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Indian & Indian diaspora founders building for the world, give your startup a global advantage from day zero.
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Focus Areas
Developing foundational models for complex modalities or enterprise automation
- Explainable models for enterprise workflow automation
- Data & models for difficult modalities like 3D, video & robotics
- Small language models on the edge
- Models for low-resource languages
Developing secure, scalable, accessible tooling for AI deployment, monitoring, and optimization
- Testing tools & frameworks (’Eval’) for GenAI-based application development
- Agent-native iPaaS and tooling for building MCP servers
- Securing complex LLM-powered systems
- Infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs x LLM
- Non-human identity & access control system for RAG & other AI systems
- Data infrastructure for bringing compute to unstructured data (’AI data apps’)
- Enabling infrastructure for RLHF & RLAIF
Developing AI solutions/agents/co-pilots to transform business workflows and services
- Verticalized outcome as a service model for high-value services industries
- Voice AI agents to automate the front office in consumer services industries
- AI agents for accounting, compliance, & controller functions
- AI agents for integrating, migrating, & maintaining ERPs
- Verticalized = AI for domain-specific structured data, mobile friendly BI
- New systems of record based on unstructured data for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success
- AI agents for business communications: logistics/freight, insurance quotes, etc
- AI agents to automate ops/admin tasks for BFSI and Healthcare enterprises
- AI research assistants to accelerate R&D for electronics, material science, biology, or mechanical engineers/scientists
New age applications building AI-native, multi-modal UX for next generation of consumer experiences
- Reimagining e-commerce for discovery-oriented categories with AI
- AI-powered personalised coaching apps: test prep, soft skills, mental wellness, L&D
- Virtual environments/multiplayer games with AI characters & AI-powered UGC tools
- AI powered personal assistants -shopping, travel, personal finance, etc
Applying frontier AI to unsolved problems in the physical world
- Introducing new input modalities (e.g., touch) to AI-enabled robots
- Tooling/infra software for world generation, simulations and imitation learning
- Verticalized action-models for industry specific use cases: logistics, manufacturing, defence, agriculture, retail, construction, maritime, energy, hospitality, waste mgmt' to 'Verticalized action-models for industry specific use cases: logistics, manufacturing, defence, agriculture, retail, construction, maritime, energy, hospitality, waste management
The Program at a Glance
Designed to give you a global advantage from day zero
3 Months
Hybrid Scaling Program
Funding
We invest up to $1M as equity or convertible note
Perks
Access 100+ perks worth more than $5M from network partners
Community
A network of 350+ founders, mentors, and experts worldwide
Customers
Get initial customers through our portfolio network and institutional design partners
Program Leaders
Anand is a partner at Accel.
He joined the firm in 2010.
He focuses on investments in Bharat, consumer tech, online marketplaces, AI, fintech, and healthtech. Anand has led investments in ApnaMart, Blackbuck, Bounce, Emeritus, MyGlamm, Niyo, OrangeHealth, Rupeek, SenseHQ, Simplismart, Spinny, Swiggy, TaxiForSure, Vedantu, Zolve, and other early-stage companies.
Prayank is a partner at Accel.
He joined the firm in 2011.
He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and the world of AI/SaaS. Some investments led by him are Aavenir, Bizongo, Maverix, OnsiteGo, Securden, Slintel, Skeps, and Zetwerk.
Anagh is an investor at Accel.
He joined the firm in 2022.
Previously, he worked at Stellaris Venture Partners`where he was focused on a variety of early-stage investments in the developer tool, SaaS, gaming, and content/media industries. He has an ACM publication in theoretical computer science and was once a quantitative strategist for Goldman Sachs.
Sarthak is an investor at Accel.
He joined the firm in 2022.
Prior to Accel, he was a founding team member of Info Edge Ventures, an early-stage investment fund, and served as a Strategy Associate to the Minister of State for Civil Aviation. He’s from Delhi and graduated from BITS.
Global AI Porfolio at Accel
AI in enterprise software, healthcare, education, robotics, dev tools, design, finance, factories, and more.
