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Mark Richards is a General Partner at Accede. Prior to Accede, Mark was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners. Mark is a serial entrepreneur with over 18 years experience in venture-backed software and communications start-ups. He was founder and CEO of London, England based DBMX, a developer of distributed database management software, acquired by IBM in 1997. In 1998 Mark was co-founder and angel investor in Austin , Texas based PointOne Telecommunications. PointOne subsequently raised the largest ever venture round in Texas of over US$155 million to deploy the industry's 1st carrier-grade, nationwide VoIP network. In 2001, Mark co-founded and was CEO of Austin, Texas based Metreos Communications, a venture-backed start-up developing leading edge, standards-based, application and media servers that enable Fortune 500 enterprises to deploy truly converged communications services. Metreos was acquired by Cisco Systems for US$28 million in July 200Mark's previous investments have focused on the networking and communications industries. He has served on a number of Boards including Engana (acquired by NASDAQ:OPTM) , ThreatMetrix, Sensory Networks, Xelor Software, and Thinkwell Corp. Mark holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Kingston University England. | 