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In just over two weeks, AI Innovate is coming to Paris! Are you a future founder with a great idea and ready to build in a day? Join the hackathon with our friends at @aiven_io, @HackIterate, Hackathon Hub and @Lovable . Applications are now open: t.co/Zvc3JHV8cB We’ll also be joined for a fireside chat with @ElevenLabs @mati so don’t miss the chance to secure your spot! t.co/RDaTvEQFRo
Millions of tasks are being performed by agents as more people are asking AI to book a table, buy a gift, or fill out a form. @usekernel is building browsers that make it all possible.
Kerry Wang@kerryxwang·The infra behind some of the fastest growing consumer AI agents we know and love? Kernel. x.com/juecd__/status…
The the best defense is a great offense, powered by AI.
Armadin@ArmadinSecurity·Armadin raises $255.5M in Series B funding co-led by @a16z and @accel to bring proof, not assumptions, to the organizations that need it most. Read more: armadin.com/blog-posts/inv…
Scaling AI inside a company depends on getting identity and access right. On October 6, @ConductorOneInc is bringing together the people doing that work for C1 Transform at The Clancy in San Francisco. Learn more and get your ticket at c1.ai/c1-transform-2…
.@Mweigand13 sat down with @timsteno on Bloomberg Tech on Friday. They got into the opportunity opening up in the market right now, why this AI shift is as significant as it is, and the principles that guide us when we back founders.
Bloomberg TV@BloombergTV·As OpenAI and Anthropic grapple with how to safely push the AI frontier, Accel’s Matt Weigand says “alignment needs to keep pace” with rapidly improving capabilities and expects cybersecurity companies to play a role in making that happen bit.ly/4rwzjnO
Today we announced our investment in @andocorporation. @saradu and her team are reshaping messaging for agent-pilled teams. Hear or read more from Accel’s @ivzhou ⬇️ accel.com/news/our-inves…
Ivan Zhou@ivzhou·We @Accel are excited to have led the pre-seed round in @andocorporation, and deepen our partnership with @saradu as they announce their seed round and $20M in total funding led by our friends at @IndexVentures and @emergencecap. Ando is a new team messaging product, built for a world where humans and agents work side by side. Agents are now very capable partners across software development, customer support, legal, finance, and many other functions. And as AI-native work becomes more multiplayer, coordinating context, memory, and activity across a growing number of agents is the new bottleneck. Today, Ando is opening up access to more teams, and you can sign up at t.co/J7nz7is7xb More in the video and comments below on what makes Ando so unique.
From a fifteen-year-old in a lobby with his dad, imagining the future, to Salesforce's legal organization working in software he built. Congratulations @MaxJunestrand and @WeAreLegora!
Max Junestrand@MaxJunestrand·I first came to San Francisco when I was 15, with my dad. He is a programmer. To a teenager from a small island outside of Stockholm, this was the place where the future was being built. We walked into Salesforce East and stood there watching the enormous digital display of moving water. Outside, Salesforce Tower was starting to rise. I remember looking up and thinking it would be pretty sweet to have a tower someday. We are not there yet. What I could not have known is that I would be back years later, having dinner with @Benioff and welcoming @salesforce as a @WeAreLegora customer. Salesforce's Legal and Corporate Affairs organization will now use Legora across North America, EMEA and APAC. Their lawyers keep the judgment calls. We take care of the work around them. We have run on Slack since day one and became Salesforce customers when our sales team outgrew its first CRM, so it is good to have it run in the other direction too. Welcome to Legora, Salesforce. Dad, this one feels special.
Applications for our AI Innovate hackathon in Stockholm with our friends at @Lovable , @polar_sh, KTH AI Society and Hackathon Hub will be closing soon! If you're a Future Founder who is up for the challenge of building a real product and winning your first customers in a day, apply now: t.co/hdkuDJ2iy0
The latest from AI healthcare breakout @forus. @sahirjaggi and his team have been growing at a breakneck pace since their Series B earlier this year. Read more: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Sahir@sahirjaggi·We’re announcing that Forus has raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation to build the AI network for medicine. Medicine will remain one of the world’s most important industries until humanity achieves immortality, and we are only at the beginning of a new era in what it can do. GLP-1s are changing obesity and cardiometabolic disease. Gene therapies can treat diseases at their genetic source. New cancer treatments are turning diagnoses that were once fatal into diseases people can live with. AI is enabling us to discover of new drugs even faster. But discovery is only the beginning. It still takes more than a decade and billions of dollars to turn a new molecule into an approved medicine, and once it reaches market, more than a third of patients prescribed specialty treatments never receive their first dose. Forus is creating the AI network to accelerate the entire medicine pipeline, from development and launch through prescription and treatment. We connect the companies creating medicines with the doctors who prescribe them and the patients who need them. Today, Forus supports millions of people across all 50 states and is already used by providers to treat patients in 85% of U.S. residential ZIP codes. 9 of the top 15 global biopharma companies work with us, alongside many fast-growing biotechs. Our goal is to put Forus in every doctor’s office in the country and unlock an order of magnitude more medicine for society. There is a generational opportunity to rethink how new medicine reaches people. Forus is becoming how medicine moves from discovery to treatment in America, and as we scale, we’ll become the most important company in life sciences. Forus is not constrained by capital or customer demand; we are constrained by the talent and capacity of our team. To take on the opportunity in front of us, we need exceptional engineers and operators in New York who want to move fast and help us make something that matters. Come build with us. Our Series C was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel investing alongside them.
The latest from @forus. @sahirjaggi and his team have been growing at a breakneck pace since their Series B earlier this year. Read more: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Sahir@sahirjaggi·We’re announcing that Forus has raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation to build the AI network for medicine. Medicine will remain one of the world’s most important industries until humanity achieves immortality, and we are only at the beginning of a new era in what it can do. GLP-1s are changing obesity and cardiometabolic disease. Gene therapies can treat diseases at their genetic source. New cancer treatments are turning diagnoses that were once fatal into diseases people can live with. AI is enabling us to discover of new drugs even faster. But discovery is only the beginning. It still takes more than a decade and billions of dollars to turn a new molecule into an approved medicine, and once it reaches market, more than a third of patients prescribed specialty treatments never receive their first dose. Forus is creating the AI network to accelerate the entire medicine pipeline, from development and launch through prescription and treatment. We connect the companies creating medicines with the doctors who prescribe them and the patients who need them. Today, Forus supports millions of people across all 50 states and is already used by providers to treat patients in 85% of U.S. residential ZIP codes. 9 of the top 15 global biopharma companies work with us, alongside many fast-growing biotechs. Our goal is to put Forus in every doctor’s office in the country and unlock an order of magnitude more medicine for society. There is a generational opportunity to rethink how new medicine reaches people. Forus is becoming how medicine moves from discovery to treatment in America, and as we scale, we’ll become the most important company in life sciences. Forus is not constrained by capital or customer demand; we are constrained by the talent and capacity of our team. To take on the opportunity in front of us, we need exceptional engineers and operators in New York who want to move fast and help us make something that matters. Come build with us. Our Series C was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel investing alongside them.
Our AI Innovate series kicks off in Stockholm in just under two weeks. Have you secured your spot at the all-day hackathon with our partners @Lovable , @polar_sh, KTH AI Society and Hackathon Hub? What are you waiting for? Come with an idea and build a real product in just one day! t.co/hdkuDJ2iy0 The winning team will receive a Future Founders prize package to take their projects to the next level...
Calling Amsterdam’s Future Founders! We want to meet you when our AI Innovate series comes to Amsterdam on 23 September. Applications are now open for our Amsterdam hackathon with our friends at @nebiusai , @tavilyai , @Lovable , AISO and AI House Amsterdam. Apply now and have the chance to meet and create with founders, builders and AI enthusiasts from across Europe! t.co/ybgh6dxRXf
Today, we announced we’re leading @KeenableAI's seed round as the company emerges from stealth. Read more from Accel’s Zhenya Loginov, including why @styskin and his co-founder Matthias Petri are the right team to tackle this challenge: accel.com/news/our-seed-…
Calling Europe’s Future Founders! On 16 September, AI Innovate kicks off in Stockholm — the first stop in our new event series connecting the people shaping what comes next in AI. As part of the event, we’re hosting a hackathon with support from our partners @Lovable , @polar_sh and KTH AI Society. Applications are now open here: t.co/V4Xf68CHze Bring your ideas. Build something ambitious. Meet fellow founders, builders and AI enthusiasts from across Europe. What are you waiting for?
The @cursor_ai team and @mntruell have defined what a great AI company looks like — delivering amazing results at a relentless pace, while staying kind and focused every step of the way. accel.com/news/spacex-cu…
Software output is climbing fast, and the infrastructure underneath it now carries outsized value. Design standards are rising just as quickly, however—and most tools haven't caught up. @Paper is the AI-native design tool built for this new era of software. Today, we announced we’re deepening our partnership with founder @stephenhaney and his team. Read more about the round from @daniel_levine ⬇️ t.co/YatxA0IokN
Cognition has announced it’s acquiring TierZero, a combination we believe will set a new standard for autonomous software development. Thank you to @anhangz, @yunpark93, and the entire TierZero team for trusting us as a partner in this journey. We’re looking forward to seeing what’s next in this new chapter at Cognition. Read more about the acquisition from Accel’s @ivzhou ⬇️ t.co/QZuNd7TjUI
The latest on @wonder's next chapter, in Fortune. fortune.com/2026/07/16/exc…
Many of today's most interesting AI companies are working in the toughest possible conditions, with complex data, systems built decades ago, and almost no margin for error. @useagave is one of them. Tom Reno, John Zucchi, and Pooria Azimi are building for a construction industry that is still running on incumbent software, where every job is its own business and few processes have caught up with the modern world. After leading Agave’s seed round, we're deepening the partnership by leading their Series A. Read more from Accel's @Vas Natarajan ⬇️ t.co/vl9Usv5PJu
We sat down with @MollySOShea to talk about what actually drives our late-stage team. It's the same discipline we've leaned on for years, and still trying to earn it every time. @Mkclements @ammathew @Mweigand13 x.com/MollySOShea/st…
We sat down with @MollySOShea to talk about what actually drives our late-stage team. It's the same discipline we've leaned on for years, and still trying to earn it every time. @Mkclements @ammathew #mattweigand x.com/MollySOShea/st…
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 talent, experience and capital compound with each generation of founders. At the same time, AI is accelerating this momentum, creating a new generation of companies that are scaling from zero to unicorn status in record time. In this year's report, produced in partnership with @dealroomco and @RevelioLabs, we explore: ➡️ How more than 2,300 startups have emerged from Europe and Israel's unicorn founder factories ➡️ How AI is creating Europe’s fastest-ever unicorns, with 1 in 5 new unicorns since 2023 reaching a $1B valuation in under 2 years ➡️ Which European startup ecosystems are creating the most founder factories, with London producing more than any other city while Sweden’s founder factories generate nearly 3 times more startups per unicorn than the European average ➡️ How the archetype of Europe’s newest unicorn founders is changing, with today’s founders more likely to come from Big Tech and academia Read the full report here ⬇️ t.co/sqAjYX47CD
The most important professional conversations and the best ideas rarely happen in front of a screen. They happen in the moments between meetings, over the phone and across tables. Yet many of the tools we rely on to capture them were built for a desk-bound world that doesn't reflect how most people actually work. As a result, follow-ups are forgotten, information stays siloed, and great ideas can slip away. @Heypocket solves this. Built by co-founders @AkshayNarisetti and @gabrieldymowski, Pocket is a dedicated AI device that helps people stay present. Elegant enough that you don’t have to remember to bring it with you and capable enough that it captures everything you need it to. Joining the Pocket journey as we participate in the Seed round, we’re looking forward to supporting the team as they reimagine the way people reflect, recall and work. Welcome to the Accel family, Pocket! Read more from Cecilia Wang and Matt Robinson ⬇️ t.co/SwJqxGBIPn
Context changes everything in speech recognition. Big congrats to the AssemblyAI team on this one. x.com/AssemblyAI/sta…
Space security has needed this kind of operational proof point. Glad to be backing the team delivering it. Congratulations to the @The_TrueAnomaly team on VICTUS HAZE! x.com/The_TrueAnomal…
Today’s security tools were built for a world where developers wrote the code. As agents author and ship more software, vulnerabilities are becoming harder to trace, understand, and fix. @TolmoHQ is changing this. x.com/pbetouin/statu…
Today, we announced we’re leading Twenty’s Series B. When the stakes have never been higher and speed is critical, Twenty is bringing to life AI-native cybersecurity that is highly scalable while keeping humans in control of every consequential decision. Co-founders Joe Lin, Leo Olson, Pete Sorrentino, and Skyler Onken bring deep experience in national security, cyber intelligence, and military cyber operations to their leadership at Twenty. We couldn’t think of a better team to tackle this mission-critical challenge. Read more about the round from Accel’s @jturnersf and Pierce Daly: t.co/DmzMICCm92
We're still in the very early innings of the AI infrastructure buildout. The companies that define this era are the ones building the foundation what what comes next. @kiwicopple & @AntWilson have seen this opportunity from day one, and we're proud to be building with them. x.com/kiwicopple/sta…
Today’s news is a testament to @EvanYou’s vision for making JavaScript developers more productive and building tools they actually want to use. Thank you to Evan and the entire @voidzerodev team for letting us be part of this story. We can’t wait to see what comes next. Accel’s x.com/caseyaylward/s…
Good people, sharp competition, and even better conversation. Great co-hosting with you, @DecagonAI. x.com/DecagonAI/stat…
Every layer of the stack is being reimagined and rebuilt. Congratulations to @AnthropicAI, @cyera_io, @CogniteData, @SocureID, @perplexity_ai, @WeAreLegora, @cursor_ai , @DecagonAI, and @Lovable for being named to the @CNBC Disruptor 50.
Congratulations to @DecagonAI for being named to the 2026 @CNBC Disruptor 50 list - this recognition reflects what we've watched up close: 10x YoY growth and fast enterprise adoption across sectors. The list is an amazing milestone. The traction is the story. x.com/DecagonAI/stat…
One-quarter of the global economy is industrial and more than half of production costs still come from labor. That's because traditional robots can only handle what they've been explicitly programmed to do. @RJScaringe is building one of the world's leading industrial robotics x.com/WSJ/status/205…
ICYMI, our bonus episode of Accel’s Spotlight On features Arkady Volozh of @nebiusai. Watch Arkady’s full conversation with Matt Weigand as they talk through what the agentic era means for AI infrastructure. youtu.be/w2BvO1Ul3ug?si…
Billions of dollars are spent each year developing life-saving medicines, but they don’t always reach the patients who need them. @forushq, founded by @sahirjaggi, is solving this with AI that reduces the administrative burden that drives physicians to burnout and delays patient
The average drug takes 10–15 years and $2.6B to reach patients — and even then, many who need it never receive it. A patient can have the right doctor, the right diagnosis, and the right medicine, and still not get treated. @forushq is fixing that with an AI-powered network x.com/forushq/status…
Most enterprise AI is built for the Fortune 500. That leaves much of the “real economy”—home services companies, industrial services firms, healthcare operators, and construction companies—still waiting for tools that work in their environments. @TheCiridae, founded by
On a bonus episode of Accel’s Spotlight On, Arkady Volozh of @nebiusai discusses what the agentic era means for AI infrastructure and why it is a completely new set of tools for a completely new set of users. Watch Arkady’s full conversation with Matt Weigand
