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Accel Again Looks Down Under, Leads $35M For 99designs

Lizette Chapman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 29, 2011 at 4:20 am PT

Things are looking up for firms Down Under. Accel Partners, an early investor in Facebook Inc., Groupon Inc. and other white-hot companies, has led a $35 million Series A investment in graphic design marketplace 99designs Pty. Ltd., marking the firm’s third deal in an Australian tech company in the past nine months.

Squarespace. $38.5 Million in VC Bucks. More Social Networking For All. (Stop Me If You've Heard This One.)

Kara Swisher in News on July 14, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Another day, another giant venture funding. Today it is $38.5 million to Squarespace–which lets you make blogs, Web sites, mobile apps, social networking widgets and other such oversharing digital tools–from Index Ventures and Accel Partners. Squarespace is from New York. Index is in London. Accel is in Silicon Valley. It’s very global!

Zimbra Founder and Ex-Yahoo Exec Dharmaraj to Redpoint Ventures

Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2009 at 12:54 pm PT

Another former Yahoo exec has landed at a Silicon Valley venture firm. This time, well-regarded serial entrepreneur Satish Dharmaraj will become a partner at Redpoint Ventures, according to sources. The move of Dharmaraj is interesting, given that he is not starting a new company or taking a post as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the venture capital firm, which many operating execs do after leaving a company. Sources close to the situation said Dharmaraj would focus on business software, the enterprise arena and infrastructure at Redpoint.