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title: "Accel"
type: entity
entity_type: company
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/accel
updated: 2026-10-20T13:25:01.000Z
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# Accel

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/accel

- **Type:** Company
- **Signals:** 4
- **First seen:** Sep 25, 2026
- **Last seen:** Oct 20, 2026

## Recent signals

- [Arda, which builds AI software and agents to accelerate assembly lines and manufacturing, raised $230M at a $1.5B valuation led by Altimeter, Accel, and Khosla (Kate Rooney/CNBC)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/arda-which-builds-ai-software-and-agents-to-accelerate-assembly-lines-27542259) (Oct 20, 2026)
- [AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR (Chris Metinko/Axios)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/ai-infrastructure-startup-modal-raised-a-750m-series-d-led-by-accel-at-9e7de741) (Oct 14, 2026)
- [Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/armadin-started-by-mandiant-founder-kevin-mandia-to-build-ai-6023a09d) (Oct 1, 2026)
- [Accel Sees AI Opportunity Shifting to Applications](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/accel-sees-ai-opportunity-shifting-to-applications-92095f22) (Sep 25, 2026)

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