Sentences with phrase «capital as a backer»

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Other investors in the round include past backers Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Stanford as well as new investor Hostplus, another Australian superannuation fund.

Junior creditors led by Appaloosa Management remain the biggest hold - outs in the CEOC bankruptcy, and have said they have as much as $ 12 billion in claims against Caesars Entertainment and its private equity backers, Apollo Global Management LLC and TPG Capital LP.

While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.

Winklevoss Capital is being sued, Page Six has exclusively learned, for allegedly backing out of a deal to buy stock from an investor in Silicon Valley marijuana delivery app Eaze — dubbed the «Uber for weed» with backers such as pot - loving rapper Snoop Dogg.

The investment round also involved Alium Capital, which was also revealed today as a backer for Nitro's $ US15 million series C, with Go Capital, Carsales.com.au founder Greg Roebuck and the founders of e-commerce outfit Lux Group chipping in.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

Its Silicon Valley venture capital backers saw it as a game - changer for real estate, and envisioned themselves picking off $ 250 million a year out of a potential $ 25 billion market: insurance policies that would protect the nation's homeowners from one of their deepest fears — further losses in their equity.

It includes participation from existing backers Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greenoaks Capital, while Hero Enterprise, an ambitious fund attached to motorbike and scooter maker Hero MotoCorp, joined as a new investor.

Some of the biggest developers in New York are funded by capital from the wealthy Gulf states — United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — but these backers, unlike those from countries such as Canada and Norway, prefer staying behind the curtain.

The hefty valuations were cause for celebration for Twitter insiders and venture capital backers, such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Benchmark Ccapital backers, such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Benchmark CCapital and Benchmark CapitalCapital.

But in the Senate, where the Republican Senators are in the majority, the bill has faltered — despite the vocal and visible advocacy of backers such as Dolan, who has visited the state capital to press for its passage.

(CNN)-- Former President Bill Clinton, a stalwart backer of President Barack Obama who's already helped the incumbent Democrat raise funds for his re-election bid, said Thursday that Mitt Romney had a «sterling business career» as chief executive of Bain Capital.

The Board consists of the former Director General of MI5, Lord Evans of Weardale (as mentioned by Artificial Lawyer, last year), alongside Jack Stockdale, Chief Technology Officer, and Dave Palmer, Director of Technology, at cyber security company Darktrace (which is also part - owned by key Luminance backer Mike Lynch and his Invoke Capital fund.)

The latest round was led by OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a large Canadian pension - fund manager, and included August Capital as well as previous backers Khosla Ventures, Union Square and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Coinbase, whose backers include venture - capital firms Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, could seek a license from the SEC as an exchange, but registering as a broker - dealer is viewed as a less cumbersome step that would allow the company to move into markets the SEC regulates.

Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.

Before this investment round, Kraken had raised $ 6.5 million from backers such as Hummingbird Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Digital Currency Group.

As one of the backers behind San Francisco's cryptocurrency hedge fund, MetaStable Capital, Ravikant has a hand in many different cryptocurrency projects.

Angel investors from venture capital firms, Qualcomm Ventures and Techstars, as well as industry leaders in the technology security space, including Cockroach Labs, Ionic Security, and Pindrop Security, are among the early backers.

They have assembled a strong team and have some notable backers such as Vitalik Buterin, Bo Shen (Managing Partner at Fenbushi Capital) and David Lee (angel investor and FinTech Professor at Singapore Management University).

«As a publicly traded company, Invitation Homes and its Wall Street backers have access to capital that most individual buyers could never dream of,» Dawson says.