{"id":1028469,"date":"2026-08-13T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028469"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:14:11","slug":"accel-raises-3-5-billion-to-invest-in-emerging-global-ai-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/accel-raises-3-5-billion-to-invest-in-emerging-global-ai-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Accel raises $3.5 billion to invest in emerging global AI startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments across the world. <\/p>\n<p>The firm, which has backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised four separate funds dedicated to backing young startups in a moment when the AI race is upending the fundraising market. A $1.35 billion global expansion fund will be set aside for larger early-stage rounds and rapid follow-on investments; $800 million will target US investments, primarily in Silicon Valley; $800 million will be deployed in Europe and Israel; and $550 million in new funds will be invested in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments across the world. The firm, which has backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised four separate funds dedicated to backing young startups in a moment when the AI race is upending the fundraising market. A $1.35 billion global expansion fund will be set aside for larger early-stage rounds and rapid follow-on investments; $800 million will target US investments, primarily in Silicon Valley; $800 million will be deployed in Europe and Israel; [&hellip;]<\/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-1028469","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\/1028469","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=1028469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028493,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028469\/revisions\/1028493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}