simplismart Bags $7 Mn To Simplify AI Adoption For Enterprises | SUMMARY Led by Accel, the round also saw participation from Shastra VC, Titan Capital, among others The startup plans to utilise the fresh capital to expand its research and development (R&D) initiatives and accelerate growth Founded in... |
| 18.10.2024 | Simplismart secures USD $7m to enhance AI for enterprises | Simplismart, a startup focused on advancing AI adoption in enterprise settings, has secured USD $7m in a series A funding round led by Accel. Simplismart has announced the development of the fastest inference engine while receiving substant... |
| 18.10.2024 | Aditya Birla Boosts Stake in WROGN to 33% with INR 75 Cr Investment Founded in 2014 by Anjana and Vikram Reddy, WROGN is a leading casual and activewear brand, leveraging Virat Kohli's influence and o... | Men's apparel brand WROGN has raised approximately INR 75 crore (around USD 9 million) in funding from Aditya Birla Digital Fashion Ventures Ltd (ABDFVL), increasing ABDFVL's stake in the brand from 17.10% to 32.84%, according to a stock ex... |
| 18.10.2024 | TPG’s Rise Fund leads Series F funding in Eruditus at $3 bn valuation | Ashwin Damera, CEO, Eruditus Edtech startup Eruditus has raised $150 million in a fresh funding round led by American private equity firm TPG’s impact investment platform The Rise Fund. Eruditus’ existing investors Softbank, Leeds Illuminat... |
| 18.10.2024 | Edtech Platform Eruditus Secures USD 150 Mn from TPG's The Rise Fund, Existing Investors Increase Stakes The company plans to deploy the raised funds to expand globally, invest in AI technology, grow ... | Higher education and upskilling platform Eruditus has raised USD 150 million in a Series F funding round, led by TPG's The Rise Fund, a multi-sector strategy within TPG's global impact investing platform. According to a company statement, e... |
| 17.10.2024 | Simplismart's $7 Million Leap: A New Era for MLOps | In the bustling world of technology, funding is the lifeblood that fuels innovation. Simplismart, a Bangalore-based startup, has just secured a hefty $7 million in Series A funding. This round was led by Accel, a prominent venture capital f... |
| 17.10.2024 | Digitate’s Flamingo Release Advances AI and Unified Observability to Power the Autonomous Enterprise | Related Posts Ex-Oracle and Google Engineers Get $7 Million From Accel for Public Launch of Simplismart to Empower AI Adoption Oct 17, 2024 Data Quality and Combating Bias Emerge as Top Hurdles for AI Innovation, According to New Report Oct... |
| 17.10.2024 | Survey: Tech Partners Predict Revenue Shift to AI, Boosted by Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Customer Experience | More than a quarter of partners believe that 76-100% of their revenue will come from AI technologies over the next 4-5 years. Partners identified infrastructure, cybersecurity, and customer experience as the primary drivers of AI technology... |
| 17.10.2024 | Ex-Oracle and Google Engineers Get $7 Million From Accel for Public Launch of Simplismart to Empower AI Adoption | Simplismart has built the fastest inference engine, beating the likes of TogetherAI, FireworksAI, etc., with less than $1 million in funding; allows enterprises to deploy AI with control over cost and performance tradeoffs, helping them jus... |
| 17.10.2024 | Alif Semiconductor Partners With ExecuTorch to Enhance Embedded Capabilities for Endpoint-AI applications | Alif Semiconductor, the leading supplier of scalable, power efficient microcontroller solutions with integrated AI acceleration, today announced it will support the ExecuTorch framework that was recently introduced by PyTorch. ExecuTorch en... |
| 17.10.2024 | Decagon Raises $100M to Develop AI Agents That Redefine Workflows | Decagon, the leading innovator in AI customer support agents, today announced it has raised a total of $100 million, including its latest Series B funding round, quadrupling its valuation in just a few months. The $65 million round was led ... |
| 17.10.2024 | Intelligence Factory Introduces OGAR, a Technique to Reduce Hallucinations in AI Agents | Intelligence Factory has announced the release of OGAR (Ontology-Guided Augmented Retrieval), an AI-driven data retrieval technique that meets the complex data needs of sectors like healthcare, finance, and aerospace. Unlike conventional ve... |
| 17.10.2024 | Simplismart raises $7M to help enterprises run their own AI models with rapid inference and full control Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below ... | Artificial intelligence inference startup Simplismart, officially known as Verute Technologies Pvt Ltd., said today it has closed on $7 million in funding to build out its infrastructure platform and help companies to deploy AI models more ... |
| 17.10.2024 | WROGN raises $9 Mn from Aditya Birla Digital Fashion | Men’s apparel brand WROGN has raised approximately Rs 75 crore (approximately $9 million) in funding from Aditya Birla Digital Fashion Ventures Ltd (ABDFVL), increasing ABDFVL’s stake in the D2C fashion brand from 17.10% to 32.84% on a full... |
| 17.10.2024 | Simplismart bags $7M in Series A funding round led by Accel Recommended Stories For You | Simplismart has secured $7 million in Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Shastra VC, Titan Capital, and high-profile angels, including Akshay Kothari, Co-founder of Notion. The new capital will be used to fuel t... |
| 17.10.2024 | Is Big Tech Stifling AI Innovation? | Big Tech’s control over essential AI infrastructure, such as cloud services and app stores, is allowing them to set unfair terms for smaller competitors and squeeze them out, according to new research commissioned by Mozilla. The new report... |
| 17.10.2024 | Стартап Decagon, который разрабатывает ИИ-агенты, привлек $65 млн. Его клиенты сокращают штаты служб поддержки на 80%... | Генеральный директор Decagon Джесси Чжан утверждает, что их ИИ-сервис сравнивали с решениями от Salesforce, и Decagon выходил победителем. Дисклеймер : это вольный перевод заметки издания Forbes. Перевод подготовила редакция «Технократии». ... |
| 17.10.2024 | Simplismart Raises $7M in Funding | Simplismart, a Bangalore, India-based provider of a cloud/model-agnostic MLOps workflow orchestration platform, raised $7M in funding. The round was led by Accel with participation from Shastra VC, Titan Capital, and angels, including Aksha... |
| 16.10.2024 | 20VC's Third Fund: A Bold Leap into the Future of Venture Capital | In the world of venture capital, success often hinges on timing and strategy. 20VC, a London-based investment firm led by Harry Stebbings, has struck gold with its latest fundraising effort. The firm recently announced the closing of its th... |
| 16.10.2024 | AI, cloud funding in US, Europe and Israel to hit $79 billion in 2024, Accel says | STOCKHOLM : Funding of artificial intelligence and cloud companies in the U.S., Europe and Israel is rising after three years of decline and is estimated to hit $79.2 billion by the end of the year, venture capital firm Accel said in a repo... |
| 16.10.2024 | 20VC: Third Fund Closed At $400 Million | 20VC, a London-based venture capital firm run by Harry Stebbings, announced that it had raised a third fund at $400 million. Stebbings is also best known for running one of the most popular VC-focused podcasts. The $400 million third fund w... |
| 15.10.2024 | Omnea raises $20M for AI-powered procurement and supplier risk management | Omnea, an AI-powered procurement orchestration and supplier risk management platform, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to make procurement painless and give companies greater control over their spend. Most businesses today find th... |
| 15.10.2024 | Port Raises $35M in Series B Funding | Port, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of an internal developer portal, raised $35M in Series B funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $58M, was led by Accel, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and existing in... |
| 15.10.2024 | London-based investment firm 20VC raises its third fund sized at over €360 million | 20VC, the London-based venture capital firm led by Harry Stebbings, has successfully closed its third fund, raising an impressive over €360 million. This new fund is split into two key parts: €114.7 million for Seed investments and $252.3 m... |
| 15.10.2024 | AI startups Decagon and Neuron7 raise millions to transform customer service and repairs Enhancing customer support Intelligent repair automation Your vote of support is important to us and it helps u... | Artificial intelligence-powered customer service startups Decagon AI Inc. and Neuron7 Inc. both announced big funding rounds today, with the former closing on a hefty $65 million investment, and the latter raising $44 million. Decagon said ... |
| 14.10.2024 | Omnea Raises $20M in Series A Funding | Omnea, a London, UK-based AI-powered procurement orchestration and supplier risk management platform, raised $20M in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors First Round Capital and Point Nine... |
| 14.10.2024 | Omnea raises $25M to streamline procurement with AI Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide free, deep, and relev... | Procurement software startup Omnea Ltd. today disclosed that it has raised $25 million in funding over two rounds. The most recent of the two investments, a $20 million Series A raise, was led by Accel. It also included contributions from F... |
| 11.10.2024 | The Rise of Haber Nets: A New Era in Industrial Automation | In the bustling world of technology, a new player is making waves. Haber Nets, an AI-driven robotics startup, has just secured $38 million in funding. This investment, led by Creaegis, with support from Accel India and BEENEXT Capital, mark... |
| 11.10.2024 | AI robotics startup Haber Nets secures $38M in funding | AI-driven robotics startup Haber Nets (Elixa Technologies Pvt Ltd) on Friday said it secured $38 million in a new funding round led by Creaegis, along with participating investors Acceland BEENEXT Capital. The Pune startup disclosed tha... |
| 08.10.2024 | Fintech Zepz scores $267M to expand cross-border payments platform | Zepz, previously known as WorldRemit, a leader in the money transfer sector, has successfully raised $267M to expand into African markets. The funding round was led by the venture capital firm Accel and saw participation from TCV and Leapfr... |
| 08.10.2024 | Miro launches AI-powered Innovation Workspace to streamline team collaboration Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to pr... | Online collaborative whiteboard startup Miro today announced the launch of Innovation Workspace, a new artificial intelligence-powered platform that offers a flexible solution for teams to move ideas to outcomes more quickly. The new Innova... |
| 08.10.2024 | Open-source BI startup Lightdash raises $11M and launches its first AI data analyst Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission ... | London-based business intelligence startup Lightdash, officially known as Telescope Technology Ltd., said today it has raised $11 million in an early-stage funding round. Today’s Series A round was led by Accel and saw participation from ne... |
| 08.10.2024 | Lightdash raises $11M Series A for open source self-serve data analytics platform | Open source business intelligence platform Lightdash has raised $11 million Series A to accelerate the adoption of self-serve data analytics for modern teams. As businesses create unprecedented volumes of data, the demand for self-serve BI ... |
| 04.10.2024 | Payment unicorn Zepz raises $267 million from World Bank, Accel and TCV | Zepz, the parent company of African cross-border payment companies World Remit and Sendwave, has raised $267 million. This comes two years after the fintech reported reaching profitability for the first time. The company did not disclose it... |
| 04.10.2024 | IPO-bound Swiggy launches 10-minute food delivery with Bolt | Rohit Kapoor, CEO of Swiggy’s Food Marketplace, shared the news on LinkedIn, stating,, “Iconic food brands have been built on the axis of time, taste and convenience. And today a few cities will enjoy the first trial of a unique (and hopefu... |
| 03.10.2024 | The Dawn of VoidZero: A New Era for JavaScript Development | In the world of technology, change is the only constant. Recently, a significant shift has emerged in the JavaScript ecosystem. Evan You, the mastermind behind Vue and Vite, has launched a new venture called VoidZero Inc. This startup has a... |
| 03.10.2024 | Indifi Co-Founder Siddharth Mahanot Exits Indifi After 9 Years, Alok Mittal and Sangram Singh to Lead After the changeover, it is anticipated that Sangram Singh, the recently appointed chief executive... | Siddharth Mahanot, co-founder and executive director of digital lending platform Indifi, has announced his departure, concluding a nine-year tenure at the Accel and ICICI Venture-backed fintech firm. After the changeover, it is anticipated ... |
| 02.10.2024 | Создатель Vue Evan You поднимает $4.6 миллиона на новом проекте | Большая новость, о которой на прошлой неделе намекнул в сети X Evan You Evan создал компанию Voidzero Inc, которая будет делать "an open-source, high-performance, and unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem" (пр... |
| 01.10.2024 | Nurix AI raised $27.5 M funding from Accel, General Catalyst, Meraki Labs | $27.5 million in funding led by General Catalyst and Accel, with participation from Meraki Labs, has been secured for Mukesh Bansal’s Nurix AI. The seed and series A rounds of funding are combined. Seed funding totaled $12.5 million for the... |
| 01.10.2024 | SEBI Approves Hyundai, Swiggy, Vishal Mega Mart, Others to Hit Bourses According to a recent update from the market regulator, Vishal Mega Mart, Swiggy, ACME Solar Holdings, Mamata Machinery, and Hyun... | Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued approvals to five major companies to raise funds through the initial public offering route. According to a recent update from the market regulator, Vishal Me... |
| 28.09.2024 | Swiggy’s DRHP: A Look At The Startup’s Shareholding Pattern & Top Guns | SUMMARY MIH India Food Holdings B.V., a subsidiary of Naspers, is the largest shareholder with a 30.95% stake in Swiggy SVF II SONGBIRD (DE) LLC which is a part of SoftBank Vision Fund II, is the second biggest shareholder with a 7.75% stak... |
| 28.09.2024 | [Weekly funding roundup Sept 21-27] VC inflow continues to show strong traction Recommended Stories For You | Venture capital funding into Indian startups continues to remain high given the inflow of large-value deals in September. The last week of the month saw total funding reach $430 million spread across 24 deals. In contrast, the previous week... |
| 27.09.2024 | Swiggy Announces Plans for Landmark IPO with ₹10,000 Crore Issue The fresh issue and the OFS component will bring the company's IPO to INR 10,414 crore. | Food delivery platform Swiggy announced its plans to go public with its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in what looks to be one of the biggest listings in the current market debut boom in India and is proposed to be listed on BSE Limited and ... |
| 26.09.2024 | Raycast's $30M Series B: A New Dawn for Productivity | In a world where distractions lurk behind every click, Raycast emerges as a beacon of hope. The productivity software company recently secured a $30 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to over $45 million. This financ... |
| 26.09.2024 | Swiggy files for $1.25 billion India IPO | NEW DELHI/BENGALURU : SoftBank-backed Swiggy filed papers on Thursday for an initial public offering, which a source said would be worth $1.25 billion, as the food delivery firm looks to tap a booming stock market in one of India's biggest ... |
| 26.09.2024 | Swiggy files for $1.25 billion IPO in India's booming stock market | NEW DELHI/BENGALURU :SoftBank-backed Swiggy filed papers on Thursday for an initial public offering, which a source said would be worth $1.25 billion, as the food delivery firm looks to tap a booming stock market in one of India's biggest l... |
| 25.09.2024 | HomeLane one step closer to being market leader with acquisition, also raises funding | Homevista Decor & Furnishings Pvt. Ltd, the parent company of interior brands HomeLane, Doowup, Cubico and Wrapzap, said on Wednesday that it is acquiring its rival DesignCafe. VCCircle exclusively reported the development of HomeLane a... |
| 25.09.2024 | HomeLane to acquire DesignCafe, secures Rs 225 Cr funding | Omnichannel home interior and renovation platform HomeLane has announced its offer to acquire DesignCafe, a leading player in the home interiors market. The acquisition, which is awaiting regulatory approval, is expected to be one of India’... |
| 25.09.2024 | Raycast raises $30M Series B to reduce context switching | Productivity software company Raycast has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to reduce workplace context switching and improve focus. This brings the company's funding to over $45 million. The proliferation of software tools — mean... |
| 25.09.2024 | London-based Raycast raises €27 million Series B to help iOS and Windows enhance productivity | Raycast, a software company redefining productivity, has raised a €27 million Series B funding round to reduce workplace context switching and improve focus. European investor Atomico led the round, alongside participation from Accel, Coatu... |
| 24.09.2024 | Mukesh Bansal's Nurix AI: A New Dawn in Enterprise AI Solutions | In the bustling tech landscape of Bengaluru, a new player is making waves. Mukesh Bansal, the co-founder of Myntra and Cult.fit, has launched Nurix AI, a startup that recently secured a hefty $27.5 million in funding. This investment comes ... |
| 24.09.2024 | Mukesh Bansal’s latest venture Nurix AI bags $27.5M from General Catalyst, Accel Recommended Stories For You | Nurix AI, an agentic AI services company founded by Mukesh Bansal, the co-founder of Myntraand Cultfit, has raised $27.5 million in seed-Series A funding (divided into two tranches) co-led by General Catalystand Accel, with participat... |
| 24.09.2024 | Mukesh Bansal’s Nurix AI bags $27.5 Mn from Accel, General Catalyst, Meraki Labs | Mukesh Bansal’s Nurix AI has secured $27.5 million in funding co-led by General Catalyst and Accel, with participation from Meraki Labs. The funding is cumulative of seed and series A rounds. The startup raised $12.5 million in seed funding... |
| 24.09.2024 | Myntra and Cultfit Co-Founder Mukesh Bansal's Nurix AI Raises USD 27.5 Mn From Accel and General Catalyst The Bengaluru-based startup will use the raised capital to enhance technology, expand R&D,... | Nurix AI, a cutting-edge AI startup founded by Myntra and Cultfit co-founder Mukesh Bansal, has secured USD 27.5 million in funding across seed and Series A rounds. This investment was co-led by General Catalyst and Accel with participation... |
| 24.09.2024 | Nurix AI raises $27.5M to scale development of custom enterprise AI agents Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provid... | Bengaluru, India-based Nurix AI, the developer of custom artificial intelligence agents for enterprise customers, today announced it has raised $27.5 million in early-stage funding. The seed-Series A funding was co-led by General Catalyst a... |
| 24.09.2024 | Myntra co-founder Mukesh Bansal gets VC funding for new startup Nurix AI | Mukesh Bansal (centre) with other members of Nurix AI's founding team Mukesh Bansal, the co-founder of e-commerce firm Myntra and fitness services company Cult.fit, has secured funding for his latest startup Nurix AI from venture capital fi... |
| 23.09.2024 | The Rise of Innovative Startups: Moneyview and e6data Lead the Charge | In the bustling world of startups, innovation is the lifeblood. Two companies, Moneyview and e6data, are making waves with their recent funding rounds. They embody the spirit of entrepreneurship, showcasing how strategic investments can fue... |
| 23.09.2024 | Moneyview employs private placement to raise $30 M in debt | Private placements are bringing in debt worth Rs 250 crore, or roughly $30 million, for the lending platform Moneyview. For the company based in Bengaluru, this will be the first significant debt round in the previous three years. A special... |
| 21.09.2024 | Construction goods and services platform Infra.Market raised $27 M equity and debt Series E2 funding | In its Series E2 funding round, construction goods and services platform Infra.Market is hoping to raise up to Rs 150 crore, or roughly $18 million. Three months had passed since the $50 million from the Mars Fund was announced, when the ne... |
| 19.09.2024 | Data intelligence platform e6data raised $10 M Series A funding from Accel | $10 million was raised by the data intelligence platform e6data in its Series A round, which was led by Accel and included Beenext. The funds will be utilized for research and development (R&D) in order to expand hiring, onboard more cl... |
| 18.09.2024 | Former Cleartrip CEO Ayyappan R Eyes Quick Commerce with FirstClub After stepping down as Cleartrip's CEO earlier this year, Ayyappan brings his expertise from leading positions at Flipkart, including... | As India's quick commerce sector heats up, former Cleartrip CEO Ayyappan R is poised to make his mark with a new venture, FirstClub. According to media reports, Ayyappan is actively in talks with venture capital firms like Accel and RTP Glo... |
| 18.09.2024 | e6data Raises $10M in Funding | e6data, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a lakehouse compute engine for enterprise data analytics, raised $10M in funding. The round was led by Accel with participation from Beenext and others. The company intends to use the funds to e... |
| 18.09.2024 | Accel and Beenext Back Data Intelligence Platform e6data with USD 10 Mn Series A to Drive Data Platform Innovation The California-and Bengaluru-based startup plans to use the funds to enhance its rese... | Data intelligence platform e6data announced that it has secured USD 10 million in a Series A funding round, led by Accel with participation from Beenext. The California-and Bengaluru-based startup plans to use the funds to enhance its resea... |
| 17.09.2024 | Early-Stage Funding Fuels Innovation in Diverse Sectors | In the bustling world of startups, fresh capital is the lifeblood that fuels innovation. Recently, several companies have secured early-stage funding, each carving out its niche in the market. From data infrastructure to luxury oral care, t... |
| 17.09.2024 | Enterprise-focused data infrastructure startup e6data raises $10 million led by Accel | ETteche6data cofounder and CEO Vishnu Vasanth (front row, second from left) with the founding team California-and Bengaluru-based data infrastructure startup e6data has raised $10 million in a new round of funding led by venture capital fir... |
| 17.09.2024 | E6Data, Llumo AI and Salt Oral Care bag early-stage funding | Llumo AI Development Lead Sudhir Kumar (L) and co-founders Shivam Gupta (M), Akshat Anand (R) Data infra startup e6data, large language model (LLM) deployment and optimisation company, Llumo AI and luxury oral beauty brand Salt Oral Care ra... |
| 16.09.2024 | UK Spinouts Secure Over £1 Billion in H1 2024 | A report published today from Parkwalk, the UK’s biggest investor in university spinouts, has revealed that UK spinout investment is showing signs of recovery following a challenging year in 2023. The report, Equity Investments Into Spinout... |
| 16.09.2024 | Wrogn’s revenue declines by 29 per cent in FY ’24, losses rise by 28.2 per cent | Image Courtesy: www.infinitimall.com Wrogn, the men’s apparel brand backed by Accel and cricketer Virat Kohli, reported a significant decline in its revenue for the fiscal year ending March 2024. Revenues dropped by over 29 per cent, fallin... |
| 14.09.2024 | From InMobi To Centricity – Indian Startups Raised $227 Mn This Week | SUMMARY Indian startups cumulatively raised $227.1 Mn across 22 deals, a 34% decline from the $348 Mn raised last week via 19 deals The week saw one mega funding round materialise when IPO-bound startup InMobi bagged a debt of $100 Mn from ... |
| 13.09.2024 | Moneyview Joins Unicorn Club After Fresh Capital Raise, Bolsters Services with Jify Acquisition With this acquisition, Moneyview aims to expand its financial services by integrating employee-focused s... | Moneyview, a consumer lending platform, has achieved unicorn status following a new funding round from existing investors, Accel India and Nexus Ventures. The company issued 60,23,382 equity shares at an issue price of INR 64.15 each, raisi... |
| 12.09.2024 | Accel Atoms 4.0: Igniting the Future of Startups in Bharat and AI | In the fast-paced world of startups, innovation is the lifeblood. Accel, a global venture capital powerhouse, understands this better than most. With the launch of Accel Atoms 4.0, they are setting the stage for a new wave of entrepreneuria... |
| 12.09.2024 | Accel Launches Accel Atoms 4.0 to Empower Pre-Seed Startups Accel Atoms 4.0 is a three-month hybrid program for pre-seed startups, offering up to USD 1 million in funding and perks valued over USD 5 m... | Global venture capital firm Accel has announced the launch of Accel Atoms 4.0, the fourth edition of its influential pre-seed scaling program. Accel Atoms 4.0 targets two key categories: startups focused on 'Bharat' and those innovating in ... |
| 12.09.2024 | Accel Atoms 4.0 to invest up to $1 million in startups focused on 'Bharat' opportunity, AI | IANSLeading global venture capital firm Accel on Thursday announced the launch of Accel Atoms 4.0, the fourth edition of its pre-seed scaling programme. Global venture capital firm Accel on Wednesday announced the launch of Accel Atoms 4.0,... |
| 12.09.2024 | Accel-backed Moneyview acquires Jify, enters unicorn club | Puneet Agarwal, CEO and co-founder, Moneyview Bengaluru-based fintech company Moneyview, operated by WhizDM Innovations Pvt Ltd, said Wednesday it has acquired Jify.co, a fintech platform that enables employees to access their earnings on d... |
| 12.09.2024 | Newly Turned Unicorn Moneyview Buys Jify To Expand Its Lending Play | SUMMARY As part of the deal, Jify’s existing backers Accel and Nexus Venture Partners were allotted shares of Moneyview This comes on the back of Moneyview entering the coveted unicorn club after raking in INR 38.6 Cr (about $4.6 Mn) in an ... |
| 12.09.2024 | Moneyview Turns Unicorn After Raising $4.6 Mn From Accel India, Nexus Ventures | SUMMARY While Accel invested INR 19.5 Cr in Moneyview, Nexus invested INR 19.1 Cr. This could be part of a larger funding round As per Inc42 calculations, the fintech startup was valued at $1.2 Bn in the funding round. With this, it became ... |
| 12.09.2024 | Haymaker Group Expands Into San Francisco and Silicon Valley Markets, Building on A Decade of Impact Connecting Press with Tech Innovators and Investors | Firm taps innovation communications leader Emilie Cole as Vice President to lead SF office NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Haymaker Group, an award-winning public relations firm that has worked with some of the country's best-known... |
| 11.09.2024 | The Ties That Bind The co-founder of Lottie is here to debunk the myth that family and business don't mix | Contrary to popular belief, starting a successful business with a family member is highly advantageous, as my brother Chris and I co-founded Lottie in July 2021. Combining Chris's tech expertise and my experience in social care, we aimed to... |
| 06.09.2024 | Laravel's Leap: A $57 Million Investment in Open-Source Innovation | In the tech world, funding is like rocket fuel. It propels companies into new orbits. Laravel Holdings Inc. has just secured $57 million from Accel Partners LP, a significant boost for the company behind the popular Laravel PHP web applicat... |
| 05.09.2024 | Drip Capital's $113 Million Funding: A Boost for Global Trade Finance | In the bustling world of finance, Drip Capital has made waves with its recent funding round, securing a hefty $113 million. This infusion of capital is a blend of $23 million in equity and $90 million in debt. The investors? Notable Japanes... |
| 05.09.2024 | Freshpaint Integrates with Invoca to Enable Healthcare Marketers to Drive More Patient Appointment Calls from Search and Digital Advertising | Freshpaint logo New integration activates first-party phone call conversion data from Invoca in Freshpaint to provide healthcare marketers with accurate, privacy-first attribution data to fuel more powerful optimizations across search, soci... |
| 05.09.2024 | Laravel raises $57M to expand team and support open-source development Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content FREE. One click below supports our mission to provide fr... | Laravel Holdings Inc., the company behind the open-source Laravel PHP web application framework, announced today that it has raised $57 million in new funding from Accel Partners LP to support open-source development and its new cloud platf... |
| 05.09.2024 | Lower’s Dan Snyder will share his story at the HousingWire IMB Summit | Dan Snyder rarely steps into the spotlight, but his name, strategic moves and execution are talked about frequently in mortgage banking circles. This changes on Oct. 1, 2024, when Snyder, the CEO of Lower, steps on to the main stage at the ... |
| 05.09.2024 | Drip Capital raises $113 mn in a mix of equity and debt | Pushkar Mukewar, co-founder, Drip Capital Accel-backed Drip Capital, a digital cross-border trade finance platform for small and medium businesses (SMBs), has raised $23 million in equity in a fresh round of funding, along with $90 million ... |
| 04.09.2024 | This VC firm just hit nearly 2,000x returns on seven-year-old India investment | Pro Vishal Gupta, Partner-India, Bessemer Venture Partners Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, which joined the ranks of global peers Sequoia Capital, Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners to roll out a fund focus... |
| 03.09.2024 | Lending Platform Moneyview Secures INR 250 Cr in Debt Funding The funds raised will be allocated towards growth initiatives, working capital needs, and general corporate purposes. | Bengaluru-based lending platform Moneyview is set to receive a significant financial boost, securing INR 250 crore (approximately USD 30 million) through private debt placements. This marks the first major debt infusion for the company in t... |
| 28.08.2024 | Navigating the Future: Leadership Changes in Tech and Healthcare | In the fast-paced world of technology and healthcare, leadership changes can signal a shift in strategy and ambition. Recently, two companies, Zensai and Headway, made headlines by appointing seasoned executives to key positions. These move... |
| 27.08.2024 | Headway Welcomes Susan Chiang as Chief Information Security Officer | An accomplished technology executive, Chiang brings extensive security and strategy experience from Cloudflare, Uber and Salesforce, and healthcare experience from Deloitte NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Headway, the company buildi... |
| 27.08.2024 | Swiggy-backer Accel seeks to close eighth fund at $700m by year end: Report | Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel, which has backed Indian startups such as Flipkart and Swiggy, is expected to close its eighth India-focused fund by the end of the year, the Arc reported on Tuesday. |
| 23.08.2024 | The Surge of Online Lending and D2C Brands: A New Era of Growth | In the bustling world of startups, two companies have recently made headlines with significant funding rounds. Axio, an online lending platform, and Uppercase, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) luggage brand, are carving their paths in their respe... |
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