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This cohort enables founders building the future with forward-thinking AI ventures
Refreshed and amped up in its second iteration, our AI cohort went hand-in-hand with the global AI wave.
Focus Areas
Foundational Layer
- Small language models on the edge
- Data & models for difficult modalities like video & robotics
- Models for low-resource languages
- Explainable models for enterprise workflow automation
Infrastructure Layer
- Testing tools & frameworks (’Eval’) for GenAI-based application development
- Monitoring & debugging GenAI models in production
- Securing complex LLM-powered systems
- Infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs x LLM
- Enabling infrastructure for RLHF & RLAIF
- Data infrastructure for bringing compute to unstructured data (’AI data apps’)
- New age identity & access control system for RAG & other AI systems
- Infrastructure for powering autonomous web browsing agents
Application Layer
- Verticalized AI assistants for high-value services industries
- Verticalized voice AI agents for consumer services industries
- 10x acceleration of SDLC with AI
- Agentic frameworks for enterprise workflow automation
- AI agents for accounting, compliance, & controller functions
- AI agents for integrating, migrating, & maintaining complex software like ERPs & CRMs
- Verticalized AI-powered & mobile-friendly BI/analytics applications
- Verticalized ‘Airtables’: AI for domain-specific structured data
- Reimagining e-commerce for discovery-oriented categories with AI
- AI-powered personalised coaching/education apps
- Virtual environments/multiplayer games with AI characters & AI-powered UGC tools
Program Overview
Connect with
300+ Accel portfolio founders
Investors
Global Accel network
Customers
Be a part of
Company building workshops
Cohort meetups
Top AI communities
AI events
Accelerate growth
Up to $1M in capital
1:1 mentoring
Expert masterclasses
Investor connects
Meet the Program Leaders
Prayank Swaroop
Prayank is a partner at Accel.
He joined the firm in 2011.
He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and the world of SaaS. Some investments led by him are Aavenir, Bizongo, Maverix, OnsiteGo, Securden, Slintel, Skeps, and Zetwerk.
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Anagh Prasad
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.
AI Portfolio at Accel
AI in enterprise software, healthcare, education, robotics, dev tools, design, finance, factories, and more.
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