{"id":976355,"date":"2025-11-25T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976355"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:11:03","slug":"accel-google-tie-up-to-fund-ai-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/accel-google-tie-up-to-fund-ai-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Accel\u2013Google tie-up to fund AI startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firm Accel is partnering with Google\u2019s AI Futures Fund to launch Atoms AI Cohort 2026, which is aimed at backing early-stage Indian AI startups with deep technical and financial support. Under the programme, Accel and Google will co-invest up to $2 million in each selected company, $1 million each, marking one of the largest early-stage AI commitments in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firm Accel is partnering with Google\u2019s AI Futures Fund to launch Atoms AI Cohort 2026, which is aimed at backing early-stage Indian AI startups with deep technical and financial support. Under the programme, Accel and Google will co-invest up to $2 million in each selected company, $1 million each, marking one of the largest early-stage AI commitments in the country.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976355","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=976355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}