Accel closed its 8th India fund with a $ 650 M corpus.
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Accel has clearly been a trailblazer in India's startup ecosystem. The Flipkart and Freshworks investments alone have redefined early-stage VC success stories!
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With $650 million in investor commitments, Accel, an early-stage investor of Flipkart and Swiggy, has closed its eighth fund dedicated to India. With this, Accel will have committed over $3 billion in investments in India overall, as per reported by
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