Accel Atoms and Google's AI Futures Fund announced their AI cohort in March, selecting five startups from more than 4,000 applications: K-Dense, Dodge.ai, Persistence Labs, Zingroll and LevelPlane. Each selected company gets co-investment of up to $2 million, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund.
TechCrunch noted the program was notable for choosing no "AI wrappers" in a field of thousands of pitches, a sign that investors are looking for products with defensible technology rather than thin layers over third-party models.
Source: Accel Atoms