We’re thrilled to announce our $57M Series A investment in Laravel. Our journey with CEO and founder Taylor Otwell and Laravel also happened to be a global courtship for the ages: • 🍳 After a year of persistence, including 21 cold calls, we finally met Taylor over eggs and biscuits in Little Rock, Arkansas. • 🌎 We attended Laracons worldwide in Portugal, Ahmedabad, and Nashville, witnessing the passionate Laravel community of developers supporting each other and shipping great products • 🌟 Like other bootstrapped founders Accel has been fortunate to partner with over the years, Taylor is customer-obsessed. We can’t wait to help him amplify his ambitious vision to enhance productivity and joy for users, with Laravel Cloud being just the first step. Read more about our Laravel partnership via our partner, Miles Clements: https://lnkd.in/dNQFeYY7 #AccelFamily
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Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com or www.twitter.com/accel.
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This is so cool! 😎 AI powered sourcing automates something that has been so manual and time consuming. Not only will this drive efficiency, but it will free up recruiters to focus on the fun, highly nuanced parts of the process, like screening, relationship-building, closing, etc. Congrats Steve Bartel and the entire team at Gem! 👏
Founder & CEO of Gem ($150M Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, Sapphire, Meritech, YC) | Author of startuphiring101.com
Thrilled that Gem AI Sourcing is launching in GA today, the first product in our AI-powered recruiting suite! 🎉 💥 🎉 And... 2️⃣ our second product, AI Inbound Ranking, will be available next month 👏 🤞 A few months back, we shared our vision to infuse AI across Gem’s end-to-end platform and help recruiting teams source, rank, and rediscover qualified talent faster. Since then, we’ve been hard at work with early adopters like Descript, Intercom, Faire, Asana, Labelbox, Paramark.com and many more to bring this vision to life. Many recruiting teams (including ours) know all too well the challenge of reduced budgets and headcount. It’s just not how it used to be. While sourcing remains a tried-and-true way to find high-fit passive talent, it continues to be super manual and time-consuming. Sound familiar? For years, there wasn't much to be done about it... until recent advancements in GenAI this past year suddenly made everything 10x better. We built AI Sourcing to help recruiting teams discover qualified talent in less time, with fundamental differences from other AI solutions in the market: 💎 𝗔𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 → Gem AI takes into account valuable context like your past interactions, applications, talent communities, and more to make the most relevant recommendations without any extra tools. 💎 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 → Gem AI surfaces your entire relationship history with every candidate it sources so your messages are personal and relevant. 💎 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘆 & 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 → Just tell Gem what you’re looking for in plain language, and sequence top matches right away. 💎 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 → Gem AI shows you exactly why candidates match your criteria and lets you fine-tune searches with ease. Like I said, this is just the beginning! Here’s what’s coming: - 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Get started with Gem AI Sourcing. Get a demo today. - 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄: AI Ranking is entering early access with select customers - 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿: AI Inbound Ranking will be available for everyone - 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: Stay tuned for AI Talent Rediscovery To learn more: - Check out our AI announcement: https://lnkd.in/gMTjYzNN - Request a demo: https://lnkd.in/gcueBPfP Congrats to the team for all the hard work and thank you to all of our customers who’ve partnered with us on this incredible journey – we can’t wait to share more with you soon 🙌
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Great Inc piece on the launch of Napkin by Brian Contreras ... and the story of repeat co-founders Pramod Sharma & Jérôme Scholler ... https://lnkd.in/gxfgPbar Maggie Philbin Max Gazor CRV Accel VSC Chantelle Darby
How These Ex-Google Engineers Raised $10 Million for Their AI Startup
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Congratulations to the 16 #AccelFamily companies that were included in this year's Forbes’ #Cloud100 list, which showcases the top private cloud companies worldwide! forbes.com/lists/cloud100 👏 1Password, Algolia, Axonius, BrowserStack, Celonis, Checkr, Inc., Cohesity, Melio, Miro, Netskope, Personio, Scale AI, Snyk, Stacklok, Vercel, Webflow
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Founder & CEO, Ema, Board Member, Meesho, Previously Chief Product Officer at Coinbase, VP at Google
Eighteen months ago, we embarked on a mission to revolutionize enterprise productivity, pioneering the development of Agentic AI to build universal AI employees. Today, I'm thrilled to share some exciting milestones we've achieved at Ema. We've successfully completed a new round of funding! A heartfelt thank you to our existing and new investors for believing in our vision and supporting us along the way. Your trust and commitment are the driving forces behind our innovation. I'm excited to share that we've been selected to join the prestigious Pegasus Partnership Program by Microsoft. This collaboration is a significant milestone for us, opening new doors for innovation and growth. I'm also proud to announce the launch of our Persona Builder Platform. This cutting-edge platform allows businesses to create customized AI employees (Personas) tailored to their specific needs, bringing unprecedented flexibility and control to our clients--democratizing Agentic AI. Compliance and security have always been at the forefront of our mission. We are already SOC2 Type 2, ISO27001:2022, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant. Recently, we've added NIST CSF 2.0, NIST 800-171, and NIST AI RMF to our compliance standards, ensuring we meet the latest and most rigorous requirements in AI security and risk management. Our hard work is paying off as we've more than tripled our customer base, a testament to the value and impact of our solutions. We are grateful to our clients for their trust and partnership. This is just the beginning. The future holds immense possibilities, and we are more excited than ever to continue pushing the boundaries of AI technology. Thanks to our amazing team for all their incredible work in achieving these milestones. Thank you to our stakeholder for being part of our journey. Stay tuned for more updates! Accel S32 Prosus Group Wipro Sozo Ventures Hitachi Ventures Microsoft for Startups SCB 10X COLLE CAPITAL Frontier Ventures Ema Unlimited #EmaUnlimited #AgenticAI #Innovation #Compliance #MicrosoftPegasus #AIEmployees #TechNews #FutureOfWork https://lnkd.in/gTqZWMeE
Ema Revolutionizes Enterprise AI: New Funding, Persona Builder, and On-Prem Deployment
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🌟 Axle has raised a $9M Seed round, led by Accel, to decarbonise the power grid 🌟 We’re on a mission to kick fossil fuels off the grid. This’ll require immense amounts of renewables; it’ll also require a new software architecture to tap into the flexibility of EVs, batteries, and other devices to keep the grid humming when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. The scale of the challenge is immense - and we’re fortunate to be backed by a group of investors with the track record to match. In addition to Accel and existing investors Picus Capital and Eka Ventures, we’re supported by a team of founder-angels (and a former F1 World Champion!) who knows what it takes to hit the track and take pole position. If you’re motivated to join a world-class team tackling the planet’s most pressing problem, reach out - we’re hiring. Read more from TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas here: https://lnkd.in/gxNFp89x
Axle Energy's sprint to decarbonize the grid lights up with $9M seed led by Accel | TechCrunch
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Surojit and Souvik have made Agentic AI work at an enterprise level with Ema Unlimited. Since emerging from stealth in March, Ema has more than tripled its customer base, helping more organizations boost productivity and catalyze innovation. We're excited to watch the team shape the future of enterprise software. #AccelFamily Read more about our latest investment in Ema: https://lnkd.in/g7xCp-8v
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4 years ago we led the seed round of Checkly as Hannes Lenke, Timo Euteneuer, and Tim Nolet decided to build a leading synthetic monitoring company out of a popular open-source indie project. Fast forward to today we're excited to have colin daymond hanna join us on board alongside Reid Christian as the company announces their $20M Series B and continues to break new ground in observability with their announcement of Checkly Traces. We can't wait to see where you'll be taking the company next! #AccelFamily Accel Alberto Gomez Daniel Paulus Cinthia Portugal
Enabling Engineers to Detect and Resolve Issues 10x Faster: Our Investment in Checkly
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This September, we’re hosting a CUDA MODE hackathon alongside our friends at NVIDIA and PyTorch! Join us to hear from some of the most well-respected ML leaders and spend the day hacking on new projects: https://lnkd.in/g-9iyEgM cc: Accel, Supriya Rao, Tri Dao, Wen-mei Hwu, Lily (Xiaoxuan) Liu, Casey Aylward, Meta, Together AI
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