Accel raised $3.5B in funds for early-stage investments, including a $1.35B global expansion fund for larger early-stage rounds and rapid follow-on investments (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/accel-raises-3-5-billion-to-invest-in-emerging-global-ai-startups"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260811/i38.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260811/p38#a260811p38" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Natasha Mascarenhas / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/accel-raises-3-5-billion-to-invest-in-emerging-global-ai-startups">Accel raised $3.5B in funds for early-stage investments, including a $1.35B global expansion fund for larger early-stage rounds and rapid follow-on investments</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion &hellip; </p>