Biggest launches
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higgsfield AI | 14.8M | 149,166 | 4 Apr 2026 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 8.4M | 184,613 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Linear | 6.3M | 115,357 | 25 Mar 2026 |
| Synthesia | 5.1M | 29,393 | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Gamma | 4.7M | 43,273 | 17 Mar 2026 |
| Paper | 2.4M | 21,124 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Sapiom | 2.1M | 1,502 | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Snaptrude | 2.1M | 828 | 29 Oct 2026 |
| CData | 1.3M | 519 | 29 Sep 2026 |
| Circle | 1.1M | 301,719 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Vercel Developers | 967K | 48,806 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Vercel | 928K | 468,881 | 27 Aug 2026 |
Breakouts from small accounts
Launches from accounts under 10,000 followers that passed 250K views, one per company.
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Against following |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synthesia | 3.3M | 7,165 | 456x |
| Sapiom | 2.1M | 1,502 | 1,418x |
| Snaptrude | 2.1M | 828 | 2,499x |
| CData | 1.3M | 519 | 2,519x |
| Merge | 605K | 7,881 | 77x |
| Nova Intelligence | 605K | 1,911 | 316x |
| Ando | 353K | 4,348 | 81x |
| Pramaana Labs | 348K | 2,071 | 168x |
Launch, then a raise
Launches followed by a funding round within 90 days.
Who Accel invests alongside
The firms most often on the same cap tables, by number of shared portfolio companies in the directory.
| Firm | Shared companies |
|---|---|
| Salesforce Ventures | 5 of 28 |
| SV Angel | 5 of 28 |
| Menlo Ventures | 5 of 28 |
| General Catalyst | 5 of 28 |
| a16z | 5 of 28 |
| Y Combinator | 4 of 28 |
| GV | 4 of 28 |
| IVP | 4 of 28 |
| Coatue | 3 of 28 |
| NVIDIA | 3 of 28 |
By category
| Category | Launches | Median views |
|---|---|---|
| Creative AI | 26 | 1.5M |
| Consumer and creative AI | 18 | 1.8M |
| Developer tools | 13 | 329K |
| Enterprise AI | 7 | 27K |
Accel portfolio companies on X
| Company | Launches | Total views | Biggest launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higgsfield AI | 21 | 56.6M | 14.8M4 Apr 2026 |
| Synthesia | 6 | 9.9M | 5.1M1 Oct 2026 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 1 | 8.4M | 8.4M15 Jul 2026 |
| Linear | 4 | 6.9M | 6.3M25 Mar 2026 |
| Gamma | 2 | 6.2M | 4.7M17 Mar 2026 |
| Paper | 1 | 2.4M | 2.4M24 Feb 2026 |
| Vercel | 4 | 2.2M | 928K27 Aug 2026 |
| Sapiom | 1 | 2.1M | 2.1M5 Aug 2026 |
| Snaptrude | 1 | 2.1M | 2.1M29 Oct 2026 |
| CData | 1 | 1.3M | 1.3M29 Sep 2026 |
| Merge | 2 | 1.1M | 605K10 Sep 2026 |
| Circle | 1 | 1.1M | 1.1M28 Aug 2026 |
| Vercel Developers | 2 | 1M | 967K18 Aug 2026 |
| Nova Intelligence | 1 | 605K | 605K5 May 2026 |
| Raycast | 1 | 468K | 468K29 Oct 2026 |
| Polar | 1 | 405K | 405K8 Oct 2026 |
| Supabase | 2 | 401K | 341K31 Jul 2026 |
| Legora | 3 | 358K | 157K21 Oct 2026 |
| Ando | 1 | 353K | 353K24 Sep 2026 |
| Pramaana Labs | 1 | 348K | 348K17 Jun 2026 |
| Modal | 1 | 329K | 329K14 Oct 2026 |
| AssemblyAI | 1 | 94K | 94K28 Oct 2026 |
| Scuba | 2 | 68K | 50K13 Oct 2026 |
| Kanu AI | 1 | 27K | 27K30 Sep 2026 |
| depthfirst | 1 | 14K | 14K14 Sep 2026 |
| UpSmith | 1 | 13K | 13K5 Oct 2026 |
| Decagon | 2 | 12K | 11K8 Oct 2026 |
Questions
Which Accel portfolio companies launch on X?
27 Accel-backed companies have 66 launches in the Doomers launch directory. The biggest by total views are Higgsfield AI, Synthesia, Thinking Machines Lab.
What was the biggest launch from a Accel-backed company?
Higgsfield AI, with 14.8M views on 4 Apr 2026.
How do Accel-backed launches compare with other launches on X?
The median Accel-backed launch did 536K views, against 602K across every launch we track. 38% passed a million views. By median views the portfolio ranks 16 of the 20 firms we report on.
Where does this data come from?
Views, followers and dates are read from X. A company counts as backed when the firm invested in any round on record, matched to investment records by the company's website, plus companies whose own posts name the firm.
A known gap: about four in ten companies have no investment record yet, mostly the newest, so very young portfolio companies are under-counted.