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Accel Partners adds Prateek Dhawan to growth investing team
06/02/2010

New Delhi, June 2, 2010: Accel Partners, a leading global venture capital and growth equity firm operating in Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel, China and India, today announced that Prateek Dhawan has joined the growth equity investing team in India as a Principal. Prior to Accel, Prateek was Vice President, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, where he was leading the fund’s private equity investments in India. At Accel, he will focus on growth stage investments of $10m-50m in mid-sized Indian companies across different sectors.

	„Es gibt in Deutschland viele sehr erfolgreiche, sehr innovative Firmen“ – Sonali de Rycker und Harry Nelis von Accel im Interview 06/01/2010
	Der namhafte Risikokapitalgeber Accel Partners, der beispielsweise bei Facebook, Groupon, Admob, Dapper, Playfisch und etsy investierte, baut sein Engagement in Deutschland aus und will heimische Unternehmen bei ihren Expansionsplänen ins Ausland unterstützen.

	Rob Glaser, Founder of RealNetworks, joins Accel Partners 05/25/2010
	Palo Alto, CA, May 25, 2010: Accel Partners, a leading global venture capital and growth equity firm operating in Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel, China and India, today announced that Rob Glaser has joined the firm as a Venture Partner. At Accel, Rob will focus on digital media technology, social media, and mobile service investments.

	Storage Startup Fusion-io Continues Rapid Pace 04/18/2010
	Data storage has always been a tumultuous part of tech, as companies grapple with a rising flood of information and hardware vendors race to offer hardware that stores more of it. But speed is just as important as capacity for many customers, helping to explain the momentum of a startup called Fusion-io.

	Accel Partners hires Adam Valkin in London 04/14/2010
	Venture capital firm Accel Partners has hired Adam Valkin in its London office. Valkin joins Accel Partners from Endemol Group, a provider of entertainment programming and the world’s largest independent production company, where he was the global head of digital media and new business.

	Fun and Games for Kevin Comolli 03/29/2010
	Kevin Comolli is a rarity in venture capital these days. For one thing, he’s one of the few European VCs who actually produced a big exit last year, helping to sell portfolio company Playfish for up to $400 million. For another, Comolli came to VC from the buyouts world, rather than the more typical route of working his way up as a startup founder.

	Accel Partners welcomes Anand Daniel, who has joined the team as a principal in the India office 02/09/2010
	Bangalore, India - February 9, 2010 Anand Daniel has joined Accel Partners as a principal in the India Office. At Accel Anand will focus primarily on seed and early stage investments in Healthcare/MedTech, Information Technology and Clean Energy.

	Fertile Ground for Startups 11/12/2009
	Who needs job security? In June 2008, as the recession was moving from bad to worse, Caterina Fake gave up a comfortable, executive-level job at Yahoo! (YHOO) to launch a company. She left California and set up shop in New York City to co-found Hunch, a Web site that uses the experiences of others to help people make decisions. The 40-year-old, who had co-founded the...

	It’s a pretty good day — and year — for Accel Partners 11/09/2009
	It’s weird how good news for VCs seems to have come in pairs. This morning, Electronic Arts said it’s buying social gaming company Playfish for up to $400 million in cash and stock, and a couple hours later Google announced that it’s buying mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million. The common thread? , which invested in both companies.

	Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today...No, Really! 11/09/2009
	Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion.

	Accel Partners Keeps The Hits Coming With AdMob, Playfish 11/09/2009
	By Scott Austin Accel Partners is making other venture capital firms look plain silly. At a time when VCs have struggled to sell their portfolio companies or bring them public, Accel is the backer of two companies - mobile advertising company AdMob Inc. and games developer Playfish Ltd. - that announced today they have been acquired for more than $1 billion.

Accel Partners adds Neeraj Bharadwaj as MD in India to build growth investing effort
10/19/2009

•India growth investing initiative will complement Accel’s existing early stage activities Mumbai, October 19, 2009: Accel Partners, a leading global venture capital and growth equity firm operating in Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel, China and India, today announced that Neeraj Bharadwaj has joined the firm as a Managing Director to help build its growth equity investing initiative in India...

	From CTIA: The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team) 10/08/2009
	[Richard Wong, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, submitted this piece to VentureBeat.] Mobile has never been hotter with the iPhone, Android, the explosion in mobile advertising, and the rise of mobile apps, but, you’d never know it walking around the mobile conference called CTIA, held here in San Diego today.

	Accel Ranked #1 in Top 100 Global VC's 09/11/2009
	After long research, Red Herring is releasing its Top 100 Global Venture Capitalists list. This comes as economies have radically changed across the globe, seriously challenging the asset class. Nevertheless, the facts remain: higher relative returns, hundreds of thousands of jobs created, and super-sized brands such as Facebook and Twitter speak volumes. Not to mention...

	Jim Breyer interview on building a global VC firm 09/11/2009
	Jim Breyer has become the poster child for a forty-something generation of venture capitalists who have successfully spotted breakthroughs. His most recent one, Facebook, is definitely dishing out headaches to Google and MySpace. He also sits on the boards of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Marvel Entertainment and somehow finds time to look for the next big hit. Since the next...

	Accel discusses its Energy investing strategy in a new paper entitled Entrepreneurial Energy 07/28/2009
	As Energy investing moves into its next phase, promising opportunities emerge in which lean, focused entrepreneurial teams can set the agenda, define new categories and create substantial value.

The Wall St Journal on: Accel Partners' digital media experience, and the SunRun investment
07/28/2009

SunRun LLC hopes that with the help of its new online media-savvy investor Accel Partners, it will be able to make solar a product of mass appeal. The company, which sells solar power to homeowners for monthly fees and relatively small upfront costs, already used tips from Accel and saw the number of unique visitors to its Web site rocket to well over 150,000 in May, even as its competitors SolarCity and Sungevity continued getting well under a third of those views, according to a chart by Web analytics company Compete.com.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Accel CEO-In-Residence Fortune Magazine Interview
07/01/2009

When I got my first job at Merrill Lynch [as a junior analyst], I ended up working for a managing director, Henry Michaels. He was known from his more junior days as "Hank the Crank" for his ability to crank it out and work fast. At only 32 or 33, Henry was already a managing director. At my level [then] you were typically staffed on a project with the managing director, a director, and an associate in addition to the junior analyst. I got staffed directly with Henry on a project with no one in between and he gave me a lot of runway.

	Accel India Makes Strategic Investment in CA payment firm enStage 06/10/2009
	Accel Partners (India), a leading venture capital firm, today announced an investment in enStage, Inc., a Cupertino, California based provider of innovative payment solutions. enStage specializes in serving the payment industry in emerging markets such as India and has been a leading provider of authentication and payment solutions in prepaid, online, and mobile payments.

	Dell Names Jim Breyer to Board of Directors 04/13/2009
	ROUND ROCK, Texas - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Dell announced today that Jim Breyer, a partner with Accel Partners, has been appointed to the Dell board of directors. Mr. Breyer joins the board immediately and will stand for election by shareholders at Dell’s annual meeting on July 17.

Accel Partners Adds Google Executive Sukhinder Singh Cassidy as CEO-in-Residence
04/08/2009

PALO ALTO, CA, April 8, 2009 - Accel Partners, a leading global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage, today announced the addition of Sukhinder Singh Cassidy as CEO-in-Residence. Ms. Singh Cassidy joins Accel from Google where she served most recently as President for Asia-Pacific (APAC) & Latin American Operations. In this role, she was responsible for all of Google’s commercial operations in both regions, and built the company’s presence from inception to its current scale serving users, advertisers and partners across 40 domains and 103 different countries throughout APAC and Latin America.

Accel Partners Closes Two New Funds
12/11/2008

December 11, 2008 – Palo Alto and London: Accel Partners, a leading global venture capital firm, today announced the closing of two new funds, Accel Growth Fund at $480 million and Accel London III at $525 million. “We’re very pleased with the support of our long-time investors in these unique economic times,” said Jim Breyer, Partner at Accel, “and this milestone represents a continued validation of Accel’s strategy to back the leading technology and media companies globally, from inception through growth.”

	Accel India announces closure of new $60 Million Seed and Early Stage Fund 11/12/2008
	November 12, 2008 – Bangalore: Accel has closed a $60M Venture Fund to invest in seed and early stage opportunities in India. The Fund will pursue a multi-sector strategy, targeting opportunities in Technology, Technology-enabled Services, Internet, Mobile, Media, Life Sciences, Consumer Products and Services, and other high-growth...

Theresia Gouw Ranzetta featured in Fortune Magazine article
10/06/2008

(Fortune Magazine) -- The clock has just struck seven on a Thursday night, and Sheryl Sandberg is networking furiously. Not on Facebook, the site she joined in March as COO and where she boasts 1,114 "friends." No, she's doing it the old-fashioned way, in her Atherton, Calif., living room. She hosts her Silicon Valley soirees a few times a year, and it's always the A-list crowd. On this particular evening the group includes the new head of eBay North America, the manager of Google's ad-selling platforms, and well-known tech bankers and venture capitalists.

	Accel-KKR Closes Third Private Equity Fund With $600 Million 09/09/2008
	September 9, 2008 - Accel-KKR Closes Third Private Equity Fund With $600 Million; Growth-Oriented Technology Buyout Fund Oversubscribed By $150 Million; Fundraising Completed After Limited Marketing Process; Firm's Total Assets Under Management Exceed $1 Billion

Accel Partners and Erasmic Venture Fund Team Up, Launch Accel India Venture Fund
07/28/2008

July 28, 2008 – Palo Alto: Accel Partners, a leading venture capital firm operating in Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel and China, today announced the formation of Accel India Venture Fund. The latest element in Accel’s global strategy, Accel India Venture will focus on early-stage venture investing, delivering active, hands-on strategic and operational guidance in partnership with India’s most promising entrepreneurs.

Accel and Greylock Appoint Jeff Weiner as Executive in Residence
06/16/2008

SDForum and Accel Present Consumerization of Software Event
05/23/2008

Accel Partners expands London office with seasoned investor Sonali De Rycker joining firm
04/01/2008

Accel Partners, one of the leading global venture capital firms, today announced that Sonali De Rycker will be joining the firm’s London office as Partner. Sonali has over eight years of investment experience in early stage technology companies with Atlas Venture in London. Prior to Atlas Venture, Sonali was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

	Accel, Venrock, William Morris Agency & ATT Form Consortium to Fund Start-up Companies in Southern California 03/03/2008
	Accel, Venrock, William Morris Agency and AT&T Form Consortium to Fund and Support Start-up Companies in Southern California ; Leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firms, Hollywood Entertainment Company, and Global Communications Company Seek to Drive Innovation in Web Applications, Digital Media

Accel Partners Adds Dick Williams as CEO-in-Residence
12/12/2007

Accel Partners Closes $520 million Accel X Fund
11/12/2007

	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?

	Bestsellers From Flipkart 09/01/2010
	Flipkart’s Sachin and Binny Bansal created a premier service by focussing on ‘predictable efficiency’. But in online retail, to adapt is to survive

	The Making Of Flipkart Story 08/20/2010
	Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal share their approaches to building an e-commerce company.

	Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever 08/12/2010
	Andrew Mason figured out how to inject hysteria into the process of bargain hunting on the Web. The result is an overnight success story called Groupon.

	RGB Tunes Up Mobile TV With RipCode Buy 06/23/2010
	Build or buy? That's been a question RGB Networks Inc. has been asking itself as it weighed how to add key mobile IP video capabilities to a cross-platform video box that has big "TV Everywhere" aspirations.

	YuMe Named Top 50 Startup at TiECon 2010 05/14/2010
	REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- YuMe, the leading video advertising technology company, today announced that it has been chosen as a winner of the TiE50 Award. TiE50 Winners represent the most enterprising companies worldwide in five sectors that are driving today's economy: Internet, Software, Wireless, Cleantech, and BioSciences.

	Harmonic Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Omneon 05/06/2010
	SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwire - May 6, 2010) - Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) and Omneon, Inc., a leading provider of video production and playout solutions for many of the world's premier media companies, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement pursuant to which Harmonic would acquire Omneon for an enterprise value of approximately $274 million in cash and Harmonic stock.

	Most innovative company at RSA Conference 2010 03/02/2010
	Altor Networks, with its product Altor VF 3.0, has been announced as the winner of RSA's Innovation Sandbox “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2010” contest. According to the post on the Conference's official blog, Altor was chosen as the most innovative company among the ten finalists that competed for the title.

	Altor Secures Series B Funding from New Investors DAG Ventures and Juniper Networks(R) as Well as Founding Investors Accel Partners and Foundation Capital 03/02/2010
	REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Mar 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Altor Networks, a leading innovator and provider of security for virtualized data centers and clouds, today announced that the company has closed a Series B funding round with new investors DAG Ventures, Juniper Networks with its newly announced Junos(R) Innovation Fund, Accel Partners and Foundation Capital, Altor's founding investors.

	GetJar In Entrepreneur Magazine 01/25/2010
	While Apple's App Store dominates headlines and airwaves, independent GetJar has quietly emerged as the mobile application portal of choice for millions worldwide -- thanks to an open-door policy that welcomes both software developers and customers regardless of wireless device, operating system or network operator.

RAMP Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnMedia Top 100 Winner
01/19/2010

Recognized for creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and publishing. Woburn, MA, January 19, 2010 – RAMP, the industry’s leading Content Optimization company today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players...

	EA to pay $275m cash for Playfish 11/09/2009
	Electronic Arts has entered the fast-growing market for games on social networks with its $400m purchase of Playfish. EA’s deal is comprised of around $275m in cash and $25m in shares, with a further $100m dependent on performance until the end of 2011. Playfish, known for games on Facebook such as Pet Society and Restaurant City, will join EA’s interactive division.

The Wisdom Of AdMob’s Founder Omar Hamoui
11/09/2009

By Scott Austin Google Inc.’s announcement that it will buy AdMob Inc. for $750 million brought a media spotlight on Accel Partners, an investor in both AdMob and Playfish Inc., which said today it will sell to Electronic Arts Inc. for at least $275 million. Several blogs, including this one, hailed Accel Partners for its impressive and quick investment returns at a time when deals like these are hard to come by.

Microsoft Signs Deal To Boost AdSense Rival >MSFT
11/02/2009

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said Monday it has signed a deal to expand the reach of a contextual online advertising service designed to compete with rival technology offered by Google Inc. (GOOG). Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft and closely held online advertising exchange OpenX Technologies Inc. have agreed to refer publishers to each other, while OpenX will promote Microsoft's Content Ads products, which can place advertising on Web sites with related and appropriate content. Microsoft is ...

	Playfish hits real revenue stream 11/02/2009
	A New York company is marketing the "Virtusphere" designed to facilitate a virtual reality experience unmatched by any other.

	Tellabs acquires WiChorus to revolutionize the mobile Internet 10/22/2009
	Naperville, Ill. — Users want mobile Internet services anywhere, anytime. Sales of smartphones are growing more than 30% a year, and netbooks are taking root. As a result, Tellabs’ mobile customers expect mobile data traffic to grow 30% to 50% a year for the foreseeable future. Such high growth demands scalable, next-generation network architectures to deliver 3G and 4G services...

EveryZing Licenses Universal Search & Publishing Platform to FOX News and FOX Business Network
10/12/2009

Woburn, MA. – October 12th, 2009 – EveryZing, the leader in universal search and publishing solutions, announced that FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network have selected EveryZing’s solution suite for FOXNews.com and FOXBusiness.com. EveryZing will enable all current and archived videos, podcasts, articles and images published by each site to be automatically indexed and made available for online search and discovery, both by users on the websites and across major Web search engines. EveryZing provides site search and SEO...

Causata Launches Customer Interaction Platform With $4.5M From Accel Partners
10/05/2009

Accel Partners has poured $4.5 million into Causata, a San Francisco-based software startup that provides tools companies can use to optimize customer experience and business results. The Series A round actually closed back in April this year, but the name of the investor has only now been made public through a regulatory filing, reports peHUB. Judging by messages posted this morning on the company’s Twitter account, the software startup has only now gone public with its website and offering.

	Sunrun Closes $18m Equity Investment; Will Expand Affordable Home Solar Power 07/28/2009
	Home Solar Financing Pioneer Receives Backing from Accel Partners

	Gameforge CEO to Keynote at 2009 GDC Europe 06/30/2009
	GDC organizer Think Services (also parent of Gamasutra) announced that Klaas Kersting, CEO of German browser game pioneer Gameforge, will keynote the business track at the 2009 Game Developers Conference Europe.

	Kosmix, Mochi Media, Etsy, Cloudera and Admob: Businessweek’s 2009 Top 50 Tech Startups 06/24/2009
	BusinessWeek and market researcher YouNoodle have teamed up to identify 50 tech startups flying under the radar. Our list includes fledgling tech companies—most started in 2005 and later—from the U.S., China, India, Israel, and Russia that are attracting some early buzz and are poised to grow beyond their regional or niche-market origins.

Tumri Raises $15M Financing, Adds Time Warner as Strategic Investor
06/22/2009

Online ad firm Tumri has secured $15 million in financing from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Investments and others as it seeks to complete its transition from a contextual-ad supplier to a business focused on display. The investment includes over $10 million in equity from Time Warner and previous backers Accel Partners, Shasta Ventures and Tenaya Capital, plus $5 million in a debt commitment from Silicon Valley Bank. The company will use the proceeds for a global rollout, as well as building up its sales and marketing team. With this financing, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company has raised a total of $31.5 million in investments.

The Great Wall of Facebook:
06/22/2009

Larry Page should have been in a good mood. It was the fall of 2007, and Google's cofounder was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company's European operations in Zurich, London, Oxford, and Dublin. The trip had been fun, a chance to get a ground-floor look at Google's ever-expanding empire. But this week had been particularly exciting, for reasons that had nothing to do with Europe; Google was planning a major investment in Facebook, the hottest new company in Silicon Valley.

	MetraTech Corp Wins Best Overall at 2009 World BSS Awards 06/17/2009
	WALTHAM, Mass. and LONDON, -- MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider,has won the Best Overall prize at the prestigious World BSS Awards. The award was presented to two companies, MetraTech and Oracle Corporation, at a ceremony during IIR's BSS Summit 2009 in Amsterdam from June 8-11, 2009.

	Facebook Dethrones MySpace in US 06/16/2009
	Facebook Inc., after eclipsing MySpace in global users last year, now leads its social-networking rival in the U.S. as well, according to research firm ComScore Inc. The Palo Alto, Calif., company had 70.28 million U.S. users last month, topping MySpace's 70.26 million, ComScore said. Facebook's users almost doubled from a year earlier, while MySpace lost 5%.

	MetraTech Wins Best Overall at 2009 World BSS Awards 06/16/2009
	WALTHAM, MA and LONDON--(Marketwire - June 16, 2009) - MetraTech Corp., the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider has won the Best Overall prize at the prestigious World BSS Awards. The award was presented to two companies, MetraTech and Oracle Corporation, at a ceremony during IIR's BSS Summit 2009 in Amsterdam from June 8-11, 2009.

	OpenX CEO Interview in Wired Magazine 06/15/2009
	The internet has wrecked the conventional model of advertising-driven content, but parts of that model can be revised, OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan said Monday. And he’s here to help.

AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui Bloomberg TV Interview
06/12/2009

Altor Networks Wins Reader Trust Award for Virtual Network Security
05/19/2009

Redwood City, CA – May 19, 2009 – Altor Networks announced today that Network Products Guide, industry’s leading publication on information technologies and solutions has named Altor VF virtual firewall a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech-industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world.

	EveryZing Closes $8.25MM Funding Round, Signs Agreement With NBC Universal 05/11/2009
	EveryZing, Inc. today announced it has closed an $8.25MM round of funding, adding GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund to its existing investors, which include Fairhaven Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners and BBN Technologies.

	Autoquake Secures $5.95 Million in Venture Funding 04/15/2009
	Autoquake, Ltd., a UK-based online car retailer, has secured GBP4 million in venture funding from Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners, LLC.

StumbleUpon Goes Independent; Backed by Founders and New Investors
04/13/2009

April 13, 2009 - StumbleUpon, the best way to discover new content on the Internet, today announced that after nearly 2 years as a subsidiary of eBay Inc., it has returned to the ranks of an investor-backed startup. StumbleUpon is now backed by the original company founders, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, as well as a number of well-known investors including Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners, and August Capital. Camp takes on the role of CEO of StumbleUpon.

	Collective Media Closes $20 Million in Growth Equity Funding with Accel Partners 04/13/2009
	New York, NY – April 13, 2009 – Following a year of rapid growth and continued profitability, leading online advertising network and technology provider, Collective Media, today announced that it has closed $20 million in growth equity financing with Accel Partners, in conjunction with iNovia Capital.

	GetJar, World’s Leading Independent App Store, Surpasses 400 Million Downloads 03/27/2009
	GetJar, the world’s leading independent mobile app store, today announced that it topped 400m mobile app downloads, and in the last month saw a 200% increase in downloads from the same month a year earlier. The company also released survey results taken from over 15,000 of its early adopters and influential users, revealing global changes in consumer behavior.

Transera Secures $17 Million in New Round of Funding
03/12/2009

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Transera Communications, a pioneer in on-demand virtual contact center software, today announced that it has raised $17 million in funding from Accel Partners, Apax Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners, and Storm Ventures. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s rapid growth and fuel investments in customer acquisition, go-to market partnerships, service infrastructure, and product development.

	EveryZing Introduces MediaCloud — Internet's First Cloud-Based MetaData Solution 03/02/2009
	Enables companies to generate and manage rich metadata across video, audio, text and image content, unlocking billions in new revenue opportunities and cost savings for new media

Jasper Design Automation Raises $7 Million in Series D Funding
02/18/2009

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Jasper Design Automation, leading EDA provider of design, verification, and reuse solutions leveraging formal technologies, today announced it has raised $7 million in Series D financing. The investment round was led by new investor, ZenShin Capital of Menlo Park. Joining the financing were existing investors: Accel Partners, Cambrian Ventures, Foundation Capital, InnovationsKapital, and Northzone Ventures. The funds will provide working capital to support Jasper’s self-sufficient operations and continued market and product expansion.

	ConSentry Networks Wins Security Product of the Year at NetEvents Awards 02/18/2009
	MILPITAS, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - ConSentry Networks, the leader in intelligent control, announced today that its LANShield platform has won the “Security Product of the Year” award at the NetEvents “Technology Leader” European Awards 2009. The ConSentry LANShield platform includes the LANShield Switch and LANShield Controller.

ConSentry Closes New Funding, Attracts Top Switching Talent for Next Phase of Growth
01/14/2009

MILPITAS, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Addressing the growing enterprise need for intelligent control of users and applications, ConSentry Networks today announced an additional $9.4 million in venture funding and a new management team. Accel Partners led the round and was joined by existing investors DAG Ventures, Invesco Private Capital, Northgate Capital, Translink Capital, and Vedanta Capital. ConSentry will use the funds to grow and support the channel for its LANShield™ intelligent control platforms and to expand its global marketing outreach. ConSentry also has added three new senior executives to its ranks: Rod Kay, executive vice president of marketing and sales; Robert Hon, executive vice president of engineering; and Derek Granath, vice president of marketing.

	StreamBase Systems raises $6.24 million in Series D funding round 01/13/2009
	StreamBase Systems Inc., a US-based provider of event processing software, has raised around $6.24 million in Series D round of funding from Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, LLC, and In-Q-Tel, Inc.

	Canaan Partners and Accel India invest in Chakpak 12/23/2008
	New Delhi, INDIA, December 23, 2008: Indian ventures in Online Entertainment Communities have got a major boost today with Canaan Partners – a global early stage venture investor in innovative technology companies - announcing an investment in Chakpak (www.chakpak.com), a next-generation online entertainment community from India.

	IBM announces plans to acquire virtualization company Transitive 11/18/2008
	ARMONK, NY--(Marketwire - November 18, 2008) - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it plans to acquire Transitive Corporation, a privately held technology company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, with a research and development team in Manchester, United Kingdom. Financial terms were not disclosed.

	Belden to buy wireless LAN vendor Trapeze 11/18/2008
	Belden has announced it will buy wireless LAN vendor Trapeze Networks for $133 million in cash. The purchase adds a complete controller-based WLAN product line to Belden's existing copper and fiber-optic cabling, cable management, and connectivity products. It's apparently an attempt to position Belden as a supplier of "unified wired and wireless solutions," according...

	AdMob Closes $15.7 Million in Funding for Operations in Growth Markets 11/04/2008
	AdMob is a rare start-up these days: it is hiring instead of laying off employees and it is cash-flow positive. The mobile advertising network, which places ads on Web sites people view on their phones, announced Wednesday that it had raised $15.7 million in its third round of financing from Accel and Sequoia Capital.

	WiChorus Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding 11/03/2008
	WiChorus, Inc., a developer of solutions for WiMAX and 4G wireless core networks, has raised $18 million in Series C funding from its existing investors Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures. All the parties are based in the US.

Playfish Completes $17 Million Financing and Continues Success as Social Games Leader
10/28/2008

London – October 28, 2008 – Playfish, a developer and publisher of games for social networks, announced today that it has completed a new round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The $17 million Series B investment will be used to continue Playfish’s mission to become the leading company in social games, a sector which promises to play an increasingly important role in the future of the gaming industry.

	MyHeritage Secures $15 Million in Fourth Round of Financing 09/08/2008
	MyHeritage, Ltd., an Israel-based social networking website, has secured $15 million in fourth financing round led by Index Ventures. Existing investor Accel Partners also participated in the funding round.

Raptr raises $12 million in first round of financing
09/04/2008

Altor Networks’ Virtual Network Security Analyzer Wins Network Products Guide Reader Trust Award for Best in Virtualization Security
08/18/2008

	Kickfire Raises $20 Million in Series B Financing 07/30/2008
	High-Performance MySQL Appliance Positioned for Rapid Adoption in Fast Growing Open Source Database Market SANTA CLARA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Jul 30, 2008 -- Kickfire™, Inc. today announced that it has closed Series B financing. Pinnacle Ventures led the round and Series A investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and The Mayfield Fund reinvested. The capital will be used to...

	TRUSTe Raises $10 Million Financing from Accel Partners 07/17/2008
	TRUSTe, an independent organization that certifies and monitors web site privacy and email policies, has secured $10 million investment in first round financing from Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. The proceeds would be to create state-of-the-art monitoring systems to stay ahead of technology advances with new tools, products, and best practices that facilitate trust between...

TRUSTe Responds to Consumer Privacy Threats with Major Expansion
07/15/2008

In response to increasing threats to consumer privacy, TRUSTe, the recognized authority on privacy best practices on the Internet today, announced the completion of its first round of financing from Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture firm. The investment will enable TRUSTe to create state-of-the-art monitoring systems to stay ahead of technology advances with new tools, products and best practices that facilitate trust between businesses and consumers.

ForeScout Completes $8M in Funding
07/01/2008

ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations, today announced it has completed an internal $8M fundraising round with all existing venture partners participating including Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. The company experienced a breakout year in 2007 with 80 percent growth, setting the stage for this further investment to fuel sustained compliance and NAC leadership.

blinkx Partners With ON Networks to Distribute Original Programming
06/25/2008

blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with ON Networks(www.onnetworks.com), a digital media company delivering original, on-demand TV shows. ON Networks’ high-definition video content is now more easily accessible than ever before at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with ON Networks.

	Amobee Launches Advertising on Vodafone Italia's Live! Portal 06/24/2008
	Amobee Media Systems today announced it will be providing ad server capabilities and dynamic ad selection for Vodafone Italia's live! portal. Amobee, a world leader in advertising solutions for mobile, focuses on ad-enabling the first and the most frequently viewed screens on the mobile handset, like those used for messaging and on the carrier portal.

	SpringSource Announces $15 Million Series B Round Of Financing 06/24/2008
	Company behind Spring takes additional venture capital investment from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital to expand operations and accelerate growth

Arcot Systems Raises $23 Million in Second Round of Financing
06/20/2008

	Mochi Media Closes $10 Million in New Funding 06/19/2008
	Series B Round Will Help Company Grow Platform for Web Game Developers

Wetpaint Secures $25 Million in Series C Funding
05/20/2008

Mu Dynamics Targets Proactive Service Assurance, Raises New Funding
05/19/2008

Ubidyne Secures $34 Million in Series B Funding
05/14/2008

Parature Secures $16 million in Series B Venture Capital Funding
05/08/2008

Accel leads investment into Parature, the leader in SaaS-based customer support
05/07/2008

	Altor Networks Secures $6 Million Financing Round from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital 04/22/2008
	Altor Networks Secures $6 Million Financing Round from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital; Virtual Network Security Innovator Lands New Financing Round to Expand Product Development, Marketing and Sales to Support Company Growth

IBM acquires Diligent Technologies
04/18/2008

RGB Networks Continues Expansion with New $20 Million Round of Funding
04/14/2008

Kickfire Announces First High-Performance Appliance for MySQL
04/14/2008

	Coremetrics Secures $60 Million in Financing Led by 3i 04/04/2008
	Coremetrics Secures $60 Million in Financing Led by 3i; Digital Marketing Optimization Leader to Tap Capital to Continue Record Sales Growth and Accelerate Marketing Programs

	Xoopit Launches Private Beta of First Application for Webmail 03/31/2008
	Xoopit Launches Private Beta of First Application for Webmail to Help People Discover, Organize and Share Rich Media in the Inbox; Also Announces $5 Million Series A led by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital

	Genius.com Selected as Start-Up Company of the Year 03/27/2008
	Silicon Valley-Based Economic Development Association Recognizes Genius for Outstanding Innovation and Business Growth

Car Advisory Network raises $6.5 million in Series A Funding
03/17/2008

Microsoft plans to acquire Rapt
03/14/2008

	Record Growth, Marquee Customers and Major Funding Marks Stellar Year for Genius.com 02/28/2008
	Sales 2.0 Pioneer Signs Global Giant BT, Extends User Base Past 30,000 and Adds $19 Million in Series C Funding

Online ad networks draw funding
02/26/2008

	YuMe and Google to Serve InVideo Overlay Ads 02/20/2008
	YuMe and Google to Serve InVideo Overlay Ads; AdSense for Video Beta Further Expands YuMe's Suite of Ad Products Supported and Optimized By Its Adaptive Campaign Engine (ACE)

Glam Media Strikes Partnership with Premiere.com
02/20/2008

	Yahoo! Acquires Maven Networks, Inc. 02/12/2008
	Will Expand Yahoo!'s Video Capabilities; Important Step in Enhancing Yahoo!'s Solutions for Publishers and Advertisers - Making Video Easier to Buy

Etsy Lands $27M
01/31/2008

	Adaptec Selects ConSentry Intelligent Switches as 01/28/2008
	ConSentry’s Next-Generation Switching Architecture Delivers Operational Efficiency, Reduced Cost, Network Control and Visibility

Glam Media Introduces the First Internet Primetime Placement and Vertical Targeting Brand Engagement Advertising Platform- Glam Evolution
01/24/2008

Accel Partners Joins Group of Investors to Back United Mobile; International Mobile Phone Company Raises $15 Million
01/23/2008

	Hyperic Names Dick Williams as Chairman of the Board 01/22/2008
	Positions Company for Significant Expansion

Glam Media Selected by AlwaysOn as OnMedia Top 100 Winner
01/22/2008

AdMob Overall Winner of OnMedia 100 Top Companies
01/21/2008

Openads Closes $15.5 Million Series B Funding Led by Accel Partners
01/16/2008

	Mu Security Analyzer busts vulnerabilities with the greatest of ease 12/13/2007
	Mu-4000 fuzzer shines with wizard-driven test configuration, intelligent workflow, excellent vulnerability profiling, and auto-generated zero-day exploits

	Mu Security Grows Advisory Board Expertise in Critical Infrastructure and Enterprise Security Architectures 12/04/2007
	Addition of Byres Security CTO Eric Byres and Neohapsis CTO Greg Shipley Complements Existing Board’s Military, Web Application and Software Development Experience

Industry innovators 2007: Mu Security Mu 4000
12/01/2007

Gigle Semiconductor Secures $20 Million in Second Round Funding
11/27/2007

ForeScout Networks, Developing Network Access Control Solutions, Extends D Round with Further $5 Million
11/20/2007

	Mu Security and NSP Complete Service Provider TCO and ROI Study 11/15/2007
	The study, conducted during the past nine months, features four case studies of leading global providers using the Mu-4000 appliance to uncover the often hidden metrics of revenue loss due to customer churn, network robustness issues and downtime.

	ON Networks Closes $12 Million Series B Funding Round 11/14/2007
	Accel Partners Leads Round That Includes Austin Ventures and AT&T

	GetJar Closes Series A Investment From Accel Partners 11/13/2007
	GetJar Closes Series A Investment From Accel Partners to Expand Further Into Worldwide Mobile Markets

	Lifetime Networks Partners with Glam Media to Develop New Vertical Media Network 11/12/2007
	Lifetime Networks Partners With Glam Media to Develop New Vertical Media Network; Network Will Build on Momentum of #1 TV and Online Brands For Women

	Tracking IPS catch rates; Joel Snyder examines 13 Unified Threat Management (UTM) products using Mu-4000 11/12/2007
	Mu-4000 baselines Network World Group Test analyzing 13 intrusion-prevention/UTM firewalls in two scenarios: protecting clients (such as Web browser) and protecting servers (such as Web and e-mail servers) Network

	Investing with Impact; A bold Venture 11/11/2007
	Business Investing with impact ; A bold venture: The bottom line for these capitalists isn't the traditional bottom line. Yes, they want to earn money for investors, but they also select businesses that are creating jobs in disadvantaged communities.

Systems Management Vendor Hyperic Completes Record Quarter
10/11/2007

	Cisco NAC out, ConSentry Switch-based NAC in 10/11/2007
	Fayetteville State University drops Cisco's NAC gear in favor of ConSentry equipment

	Varonis Completes Q3 Crossing 100th Customer Milestone 10/09/2007
	Varonis Completes Q3 Crossing 100th Customer Milestone; Growing Adoption of Award-winning Solutions Demonstrates Broad Market Need for Data Governance

	Consentry Extends Customer Momentum, Increases Funding Reserves 10/08/2007
	Company Adds $21 Million to Coffers as Customer Base Grows 25 Percent Quarter-over-Quarter in 2007; Basil Alwan Joins ConSentry Board of Directors

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