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Hot Prospects: Let me introduce you to 10 young venture capitalists who are poised to do great things 08/20/2010
Like his childhood hero Cal Ripken Jr., Ryan Sweeney isn't looking for the glory that comes from hitting the long ball; he just wants to keep getting on base to give his team the chance to win.

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.

Accel Partners proves you can produce big returns even without a robust IPO market
01/19/2010
The past year was pretty miserable for the venture capital business as a whole. Of course, it wasn't miserable for everyone. Accel Partners, in particular, had a very good year, as nine of its portfolio companies were sold for combined proceeds in excess of $2 billion.

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...