{"id":234792,"date":"2026-04-15T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/accel-raises-5b-to-back-late-stage-bets-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:37:56","slug":"accel-raises-5b-to-back-late-stage-bets-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/accel-raises-5b-to-back-late-stage-bets-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Accel raises $5B to back late-stage bets | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accel.com\/noteworthies\/our-latest-fund-early-insight-and-enduring-partnership#all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in fresh capital to back late-stage companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-15\/anthropic-cursor-backer-accel-raises-5-billion-for-big-ai-bets?srnd=phx-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">venture firm told Bloomberg<\/a> that $4 billion will go to its late-stage Leaders Fund, for which it hopes to cut at least 20 checks, averaging $200 million each. Accel is looking to invest in companies building AI-powered technology, with a focus on software, hardware, robotics, defense tech, and data center infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accel limited partners also poured in $650 million, which will go to a \u201csidecar\u201d fund, Bloomberg reported, allowing the firm to increase its investments in certain companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accel has backed more than 800 companies to date, including Anthropic, Perplexity, and Lovable. This latest fundraise comes as the firm hopes to keep up with the AI boom competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Accel did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/15\/accel-raises-5b-to-back-late-stage-bets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies. The venture firm told Bloomberg that $4 billion will go to its late-stage Leaders Fund, for which it hopes to cut at least 20 checks, averaging $200 million each. Accel is looking to invest in companies building AI-powered technology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}