Prashanth Prakash

Investor in AgroStar, BlueStone, BookMyShow, CleverTap, FabHotels,RentoMojo, Inframarket, Homelane, Curefoods, EcoSoul, Accacia, Fincent,Believe, Brik,Snaptrude

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

Longevity is evolving fast into one of the defining investment opportunities of the decade - buoyed by rapidly growing consumer demand and massive tailwinds in AI enabling interpretation of large amounts of data to deliver personalised care which was not possible before.
Four type of opportunities are taking shape in India and globally:
𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘀 with curated treatments, sometimes taking the shape of longevity retreats with programs running for several days or weeks, 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 with tests for prevention rather than cure, 𝗔𝗜-𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 bringing together data + AI + multi disciplinary team of doctors, specialists, coaches and 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 covering supplements, wearables, devices, etc.
Just as family offices are commonplace for wealth management, it is not difficult to envision a future where every family will have a Family Health Officer to track health, hold a holistic picture, act proactively and bring in specialists at the right time. India will play a defining role - given the richness and diversity of demographic data and our unique vantage to deliver care affordably.

My full conversation with Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt. Ltd. on the topic here: https://t.co/kFysTbmVKb

@kris_sg @kiranshaw @Longevity_IISc @kohli_namrata

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

Construction has barely changed in decades and products like @Snaptrude are leading its transformation.

When we began working with @altafganihar, we saw a sector overdue for modernizing its workflows. With the launch of Snaptrude Agent, they've built the most advanced agent for building design with published benchmarks on real design tasks.

Congratulations to @altafganihar and the entire @snaptrude team on this milestone.

[Altaf Ganihar @altafganihar]

Today we're launching @snaptrude Agent, the most advanced agent for building design.

It does real design work with you, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Then can go back to your existing software with your families intact.

About a year ago we bet the company on AI. Honestly the insight came from software engineering. It wasn't long ago that autocomplete felt like a big deal, and now engineers direct agents that write a lot of the code. I think the same shift is coming to how we design buildings, and it's already started.

Most designers I meet aren't short on skill, they're short on time. Take the call every design team dreads, the client cuts the budget by 30%. Today that's a bad month for everyone. With the agent you're the director. You decide where the cost comes out, and it updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. So when design exploration gets this cheap, we go from 3 options to 300, and more options means better buildings.

Since August our users have gone through more than 140 billion tokens, and firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO, Dekker and hundreds of others use Snaptrude today. In our early access, more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent since September.

We also built a benchmark for this, AECBench, because in AEC an almost correct answer is still wrong. It gives AI the same brief an architect would get, has its design in a real BIM model, and scores the result against the brief and against how architects review design. We're publishing the first results today, link below.

Thank you @prashanthp at @Accel and Shub and the team at @foundamental for backing us when this was still a bet, and the Snaptrude team, who built every bit of this. Really proud of you all.

Thanks to our investors, @scottbelsky, @andreasklinger, @thilokonzok, @immad, @CindyXBi, @DanilaVladi, @jmwass, rahulchaudhary, @adamecourt, Zach Ginsburg, Alex duff, Paul grossinger, really appreciate all the help along the way.

[Altaf Ganihar @altafganihar]

Today we're launching @snaptrude Agent, the most advanced agent for building design.

It does real design work with you, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Then can go back to your existing software with your families intact.

About a year ago we bet the company on AI. Honestly the insight came from software engineering. It wasn't long ago that autocomplete felt like a big deal, and now engineers direct agents that write a lot of the code. I think the same shift is coming to how we design buildings, and it's already started.

Most designers I meet aren't short on skill, they're short on time. Take the call every design team dreads, the client cuts the budget by 30%. Today that's a bad month for everyone. With the agent you're the director. You decide where the cost comes out, and it updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. So when design exploration gets this cheap, we go from 3 options to 300, and more options means better buildings.

Since August our users have gone through more than 140 billion tokens, and firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO, Dekker and hundreds of others use Snaptrude today. In our early access, more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent since September.

We also built a benchmark for this, AECBench, because in AEC an almost correct answer is still wrong. It gives AI the same brief an architect would get, has its design in a real BIM model, and scores the result against the brief and against how architects review design. We're publishing the first results today, link below.

Thank you @prashanthp at @Accel and Shub and the team at @foundamental for backing us when this was still a bet, and the Snaptrude team, who built every bit of this. Really proud of you all.

Thanks to our investors, @scottbelsky, @andreasklinger, @thilokonzok, @immad, @CindyXBi, @DanilaVladi, @jmwass, rahulchaudhary, @adamecourt, Zach Ginsburg, Alex duff, Paul grossinger, really appreciate all the help along the way.

[Moneycontrol @moneycontrolcom]

#MCStartupConclave | "Everybody follows capital. We needed a catalyst - something to bootstrap the deeptech ecosystem. We used to get grants, but companies became zombies when they used to run out."

Prashanth Prakash (@prashanthp), Partner, Accel, in conversation with Moneycontrol's @chandrarsrikant and @Bodhiganguli at the Startup Conclave 2026.

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#MCStartupConclave2026 #Startups #Bankings #Funding #AI #DeepTech
@phonepe | @IDFCFIRSTBank | @myspinny

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

A decade ago, @GeetanshBamania asked something none of us had heard before: what if people rented furniture instead of buying it? He saw a shift the rest of us hadn't, cities changing, ownership starting to feel like a burden.

Glad to have witnessed this special journey from day one.

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

Today, @Rentomojo goes public.

An idea about renting became a business that helped India feel at home. We look back at what it took to get here.

Congratulations to the entire team on your IPO and your own new beginning.

#AccelFamily • @prashanthp https://t.co/cGWLxKJVtp

[Gates Foundation India @GatesIndia]

At Aksha: Bharat Innovates for Social Good, our panelists reflected on a moonshot for India.
Watch to hear their answers.

@MSuzman | @kvijayraghavan | @prashanthp | @drsangitareddy | @ShereenBhan

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

HomeLane (@homelanedecors) started because Srikanth Iyer (@srikanthiy) wanted a better interiors experience than the one he'd lived through himself.

Early on, the company said yes to nearly everything a customer asked for, in a business that's genuinely complex to run.

What changed things: a decision about what to stop doing, and a promise to keep instead. Watch how narrowing the promise built HomeLane's edge.

@tanujster • @prashanthp • #AccelFamily

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

Energised by @narendramodi ji's address to the nation today at Red Fort!

Self-reliance has taken on new meaning in a world of constantly shifting geopolitics. Guided by the PM's mission, India is one among the few countries that started this work years ago - and the job now is to keep the momentum, especially in areas of strategic importance like semiconductors and energy.

Congratulations to PM Modi for setting out the vision so clearly, and so poetically - as Sapt Dhara.

As an investor, what I resonated with most was the vision to see Indian companies belong among the world's top 5. Our youth is among the most important groups that will get catapult our country there. Great to see that we are planning to leverage the country's digital strength to provide free coaching to the youth and the initiative to train 10 million youth in AI skills.

Happy Independence Day 2026! 🇮🇳 A step closer to Viksit Bharat 2047. 🚀

@PMOIndia @PiyushGoyal @AshwiniVaishnaw

#VIKSHITBHARAT

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Addressing the nation on Independence Day.

https://t.co/Q67F6cB96x

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

India's construction and home improvement ecosystem loses countless productive hours every day because of missing materials. A roll of electrical wire, the right shade of paint, a plumbing fitting, or a box of screws can bring work to a standstill, delaying projects and leaving skilled workers idle. Yet the industry's supply chain still relies on fragmented dealer networks designed for planned purchases, not urgent, on-site requirements.

Fixxly is building the infrastructure to change that. The company delivers construction materials to worksites in as little as 30 minutes, using AI to route every order to the right local fulfillment partner in real time based on inventory, proximity, and demand.

The company brings together two founders with deeply complementary experience. Shezan Bhojani has spent two decades in India's home and building industry, including co-founding Design Cafe, one of the country's largest interior brands. Sachith Varma has built large-scale supply chains at Zepto and led last-mile operations at Flipkart. Together, they understand both why the problem exists and what it takes to solve it at scale.

Congratulations to Shezan, Sachith, and the entire Fixxly team. Every building project depends on thousands of moving parts. Fixxly is making sure that one missing item never brings the rest to a stop.

@prashanthp • @SaSarthaksingh • #AccelFamily

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

Your point about biomarkers predicting cancer risk years before any tumor forms is a good example of the fact that disease isn't announced by the organ it eventually shows up in- it's written earlier, in how the underlying systems behave.
At https://t.co/7tzbFFQ0S1, that's the layer we're building for: AI that connects signal across metabolic, vascular, and immune pathways to surface a hypothesis about where someone's trajectory is heading, read and reasoned through by human experts who know what a pattern means in a body, not just in a dataset. We're seeing this directly in our own imaging - small-vessel changes and early structural strain in the brain and vasculature, in people whose bloodwork and standard scans read completely normal.
Neither half works without the other. The result isn't just an earlier test. It's catching the story before it has a diagnosis at all.

[Unboxing BLR @UnboxingBlr]

Bengaluru's Safe Footpath Campaign begins July 1. Businesses have been asked to clear footpath encroachments before the deadline, with strict enforcement to follow. The first phase will cover nearly 2,000 km of major roads.

#bengaluru #bengalurunews #banglore

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

This week, India's deep tech ecosystem took the global stage at Bharat Innovates 2026 (@BharatInnov2026) in Nice, France, a national initiative by the Ministry of Education to showcase the country's most promising ventures in this space to the world.

Prashanth Prakash (@prashanthp), Partner at @Accel, was at the event and on the sidelines, had the opportunity to interact with Prime Minister Narendra Modi (@PMOIndia).

He also moderated a panel on navigating global defence supply chains and where startups fit in building resilient defence ecosystems. The conversation surfaced a clear conviction: deep tech startups are no longer on the periphery of defence, they're central to it.

Building sovereign capability, the panel concluded, comes down to focused investment on specific regions with existing supply chain advantages, and embedding advanced technology into universities so the next generation learns on real infrastructure, not just in theory.

Five of the startups we're proud to back are doing exactly that. @RekiseMarine, @ND_Aerospace, @Fabheads, @DetectTechAI, and @SigTuple were among the ventures handpicked to represent India at Bharat Innovates this year.

Swipe through to learn more about these startups.

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

Yesterday at Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice, I moderated a panel on one of the more consequential questions of this moment: 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 and where 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩���� 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬.

This is a topic that has changed character in just a few years. Defence spending is at record highs, every nation is rethinking how and where to build industrial bases and sovereignty is a first order concern. How startups plug into this world has never mattered more.

What made the discussion especially rich was the range of vantage points - we had views from a sovereign prime, a deep-tech manufacturing company, a strategic investor, and an Indian precision-manufacturing group with deep European roots.

I walked away from this panel genuinely assured that the intent to collaborate is very strong on both sides of the India-France relationship. To get the most from it, it will be key to zero in on a 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧. We talked about the importance of a 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡- specific regions that already hold supply chain advantages are the ones that can move the needle on advancement of specific tech. We also discussed a concrete and seemingly easy example of 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚��𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬  - by placing advanced manufacturing equipment directly into universities so that students learn on real machines, not just in theory.

Grateful to François-Régis Boulvert, Clémentine Gallet, Florent Illat and Mohamed Bouzidi for a candid and generous conversation.

@BharatInnov2026 | @EduMinOfIndia

[Bharat Innovates @BharatInnovMoE]

Navigating Global Defence Supply Chains Fostering a resilient defense ecosystem proved to be a critical topic.
Accel India's Founding Partner Mr. Prashanth Prakash moderated an insightful discussion on enabling start-ups in global defense supply chains.
We heard from experts Mr. François-Régis Boulvert (Naval Group), Ms. Clémentine Gallet (Coriolis Composites), Mr. Florent Illat (Safran Corporate Ventures), and Mr. Mohamed Bouzidi (Aequs Pvt. Ltd.).

ग्लोबल डिफेंस सप्लाई चेन की दिशा में

मजबूत डिफेंस इकोसिस्टम और स्टार्टअप्स की भूमिका पर एक महत्वपूर्ण चर्चा आयोजित की गई।

एक्सेल इंडिया के संस्थापक साझेदार श्री प्रशांत प्रकाश ने इस सत्र का संचालन किया।

इस चर्चा में फ्रांस्वा-रेजिस बूलवेर, क्लेमेंटीन गैलेट, फ्लोरेंट इलाट और मोहम्मद बुज़ीदी ने वैश्विक डिफेंस सप्लाई चेन में अवसरों और सहयोग पर अपने विचार साझा किए।

Naviguer dans les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales de la défense : Favoriser un écosystème de défense résilient s'est avéré être un sujet crucial. M. Prashanth Prakash, partenaire fondateur d'Accel India, a animé une discussion éclairante sur l'accompagnement des start-ups dans les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales de la défense. Nous avons écouté les experts M. François-Régis Boulvert (Naval Group), Mme Clémentine Gallet (Coriolis Composites), M. Florent Illat (Safran Corporate Ventures) et M. Mohamed Bouzidi (Aequs Pvt. Ltd.)

@narendramodi @PMOIndia @eduminofindia @dpradhanbjp @PrinSciAdvGoI @Vineet_K26 @sanjayjavin @IndiaDST @AICTE_INDIA @ugcindia @pibindia @DDNewslive @airnewsalerts @sjaishankaroffc @MEABharat @IndiainPortugal @IndiaembFrance @CGIMarseille @eoiberlin @IndiainIreland @HCI_London @iitbombay @SINEIITB @paniitindia

#DefenceTech #SupplyChain #Startups #BharatInnovates2026

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

A real privilege to join the honourable @narendramodi ji in Nice at the inauguration of Bharat Innovates 2026, along with Minister of Commerce & Industries honourable @PiyushGoyal ji and Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood ji.

The conviction is real and striking: India is becoming a global hub for deep tech, innovation and investment. And it is getting there not by following, but by building things that are genuinely hard.

We spoke about the scale of the import substitution opportunity. So much of what India still buys from other countries can be designed and made in India. Every component made in India is a market an Indian founder can win. We have already begun efforts on the hardest problems - designing and building our own jet engines, the kind of deep capability that few nations attempt to build on their own. There is real conviction that India deep tech is now good enough to win global markets, not just our own. We agreed that the single most powerful enabling thing for deep tech founders is to become their first customer. The appetite of the government to buy from young and innovative companies is clear and growing. We also spoke about physical AI and why India is uniquely positioned to head here, given our large talent and manufacturing bases.

Looking forward to days 2 and 3 of Bharat Innovates 2026 and what it will spark.

@BharatInnov2026 @EduMinOfIndia

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

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 path to AI transformation. Most Indian companies are stuck somewhere between stage one and stage two.

The four stages are in the carousel. A few patterns stood out across the companies furthest along:

→ One co-founder fully dedicated to the transformation, leading a team of 5 to 10 enthusiasts. The rest of the founding team runs the business.

→ Individual productivity and company-level automation in parallel. Pick one slice of the business, automate it end-to-end, use it as proof, then expand.

→ Hiring freezes unless the team can show AI is being used.

@prashanthp • @binnybansal • @ankitnagori27 • @phanikishan

[Longevity India @Longevity_IISc]

#RegistrationsOpen
📢 Registrations for the 2nd edition of the Longevity India - RISE for Healthy Aging Conference are now open!

📅 6–7 August 2026
📍 IISc, Bengaluru

🔗👇Conference details and registration link: https://t.co/vrtpsw1AUN

@iiscbangalore
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[Unboxing BLR @UnboxingBlr]

Bengaluru has everything.

But most people still don’t know where to go.

Because everything is scattered.

Communities.
Events.
Spaces.

So we built HangOut.

202 communities
49 volunteer orgs
25 city guides
104 events

All in one place.

Go find your people → https://t.co/vYhBe35QZO

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

It was great to bring Accel in India's consumer-tech founders to host an AI roundtable with @skirani and @binnybansal .

If you are a founder keen to advance on AI in your organisation, the best place to start is by building yourself. We discussed solutions deployed enterprise wide and beyond engineering - across marketing, finance, HR, organisational reviews.

I am excited to continue the conversations with CTOs next and then functional leaders.

@ankitnagori27 @phanikishan @hellovaibhava @srikanthiy @Pulkit_Learn @YABAJI @AnnuTalreja @ShardulSheth | Ashish goel | Shezan | @byvidhya

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

Last week, we hosted a closed-door roundtable on AI for consumer tech brands — a candid conversation with founders on how they're adopting AI in their organisations and what it actually takes to institutionalize it.

Prashanth Prakash (@prashanthp) and Shekhar Kirani (@skirani), Partners at Accel, and Binny Bansal (@binnybansal), Co-founder of Flipkart, hosted the session.

One idea kept coming up: high standards are not inherently transferable. You cannot hold your team accountable for AI fluency if you haven't used it yourself.

@ankitnagori27 • @phanikishan

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[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

A city shaped by many hands, many languages, many dreams. Jaume Plensa's "Bengaluru's Soul" says it all. Congratulations on a beautiful unveiling. @PriyankKharge @kiranshaw @HariMarar @NandanNilekani @BLRAirport

[Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ @PriyankKharge]

It was a privilege to unveil “Bengaluru’s Soul”, designed by the acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa.

Bengaluru is a city that absorbs the world and still remains deeply itself. It is a city where science, culture and art coexist, where ambition and sensitivity meet.

This is a city built by many hands, many languages, many journeys and many dreams. People have come here from every part of Karnataka, from every part of India, and from across the world.

They have come to learn, to build, to create, to work and to belong.

And that is what gives Bengaluru its soul.

@kiranshaw @HariMarar @EmbEspIndia @blrairport_kn

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

India has long been a creator of deep cultural narratives, but we have underbuilt their global expression as a scalable IP. Indiverse is a thoughtful attempt to change that.

Do have a look~ https://t.co/zgKQs2AqIm

@amoghavarshajs | @Ashwini_PRK | @rajeevgowda | @Sowmyareddyr | @naganandd | @AmbAckermann | @rickykej @PRK_production | @AusCGBengaluru | @AusHCIndia

[Amoghavarsha @amoghavarshajs]

You've been asking what next, here it is!
Indiverse - From Bharat to Earth! All hands on deck :)

https://t.co/sQfEThzcyV

@ashwini_prk @anishandheria @Sowmyareddyr @PRK_production
@narendramodi @prashanthp
@rajeevgowda @naganandd @AusCGBengaluru @AusHCIndia @AmbAckermann @rickykej