Insider Baseball/Real Estate
“Accel Partners, a venture-capital firm, has hired a new investing partner from rival Sequoia Capital. Sequoia partner Sameer Ghandi, 42 years old, is joining Accel to beef up its Internet and software practice, said Accel partner Theresia Gouw Ranzetta. During his 10 years at Sequoia Mr. Ghandi made many high-profile investments as Sequoia aggressively went after hot Internet start-ups. A Sequoia spokesman didn’t respond to requests for comment.”
That’s interesting in my neck of the woods as Gouw Ranzetta lead Trulia’s series A round, and Ghandi lead the company’s series B round. I’m sure the move will make for some scintilating ice-breaker chat at upcoming Trulia board meetings for whomever the new Sequoia partner to join Trulia’s board is.
