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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] (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kayak), [Knewton] (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/knewton), 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 Etsy. (8/26/10)
  Posted 8/26/10 at 6:53pm via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Telepo. (8/26/10)
  Posted 8/25/10 at 8:12pm via dowjones.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Nimbula. (8/23/10)
  Posted 8/23/10 at 3:37pm via reuters.com
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  Accel Partners — invested in Nimbula (8/23/10)
  Posted 8/23/10 at 11:28am via finsmes.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Atlassian. (7/14/10)
  Posted 7/14/10 at 10:43am via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Squarespace. (7/13/10)
  Posted 7/13/10 at 9:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Ingenuity Systems. (7/1/10)
  Posted 7/4/10 at 6:22pm via venturebeat.com
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  Accel Partners invested in ModCloth. (6/30/10)
  Posted 6/30/10 at 7:10pm via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in SunRun. (6/29/10)
  Posted 6/29/10 at 2:27am via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in TRUSTe. (6/8/10)
  Posted 6/8/10 at 8:15pm via truste.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Metacafe. (6/4/10)
  Posted 6/7/10 at 8:37pm via venturebeat.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Icera. (5/20/10)
  Posted 7/5/10 at 10:45am via socialnews.biz
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  Accel Partners invested in NorthScale. (5/18/10)
  Posted 5/19/10 at 7:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Booyah. (5/17/10)
  Posted 5/16/10 at 11:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Accel Partners invested in Fusion-io. (4/21/10)
  Posted 4/21/10 at 4:10pm via fusionio.com
• 
  Accel Partners invested in Quidsi. (4/20/10)
  Posted 6/3/10 at 10:03am

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. Nimbula Secures $15M in Second Round of Venture Capital Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. Telepo Accelerates Growth With $12.7M Funding (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Nimbula raises $15M to expand cloud service (reuters.com) [edit]
7. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Life science startup Ingenuity Systems brings in $15.4M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
10. ModCloth Raises $19.8 Million Series B For Indie Fashion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Homerun For SunRun: Sequoia Capital Leads $55 Million Financing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. TRUSTe Receives $12 Million in Series B Funding (truste.com) [edit]
13. Metacafe lands $5 million for curated movie site (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
14. socialnews.biz [edit]
15. NorthScale Raises $10 Million For Memcached Data Management Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Booyah Raises $20 Million From Accel, Expects 6 Million Users By The End Of This Summer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Fusion-io (fusionio.com) [edit]
18. TechCrunch [edit]
19. Educational Technology Company Knewton Scores $12.5 Million More. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. techcrunch.com [edit]
21. Brightcove Raises Another $12 Million; Says An IPO May Come Next Year (paidcontent.org) [edit]
22. The New York Times, SEC D (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
23. Gigaom (gigaom.com) [edit]
24. Correlsense Receives $8M in Financing Led by Accel Partners to Transform Application Performance Management Market (freshnews.com) [edit]
25. Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Autoquake.com secures additional £6m investment (sourcewire.com) [edit]
27. Altor Secures Series B Funding from New Investors DAG Ventures and Juniper Networks® as Well as Founding Investors Accel Partners and Foundation Capital (businesswire.com) [edit]
28. Video Ad Start-Up YuMe Raises $25 Million (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
29. Russian online shopping club KupiVIP.ru scores $20 million in funding (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. BizJournals.com, SEC D (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
31. Silicon Alley Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
32. techcrunch.com [edit]
33. Causata Launches Customer Interaction Platform With $4.5M From Accel Partners (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Diapers.com Cleans Up with $30 Million Round of Funding (ventureloop.com) [edit]
35. XConnect Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding (xconnect.net) [edit]
36. Verivue streams $20M straight to coffers in latest round (masshightech.com) [edit]
37. YuMe takes $2.9M for broadband video ads (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
38. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
39. SunRun Snags $18M to Keep Muni Competitors Away (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
40. Updated: Sports Blog Site SBNation Gets $8 Million More, From Comcast And Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
41. Aptana raises $7.8M new funding (bizjournals.com) [edit]
42. Auto News Aggregator High Gear Media Gets $5.5 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
43. Tumri Secures Over $15 Million in New Financing (businesswire.com) [edit]
44. TechCrunch (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Cloudera Raises $6 Million In Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
46. Seatwave Scores $17 Million In Fourth Funding Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up As Its Biggest Customer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Collective Media Leads Trio of Online Ad Fundings (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
50. StumbleUpon's founders buy service back from eBay (google.com) [edit]
51. Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. Cloudera Raises $5 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
53. Transera Raises $17 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
54. Put This On Your T-Shirt: Spreadshirt Scores $10 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Jasper Design Automation Raises $7 Million in Series D Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
56. Ludic Labs Raises $5 Million; Launches Activity-Based Social Net ‘Diddit’ (paidcontent.org) [edit]
57. VentureBeat (vccircle.com) [edit]
58. Marketing platform start-up Pontis raises nearly $20m (ivc-online.com) [edit]
59. Cambridge secures $7.5m financing (totaltele.com) [edit]
60. EMC leads $15m round for Varonis (ivc-online.com) [edit]
61. SB Nation Got $5 Million In Funding For Sports Blogs (paidcontent.org) [edit]
62. StreamBase Closes $6M Series D (xconomy.com) [edit]
63. news.cnet.com [edit]
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66. Icera Secures $70M Financing Package (icerasemi.com) [edit]
67. Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
68. WiChorus Closes Series C As An Up-Round (wichorus.com) [edit]
69. Facebook Game Developer Playfish Closes $17M Series B Round (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
70. Tech leaders back sports blog network (sportsbusinessjournal.com) [edit]
71. Mobile ad network AdMob hits profitability, raises $15.7 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
72. Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
73. BitTorrent returns Funds and closes Round with $7M (startupmeme.com) [edit]
74. paidcontent (paidcontent.org) [edit]
75. Family Tree Wars Continue: MyHeritage Raises Big Round, Shows Impressive Growth (techcrunch.com) [edit]
76. Citation Needed [add]
77. Terracotta raises $10M for Java tools (venturebeat.com) [edit]
78. Xelerated Closes $13 Million Funding Round (xelerated.com) [edit]
79. Mobile Firm Amobee Raises $22 Million For Ad-Supported Cellphone Service (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
80. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. Privacy Certifier TRUSTe Goes For-Profit; Gets Investment From Accel (paidcontent.org) [edit]
82. Real estate search company Trulia raises $15M more (venturebeat.com) [edit]
83. VeriVue Picks up $40M For Video On Demand (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
84. Playfish nabs $1M for social gaming (venturebeat.com) [edit]
85. SpringSource Announces $15mln Series B Round of Financing (springsource.com) [edit]
86. Mochi Media Raises $10 Million For Flash Game Tools (techcrunch.com) [edit]
87. Solarflare Secures $26 Million in Private Funding (vmblog.com) [edit]
88. Arcot Systems pulls down $23 million for digital authentication (venturebeat.com) [edit]
89. YODLEE ANNOUNCES $35 MILLION FINANCING (corporate.yodlee.com) [edit]
90. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
91. Accel (accel.com) [edit]
92. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
93. Capital Funding Report [edit]
94. American Venture Magazine (americanventuremagazine.com) [edit]
95. company email (direct) [edit]
96. Security company Imperva raises $20M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
97. Paidcontent article (paidcontent.org) [edit]
98. Altor Networks gets $6M for virtualization security (venturebeat.com) [edit]
99. RGB Networks raises $20 milllion for video processing chips (venturebeat.com) [edit]
100. Paidcontent article (paidcontent.org) [edit]
101. socialble blog (sociableblog.com) [edit]
102. techcrunch.com [edit]
103. Mig33 Raises Another $13.5 Million for Mobile Social Network (mashable.com) [edit]
104. Alfresco Gets Another $9M for Open Source Content Management (mashable.com) [edit]
105. thealarmclock.com [edit]
106. Etsy Raises $27 Million; Accel’s Jim Breyer Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
107. Citation Needed [add]
108. TechCrunch [edit]
109. Vertical Search Firm Kosmix Raises $10 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
110. Citation Needed [add]
111. techcrunch.com [edit]
112. Gigle Semiconductor gets $20M more for yet another broadband network chip (venturebeat.com) [edit]
113. ForeScout Technologies, for network access control, raises additional $4.38M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
114. Accel Partners (crunchbase.com) [edit]
115. techcrunch.com [edit]
116. Citation Needed [add]
117. techcrunch.com [edit]
118. techcrunch.com [edit]
119. WiChorus Raises $15 Million in New Funding (wichorus.com) [edit]
120. Azul Systems Closes $40 Million Financing (azulsystems.com) [edit]
121. techcrunch.com [edit]
122. Funding Icera (electronicsweekly.com) [edit]
123. Diligent Secures $10.5M (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
124. home.businesswire.com [edit]
125. paidcontent.org [edit]
126. StreamBase Announces Complex Event Processing (CEP) Expansion Strategy (streambase.com) [edit]
127. Ubiquisys Secures B Round Funding for Breakthrough Femtocell Technology (ubiquisys.com) [edit]
128. WATAGAME RAISES MULTIMILLION INVESTMENT FROM USA'S ACCEL PARTNERS (investindk.com) [edit]
129. Citation Needed [add]
130. Cap Funding Report [edit]
131. Open source system management software Hyperic raises $6.1M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
132. thealarmclock.com [edit]
133. thealarmclock.com [edit]
134. Cap Funding Report [edit]
135. Carrier Ethernet's Xelerated Ventures Forth With $23M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
136. Mig33 Gets $10M in Funding (mashable.com) [edit]
137. Comeks Gets Funded (mobilecrunch.com) [edit]
138. truliablog.com [edit]
139. XConnect raises $12 Million in Tier 1 VC Equity Funding Enables Global Expansion of its Federated IP Communications Peering Services (xconnect.net) [edit]
140. Centrify gets $15M in 3rd round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
141. Artimi Completes $31.5 Million Round With Additional Investment From Khosla Ventures (marketwire.com) [edit]
142. newteevee.com [edit]
143. Transera raises $10M for outsourced call-center (venturebeat.com) [edit]
144. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
145. Discretix receives $20 million VC boost to develop new mobile content protection solutions (discretix.com) [edit]
146. Pontis Secures $15 Million in Equity Financing Led By Sequoia Capital (pontis.com) [edit]
147. Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
148. Discretix, mobile device and flash memory security co., raises $20M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
149. pulse2.com [edit]
150. Cap Funding Report [edit]
151. paidcontent.org [edit]
152. Citation Needed [add]
153. Citation Needed [add]
154. moconews.net [edit]
155. Cap Funding Report [edit]
156. Citation Needed [add]
157. Medio raises $30 million for mobile search — to battle Google, Jumptap, others (venturebeat.com) [edit]
158. XenSource raises $15 million in Series C funding (virtualization.info) [edit]
159. Resolute Networks Raises $10 Million (resolutenetworks.com) [edit]
160. Mobile Cohesion Grows With Mobile Value Added Service Boom (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
161. Telepo secures funding from Accel partners for expanded growth (telepo.com) [edit]
162. Sonim raises $8M for push-to-talk in Europe, Asia (venturebeat.com) [edit]
163. Ubiquisys Secures $12M Funding to Drive Commercialisation of Low-cost, Residential 3G Access Point (ubiquisys.com) [edit]
164. benchmark.com [edit]
165. Trapeze Networks Secures $30 Million in Series D Funding (trapezenetworks.com) [edit]
166. Carrier IQ, which tracks data about a mobile phone user's experience, has raised $10M (siliconbeat.com) [edit]
167. Netvibes secures a $15 million investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
168. Cap Funding Report [edit]
169. ConSentry Networks Raises $20 Million in Oversubscribed Round (findarticles.com) [edit]
170. Njini Secures $13 MILLION, Gears Up For Growth In US And Europe (addpartners.com) [edit]
171. Citation Needed [add]
172. benchmark.com [edit]
173. Cap Funding Report [edit]
174. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
175. Video Processing Technology Firm RGB Networks Raises $20 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
176. Acopia Networks Closes Record Quarter; Secures Additional $20 Million in Venture Funding. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
177. Imperva Raises $17M in Series C Financing (imperva.com) [edit]
178. http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/06/27/hyperic-raises-funding-part-2/ (blogs.the451group.com) [edit]
179. Varonis Systems, Israel; a provider of information usage management solutions; $10.14 million; Series B (sandhill.com) [edit]
180. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]
181. Cape Clear Software raises $15M in funds (boston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
182. zimbra.com [edit]
183. MyThings press release (mythings.com) [edit]
184. Cap Funding Report [edit]
185. Oak Pacific raises US$48m for growth. (accessmylibrary.com) [edit]
186. Coremetrics Gets Big In Web Analytics (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
187. Cap Funding Report [edit]
188. Cap Funding Report [edit]
189. Alfresco Closes $8 Million Investment Round; Top-Tier Venture Capital Firms Mayfield Fund and Accel Invest in Series B Round (businesswire.com) [edit]
190. Citation Needed [add]
191. Cap Funding Report [edit]
192. Rapt Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of price optimization and profitability management software, has raised around $11.23 million in Series D funding (hosting.mansellgroup.net) [edit]
193. CAMBRIDGE BROADBAND RAISES NEW FUNDING OF $9 MILLION (cbnl.com) [edit]
194. TechCrunch UK (uk.techcrunch.com) []
195. Venture Beat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
196. Citation Needed [add]
197. Citation Needed [add]
198. Forescout Technologies raises $10M (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
199. Cap Funding Report [edit]
200. Volantis Closes $7.5 Million Funding to Accelerate Growth (volantis.com) [edit]
201. Mendocino Software Secures $18M in Series B Funding; Developer of Recovery Management Solutions... (allbusiness.com) [edit]
202. Cap Funding Report [edit]
203. Centrify Raises $14 Million in Series B Financing (centrify.com) [edit]
204. ConSentry Networks Raises $17 Million in Oversubscribed Series C Funding Round from Accel Partners, INVESCO and Sequoia Capital (findarticles.com) [edit]
205. Citation Needed [add]
206. Arcot Systems Secures $11.0 Million From Investors (arcot.com) [edit]
207. Entrisphere Scores $75M Round (lightreading.com) [edit]
208. Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction” (techcrunch.com) []
209. TRAPEZE NETWORKS RAISES ANOTHER UP-ROUND OF FUNDING (trapezenetworks.com) [edit]
210. Citation Needed [add]
211. techcrunch.com [edit]
212. Cap Funding Report [edit]
213. VC Action: Webroot Gets $108-Million Series A for Anti-Spyware (redherring.com) [edit]
214. Mitsui & Company Venture Partners Co-leads $12 Million Investment in Video Processing Innovator (rgbnetworks.com) [edit]
215. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
216. Series A funding (blogs.zdnet.com) [edit]
217. BBN’s Grand Re-entrance (telecommagazine.com) [edit]
218. Responsys gets a new CEO and more funding for growth (internetretailer.com) [edit]
219. comScore Networks Secures $20 Million In Series D Financing (comscore.com) [edit]
220. ForeScout Technologies Raises $12 Million In Series B Funding, Adds Check Point Software Co-Founder Shlomo Kramer To Board (venturebeat.com) [edit]
221. comScore Networks, Inc. Secures $15 Million In Series C Financing (comscore.com) [edit]
222. Responsys secures $20 million (news.cnet.com) [edit]
223. Sylantro Systems Raises $55 Million Series C Round (enronexplorer.com) [edit]
224. Responsys.com Receives $22.5 Million in Mezzanine Round Financing (redpoint.com) [edit]