New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Global investment firms Prosus and Accel will each provide $1 million to very early-stage companies that are part of Accel's new Atoms X accelerator.

Atoms is Accel's pre-seed accelerator programme for Indian and Indian-origin founders across the world, launched in 2021. The newly introduced 'X' track within Atoms, which debuted in July this year, zeroes in on what the firm calls 'leap tech ideas' - ventures pushing the frontier of technology, business, or product innovation.

"The idea is to back a new era and evangelise an entire movement across a bolder flavour of entrepreneurship," Pratik Agarwal, partner at Accel and head of the Atoms X programme told Mint. Agarawal focuses on the firm's investments in AI, clou...