Accel in India

CMOs, senior marketing leaders, and founders gathered at Accel Launchpad last week to gain and share insights on leveraging AI in marketing. Adarsh Noronha, Country Director at HubSpot, spoke about using AI to transform the customer relationship journey; Avinash Nagla, Founder of Sprouts.ai, spoke about AI-powered hyper personalisation at scale; and Ankur (AJ) Goyal, Founder of Fibr AI, shared insight into how AI will disrupt traditional Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) methods. Prayank Swaroop Pooja P. Rishi Dogra Gwenllian Ching

121+ languages 19,500+ dialects 140,00,00,000+ people India’s diversity is its strength. Stay tuned for an exciting update on Accel Atoms designed to empower the next generation of founders.

Dr. Shiladitya Sengupta and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong are pioneering treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases by leveraging B cells, which play a crucial role in antitumor immunity. Their approach promises to redefine treatments, improving patient outcomes and quality of life. We're proud to partner with them and their visionary team at Alyssum Therapeutics in their mission to be an immunology powerhouse for the world. #AccelFamily Read more: https://lnkd.in/eJGTdxrJ

Anand Daniel, Partner at Accel, spoke to BBC News' Nikhil Inamdar about why he is bullish on the Bharat opportunity. Some takeaways: ✅ 450 million Indians now use a smartphone outside its cities - which is more than the entire US population. ✅ Two-thirds of India’s population live in the hinterland and spend about $500bn annually. ✅ The top 20% of this demographic spends more money than half of those that live in the cities. “As India adds $4tn to GDP over the next decade, at least 5% of that will be digitally influenced, and coming from ‘Bharat' or rural India,” says Anand. That’s a $200bn incremental opportunity. "Five or seven years ago, the ability to reach this target group - be it digitally, logistically or in terms of getting payments - wasn’t easy. But the timing right now is much better for this generation of start-ups trying to address this market" Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gh_DeXCT

After an insightful evening with over 70 founders in Bengaluru, Accel Atoms is heading to Mumbai to answer all your questions about accelerating your startup's 0 to 1 journey. Register now and join us tomorrow: https://lnkd.in/g779cJYF

Orange Health Labs is raising the bar for speed and reliability in diagnostics. Co-founder Dhruv Gupta and Anand Daniel, Partner at Accel, spoke with CNBC-TV18's Ekta Batra about the rapid growth of India’s diagnostics market and how Orange Health’s tech-driven model is transforming healthcare. Some takeaways: ✅ The Indian diagnostic market can grow nearly threefold, reaching $40 billion by 2034. ✅ 50% of the diagnostic market is concentrated in the top 10 cities (by population). ✅ Trends driving the sector include growing availability and acceptance of diagnostics, increasing customer awareness, and preventive health testing. ✅ Orange Health has grown rapidly by offering the convenience of at-home testing in under 60 minutes, with reports delivered within 6 hours. The company has already served over 1 million patients and, over the next three years, aims to expand its presence to the top 15 cities across India. Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/g-Ga-vyK Tarun Bhambra Sarthak Singh Ritika Gupta

Excited to share that Simplismart has raised a $7 million Series A from Accel 🥳 When Devansh and I founded Simplismart, we wanted to solve the problems we faced as ML engineers. We knew how difficult it was to implement AI in production, so we decided to help enterprises adopt AI. Simplismart is now the fastest inference engine for generative AI workloads. We’ve built an end-to-end MLOps platform that removes the complexity of deployment, allowing users to fine-tune, deploy, and observe models in production with just one click. As developers ourselves, we understand the need for control. Our Terraform-like language gives developers the power to customize every bit of their pipeline and build a personalized inference engine for their specific needs - that’s when you get the best value for your money. If you're looking to deploy AI, let's chat: https://lnkd.in/gkE9xD9d Our mission: Make deploying AI effortless and accessible so teams can focus on what really matters—how to use AI to drive impact. In just six months, we’ve grown our business 5x and are proud to be powering some of the largest AI-driven companies in the country. We are always in the market for exceptional talent - if you’re looking, reach out! I’m beyond grateful to our early believers, incredible customers, and the best team I could ask for. Simplismart is what it is today because of your faith and support 🙏 Accel in India Anand Daniel Shekhar Kirani Anagh Prasad Shastra VC Avijeet Alagathi Vasant Rao Ashis Nayak Titan Capital Kunal Bahl Rohit Bansal Bipin Shah Dallas Venture Capital Gaurav Agarwal Gaurav Sharma Sanket Shah Anshul Khandelwal Vijaykrishna Shetty Dilipkumar Khandelwal Peyush Bansal Tushar Goel Ansh Pratap Singh Read more at: https://lnkd.in/gicgrS8X

Just 1 day left to register for the Accel #CMOConnect with HubSpot on 21st October. CMOs, senior marketing leaders, and founders are invited to join us to gain and share insights on leveraging AI in marketing. Topics we will cover include: ✅ Next way of AI: Revolutionising the Customer Relationship Journey by Adarsh Noronha, Country Director at HubSpot ✅ Data to Dialogue: AI-powered Hyper Personalisation at Scale by Avinash Nagla, Founder at Sprouts.ai ✅ How AI Will Disrupt Traditional Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) Methods by Ankur (AJ) Goyal, Founder at Fibr AI Register now: https://lnkd.in/guQK3W2S Prayank Swaroop Pooja P. Rishi Dogra Gwenllian Ching

We're excited to announce our Series A investment in Simplismart! Amritanshu Jain and Devansh Ghatak are building the critical platform-agnostic middleware for open-source AI models in production. This is an infrastructure solution from India for the world, and we believe that this exceptional team - lean yet powerful - has everything it takes to win in the fiercely competitive global AI infrastructure market. Welcome to the #AccelFamily! Read more about our investment, in this blog by Anand Daniel and Anagh Prasad: https://lnkd.in/gBWbQ_i3

2024 will be seen as a turning point, as India’s engineers develop innovative AI applications across various industries—without requiring deep learning PhDs, says Shekhar Kirani, Partner at Accel. In this interview, Shekhar emphasises that the future is bright for Indian startups that embrace the fusion of AI and services. Key points: ✅ India’s wealth of trainable data positions engineers to build industry-specific AI applications. ✅ India will lead in developing middleware and application layers for LLMs, personalising AI for enterprises. ✅ Similar to the global telecom boom that fuelled the growth of India's services companies, we are now witnessing AI's ability to elevate Indian SaaS companies to the next level. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gcSjuUMi