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Accel Partners

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Accel Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices located in Silicon Valley, London, and India. They typically make multi-stage investments in internet technology companies.

Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of excellence and innovation in the venture capital business and is dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class companies. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California; London, UK; and Bangalore, India; as well as in China via the IDG-Accel Partnership.

With over $6 billion under management, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies including: Actuate, Alfresco, AdMob, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Baidu, BBN, Brightcove, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Focus Media, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, JBoss, Kayak, Macromedia, metroPCS, Mu Sigma, Polycom/PictureTel, Portal Software, QlikTech, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Riverbed, Sohu.com, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, XenSource, and Zimbra. For more information, visit the Accel Partners web site at www.accel.com.

Milestones

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  Accel Partners invested in NextG Networks. (9/16/09)
  Posted 10/1/09 at 11:04am
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  Accel Partners invested in XConnect. (9/16/09)
  Posted 9/22/09 at 11:22am
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  Accel Partners invested in VeriVue. (9/9/09)
  Posted 9/9/09 at 4:45pm
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  Accel Partners invested in YuMe. (9/4/09)
  Posted 6/14/09 at 2:21pm
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  Accel Partners invested in Sun Run Generation. (7/28/09)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 11:20am
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  Accel Partners invested in SB Nation. (7/16/09)
  Posted 7/16/09 at 4:00pm
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  Accel Partners invested in Aptana. (7/14/09)
  Posted 7/14/09 at 10:05am
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  Accel Partners invested in High Gear Media. (6/30/09)
  Posted 6/30/09 at 11:57am
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  Accel Partners invested in Tumri. (6/22/09)
  Posted 6/22/09 at 8:37am
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  Accel Partners invested in Wonga. (6/8/09)
  Posted 6/8/09 at 4:30am
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  Accel Partners invested in Cloudera. (6/2/09)
  Posted 6/2/09 at 10:21am
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  Accel Partners invested in Seatwave. (6/1/09)
  Posted 6/1/09 at 4:25am
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  Accel Partners invested in OpenX. (5/26/09)
  Posted 5/26/09 at 4:03am
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  Accel Partners invested in EveryZing. (5/11/09)
  Posted 5/11/09 at 5:30am
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  Accel Partners invested in Collective . (4/14/09)
  Posted 4/14/09 at 9:08pm
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  Accel Partners invested in StumbleUpon. (4/13/09)
  Posted 4/16/09 at 6:59pm

Investments

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1. Index Ventures Raises $440 Million for Tech Fund (stephenlaughlin.posterous.com) [edit]
2. Accel Partners Closes Two New Funds (accel.com) [edit]
3. XConnect Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding (xconnect.net) [edit]
4. NextG Networks Raises Funding (silicontap.com) [edit]
5. Verivue streams $20M straight to coffers in latest round (masshightech.com) [edit]
6. YuMe takes $2.9M for broadband video ads (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
7. SunRun Snags $18M to Keep Muni Competitors Away (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
8. Updated: Sports Blog Site SBNation Gets $8 Million More, From Comcast And Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
9. Aptana raises $7.8M new funding (bizjournals.com) [edit]
10. Auto News Aggregator High Gear Media Gets $5.5 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
11. Tumri Secures Over $15 Million in New Financing (businesswire.com) [edit]
12. TechCrunch (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Cloudera Raises $6 Million In Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
14. Seatwave Scores $17 Million In Fourth Funding Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up As Its Biggest Customer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Collective Media Leads Trio of Online Ad Fundings (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
18. StumbleUpon's founders buy service back from eBay (google.com) [edit]
19. Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Causata Launches Customer Interaction Platform With $4.5M From Accel Partners (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Cloudera Raises $5 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
22. Transera Raises $17 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
23. Put This On Your T-Shirt: Spreadshirt Scores $10 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Jasper Design Automation Raises $7 Million in Series D Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
25. Ludic Labs Raises $5 Million; Launches Activity-Based Social Net ‘Diddit’ (paidcontent.org) [edit]
26. VentureBeat (vccircle.com) [edit]
27. Marketing platform start-up Pontis raises nearly $20m (ivc-online.com) [edit]
28. Cambridge secures $7.5m financing (totaltele.com) [edit]
29. EMC leads $15m round for Varonis (ivc-online.com) [edit]
30. SB Nation Got $5 Million In Funding For Sports Blogs (paidcontent.org) [edit]
31. StreamBase Closes $6M Series D (xconomy.com) [edit]
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34. Icera Secures $70M Financing Package (icerasemi.com) [edit]
35. Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. WiChorus Closes Series C As An Up-Round (wichorus.com) [edit]
37. Facebook Game Developer Playfish Closes $17M Series B Round (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
38. Tech leaders back sports blog network (sportsbusinessjournal.com) [edit]
39. Mobile ad network AdMob hits profitability, raises $15.7 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
40. Accel Partners To Help Bring You Cheap, Eco-Friendly Diapers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. paidcontent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
42. BitTorrent returns Funds and closes Round with $7M (startupmeme.com) [edit]
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45. Terracotta raises $10M for Java tools (venturebeat.com) [edit]
46. Xelerated Closes $13 Million Funding Round (xelerated.com) [edit]
47. Mobile Firm Amobee Raises $22 Million For Ad-Supported Cellphone Service (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
48. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
49. Privacy Certifier TRUSTe Goes For-Profit; Gets Investment From Accel (paidcontent.org) [edit]
50. Real estate search company Trulia raises $15M more (venturebeat.com) [edit]
51. Playfish nabs $1M for social gaming (venturebeat.com) [edit]
52. VeriVue Picks up $40M For Video On Demand (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
53. Solarflare Secures $26 Million in Private Funding (vmblog.com) [edit]
54. Mochi Media Raises $10 Million For Flash Game Tools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Arcot Systems pulls down $23 million for digital authentication (venturebeat.com) [edit]
56. YODLEE ANNOUNCES $35 MILLION FINANCING (corporate.yodlee.com) [edit]
57. SpringSource Announces $15mln Series B Round of Financing (springsource.com) [edit]
58. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
59. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
60. Accel (accel.com) [edit]
61. Capital Funding Report [edit]
62. American Venture Magazine (americanventuremagazine.com) [edit]
63. company email (direct) [edit]
64. Security company Imperva raises $20M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
65. Paidcontent article (paidcontent.org) [edit]
66. RGB Networks raises $20 milllion for video processing chips (venturebeat.com) [edit]
67. Altor Networks gets $6M for virtualization security (venturebeat.com) [edit]
68. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
69. Paidcontent article (paidcontent.org) [edit]
70. socialble blog (sociableblog.com) [edit]
71. techcrunch.com [edit]
72. Mig33 Raises Another $13.5 Million for Mobile Social Network (mashable.com) [edit]
73. thealarmclock.com [edit]
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75. Etsy Raises $27 Million; Accel’s Jim Breyer Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
76. Vertical Search Firm Kosmix Raises $10 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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78. techcrunch.com [edit]
79. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
80. ForeScout Technologies, for network access control, raises additional $4.38M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. Accel Partners (crunchbase.com) [edit]
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87. paidcontent.org [edit]
88. home.businesswire.com [edit]
89. Ubiquisys Secures B Round Funding for Breakthrough Femtocell Technology (ubiquisys.com) [edit]
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91. Open source system management software Hyperic raises $6.1M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
92. thealarmclock.com [edit]
93. thealarmclock.com [edit]
94. Alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
95. Mig33 Gets $10M in Funding (mashable.com) [edit]
96. MobileCrunch (mobilecrunch.com) [edit]
97. truliablog.com [edit]
98. Transera raises $10M for outsourced call-center (venturebeat.com) [edit]
99. newteevee.com [edit]
100. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
101. Discretix, mobile device and flash memory security co., raises $20M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
102. pulse2.com [edit]
103. paidcontent.org [edit]
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107. moconews.net [edit]
108. Medio raises $30 million for mobile search — to battle Google, Jumptap, others (venturebeat.com) [edit]
109. Sonim raises $8M for push-to-talk in Europe, Asia (venturebeat.com) [edit]
110. Netvibes secures a $15 million investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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112. benchmark.com [edit]
113. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
114. Video Processing Technology Firm RGB Networks Raises $20 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
115. http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/06/27/hyperic-raises-funding-part-2/ (blogs.the451group.com) [edit]
116. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
117. MyThings press release (mythings.com) [edit]
118. zimbra.com [edit]
119. Coremetrics Gets Big In Web Analytics (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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122. Venture Beat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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126. Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction” (techcrunch.com) []
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128. techcrunch.com [edit]
129. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
130. Series A funding (blogs.zdnet.com) [edit]
131. BBN’s Grand Re-entrance (telecommagazine.com) [edit]
132. Responsys gets a new CEO and more funding for growth (internetretailer.com) [edit]
133. comScore Networks Secures $20 Million In Series D Financing (comscore.com) [edit]
134. ForeScout Technologies Raises $12 Million In Series B Funding, Adds Check Point Software Co-Founder Shlomo Kramer To Board (venturebeat.com) [edit]
135. comScore Networks, Inc. Secures $15 Million In Series C Financing (comscore.com) [edit]
136. Responsys secures $20 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
137. Sylantro Systems Raises $55 Million Series C Round (enronexplorer.com) [edit]
138. Responsys.com Receives $22.5 Million in Mezzanine Round Financing (redpoint.com) [edit]