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@OpenAI announced today that it’s acquiring @astral_sh. This is a testament to @charliermarsh and the entire Astral team’s craft, dedication, and skill for building tools that developers love. Thank you to Charlie and to everyone at Astral for welcoming us as partners on this journey. We’re cheering you on in this next chapter. Read more from @caseyaylward about what Astral has accomplished and where they’re headed next. ⬇️ accel.com/noteworthies/a…

we’ve partnered with @1Password to take the next step toward solving authentication for agents. last month, we introduced managed auth: a standardized way for agents to log in and stay logged in across the internet. with this partnership, your agents can now use credentials directly from your 1password vaults with managed auth.

1Password Unified Access is here! Security teams need full visibility into how credentials are used, across humans and agents. Launching with @vercel @cursor @perplexity @anthropic @usekernel + more.

Surf AI comes out of stealth today to help security teams keep pace with a new generation of AI-driven threats. Founded by Yair Grindlinger, Elad Horn, Avner Gideoni, Brenton Gumucio, and Roie Cohen Duwek, Surf AI’s agentic platform gives teams the context and precision they need to automate security tasks that demand speed and accuracy. Read more from Accel’s @pbotteri, @TDRawlinson, and Dana Eliaz about what the Surf AI team is building and why we’re leading their Series A. accel.com/noteworthies/c…

When you start a fundraiser, every detail matters: how you tell your story, when to share, and how to keep the momentum going. That’s why we’re excited to introduce GoFundMe’s smart fundraising coach—a proactive, personalized AI experience that gives you clear next steps so you can build momentum with confidence. Give it a try today -> gfme.co/4dfEFie

BTS today📽️

Kevin Mandia from @ArmadinSecurity on how the timeframe for exposure is shrinking, making manual, human-speed cyber responses insufficient. youtube.com/shorts/qZu6qWo…

The best founders never stop building. @RJScaringe built @Rivian from the ground up and the quality of execution and ability to reach scale reflects the quality of the person behind it. Now he's applying that same discipline to a problem that's stumped automation for decades. We're proud to partner with this exceptional team. Welcome to the Accel family, Mind Robotics! accel.com/noteworthies/m…

Exclusive: Mind Robotics, a startup founded by the chief executive of Rivian, has raised $500 million, the latest in a flurry of venture-capital-backed funding rounds for AI-powered robotics companies on.wsj.com/47mTAU8

Reboot time, baby. After 16 years, we teamed up with Plyr, Vidstack and Media Chrome to make the open source player that the web deserves (again). Check out the v10 blog post, try it out, and give us feedback. videojs.org/blog/videojs-v…

Kevin Mandia and Travis Lanham are teaming up to build @ArmadinSecurity, the first AI-native offensive cyber platform. Today, we’re announcing that we’re leading Armadin’s Series A. We couldn’t envision a better team for this job. The Armadin founding team has the battle scars, technical foresight, and instincts to protect enterprises and governments from a new surge of AI-generated attacks. Read more from Accel’s Ping Li about what Armadin is building, and why we believe that against agentic adversaries, the best defense will be a great offense. #all" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">accel.com/noteworthies/l…

LLMs are transforming the legal world—but getting the “last mile” right takes deep context and data. That’s exactly what @WeAreLegora has built. We’re leading Legora’s Series D as @MaxJunestrand and his team redefine how legal work happens. They’re already trusted by more than 800 customers, including Cleary Gottlieb, Deloitte, Dentons, Goodwin, and White & Case. Read more from @ammathew, @amitku, @BenFletch11, and Jakob Buchmayer about why we see Legora’s platform as foundational infrastructure for the next era of legal work. accel.com/noteworthies/o…

Biggest Lesson from Accel Founder, Arthur Patterson: " Focus on hitting singles and doubles and let the home runs take care of themselves. What he means by that is if you're constantly stepping to the plate and trying to "I can see at the series A that this is gonna be $100BN exit." You will just overswing and you will fail." @Mkclements I am intrigued, do you agree with this singles and double mindset @rabois @honam @dafrankel @shaunmmaguire?

Building in enterprise takes patience and conviction. Congrats to @thakurtarun, Maohua Lu, @rob_whitcher, and the entire @vezainc and @ServiceNow team on an exciting next chapter.

1/ In partnership with @AnthropicAI and @perplexity_ai, I brought together Stanford engineers to go from idea → working product in a single day. It was our first ever Stanford @Accel Leadership Program hackathon. 🧵

Custom landing pages for every campaign and customer: obvious value, but has felt impossible to execute until today.

Accounting has stayed stubbornly manual, even as complexity skyrockets. Matt Harpe and @mitch_troy founded @trybasis to build an AI accounting platform that can actually do the work end-to-end. Today, we’re announcing that we’re leading Basis’s Series B. Read more from @Mkclements. ⬇️ accel.com/noteworthies/b…

What the @Code_Metal_AI team is building matters: enabling verifiable AI code translation for hardware-constrained, regulated environments where reliability isn’t optional. Proud to continue the partnership! wired.com/story/vibe-cod…