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When the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, venture capitalists were toasting good riddance not just to 2009 but to an entire decade in which their industry as a whole lost money for its investors.

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Seeking Alpha , an online financial information and analysis business, raised $7 million in a second round of funding, according to reports Wednesday.

For our last discussion at the RealTime CrunchUp, we've got a panel on actually generating revenue from these services.

Accel Partners will share in a $1.15 billion payout after two of its portfolio companies agreed to be acquired Monday by Google and Electronic Arts.

Today: Nationwide, housing prices are stabilizing, Realtors say. Gamers line up for "Call of Duty" launch.

Champagne should be popping at Accel's office. Today the Palo Alto-based technology investment firm saw two portfolio companies exit big -- Playfish for ~$400 million and AdMob for $750 million .

Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is-but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion.

In September, defense contractor Raytheon announced an agreement to purchase R&D innovator BBN Technologies, but didn't say for how much.

Silicon Valley-based growth capital firm Accel Partners has poached Neeraj Bharadwaj from rival firm Apax Partners to build its investment momentum in India.

Accel Partners, a leading global venture capital and growth equity firm operating in Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel, China and India, today announced that Neeraj Bharadwaj has joined the firm as a Managing Director to help build its growth equity investing initiative in India.

For more TechCrunch Analysis, check out the Q3 09 Trends Report here , or buy it now Which venture capitalists had the most exits last quarter? A peek at Crunchbase data shows that Accel Partners , Benchmark Capital , Foundation Capital and New Enterprise Asosciates all recorded at least three exits by acquisition in Q3 2009.

LONDON -- XConnect, the global leader in neutral and secure next-generation interconnection and ENUM-registry services, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series B funding.

About two dozen companies building applications on Facebook went fishing for cash from Silicon Valley investors on Tuesday.

Each weekday evening this summer, Duncan Winter left his day job at oDesk Corp. in Menlo Park and headed to Facebook's offices in Palo Alto, where he would log in more hours on his startup, Workstir Inc.

Amid all the gloom and doom recently for Silicon Valley investors, one investor stands out for having had a massive last 24 hours: Jim Breyer, of Accel Partners .

Investor Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is having a very good day. In the past 24 hours, two companies where he is an investor and board member have been acquired for big bucks: Marvel Entertainment, which was bought yesterday by Disney for $4 billion , and BBN Technologies , which was bought this morning by defense contractor Raytheon for an ...

Home solar-power provider SunRun Inc. said late Monday it closed a second round of funding with $18 million.

Aptana, Inc., a leading provider of open source tools and services for Web application development and management, today announced the completion of a round of financing led by Rembrandt Venture Partners and includes initial investor Accel Partners.

Aptana Inc. , a provider of open source tools and services for Web application development and management, said Tuesday it raised $7.8 million in new funding.