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    • Michael Dearing
    Sarah Lacy
    April 28th, 2011

    Accel Invests $35M. in 99designs…After Years of Trying

    Accel Partners has invested $35 million in the crowdsource design service 99designs– a monster of a series A. Of course, 99designs is not your average early-stage startup. Born in Melbourne, Australia out of an older company called sitepoint.com, 99designs is bootstrapped, profitable and growing revenues at a rate of about 120% a year.

    A few strategic angel investors also participated including… → Read More

    Erick Schonfeld
    November 22nd, 2010

    Yardsellr Scores $5 Million Series A From Accel To Become The eBay Of Facebook

    Bringing social commerce to Facebook is a big opportunity attracting a lot of capital these days. Social swap meet Yardsellr just raised a $5 million series A financing, led by Accel Partners. Harrison Metal Capital, which previously put up $750,000 in seed funding, also participated.

    Yardsellr is an eBay for Facebook, except without the auctions. In fact, the company was founded by three… → Read More