We are deeply saddened by the passing of our colleague Akhilesh.
Akhilesh joined Accel in October 2025 with a focus on deep-tech. In a short time, he built a meaningful body of work and earned a special place in the deep-tech community, and a more special one among us who worked
This report tracks something worth noting from an Indian perspective: a unicorn doesn't stop mattering once it's built. It keeps producing, in the founders it trains and the startups that follow. 322 unicorns across Europe and Israel have generated over 2,300 new companies this
Our 2026 Founders Factory report is now live!
Europe and Israel's startup ecosystem has entered a new phase. Employees from 322 VC-backed unicorns have gone on to found more than 2,300 startups across the region, raising over $42B and creating a self-sustaining ecosystem where
People don't eat the same way every day. They want healthy food on Monday, pizza on Friday, and biryani on Sunday.
Six months into building EatFit, @ankitnagori27, Founder & CEO of @the_curefoods, realized the opportunity wasn't just health food. It was understanding how India
Our 2026 Founders Factory report is now live!
Europe and Israel's startup ecosystem has entered a new phase. Employees from 322 VC-backed unicorns have gone on to found more than 2,300 startups across the region, raising over $42B and creating a self-sustaining ecosystem where
On Monday, we brought together founders, operators, and strategists in Bengaluru for a full day on unlocking profitable growth: what pricing and growth strategies look like for startups building in AI.
The last decade rewarded companies that grew fast and figured out the margins
Key takeaways:
✅ Define the outcome before you price it. Outcome-based pricing only works when you and your customer agree on what success looks like.
✅ Build the GTM motion around buyer segments. Different customers need different sales motions, budgets, and levels of
Modern satellites generate a lot of data every day. But getting that data back to Earth is becoming a bottleneck.
Satellites still mostly talk to the ground over radio. But radio has limits: only so much spectrum to go around, too much traffic competing for it, and short windows
The GTM playbook for AI companies is still being written. Last week, we got in a room with some of the people helping define it.
Shekhar Kirani (@skirani), Partner at @Accel, sat down with Barathram A, Partner at @McKinsey, who advises frontier labs, hyperscalers, and AI-native
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
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
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
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
