Accel publicizes its Atoms 3.0, unveils 8 start-ups

Enterprise capital agency Accel has unveiled eight start-ups from the third cohort of its accelerator programme Atoms. The programme’s first sector-focused cohort, Atoms 3.0, backs pre-seed startups constructing within the AI and Trade 5.0 domains.

The 4 AI start-ups which might be a part of Atoms 3.0 embrace Tune AI, a GenAI stack for enterprises, Skoob, a generative AI platform for studying, Meritic, a storytelling co-pilot for monetary planning and evaluation, and Arivihan, India’s first AI-based, absolutely automated studying platform.

The 2 Trade 5.0 start-ups on this cohort are: Spintly, an IoT platform for good buildings; and Asets, a multidisciplinary CAD, simulation and engineering design platform. The 2 remaining start-ups from the cohort are in stealth.

Thematic program

“The shift to a thematic program design for Atoms 3.0 has enabled us to offer deeper, sector-focused mentorship for the start-ups. Atoms has at all times restricted itself to smaller cohort sizes to remain hyper-focused on the wants of a smaller group of remarkable founders. We consider we now have discovered the subsequent wave of disruptors in AI and Trade 5.0, and the proof of this has been witnessing the expansion of every of those start-ups since becoming a member of this system,” mentioned Prayank Swaroop, Associate at Accel.

“Whereas AI presents an unimaginable alternative, the tempo of innovation in AI requires founders to have the suitable mindset for navigating this market. As a part of Atoms 3.0, founders are additionally studying the way to construct that muscle for resilience and agility,” he added.

Trade 5.0

The third version of this system, Atoms 3.0, shifted from being sector-agnostic to thematic, specializing in AI and Trade 5.0. Prayank Swaroop and Barath Shankar Subramanian, companions at Accel, lead the AI and Trade 5.0 domains respectively

The Atoms programme brings Accel’s community and learnings from working with disruptive firms, to assist pre-seed founders in the course of the 0-to-1 journey.

The cohort receives as much as $500,000 in funding, and entry to perks price greater than $5 million from Accel’s community companions. There may be personalised mentorship, and the chance to collaborate with a robust peer neighborhood of founders from previous Atoms cohorts and Accel’s community of over 200 portfolio founders, trade consumers, and clients.