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Bay Area, CA About Blog Ann K. Cun is the Founder of Accel Visa Attorneys, PC.

Standing Row Left to Right: Laura Taylor, Chair of the WBENC Board and VP, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Operations, Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Tara Abraham, Chair and Co-CEO of Accel, Inc.; Nicholas De Tura, VP, Supply Chain and Logistics, Alcatel - Lucent; Tim Harden, President, Supply Chain and Fleet Operations, AT&T; Al Williams, Chief Procurement Officer, Accenture; Kim Brown, Vice President, General Procurement, Dell; Rob Lidster, Vice President of Supply ChainEnergy Future Holdings; Francene Young, V.P. Talent & Diversity and Inclu sion, Shell Oil Company; Leo Lonergan, Chief Procurement Officer, Chevron Corporation; Bridget Kostelnik, General Manager, Strategic Procurement, ExxonMobil Corporation; Linda MacLean, VP Global Procurement, UPS; Tonya E. Rozier - DeAnda, Director, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Diversity, Quality and Relationship Management, and Metrics & Analysis, Verizon Services Operations, Verizon; Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught; Linda Denny, WBENC President Emeritus

Photos from Brainstorm TECH (clockwise from top left): Renée James of Intel with Michal Lev - Ram of Fortune; Satya Nadella of Microsoft with Walter Isaacson of The Aspen Institute; Lanhee Chen of the Hoover Institution with Austan Goolsbee of the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Vijaya Gadde of Twitter with Brad Smith of Intuit; Les Moonves of CBS; Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital, James Lee of JPMorgan Chase & Co., with Dan Primack of Fortune.com.

But through this process our team got to work with Ryan Sweeney, the lead of Accel's growth practice (who won me over by announcing he was an Eagles fan) and newest growth partner Kobie Fuller.

Ping Li of Accel Partners discusses the company's investment in next - generation data - based technology, including Cloudera, Nimble Storage and Sumo Logic.

• Jaggaer, a portfolio company of Accel - KKR, acquired BravoSolution, a Chicago - based strategic procurement solution provider.

Not exact matches

Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing in women.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

• Banker's Toolbox, an Austin, Texas provider of software for community banks and credit unions backed by Accel - KKR, acquired Integra Systems, a provider of customer due diligence and OFAC scanning services.

It was a strange formulation, given that the occasion for the reading was Etsy's acceptance of a $ 27 million investment led by Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners who sits on the boards of Facebook, Dell, and, to the consternation of the Etsy faithful, Walmart.

The study by Qualtrics and Accel sheds new light on how tech plays a role in the daily lives of those 18 to 32 as opposed to older generations.

What the Qualtric and Accel survey reveals is that tech has, at least in the minds of Millennials, fostered better relationships both in daily life and at work.

Accel Partners was Cloudera's first investor and owns 16.3 % of the company, followed by Greylock Partners, which owns 12.5 % of Cloudera's shares prior to the IPO, the filing shows.

His company Accel Partners owns 201.4 million shares (a 9.5 % stake) of Facebook.

When asked about the SaaS sector in the country and the startup scenario, from a fundraising viewpoint, Subramanian stated that ventures like Freshworks (backed by Google Ventures) and BrowserStack (Secured $ 50 Million from Accel) have set precedents in terms of raising the bar for fundraising in India.

Qualtrics» investors are happy to keep providing more of it: Accel Partners has now co-led all three of its funding rounds.

Plex has also raised money from Accel Partners and T. Rowe Price Associates for a total of roughly $ 90 million in funding.

Based on all the pitches you and Accel have received since the beginning of 2017, what are some trends you think Term Sheet readers should be paying attention to?

The country's largest workforce by demographics, millennials are willing to give up a percentage of their salary for long - term job security, flexible office hours and a management structure that emphasizes mentorship and a better career trajectory, according to new research from survey software firm Qualtrics and venture capital firm Accel Partners (a Qualtrics investor).

Though the terms of the acquisition were not revealed, the deal likely represents a decent payday for the company's founders and investors, which include Accel Partners, 500 Startups, Forerunner Ventures, and Brian Lee of Shoedazzle.

Gouw and Fonstad are two of the highest - profile women in the venture capital industry, with Gouw having been a partner at Accel and Fonstad a managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

• Kimble Applications, a U.K. - based provider of a professional services automation solution for IT and management consultancies, raised funding of an undisclosed amount from Accel - KKR.

At Accel it was probably more like 20ish percent of pitches were from women.

Then in July 2011, after a Series A round of $ 4.5 million funding, she went on to close a $ 19 million Series B round of funding with participation from Accel Partners — one of the venture capital firms invested in Facebook.

The list of signatures includes big name venture firms like Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and Flywheel.

With this investment, Jeff Leiberman, Manager Director at Insight Venture Partners, Ryan Sweeney, Managing Partner at Accel Partners, and John Ruffolo, Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures have joined HootSuite's Board of Directors.

Qualtrics has raised $ 220 million from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Insight Venture Partners over two rounds of funding, but the 13 - year - old company was bootstrapped for its first decade, taking institutional money for the first time in 2012.

This year, SeatGeek raised a $ 62 million Series C round of funding from Technology Crossover Ventures, Accel, Causeway Media Partners, Fabrice Grinda, Jason Finger, Jose Marin, Mousse Partners, and Sean Black.

Two years later, Camp, Smith, and a group of venture capital firms, including Accel Partners and First Round Capital, bought the company back for a reported $ 29 million.

Bizongo, a business - to - business (B2B) marketplace for packaging materials, has raised $ 22 million (Rs 146.7 crore) in a Series B round of funding from B Capital and International Finance Corporation (IFC) as well as existing investors Accel Partners and IDG Ventures.

In November 2016, Bizongo had raised $ 3 million (around Rs 20 crore) in Series A round of funding from IDG Ventures and existing investor Accel Partners.

Prior to that she was a general partner for 15 years at Accel; she left to co-found Aspect with the goal of bringing collaboration back to Series A companies and bridging the gap between angel investors and larger multi-stage VC firms.

In May 2016, it had raised about $ 4 million from a clutch of investors, including Accel Partners and Helion Venture.

Sequoia Capital of Menlo Park, California, Accel Partners, the Palo Alto, California - based firm that also backs Facebook Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts - based General Catalyst Partners, and Oak Investment Partners in Westport, Connecticut, own 69 percent of Kayak, according to its filing.

Investors in CrunchFund include AOL, Accel Partners, Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, the founding partners of Andreessen Horowitz, each of the general partners of Benchmark Capital, Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, Brad Garlinghouse & Kevin Rose.

These hires come close on the heels of BlueStone's Series D funding round where the firm raised $ 30 million from Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital, IIFL and others.

The company claims to have a user base of over 30 million and 96 million presentations, and has raised over $ 15.5 million till date from investors like Accel Partners, and Sunstone Capital, among others.

OpenX Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of OpenX Software Ltd., is based in Los Angeles and is backed by leading investors including Accel Partners, Index Ventures, SAP Ventures, and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.

With total equity financing of $ 27 million, the company includes Aspect Ventures, Pelion Ventures, Mission Holdings, Alumni Venture Group, GDP Venture, and Accel among its investors.

This was followed by Circle Internet Financial, which raised just $ 3m less from a group of investors that included Accel Partners, Pantera Capital and General Catalyst.

From the 13 shortlisted startups at 1st batch of the early stage tech Startup Accelerator program, about three or four selected startups would get acceleration fund from Z Nation Lab, while venture capital firms such as Matrix Partners, Accel India, Mumbai Angels will be part of the investor panel on the demo day and may invest in promising startups.

Theresia Gouw, whom Time magazine has dubbed one of the 10 most powerful women in technology, is leaving Accel Partners to team with Jennifer Fonstad, who has advised much of the international investing for Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Still on our watch list: news of bigger - and - better - than - ever funds from other firms that announced their latest funds roughly two years ago, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners.

Before joining Accel, Gouw co-founded Release Software, a provider of digital - payment technologies for the software industry, where Fonstad was a board member.

The latest batch of money came from a group that included several first - time Spotify investors, including Russian venture capital firm DST and California - based VCs Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners.

At Accel, where Gouw was the only female partner until 2008, she was responsible for several of the firm's most successful investments, including Trulia, which went public in 2012, Xoopit and Zimbra, which were both purchased by Yahoo.

After a 15 - year run in venture capital with Accel Partners, Gouw left her post in February to rejoin the ranks of entrepreneurs and cofound her own venture firm, Aspect.

Prior to co-founding Aspect Ventures, Theresia was a partner at Accel for 15 years, with a number of successful exits, including IPOs for Imperva (IMPV), PeopleSupport (PSPT), Trulia (TRLA), and acquisitions of Kosmix (WMT), Xoopit (YHOO) and Zimbra (YHOO).

Sameer Gandhi, partner at Accel, says he invested because he believes «Deserve's application of machine learning is a big opportunity to advance beyond the FICO system in a technologically sophisticated way and give future generations better ways to establish credit.

«Accel has a long history of investing in market leading companies like Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, and Atlassian, and G2 Crowd is no exception.