Accel Partners News

With the IPO of the century turning out to be the public relations disaster of the decade, it's worth considering whether Facebook's venture capitalist board members made the right decision staying put through the offering.

Only dozen or so really big names have led the venture capital industry consistently over the past decade.

Everyone in Silicon Valley wants to know what's coming next, and every year for the past 13 years, a panel of the most forward-thinking minds in technology and tech finance convenes here to provide a look at what innovations are likely to emerge in the next few years.

Six years before a Facebook IPO could value the company at $100 billion, venture capitalist Kevin Efrusy was publicly defending against naysayers who doubted the social-networking site was worth $2 billion.

An investor holds a prospectus as he enters Crowne Plaza Hotel for of Facebook's Initial Public Offering roadshow event May 11, 2012 in Palo Alto.

With Facebook set to enter the public markets tomorrow-it just priced its IPO at $38 per share-we took a trip through the VentureWire archives to check out some of the stories about the company dating back to its earliest days.

Facebook Inc. raised $16 billion in the biggest initial public offering by a technology company in history, pricing the shares at the top end of an increased range.

San Francisco-based ModCloth has raised $25 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners .

Qualtrics, the company that makes sophisticated research simple, today announced it has partnered with Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the two firms' largest-ever joint investment.

Facebook 's earliest venture-capital backers, especially at once-downtrodden outfit Accel Partners, will have reason to celebrate come Friday when the world's biggest social network is set to debut on the Nasdaq at as much as a $100 billion valuation.