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In most sports prediction platforms, the house is the opponent. Win too often, and your limits get cut. @Predofficial is built differently. Users trade with each other, the platform matches them, and winning is rewarded. @prayanks writes on why we backed Amit, Piyush, Arpit and team. #AccelFamily

Thanks to leaders including @_AnandDaniel, Partner at @Accel, Satyakam Naik, CFO at @blackbuck, Vijay NP, CFO at @AmagiCorp, Sandeep Baldava, Partner at @EYnews, and Amit Jhunjhunwala, CFO at Accel for sharing candid lessons from the field. (5/5)

3.⁠ ⁠The CFO has the clearest cross-functional view in the company. Because finance touches every function, it often sees risks before anyone else does. That perspective comes with a responsibility: to ask hard questions and sometimes say no. (4/5)

In scaling companies, finance isn’t just about reporting numbers. Often, it’s the first line of defence for governance. This came up repeatedly at Accel Finance Connect, where over 50 finance leaders discussed how the role of finance evolves as companies scale. (1/5)

After an extensive search for startups building the next generation of AI, we are pleased to announce the AI Cohort 2026. From a global pool of thousands of applicants, five companies have been selected for this program—a strategic partnership between Accel Atoms and @Google's @AIFuturesFund. Meet them here.

On Wednesday, we hosted Founder Connect with @Google's @AIFuturesFund, an invite-only evening in Bangalore bringing together India's sharpest early-stage AI founders and builders. 🧵

The companies that define a generation rarely look the part when you first meet them. Pratik Agarwal (@_pagarwal), Partner at Accel, recently joined Harnidh Kaur (@harnidhish), Former Head of WTFund, Nikhil Vora, Founder and CEO of Sixth Sense Ventures, and Kitty Agarwal, Partner at Info Edge Ventures, on a panel at India Conference 2026 at Harvard University (@Harvard) on what it takes to back founders before the idea has proven itself. India's venture story is still in its early chapters, and AI is giving this generation of founders a head start that no previous market had at the same stage. The founders building outside familiar categories today will define what the next decade looks like. India's biggest companies are still ahead of us. @HarvardIndConf | @HarvardHBS

@Jiraaf_Official built for high-net-worth individuals. It made sense; that's where most of India's wealth sits. But a different set of investors kept showing up, loved the product, and couldn't get past the ₹10 lakh minimum. On #InflectionPoint, Saurav shares what happened when they decided to listen. @barathshankar • #AccelFamily

We first partnered with Spintly through @AccelAtoms. Our increased commitment reflects the team's strong execution across product and market milestones. Read more here: economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/i… @barathshankar • #AccelFamily

Spintly is building wireless, cloud-based access control for enterprises and smart buildings. Their patented Bluetooth low energy-based mesh architecture eliminates wired infrastructure, enabling faster deployment, lower costs, and seamless scalability across sites. They're not optimizing around legacy constraints; they're removing them.

We’re excited to deepen our commitment with @Spintly2 as they build the foundational platform for next-generation enterprise access control.

s2.dev's serverless platform enables teams to build and scale real-time data pipelines through a simple API, featuring durable, low-latency streams and zero infrastructure to manage. Read more here: m.economictimes.com/tech/funding/y… @_AnandDaniel • #AccelFamily

AI runs on data, and increasingly, that data needs to move in milliseconds. Yet most companies still stitch together complex, expensive infrastructure to make it work.

Excited to partner with @s2_streamstore, who're making streams a cloud storage primitive with a simple API and zero infrastructure overhead.