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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.” |
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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... |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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... |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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