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Cross-border payments still run on infrastructure built decades ago. Settlements take days, costs remain high, and businesses are forced to pre-fund accounts across countries, leaving $4 trillion in working capital sitting idle globally. OpenFX (@openfx_) is addressing this by
- GTM is among the hardest unsolved problems for AI-native companies. Most playbooks were built for a different era. AI-native products need AI-native commercial motions — and very few people have figured out what that actually looks like in practice. At our next Accel Founder
- A few days ago, Shekhar Kirani (@skirani), Partner at Accel (@Accel), moderated a conversation focused on understanding what it actually takes to build products using AI. He was joined by Anand Arvind of Zenoti (@gozenoti), Dhimil Gosalia of BrowserStack (@browserstack) , Noel
- For many B2B revenue teams, the core challenge isn’t a lack of tools, it’s unreliable data spread across too many systems. The typical response is to add more software. But more tools often create more silos, making the underlying data problem even harder to solve. By the time
- For most Indians, a reliable and affordable daily commute remains a gap, one that gets wider the further you move from the big cities. At the same time, flexible, dignified earning opportunities for those with a vehicle to offer have been just as hard to come by. Rapido
- Another thread from our recent closed-door conversation with some of India's top consumer tech founders. This continues the series. Most companies are using AI to cut costs. The founders in the room were clear that this is the floor, not the ceiling. The bigger opportunity, as
- We recently hosted a closed-door conversation with some of India's top consumer tech founders. This post continues the learnings we shared a few days back. Shekhar Kirani (@skirani), Partner at Accel, walked the room through the four stages every company moves through on the
- In a column published today, Alok Bathija, Partner, Corporate Development at Accel argues that consolidation may become one of the biggest value creators in India’s startup ecosystem. The 2024 HomeLane-DesignCafe merger is not just a furniture/interiors story. It reflects a
