Accel Leaders Fund V

United States
Late Stage
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About Accel Leaders Fund V

Accel's $5B Leaders Fund V targeting mega-checks in the AI era. Late-stage growth fund focused on AI infrastructure, applied AI, and enterprise software.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States
Funding StageLate Stage
Industry Focus
Ai Ml
Enterprise Software

Investor Signals Profile

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Sweet Spot

Late-stage AI founder scaling physical+software systems globally

AI-native
software-hardware convergence
robotics & defense
AI infrastructure
agentic security

Bullish Signals

$5B raised, April 2026 closeblog
Cursor & Anthropic already generating returnsblog
Sidecar signals LP demand & portfolio convictionblog
$36B AUM, top-tier LP baseblog
Portfolio access to Jensen Huang/NVIDIAtwitter
Astral acquired by OpenAI — portfolio exittwitter
Supabase: 7M devs, accelerating growthtwitter
Forbes AI 50: multiple portfolio companies featuredtwitter

Contrarian Signals

$10-50B entry valuations, DPI riskblog
Only 20-25 bets, extreme concentrationblog
AI IPO window unprovenblog
Heavy dev-tool focus, crowded segmenttwitter

Founder Do's

Series C+ with real revenue traction
Building at software-hardware boundary
Clear IPO or strategic exit path
Robotics, defense, or AI infra focus
Need $200M+ single-check lead

Founder Don'ts

Early-stage or pre-revenue
Pure-play SaaS without AI core
Sub-$1B valuation trajectory

Key GPs & Partners

MW
Matt Weigand
Partner
thesis-drivencontrarianopinionated
RW
Rich Wong
General Partner
metrics-driventhesis-drivennetwork-connector
SD
Sonali De Rycker
General Partner
community-builderthesis-driven
PL
Ping Li
General Partner
thesis-drivenmetrics-driven

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$5B
Saves0

Key People

Andrew Braccia, Sameer Gandhi

Matt WeigandPartner
Rich WongGeneral Partner
Sonali De RyckerGeneral Partner
Ping LiGeneral Partner

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