Accenture backs Replit

Accenture said on April 9 that it invested in Replit and signed a strategic partnership to bring Replit’s artificial intelligence software-building tools to enterprise clients. (newsroom.accenture.com) Accenture made the investment through Accenture Ventures, and both companies said the deal is aimed at speeding up the creation of new digital platforms inside large organizations. Accenture did not disclose the size of the investment. (newsroom.accenture.com) Replit sells a cloud platform where users can generate and change code with plain-language prompts, then collaborate and host applications in the same workspace. Accenture said the companies will test enterprise use cases and workflows that can be rolled out to clients globally. (newsroom.accenture.com) The deal lands as consulting firms are trying to turn artificial intelligence from a slide-deck promise into billable delivery work. Accenture told investors on March 19 that second-quarter fiscal 2026 bookings hit a record $22.1 billion and that it was seeing “strong AI-driven growth.” (newsroom.accenture.com) It also lands as Replit is pushing deeper into big companies, not just individual developers and students. Replit said on March 11 that it had raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation, that 85% of Fortune 500 companies were using its platform, and that it was targeting $1 billion in run-rate revenue by the end of 2026. (blog.replit.com) The underlying pitch is simple: software teams describe an app in everyday language, and the tool writes much of the code and setup work for them. Accenture said that can cut through the usual delays of configuring development environments, wiring infrastructure, and moving from prototype to production. (newsroom.accenture.com) Accenture framed that approach as a way to put more software creation in the hands of business teams as well as engineers. Ram Ramalingam, Accenture’s global lead for Software and Platform Engineering, said the partnership is meant to reduce the gap between “business vision and technical execution.” (newsroom.accenture.com) Replit has been making the same case to investors and customers for months. In its March funding announcement, Chief Executive Officer Amjad Masad said the company was built on the idea that people should be able to create software “without ever learning to code.” (blog.replit.com) The immediate test is whether that consumer-style ease translates to the controls large companies require. Accenture said the partnership will focus on helping clients adopt artificial intelligence-driven development safely and fit it into existing engineering practices and technology systems. (newsroom.accenture.com)