Accel Partners Adds Venture Partner In Sik Rhee 08/03/2007   Serial Entrepreneur strengthens Accel’s depth in Software and Data Center Infrastructure IDG and Accel Establish Chinese Mainland Largest Growth Fund 07/04/2007 Accel Partners and IDG-Accel China Form IDG-Accel China Fund II 07/02/2007 Accel, IDG Raise Joint $510 M China Investment Fund 06/29/2007 Andrew Braccia Joins Accel Partners 04/30/2007   Former Yahoo executive bolsters Accel’s team in the consumer Internet space NVCA Honors Jim Swartz with Lifetime Achievement Award 04/18/2007 Richard Wong Joins Accel Partners 02/05/2007   Experienced industry executive strengthens Accel’s depth in the mobile and broadband communications space IDG-ACCEL TO LAUNCH A NEW VENTURE CAPITAL FUND FOR CHINA 07/19/2005   International Data Group (IDG) and Accel Partners announced the launch of a $250 million (U.S.) IDG-Accel China Growth Fund REVIEW OF ACCEL / STANFORD SYMPOSIUM 05/26/2005   Content may be king, but can phone companies become king of content? ACCEL CO-HOSTS SYMPOSIUM AT STANFORD 05/25/2005   This years topic is Next Generation Media Networks: The Future of Content Delivery YuMe Delivers Advertising Platform for Windows Media Center Internet TV Beta Launch 09/27/2007 Global Grind Launches the Premier Online Destination for the Global Hip-Hop community; Accel Partners and Hip Hop Leader and Entrepreneur Russell Simmons Provide Funding 09/26/2007 WeeWorld Opens Its Rapidly Growing Community to Brand Advertisers 09/25/2007 WiChorus Announces Interoperability Testing of Its Intelligent ASN Gateway with Redline’s RedMAX 4c Mobile WiMAX Base Station 09/24/2007 Hyperic Partners with JasperSoft to Provide Advanced Reporting for IT Management 09/24/2007 Pretty in Pink; Samir Arora’s Glam Media Has Assembled the Largest Audience of Women on the Web 09/17/2007 Facebook to Offer Grants For Software Developers 09/17/2007 Azul Systems Closes $40M Financing 09/13/2007 Why Facebook Went West 09/09/2007 Ralf Hirt Joins Glam as VP, International 09/07/2007 ConSentry Named as One of the Hottest Security Offerings 09/06/2007 Metacafe Fuels Up With $30M 08/27/2007 Xelerated Appoints New CEO 08/23/2007 Metacafe Raises $30 Million in Series C Financing 08/21/2007 Facebook Grows Up 08/20/2007   At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connect--and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool. YuMe Unveils New Suite of Ad Products 08/20/2007 Citrix to Buy XenSource for $500M 08/16/2007 Citrix to Enter Server and Desktop Virtualization Markets with Acquisition of XenSource 08/15/2007 AdMob Launches Mobile Advertising Unit for Apple iPhone 08/14/2007 AdMob Now Serving Over 1 Billion Mobile Advertisements Per Month 08/08/2007 F5 purchases Acopia for $210M 08/07/2007 F5 Networks to Acquire Acopia Networks 08/06/2007   Accel Has Been an Investor Since Series A Financing Prosper and SBI Holdings to Establish Prosper in Japan and Other Asian Countries 08/06/2007 XenSource Signs OEM Agreement with Symantec to Deliver Unified Server and Storage Virtualisation 07/26/2007 Facebook Beefs Up Top Management 07/25/2007 AdMob Founder & CEO Omar Hamoui Named to Advertising Age 40 Under 40 List of Top Marketing Executives 07/24/2007 Community Investments in San Jose 07/19/2007 Karin Marke Joins Glam Media as Vice President of Sales 07/13/2007 Wetpaint Makes Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites List 07/12/2007 Motorola to Acquire Leapstone, Provider of Software for Creation, Management and Delivery of Triple Play Services 07/11/2007 Motorola to Acquire Leapstone Systems 07/10/2007   Privately-Held Company to Contribute Leading Software Platform for Converged Services and Applications Comscore a Hit on Wallstreet 06/28/2007 comScore (SCOR) IPO Scores Big on Debut 06/27/2007 Comscore Inc. Opens Up 33% on Its First Day of Trading 06/27/2007 MetroPCS Communications, Inc Announces Appointment of President and Chief Operating Officer 06/27/2007 comScore, Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering 06/26/2007 Prosper Secures an Additional $20 Million 06/20/2007 Imperva Surpasses 3,000 Downloads of Free Database Vulnerability Scanner 06/19/2007 17 Million Go Glam; Glam Media Ranked as Number One Women’s Web Property by Comscore 06/18/2007 Infinera Corp, Backed by Accel at Series A, Raises $182M in IPO Above Filing Range 06/06/2007 Hyperic Closes $6 Million in Series B Funding Round 06/05/2007   Rapid customer and community growth demands aggressive expansion strategy More of Industry’s Largest Retail Sites Use Coremetrics 05/29/2007 Changes in Facebook, Web Plan Hopes to Boost Activism 05/25/2007 Facebook Opens Site to Other Companies 05/24/2007 Facebook Platform Launches with 65 Developer Partners and Over 85 Applications for Facebook 05/24/2007 Facebook Unveils Platform for Developers of Social Applications 05/24/2007 Real Estate Search Engine Trulia.com Closes $10 Million Financing Led By Sequoia Capital 05/24/2007 Facebook Opens Its Pages as a Way to Fuel Growth 05/21/2007 Webroot Celebrates another Quarter of Record Growth 05/15/2007 Mu Security Named as Finalist for Two 2007 American Business Awards (SM) 05/15/2007 Wetpaint Wins Coveted SEOmoz Web 2.0 Award for Second Year in a Row 05/14/2007 Xelerated Lands $23M 05/09/2007 ConSentry Networks Named a Red Herring 100 Award Winner 05/02/2007 Imperva Named Top 100 Company by Red Herring 05/02/2007 Red Herring Names Qliktech as Winner of Red Herring 100 Spring 2007 Award 05/02/2007 Web Network Offers Reebok Flexibility - WSJ 04/25/2007   Glam Media Stresses Customized Campaign; Willing to Experiment Creating Your Own 'Wiki' Web Site - WSJ 04/25/2007   Program Simplifies Steps for Entries; Nothing Is Private MetroPCS IPO Raises $1.15B, Prices Above Range 04/18/2007 Riverbed’s shares have quadrupled since September 04/11/2007 ConSentry Networks Doubles Customer Base in Six Months 04/09/2007 AOL Veteran Jonathan Miller Joins Kosmix Board of Directors 04/03/2007 comScore Files for $86.25M IPO 04/02/2007 Internet-traffic Counter ComScore Files For IPO 04/02/2007 Is BitTorrent the next big IPO? 03/28/2007   The file sharing service, known for making it easy to illegally download videos, has made nice with Hollywood. Now is it wooing Wall Street? AdMob Closes $15 Million in Series B Funding 03/26/2007   Accel Partners leads investment as Company’s Marketplace Accelerates past 1.6B Mobile Ads Served Coremetrics Reaches 1,000 Customer Milestone 03/05/2007 Prosper Membership Leaps to 200,000 and Funded Loans Top $40 Million 03/05/2007 YuMe Launches First Online Video Ad Network Built to Improve Monetization for Advertisers and Publishers 03/05/2007 Infinera files for Nasdaq IPO worth up to $150M 02/26/2007 Cisco Pays $135 Million for Reactivity 02/22/2007 Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire Reactivity 02/21/2007 Telepo 3GSM Best Mobile Enterprise Product Award 02/14/2007 Prosper Marks One Year Anniversary with over 175,000 Members and $36 Million in Loans 02/13/2007 Ericsson acquires leading fiber access company Entrisphere 02/12/2007 Zlango announces $12 million in funding led by Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners 02/12/2007 Netvibes Splashes Down Stateside, Opens New Office in San Francisco 02/12/2007 Webroot’s SpySweeper® Enterprise 3.0 Named ‘Best Anti-Malware’ by SC Magazine Readers 02/07/2007 Imperva Triples Revenues in 2006 to Lead Market for Data Security and Compliance 02/07/2007 Metacafe Names Ex-Electronic Arts Exec as New CEO 02/06/2007 Brightcove Raises $59.5 Million in Series C Round 01/17/2007 Coremetrics Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner 01/17/2007 Metacafe names ex-Macromedia CEO as its chairman 01/17/2007 Accel Backs Wetpaint 01/10/2007 Glam Media Jumps to Number 2 Spot on comScore Media Metrix List 01/10/2007 Webroot’s Spy Sweeper® Enterprise 3.0 Named Best Anti-Spyware of 2006 by SC Magazine 01/10/2007 Discretix Announces $20 Million Third Round Funding 01/08/2007 MetroPCS Files For Billion-Dollar Plus IPO 01/04/2007   MetroPCS Communications Inc. filed to raise up to $1.125 billion in an initial public offering, helping the IPO market kick off the year with a major deal from the telecom sector. NextWave Wireless to Acquire GO Networks 01/03/2007 Omneon Video Networks Files For $115M IPO 12/29/2006   Omneon Video Networks filed an S-1 registration statement seeking to raise $115M in an initial public offering. Accel Partners is a lead investor in the company and has worked closely with Omneon since leading its Series A financing in 1998. QUALCOMM to Acquire Airgo 12/03/2006 Accel Invests in BitTorrent 12/01/2006   Accel Partners Leads Second Round of Financing Mind Candy Announces $7M in Funding 11/16/2006   Accel Partners and Index Ventures lead funding as company expands its product lineup Sylantro Systems Appoints Marco Limena President and CEO 11/07/2006   Communications Veteran Tapped to Lead Sylantro Through High Growth Phase of Global Expansion Riverbed Technology Announces Initial Public Offering 09/21/2006   Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:RVBD) today announced an initial public offering of 8.7 million shares of its common stock at a price of $9.75 per share Netvibes Announces Series B Funding Round 08/25/2006 Spreadshirt Secure First Round Investment 08/25/2006   Online market place for customized products Spreadshirt announces completion of series A funding for further Expansion Imperva Wins EWEEK Excellence Award 05/24/2006   SecureSphere Named Leading Product in Network Data-Stream Protection Category. ConSentry wins 2006 Best of Interop Award 05/07/2006   Consentry Networks wins the 2006 Best of Interop Award in the Infrastructure category with their Secure LAN Switch. Lockheed Martin Agrees to Acquire Savi Technology 05/05/2006   Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE:LMT] today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Savi Technology, Inc.(Savi), a provider of active radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Riverbed files for IPO 04/21/2006 Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire JBoss 04/10/2006   Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss, the global leader in open source middleware. CA ACQUIRES WILY TECHNOLOGY 01/05/2006   CA today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wily Technology, a leading provider of enterprise application management solutions, for $375 million in an all-cash transaction. EARTHLINK TO ACQUIRE NEW EDGE NETWORKS 12/13/2005   EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK), the nation’s next generation Internet service provider, today announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire New Edge Networks, an Accel portfolio company, valued at $152 million. Accel Partners led the Series A financing in June of 1999. ACCEL-KKR TO SELL CRS RETAIL SYSTEMS FOR $121 MILLION 12/06/2005   Accel-KKR announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell CRS Retail Systems (CRS) to Epicor Software Corp. (NASDAQ: EPIC), in a $121 million, all-cash transaction. REALNETWORKS SHARES SOAR ON MICROSOFT SETTLEMENT 10/11/2005   Shares of RealNetworks Inc. soared 33% in midday trades as Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay the company $761 million in a pact that settles an antitrust lawsuit brought by RealNetworks in late 2003. GLAM MEDIA LAUNCHES GLAM.COM 09/19/2005   Glam.com Blends Fashion, Beauty and Celebrity Style with E-Commerce, Creating a New Shopping Experience on the Web GLAM.COM - NYTIMES ARTICLE 09/19/2005   A Fashion Site Brings Back The Do-It-All Web Portal INFOWORLD'S 2005 INNOVATORS 08/01/2005   Greg Raleigh (Airgo Networks) and Alasdair Rawsthorne (Transitive) are 2 Accel entrepreneurs named on the list. ACCEL PARTNERS INVESTS IN THEFACEBOOK.COM 05/26/2005   Student's Start-Up Draws Attention and $13 Million JUNIPER NETWORKS TO ACQUIRE PERIBIT NETWORKS FOR $337M 04/25/2005   The combination of Juniper Networks' best-in-class secure and assured networking solutions and Peribit's WAN optimization technology delivers a powerful solution with increased WAN capacity, faster application performance, prioritized application delivery, and system-wide visibility of network and application performance. CISCO SYSTEMS TO ACQUIRE TOPSPIN COMMUNICATIONS FOR $250M 04/14/2005   Cisco Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Accel portfolio company Topspin Communications, Inc. of Mountain View, CA JUNIPER NETWORKS ACQUIRES KAGOOR NETWORKS 03/29/2005   Brings Secure and Assured VoIP To Customers Worldwide

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