Accel wants to democratise access to knowledge for startup community

Accel, an influential venture capital firm, which backed top companies such as Flipkart, Freshworks and Swiggy at an early stage, wants to democratise access to knowledge and insights for the startup community in the country. The firm unveiled SeedToScale, a platform that aims to fast track the journey, new founders will traverse from seed to scale by benefitting from the combined wisdom of all founders who have been there and done that. It also aims to share highly-curated insights, networks and playbooks from founders, investors and operators of the Indian startup ecosystem.

“For 15 years we’ve been investing in India. There have been a lot of lessons and many sectors we’ve tried. We also learned what works and what doesn’t work. There have been many things that we have learned the hard way,” said Anand Daniel, partner at Accel. “There are insights and also the networks that (our) companies build over time.