Accel Atoms

The catalyst to your 0→1 journey. Pre-seed program by @AccelIndia.

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

The most important companies of the next decade won't iterate on the present. They will extend the map of what's possible, delivering a step-function change in the human experience.

That's LeapTech. Today, we're proud to announce the six startups that embody it—introducing Atoms X cohort, backed by Accel & @Prosus_Ventures.

[Angad Daryani @AngadDaryani]

Yesterday, @praan_inc opened up limited, invite-only access to Sanctuary - the culmination of nearly a decade spent building one of the most advanced air technology stacks in the world.

Temperature. Humidity. Pressure. Particulates. Microbes. VOCs.

Every dimension of air, intelligently orchestrated and tuned to human physiology.

Sanctuary lets you Design Your Air.

Imagine downloading the air of the Swiss Alps or the French Riviera into your room. Or having your environment intelligently adapt to your physiology, preferences, and the way you want to feel.

Designed to interface with existing air infrastructure, Sanctuary can scale from a single room to an entire airport.

We've patented the hell out of the technology behind this one, so there's only so much I can reveal for now.

We first unveiled Sanctuary at an architecture and design event in May this year. In the 60 days that followed, developers signed on to bring Sanctuary to over 5 million sq. ft. of spaces.

For now, we're opening Sanctuary to a select few through invite-only access.

Much more to share on official launch day.

https://t.co/O26cGwuQ4L

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

Introducing the newest addition to the first Atoms X cohort: meet Cosmochute, building robotics and infrastructure for the emerging lunar economy.

Getting equipment onto the Moon today carries high cost and complexity, as each mission is engineered largely for itself. Their platform, LEAP, combines a modular rover and trailer with standard payload bays, so multiple payloads can share one mission and be transported across the lunar surface.

Founded by Janhavi Gore, Amit Chowdhary and Dhruv Alok Sangal, all rocket engineers, the company is taking a leap to make lunar missions standardised, scalable and commercially viable.

Ideas like this are what LeapTech is built for, and we're excited to back the team from day zero alongside @Prosus_Ventures.

@_pagarwal

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

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[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

On a recent episode of Builders × AI, Nayrhit Bhattacharya (@NayrhitB), Co-founder & COO, @gushwork, explained why SMBs have historically been underserved by marketing agencies.

Serving small businesses profitably has been incredibly hard for agencies up until now.

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

The most interesting AI companies may not be the ones replacing existing software. They may be the ones making it economically viable to serve customers who were previously too small, too fragmented, or too expensive to reach.

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

250 million children in India share one teacher between 200 of them. Personalised coaching can provide that support, but cost and location can put it out of reach.

@Arivihan is building an AI tutor to make that support more accessible. Students can learn through interactive video lessons, ask questions as they study, and follow study plans tailored to their performance.
Built by Ritesh, Sonu and Rushabh, the platform focuses on students beyond India’s metros. Today, 80% of its subscribers come from Tier 4 towns and rural India.

We're thrilled to deepen our partnership with Arivihan as they take personalised learning to every corner of the country, in every language their students learn in.

@_AnandDaniel • @Anagh_Prasad • #AccelFamily

[Aditya Thakur @adityathakurgg]

Excited to announce that we've raised $2.65M from @Accel and Google's @AIFuturesFund to re-imagine how enterprise software is maintained.

Just this year, @getdodgeai has helped teams running SAP, Oracle Fusion, JD Edwards, and more save more than 26,000 hours previously billed by outsourced firms.

This round was co-led by @Accel & Google's @AIFuturesFund, with participation from NewBuild Venture Capital, @AntlerGlobal, Schema Ventures, and angels from the SAP ecosystem.

For the better part of the last 3 decades, enterprises have adopted mission-critical software called an ERP to track finances, logistics, discounts, inventory, and more.

All of these systems become super customized, and there's an entire industry that implements them: the system integration industry.

After you go live, the problem doesn't stop there.

As the company evolves, you want these systems to change with it. At the same time, you also have to firefight all the daily operational incidents that happen within these systems.

What ends up happening today is that enterprises end up spending more than $600 billion a year just maintaining ERPs!

The traditional solution for enterprises has been to partner with these large outsourcing companies and throw 20 to 50 "consultants" at the problem.

With always-on agents becoming a reality today, we think there is a better solution that combines both the functional expertise of the humans who have been holding the industry together with long-horizon agents that capture context across systems and custom processes.

Dodge AI is already working with dozens of enterprises, most of whom are publicly listed companies across the world, to show them a better way.

Excited to partner with @prayanks, @JRSilber, @nitinsharma1, @aarthir, @rohini_c, and more.

Back to work now!

[Raghav Gupta @ragsgups]

We just released a new batch of Posha and it disappeared in 100 seconds.

100 seconds. That's all it took for us to be sold out. Really need to ramp up supply.

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

The bar is high, but it’s surprisingly clear: Bring a genuine insight. Share openly. Tell the truth.

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/cU5hiH7Xkt

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

Every VC meeting is a founder evaluation, yet most founders prepare for the pitch.

In a recent episode of @Seed2Scale, @_AnandDaniel, Partner at @Accel, sat down with @RajanAnandan, Managing Director at @peakxvpartners, and @mukularora, Co-Managing Partner at @ElevCap, to discuss what actually happens when investors decide whether to back a company.

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

3/ 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬

Be precise about what’s actually happening in the business. Investors will speak to your customers and check the numbers. Being honest about what’s working, what isn’t, and where the gaps are helps move the process forward.

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

This patent is the first step to changing how optical ground stations work.

Congratulations @Jain_Shrey_, @RohitKR79 and @aalokelab!

[QOSMIC @QOSMIC__Space]

QOSMIC has been granted a US patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We've been working toward this for just under a year, and it's a proud day for the whole team.

For decades, optical ground stations have been built around one assumption: if you want to collect more light from a satellite, you need a bigger telescope. Past a point, that stopped making sense.

Our optical ground station uses an array of phased telescopes acting as one aperture. It's the architecture behind ARGUS, and it turns a ground station from a fixed piece of infrastructure into something modular, that scales with the constellation it serves. Both uplink and downlink.

Why this matters now: as satellite data moves from radio to light, the ground has to keep up. The constellations going up need far more data brought down, faster and more efficiently than today's stations can manage. This patent embodies the core of how we solve that.
The ground stations of the next era won't look like the ones we have today. This is just the start, and we're moving fast.

@Jain_Shrey_ @RohitKR79 @aalokelab @AccelIndia @AccelAtoms @Accel @spc @artparkindia @spc_india @_pagarwal @MBalachand90142 @prateekmehta42 @ankitcc @adityaag @JPBrebner @nayankote

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

Congratulations to @akadogluk and @Itamar_Bitan on the feature.

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

A dog in a 3D-printed sensor helmet, sniffing breath samples in a lab, is at the heart of a recent @EconomicTimes feature on @dognosis.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/i0llBNKTrX

#LeapTech

[Accel Atoms @AccelAtoms]

The piece traces the science, the sniffers (mostly beagles, at a facility they call Sniffspace), and the recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. As Dognosis pursues commercial approval, it's collaborating with government medical institutions on further research, with a commercial launch planned for next year, making it only the third company of its kind in the world.