Accel Partners News

Fwd.Us , Mark Zuckerberg 's tech-focused super PAC has lost a couple high-profile members over its backing of conservative, drill-baby-drill politicians.

Midas Rank: 1 Net Worth: $1.1 Billion Jim Breyer takes the Midas crown again this year largely due to his firm's early $12.7 million bet on Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg.

The make-up of this year's Midas List indicates a concentration of top venture capitalists at elite firms that have been in the venture industry for years.

Jim Breyer, the early Facebook investor who is leaving the company's board , has dumped roughly $38 million worth of Facebook stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing published Monday .

The 17th annual Stanford-Accel Symposium hit Stanford University this Tuesday, inspiring entrepreneurs from all over Bay Area into elation about technology trends.

For a man who's announced his departure from three multi-billion dollar companies in the last week, Jim Breyer looks and sounds relaxed.

Accel Partners has added longtime tech exec Rob Solomon - who was most recently president and CEO of Groupon - as a venture partner.

Computing company Dell just announced that Jim Breyer, a partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners and a member of Dell's board of directors, won't be returning to its board after the next meeting of shareholders this summer.

The split is amicable, with Breyer, who has served on the board since 2005, leaving to devote more time to his duties on the Harvard University Corporation Board, to which he was recently elected.

Facebook says that venture capitalist Jim Breyer won't seek re-election to its board of directors.

Jim Breyer, the venture capitalist whose firm Accel Partners made an early bet on Facebook , is stepping down from Facebook's board, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday.

Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, an early Facebook investors, plans to leave the company's board of directors in June, according to a regulatory filing .