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Here is what the room agreed on: 1/ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝. They walk in already informed, and the window to differentiate is the first call, not the pitch deck. 2/ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲. Even OpenAI
The images in this tweet break down the full playbook and what the best teams are doing differently. (3/3)
- This week, India's deep tech ecosystem took the global stage at Bharat Innovates 2026 (@BharatInnov2026) in Nice, France, a national initiative by the Ministry of Education to showcase the country's most promising ventures in this space to the world. Prashanth Prakash
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For years, I’ve seen founders live through moments when the plans have failed & the (most pertinent) question is: what now? "Down But Not Out" stays in those moments. Grateful to @anadianant,@avinashraghava for shaping it with me, all the founders that trusted us with their
00:00 - In tax, law, finance, government, and healthcare, AI still cannot guarantee its answers are correct. A doctor still reads the diagnosis. A lawyer still checks the contract. A tax accountant still signs the return. Not because AI cannot produce an answer, but because when it is
- The legal team at Accel has been named PE & VC In-House Team of the Year at the @ALB_Magazine India Law Awards 2026. This team is at the centre of how we operate. They help us navigate complexity, move with confidence, and get the important decisions right: a new investment, a
- Cross-border payments still run on infrastructure built decades ago. Settlements take days, costs remain high, and businesses are forced to pre-fund accounts across countries, leaving $4 trillion in working capital sitting idle globally. OpenFX (@openfx_) is addressing this by
- GTM is among the hardest unsolved problems for AI-native companies. Most playbooks were built for a different era. AI-native products need AI-native commercial motions — and very few people have figured out what that actually looks like in practice. At our next Accel Founder
- A few days ago, Shekhar Kirani (@skirani), Partner at Accel (@Accel), moderated a conversation focused on understanding what it actually takes to build products using AI. He was joined by Anand Arvind of Zenoti (@gozenoti), Dhimil Gosalia of BrowserStack (@browserstack) , Noel
- For many B2B revenue teams, the core challenge isn’t a lack of tools, it’s unreliable data spread across too many systems. The typical response is to add more software. But more tools often create more silos, making the underlying data problem even harder to solve. By the time
- For most Indians, a reliable and affordable daily commute remains a gap, one that gets wider the further you move from the big cities. At the same time, flexible, dignified earning opportunities for those with a vehicle to offer have been just as hard to come by. Rapido
- Another thread from our recent closed-door conversation with some of India's top consumer tech founders. This continues the series. Most companies are using AI to cut costs. The founders in the room were clear that this is the floor, not the ceiling. The bigger opportunity, as
