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SeedToScale | Curated by Accel
Accel launched SeedToScale in August 2020 to remove information asymmetry in the startup ecosystem and make a founder's path to success as frictionless as possible. We aim to achieve this by providing the best source of knowledge and actionable insights for company building. In the three years sinc...
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Pitching Jewelry for the Digital Age: Inside BlueStone’s Original Deck | PitchCraft Season 2
In this episode of PitchCraft Season 2, Gaurav Singh Kushwaha, Founder and CEO of BlueStone and Prashanth Prakash, Partner at Accel, revisit the 33-pa...
Breaking Down Razorpay’s Original Pitch With Harshil Mathur | PitchCraft Season 2
In this episode of PitchCraft Season 2, Chandra Srikanth sits down with Harshil Mathur, Co-founder and CEO of Razorpay, and Vikram Vaidyanathan of Z47...
Inside Swiggy's First-Ever Pitch Deck With Sriharsha Majety | PitchCraft Season 2
In the debut episode of PitchCraft's Season 2, Chandra Srikanth speaks to Sriharsha Majety, Co-Founder and CEO of Swiggy, and Accel's Anand Daniel as...
Reimagining Contracts for the AI Era: Inside SpotDraft’s Playbook | Inside the Engine Room
Contracts are the backbone of every business, every dollar in or out is tied to one. Yet, they remain one of the most antiquated, slow, and expensive...
Engineering Chemicals for the World: Scimplify | Decoding Manufacturing
India today stands at the cusp of a new wave in advanced manufacturing. With global supply chains shifting, demand for cost-effective innovation risin...
Solving India’s Traffic Crisis with Air Taxis: Sarla Aviation | Decoding Manufacturing
India today stands at a once-in-a-generation moment to establish itself as a global leader in advanced manufacturing. With deep-tech innovation, shift...
Decoding Manufacturing | Teaser
Every economic superpower has been built on the backbone of manufacturing.
Today, with global supply chains being rewritten and the world...
Building India's First AI Tutor: How Arivihan is Redefining Education | Decoding AI Episode 9
AI is rewriting the rules of education, turning personalized tutoring from a privilege of the few into a possibility for every student, regardless of...
Building AI4Bharat: Why India Needs Its Own AI Stack, With IIT Prof. Mitesh Khapra | Decoding AI Episode 8
It’s almost a consensus view that India can’t build its AI future on borrowed code. It needs infrastructure rooted in Indian languages, accents, and r...
Building a New Category of Applied AI: Bridgetown Research | Decoding AI Episode 7
AI is stepping into uncharted territory, assisting decision-makers with high-stakes, low-frequency calls that shape the future of enterprises. These d...
AI for E-commerce: Insights from Meesho | Decoding AI Episode 6
Meesho is redefining the role of AI in e-commerce, driving innovations that scale to meet the demands of millions. From handling over 60,000 voice bot...
Google DeepMind's Manish Gupta on Opportunities for AI Startups in India | Decoding AI Episode 5
Google DeepMind stands at the cutting edge of AI innovation, solving some of the most intricate scientific and engineering challenges. From protein st...
Inside IIT Madras: India's AI Research Powerhouse | Decoding AI
India is making strides in artificial intelligence, blending academic rigor with real-world applications. In Episode 4 of Decoding AI, Prayank Swaroop...
Building AI Infrastructure from India for the World: Insights from Simplismart | Decoding AI
Simplismart is an AI infrastructure company building the critical platform-agnostic middleware to deploy, train/customize, and serve open-source AI mo...
Lessons on Product, Pricing, and Trust: Insights from ServiceNow | Decoding AI
GenAI is growing rapidly, evolving from a mere tool into an intelligent partner that empowers businesses to scale with greater speed and efficiency.
Building Agentic AI for the Enterprise with Ema | Decoding AI
With GenAI on the rise, software is evolving from a tool that needs constant supervision to an intelligent partner that handles tasks autonomously, si...
Timeless Lessons for the Future | SeedToScale Specials
2023 is particularly momentous to Accel as we complete 40 years as a global fund and 15 years in India.
As we celebrate this milestone, w...
Learnings from 40 Years in VC | SeedToScale Specials
2023 is particularly momentous to Accel as we complete 40 years as a global fund and 15 years in India.
As we celebrate this milestone, w...
Masterclass #9 | How Urban Company created tech-led value in the at-home services space
Know what is harder than pivoting when the going gets tough? Pivoting when the going is good.
On the surface, most metrics were scaling e...
Masterclass #8 | How Infra.Market offers concrete solutions through its construction marketplace
At their core, marketplaces are in the business of efficiency. Deeply optimized supply was the need of the hour in the world of construction, where ac...
Masterclass #7: Lessons from Myntra on how to build a long-lasting marketplace
What does it take to build a timeless marketplace? Time.
Long-lasting marketplaces have little to do with restless hustling, and a lot t...
Masterclass #6: Spinny’s Lessons on Winning Customer Trust In A Crowded Market
When Niraj Singh started up Spinny, the used-car market in India was already crowded with cash-rich competitors. More and more Indian buyers were lean...
Masterclass #5: How BlackBuck drove digitization in the complex world of trucking
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Masterclass #4: How Zetwerk disrupted manufacturing by using technology to cut delays
Cutting out the intermediary helps many industries. Not so in manufacturing. It needed a middle layer. Suppliers routinely failed to deliver on time,...
Masterclass #3: How Captain Fresh reeled in B2B success using clarity, capital, and talent
Give someone a fish, you feed them for a day. Give someone reliable access to seafood in a supply-deprived industry, you go on to create a successful...
Masterclass #2: How Swiggy fell in love with the problem, and not their solutions
It’s essential to keep things as simple as possible initially, with a total focus on understanding the consumer problem statement. Because when it com...
Masterclass #1: How TaxiForSure built a successful marketplace by combining data with intuition | Decoding Marketplaces
About TaxiForSure
TaxiForSure, founded in 2011, was the outcome of a drunken conversation in a Bangalore pub between friends Raghunandan G and A...
Insights #79: Future of Insurance | Learnings from Varun Dua, Founder & CEO Acko
Like in most markets, India is a large but under-penetrated insurance market. While the COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp uptick in life insurance prem...
Insights #78: Future of Mobility | Vivek on Bounce’s Journey & Inevitable Adoption of EVs
India, frequently referred to as the two-wheeler factory of the world, serves a tremendous market both in India and abroad. About 15M two-wheelers wer...
INSIGHTS #77: Future of Banking | Reflections from Niyo’s Vinay Bagri
Banking opportunity in India is tremendous, with overall banking assets expected to reach $3T by 2025, with deeply under-penetrated private credit mar...
INSIGHTS #76: Untold Seed Stories | First 500 Days of Bizongo
B2B marketplaces are different. There are tremendous opportunities, but also different challenges. This arises from the business model itself. Having...
INSIGHTS #75: Untold Seed Stories | First 500 Days of Mensa
The D2C ecosystem has truly found its feet in India. There are now a lot of great brands making niche, high-quality products for targeted audiences. T...
INSIGHTS #74: Future of Open Source | Abhishek Nayak on Appsmith and Building Open Source Projects
How is the world of Open Source faring in a landscape that is being overturned by Web3 and its ascendant new technologies? It’s an important question ...
INSIGHTS #73: Future of Crypto | Raghu Yarlagadda on FalconX's flight and what it means
If you know about Crypto, you can’t have missed FalconX, I’ll still give you a brief: FalconX is a blockchain, cryptocurrency, and fintech-focused cry...
INSIGHTS #72: Future of Edtech | Learnings from the Duolingo journey
Edtech is a category whose time has come. The pandemic and its attendant ramifications have meant that Edtech is now one of the hottest spaces for inn...
INSIGHTS #71: Future of Credit Cards | Innovation and Challenges in Indian Fintech
Credit cards are one of the most ubiquitous financial products in the world. We all use them everyday, they are part of our lives.
But as the wo...
INSIGHTS #70: Future of Beauty and Personal Care: Tracking the evolution of the category in India
From lipsticks to hair care to bath and body -- there’s little to nothing that the average shopper cannot find that covers all beauty and personal car...
INSIGHTS #69: GRIT Stories | The most resilient Indian startup you haven’t heard of
In the latest episode of Grit Stories, I spoke with Baskar Subramanian, founder and CEO of Amagi. Baskar has been an internet entrepreneur and startup...
INSIGHTS #68: GRIT Stories | The Ups & Downs of Aprameya's Startup Life, from TaxiForSure to Koo
Aprameya is no stranger to the entrepreneurial journey. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Koo, a microblogging platform catering to the Indian vernacular...
INSIGHTS #67: GRIT Stories | The hurdles on the way to Spinny's success
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