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

Thursday’s listing marked a special milestone for Geetansh and the @rentomojo team in their 11-year journey so far. A fitting moment to pause, take it all in, and reflect on everything it took to get here. We spent the evening celebrating the people behind the story: the team, families, co-investors and friends who have all played a part in shaping Rentomojo over the years. There were stories from the early days, familiar faces coming together again, and a memorable performance by Lucky Ali that made it an evening to remember. As Rentomojo steps into its new home, we’re excited for the next chapter. #AccelFamily • @prashanthp • @GeetanshBamania

GCCs in India are increasingly shaping how their global businesses use Al. That creates an opportunity for founders building here to work directly with them on business problems. To move this forward, Shekhar Kirani (@skirani), Partner at Accel, brought together 10 GCC leaders and four Accel portfolio companies - Nurix (@Nuplay_AI), Nanonets (@nanonets), Spendflo (@spendflo) and Ema (@Ema_Unlimited). The conversations centered on co-creation: GCC leaders and founders working together to apply AI to real business priorities and deliver measurable outcomes. Thank you to every GCC leader and founder who showed up with candour and intent. Now comes the exciting part: turning conversations into pilots and pilots into measurable impact.

Dear @Rentomojo, Thank you for giving a generation the freedom to live a little more on its own terms. Today, as you become India’s first listed furniture and appliance rental company, all of us at Accel are incredibly proud to celebrate your remarkable public market listing. #AccelFamily • @prashanthp • @prayanks • @_pagarwal

Starting somewhere new takes time. Having a place that feels like home makes it easier. You’re finding your feet at work. Getting to know people. Learning your way around a new city. It helps to come back to somewhere you can simply be yourself. @Rentomojo helped make that possible. Somewhere to settle in, while the rest of life was still settling down. Here’s to everything you’ve built, and all that’s still to come. #AccelFamily • @prashanthp • @GeetanshBamania

What happens when a deeptech founder in India has a working product, but needs capital to manufacture at scale? India has built support for the early stages of this journey. Grants and angel capital help founders get their ideas off the ground. At the other end, public markets are beginning to reward companies building Indian intellectual property. But the middle, the stretch where a company proves itself and needs serious capital to go from prototype to production, is still being built. Prashanth Prakash (@prashanthp), Partner at Accel, argues that solving this gap could determine whether India’s deeptech boom becomes a pipeline of promising prototypes, or a compounding ecosystem of companies, capital and IP. His take: India needs to unlock new pools of capital for the hardest, most capital-intensive part of the journey. Read Prashanth’s perspective on financing India’s next wave of deeptech companies on Livemint (@livemint): livemint.com/opinion/columns…

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

Two big updates from Swish HQ: Swish has raised $24 million, led by Bertelsmann India Investments, with participation from Accel, Bain Capital, and Hara Global. More importantly, this coincides with our milestone of delivering a million orders last month. To all our customers, team and investors who believed in the vision – a big thank you, and looking forward to more neighbourhood kitchens, green bags, and delighting millions of customers every day! 💚 @saranonearth @ujjwal_sukheja @justswishin Read more in the first comment.

India’s ₹2.5 lakh crore medicine trade runs on phone calls, messages, and paper ledgers. Fundly.ai brings it all into one place. Pharmacies and distributors can order medicines, pay suppliers, and access credit on a single platform. Instead of relying on paperwork, Fundly uses actual buying and selling activity to make credit decisions. Looking ahead, the team plans to deepen its presence in existing cities, while building programs that give pharma brands greater visibility into distribution. It’s also building an intelligence layer on top of its trade data, turning past transactions into insights for forecasting and risk underwriting. We’ve backed Amit Chawla, Shreeram Ramanathan and the Fundly.ai team since the early days. We’re continuing our partnership as they connect how medicines are bought, paid for, and financed across India. @mbaccel • #AccelFamily

Spyne (@spyne_ai) walked away from nearly 60% of its revenue on purpose. In 2023, it stopped building across fashion, food, and retail and went all in on car dealers. Within six months, automotive revenue had surpassed its pre-pivot level. Hear Sanjay Varnwal (@sanjay_varnwal) on the decision to focus on #InflectionPoint. @deeptiprasad_ • @subratamitra • @_pagarwal • #AccelFamily

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

A lot of us at Accel, and many of the founders and friends we've made along the way, found our first real community at @bitspilaniindia. The people who made us feel like what we were thinking of doing was actually possible. So we've made a tradition of bringing that room back together in Bengaluru. Yesterday, we did it again - everyone across batches and years, in one place. Thank you to everyone who came by. Until the next one. @barathshankar • @rachit_parekh • @SaSarthaksingh • @BITSAA