Accel India
Accel, India’s most successful e-commerce investor, is making a contrarian move by turning its focus to smaller towns and villages.
By any benchmark, Accel is among the top venture firms in India. With nearly two dozen Indian unicorn startups, including several category leaders, Accel’s track record speaks for itself. Yet…
Accel, an early investor in Indian e-commerce giants Flipkart and Myntra, is preparing a new fashion e-commerce bet in India even as competition intensifies with the recent expansion of Mukesh…
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India’s top VCs face fresh obstacles as startup investment plummets
High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3-5x invested capital. Several leading India investors, including Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Lightspeed, Nexus and Accel, have raised $500 million-plus in the past…
YC says visa challenges hampering participation of international founders
The most recent cohort from Y Combinator features more than 200 startups. More than a record half of the S23 startups focus on AI applications, highlighting a dominant trend we…
Lightspeed raises $500 million for its new India and Southeast Asia fund
Lightspeed has raised $500 million for its newest India and Southeast Asia fund, its largest for the regions, as it looks to make deeper investments in the South Asian market…
Airmeet, a startup that offers a platform to host virtual events, said on Tuesday it has raised $12 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-headquartered firm demonstrates accelerating…
CommonFloor Raises $10.4M From Tiger Global, Accel To Expand Beyond Real Estate Listings
CommonFloor, an Indian real estate search engine and listings site based in Bangalore, has raised $10.4 million from existing investors, Accel India and Tiger Global in Series D funding.
Accel Launches Third India Fund; Will Invest $155M In Early Stage Startups
After debuting a new $100 million big data initiative, Accel Partners is expanding its presence in another areas, though this time in a geographic region of the world. Accel is…
Accel India Venture Fund Closes $60 Million Seed And Early Stage Fund
Accel India Venture Fund, which came out of Accel’s recent absorption of Indian VC firm Erasmic, as predicted has closed $60 million in a second round of funding new fund…