{"id":1003210,"date":"2026-04-16T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003210"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:42:35","slug":"anthropic-cursor-backer-accel-raises-5-billion-for-big-ai-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/anthropic-cursor-backer-accel-raises-5-billion-for-big-ai-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic, Cursor backer Accel raises $5 billion for big AI bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accel, the venture capital firm that\u2019s backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised $5 billion in new funds to keep up its big bets in the age of increasingly valuable artificial intelligence startups. <\/p>\n<p>The firm will dedicate $4 billion to its fifth Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups around the world, Accel plans to announce Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accel, the venture capital firm that\u2019s backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised $5 billion in new funds to keep up its big bets in the age of increasingly valuable artificial intelligence startups. The firm will dedicate $4 billion to its fifth Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups around the world, Accel plans to announce Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}