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-2026

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: builderbase.com/event/accel-…

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! builderbase.com/event/accel-… 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! builderbase.com/event/accel-…

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-inve…

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: app.builderbase.com/event/ac… Bring your ideas. Build something ambitious. Meet fellow founders, builders and AI enthusiasts from across Europe. What are you waiting for?

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.

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. piped.video/w2BvO1Ul3ug?si=wsb7…

The 2026 TIME100 is about companies with a vision worth following. Congratulations to @AnthropicAI , @CrowdStrike , @Discord, @Lovable, and @wonder for being named to this year's list. Well deserved!

Forbes’s AI 50 List highlights the world’s most promising privately-held AI companies, judged on commercial traction, technical talent, and how seriously they've embedded AI into what they build. @AnthropicAI, @cursor_ai, @cyera_io, @DecagonAI, @GammaApp, @WeAreLegora, @Lovable, @perplexity_ai, @speak, @SynthesiaIO, and @thinkymachines made the list. In what Forbes called a highly competitive field, this is a testament to these teams’ sharp ideas and real technical depth. Read the full article: forbes.com/lists/ai50/

Few things beat getting founders in a room with Jensen Huang. We loved bringing together our portfolio companies for a few hours @nvidia — a rare chance to hear firsthand how one of the great builders of our time thinks about what's next.

We’re looking forward to continuing our partnership with @Lovable as the team announces their $330M Series B. Since leading their Series A, we’ve seen how Lovable is expanding who can build inside the enterprise. By enabling anyone to create internal tools, prototypes, and applications using simple prompts, Lovable is helping teams bring ideas to life faster than ever. The momentum is remarkable: in the past six months alone, apps created on Lovable have been visited more than half a billion times. What began as an early glimpse into a new way of building is quickly becoming foundational to how organizations imagine, test, and launch new solutions. We're excited to be part of powering the age of the builder, and proud to support @antonosika, @FabianHedin, and the entire team as they enter this next chapter. age-of-the-builder.lovable.a…

Banking, but for the way people live now. We're proud to back @zedphilippines and their mission to make wealth creation easy for the next generation. Read more from @nafisjamal here: accel.com/noteworthies/accel…

Today, @ServiceNow announced that it's acquiring @vezainc. It's a result that's a direct reflection of @thakurtarun's ability to listen carefully, build deliberately, and relentlessly focus on what matters to customers – even when they tell you your first idea is wrong. Thank you to the entire Veza team for your hard work and for welcoming us as partners on this journey. Here's to your newest "first" and what's next. Read more from Eric Wolford: accel.short.gy/8DLVC4

Today, we've announced our Series B investment in @Permitflow. By bringing sophisticated AI systems to the bottlenecked construction permitting process, the team's unlocking much needed growth for both their customers and the broader housing and building sector. Read more from @vas: accel.com/noteworthies/our-s…

One thing's clear from this year's Globalscape analysis: we're in the midst of a new industrial revolution. Three findings that emphasized the pace, scale, and reach of change we're seeing: ➡️ In 2025, cloud and AI funding across the U.S., Europe, and Israel is expected to rise nearly 80% year-over-year to $184B. ➡️ AI has been an accelerator for the European and Insraeli tech economies. While the U.S. continues to dominate the model race, our analysis finds Europe and Israel competing at the application layer. ➡️ The $4T investment in data centers grabs headlines, but it's less than hyperscaler operating cash flow over the same period – and would be earned back with just a 1-2% increase in global GDP CAGR over the next 5 years. Read the report for our complete analysis, and to see our list of the top AI and cloud companies in the U.S. and Europe: accel.short.gy/UyCMNI

Today, we've announced that we've co-led @cursor_ai's Series D. We're excited to deepen our commitment to a team that's proven themselves extraordinary: redefining both coding and AI in a few short years, quietly eclipsing $1 billion in annualized revenue, and throughout it all, remaining remarkably humble, hardworking, and all-around good people.

Today, we've announced our Series A in Code Metal. The stakes for developing hardware are high, and it's kept productivity gains slow. Code Metal changes that, making translation from standard programming languages effortless and errorless. Read more from @StevoLoughlin here: accel.short.gy/SrD1oD

Today, we announced our seed investment in @thekaizenlabs. Slick, one-click interfaces are the norm where we buy and work. But the digital experience of public services has languished, a clunky relic of bureaucracy, to the point that it's diminishing overall civilian engagement. Kaizen changes that. With Kaizen, getting a camping reservation or paying a utility bill is as easy as booking an Airbnb. Read more from @amitku about Kaizen's mission to revolutionize civic engagement and restore the public's trust in government services here: accel.short.gy/OeoOPs And welcome to the family, @bignikhilreddy and team!

Agents promise to relieve us of drudgery and nuisance. But until now, outdated browser infrastructure has kept that promise from becoming reality. @onkernel changes that. Their browser-as-a-service API lets agents use the internet like people do. What they're building immediately stood out to us because: ▶️ It's incredibly fast, spinning up browsers in milliseconds ▶️ They put users in control with live-views, replays, and specific, managed permissions for agents on their behalf ▶️ Of the all-star team featuring @juecd__ and @rfgarcia Today, we've announced that we've led Kernel's Series A. Read more from @daniel_levine here: accel.short.gy/0GWItX

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Accel has led the Series C in @n8n_io's AI-native workflow automation platform.  Agents are now a critical part of every enterprise, and n8n has built the critical layer responsible for orchestrating that work across functions, actions, and agents. Read more about our investment in n8n via @BenFletch11 and @RWong here: dub.sh/accel-n8n And to Jan Oberhauser and the whole n8n team – welcome to the Accel family!

Today, we've announced that we've co-led @supabase's Series E. It's a moment to recognize Supabase's scale: it now serves over 100,000 customers, ranging from the latest Y Combinator batch to PwC, McDonald’s, and 1Password. But founding's a journey of constant firsts, even at Supabase's size and ambition. Founder and CEO @kiwicopple joined us to share a few of his.

Today, we're announcing our seed investment in @shorebirddev. Founded by the team behind @FlutterDev, the company builds tools to make mobile development easier, faster, and less painful. Few people know this problem or space more deeply than @_eseidel. He's spent his career “addicted to helping the world stop writing everything twice.” That obsession now fuels Shorebird– and is changing how apps around the world are developed. Read more from @daniel_levine here: accel.com/noteworthies/super…

It's the rare founder who can anticipate the arc of technological change by decades. Even rarer still is the grit, curiosity, and vision that it takes to build a company able to meet that change when it arrives. If @Netskope's IPO today proves anything, it's that @sanjberi and his team have both of those rare sets of gifts in spades.

Founder after founder has told us the same thing this year: that AI's eroding the old moats and making taste — in product strategy, brand, and culture—one of the most important differentiators. Next week, we're gathering @stewart and @AmberInteriors to talk about how to build things that get noticed, become beloved, and endure. We have a few seats left – request your spot to join us: converge.sfstandard.com/

Security teams have been hobbled by the limitations of traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems for too long. Today, we're announcing that we've led Vega's Series A investment, and welcome them out of stealth to lead a new way forward. Founded by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, their system decouples data warehousing and intelligence layers, offering a radical – and desperately needed – way forward for teams overwhelmed by an onslaught of new, AI-driven attacks.

We're announcing our seed investment in @aegisAISecurity. Over a third of all enterprise data breaches start with email. And AI's only making the inbox's defenses worse: recent CrowdStrike data shows LLM-authored phishing emails outperform human-authored ones by more than 4x. AegisAI's agents stop threats before they hit the inbox. Read more here: accel.com/noteworthies/ai-na…

Every login and security system has been trained that bots = bad actors (how many CAPTCHAs have you had to "prove you're a human" to?). So what happens when you suddenly throw AI agents – operating not against us but on our behalf– into the mix? Can we retrain the entire security layer to distinguish between good AI agents and bad bots? @vas and @SaraIttelson discuss how AI's move out of the chatbox is changing the UI of the internet on the latest Very Brief Short Report: YT: piped.video/watch?v=ifukmyF0… Spot: open.spotify.com/episode/72o…

We spend a lot of time thinking about the next wave of consumer-social AI, but consistently run into a tricky reality: virtual experiences stop shy of genuine human presence. Today’s companion AI services sport the retention rates of a playful (but disposable) consumer app rather than something with enduring social utility. The truth is, we still have a vast uncanny valley to cross. We chose to lead @nuance_ai's Seed round because it's clear that founders @fangchangma and Edward Zhang understand that bridging that valley goes well beyond pixel fidelity. It means AI must sense, interpret, and express the spectrum of social and emotional cues with the immediacy of a live conversation. It's a bold undertaking that we believe Nuance is up to achieving. Read more from @vas here: accel.com/noteworthies/nuanc…

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Prophet Security’s approach to security operations represents a much-needed leap forward for the industry. As enterprises' digital footprints expand, so too do their vulnerabilities to attacks. Add to that the fact that AI has turned the volume, speed, and sophistication of those attacks all the way up, and you have an increasingly untenable situation for security operations teams. @ProphetSec's platform delivers security operations at the speed of AI. The solution uses agents to automate the entire threat investigation and resolution process, freeing up time for analysts to focus on the most complex, high-stakes threats. That's translating into real results for customers like Cabinetworks, Clari, Docker, and Zip, who told us Prophet's already saved them hundreds of thousands of hours in response time and resolution. You can read more about our Series A investment in Prophet Security via Eric Wolford and @amitku here: accel.com/noteworthies/our-i…\#all And to @kdshah and the entire Prophet team: welcome to the Accel family.

Accel’s @SaraIttelson and @Vas break down shifts in the early-stage talent market on our latest episode of A Very Brief Short Report: ➡️ “You have this interesting dynamic in the market of it being super, super tight, and also, if you’re willing to bet on young, green talent, there’s more than there has been in some other moments in the cycle.” ➡️ “Hiring at the early days is perennially the most important job of the founding team because you’re building that talent density from which you grow.” Check out the rest of their conversation. ⬇️ YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=hoyCj82T… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1D2…

We’re delighted to welcome @kerryxwang as Accel’s newest early-stage partner. We’ve worked with Kerry across many chapters — as a founder, operator, and advisor — and it’s a privilege to now call her a partner. At Accel, Kerry will focus on the earliest stages. It’s here that her past experience as a founder gives her a unique advantage: a blend of technical and go-to-market fluency, as well as the perspective on the ups and downs and day-to-day challenges. Welcome, Kerry!

At @lovable, @antonosika is making building software as simple as sketching on paper, a mission that’s attracted 2.3 million users in just eight months. We spoke with him at the Lovable office in Stockholm on the eve of their Series A announcement. “The long-term outcome here is that anyone will be able to build software thanks to AI.” “Going from 0 to 1 for so many more people is going to have more impact.” “Many of the unique ideas, some of the best ideas, they don’t come from engineers, right?” Watch/listen to the whole bonus episode of Spotlight On: Spotlight On: accel.com/podcast-episodes/b… YT: piped.video/watch?v=kgX6owQH… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7s7…

Today, we're announcing that Accel has led @lovable 's Series A investment – the largest in Stockholm's history. Right now, less than 1% of the world can code. We believe Lovable’s co-Founders @antonosika and @FabianHedin are unlocking creativity for the other 99%. To look at what’s been built with Lovable is to catch a glimpse of our collective imagination unbounded: meal and childcare planners, weather apps that tell you how many layers to wear (or pack), career milestone trackers, old family photos transformed into videos, and team meetings turned into games. For others, Lovable’s dramatically accelerated the pace of innovation: entrepreneurs use Lovable to launch new businesses, marketers automate away brief development, and product teams condense prototype cycles from weeks to hours. Lovable is rewriting how software is made and who can make it. We couldn’t imagine a better team for this mission. Welcome to the Accel family, Lovable! Read more from @BenFletch11, @zhnlgnv, @vas, and Jakob Buchmayer here: accel.com/noteworthies/accel…

Great companies aren't made in their easy moments. They're formed by how they respond to their most challenging ones: How quickly they take accountability. How clearly and swiftly they communicate. And how ambitiously they choose to transform. Between July 19, 2024 and July 19, 2025, CrowdStrike has given us master class on how, as @George_Kurtz says, you transform a challenging moment into a defining one: crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/r…

. @dmwoodside's career reads like a tour through the world’s most complex operational challenges: ✅opening new markets at pre-IPO Google ✅ wrangling billion-dollar losses in hardware ✅ guiding Impossible Foods from scrappy upstart to mainstream staple. Now, he’s helming @FreshworksInc , the first Indian SaaS company to list on @Nasdaq . This week on Spotlight On, he caught up with @skg_accel about: - how he’s helping the company to expand globally while honoring its Chennai heritage - the five-page document he writes for each new leader he hires - building AI agents that represent the frontline of your brand. You can listen to the full episode here: accel.com/podcast-episodes/f…

ERP systems are one of the largest software markets, and are at the heart of every company's operations. And yet, most companies still rely on ERP systems built for a different era. They're monolithic, rigid, and slow to adapt. @Meet_campfire changes that. They've reimagined ERP as AI-native, intuitive, and purpose-built for high-velocity finance. Today, we're announcing that we've led Campfire's Series A, to accelerate their mission to redefine the ERP market. You can read more about our partnership here: accel.com/noteworthies/our-i…

The customer experience industry is undergoing a paradigm shift that has been decades in the making. At the forefront of this transformation is @DecagonAI. Since we led their Series A a year ago, Decagon has served tens of millions of end consumers and increased monthly conversations by over 10x. Customers like Classpass, Hertz, Duolingo, Eventbrite, and Notion have reduced costs per conversation by as much as 95%. Consumers report leaving their interactions just as –if not more– satisfied. As Decagon expands, so too has our partnership: today, we’re announcing that we’ve co-led their Series C. Read more from Accel’s @ivzhou here: accel.com/noteworthies/our-c…

We’ve been fortunate to partner with @alexandr_wang and the @Scale_AI team since the days when they were working out of @daniel_levine’s basement. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride, and here’s to what’s next. 🚀 Read more about Scale, Meta, and our continued partnership here: accel.com/noteworthies/the-n…

Back in 2011, the @CrowdStrike team did something unusual for the era: they decided they’d seek out the best talent, regardless of their location. Founder and CEO @George_Kurtz ’s logic: if the open-source community could succeed while working in a distributed way, his team could, too. The full conversation between George and Accel’s @skg_accel spans: ☑️ The unlikely origin of CrowdStrike’s partnership with Accel ☑️ What founders can learn from F1 drivers ☑️ CrowdStrike’s hard-won advice for taking care of your customers through a time of crisis You can watch the whole episode here: accel.com/podcast-episodes/l…

Today, we’re pleased to deepen our commitment to @linear by leading their Series C. Linear's a case study in the impact of first-principles thinking. Disciplined and patient root-cause reasoning guides every design choice, new hire, and strategic decision they make – including fundraising. Linear's grown profitably. So why raise another round? @karrisaarinen explained to @Mkclements last fall on Spotlight On that he thinks about fundraising as a matter of timing and opportunity. And for Linear, the opportunity ahead is enormous. Read more about their ambitions and our continued partnership with Linear here: accel.com/noteworthies/deepe…

Catch Accel’s Rich Wong in conversation with Laela Sturdy at #BloombergTech, diving into the future of innovation and venture capital. Happening today in SF at 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET: bloom.bg/4bShbgl  @rwong @LaelaSturdy @Katie_Roof @BloombergLive @CapitalG