Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

Accel Europe fund hits $800m in a $3.5bn four-fund raise

Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque into Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Flipkart and Slack. On Tuesday it said it had raised $3.5bn for four new funds, Bloomberg […] This story continues at The Next Web

Accel raises $550 million ninth India fund

Accel raises $550m ninth India early-stage fund as part of $3.5b global raise, prioritising AI, fintech and manufacturing; targets 15–30 bets yearly.

Accel raises $550 million for ninth India fund, doubles down on AI

Moneycontrol had exclusively reported Accel had begun work on its ninth fund in June. The new fund takes Accel’s capital raised for India to $1.2 billion across its eighth and ninth funds.

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

Accel raises $3.5B across four funds as AI reshapes early-stage VC

Accel closes $3.5 billion across four funds spanning the US, Europe, Israel, and India. The raise follows a separate $5 billion late-stage AI fund closed in April 2026. Accel’s bets range from Anthropic, backed at a $183 billion valuation and now near $800 billion, to a $300 million seed for a physics lab. Most venture firms are still deciding whether the AI boom is a software story or a hardware story. Accel has stopped choosing.  The Palo Al…