New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also famously took offense at the controversial exhibition, calling it «sick stuff,» and even tried to withhold
city funding from the museum until it shut down the show.
The council voted eight to one to strip $ 1.5 million in
city funding from the organization.
At City Hall on Monday, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan presented a proposed 2018 budget that once again hinges on $ 12.5 million in Capital
City funding from the state.
The fallout of a problem - plagued presidential primary last week continued today with an offer of $ 20 million in extra
city funding from Mayor Bill de Blasio — but only if the board cleans up its act.
Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder says he's prepared to pull
city funds from banks that allow properties to linger in the foreclosure process, sometimes devastating neighborhoods when these properties languish and decay.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused Green in 2013 of stealing
city funds from the Harlem charity that were supposed to be used on after - school programs.
Not exact matches
The youngest successful founders were those who had received
funding from New York
City - based venture capital firms, although even then their average age was 38.7 — old enough to have been Mark Zuckerberg's parent when he started Facebook
from his dorm room at 19.
The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the
city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in
funding for high - tech small and medium businesses
from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.
St. Louis is, however, the
city where I have access to winners,
funders, and judges
from startup competitions.
Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in
funding from investors such as New York
City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.
The sophisticated
fund - raising experts at Share Systems Inc., ensconced in Boston - area offices a mile
from Harvard University, may not have much in common with the operators of the die - casting machines at Pace Industries» Cast - Tech Division, in rural Monroe
City, Mo..
One would - be buyer, a private equity firm
from New York
City, said it lacked the
funds to buy the company.
While representing the vast majority of its metro region, Calgary Economic Development also benefits
from diversified
funding from the
city, private industry and other levels of government.
Earlier this fall, St. Louis differentiated itself
from the other midwestern
cities jockeying to become the next hot startup hub by forming the Spirit of St. Louis
fund, a $ 5 million seed - stage
fund designed to help get startups through the valley of death — or the period between very early money and a Series A round.
Trump made numerous anti-immigration promises during his campaign, ranging
from building a massive wall across the U.S.'s southwestern border to ending federal
funding for «sanctuary
cities» that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.
In November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of
funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York
City.
Uber is already available in 42
cities,
from New York to Taipei, and isn't slowing down, despite noise
from regulators: A new round of $ 258 million in
funding values it at $ 3.4 billion (see Uber feature story).
The
city has received a total of more than $ 1.3 billion
from the E-rate
fund since 1998.
(Also included: another Oscar Mayer factory in Davenport, Iowa, although Kraft Heinz announced it would build a newer one nearby —
funded in part by a lucrative $ 15 million incentive package
from the State of Iowa and the
city of Davenport.
A report
from the Kansas
City, Mo. - based entrepreneurship organization The Kauffman Foundation released two years ago called «We Have Met The Enemy... And He Is Us,» slammed the VC market for being dysfunctional and suggested that Kauffman would itself invest in smaller VC
funds going forward.
The real estate investment trust, based in Jersey
City, New Jersey, said it had
funds from operations of $ 50.7 million, or 50 cents per share, in the period.
The $ 6 million will be a mix of public and private
funding, which will come
from both the
City and a partner that will be tasked with determining how to operate and manage the center.
WeWork recently raised $ 4.4 billion in
funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision
Fund and is now considered the most valuable startup in New York
City.
Parcel raised approximately $ 2 million in venture
funding from investors including Galvanize Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Liberty
City Ventures, and Interplay Ventures.
• Bowery, a New York
City - based farming startup, raised $ 20 million in Series A
funding co-led by General Catalyst and GGV Capital with additional investment
from GV.
Those are some of the findings
from the latest research conducted by the Female Founders
Fund, an early - stage, New York City - based fund that invests only in women entreprene
Fund, an early - stage, New York
City - based
fund that invests only in women entreprene
fund that invests only in women entrepreneurs.
Katz and the
city took three years to decide on a basic
funding framework for the $ 450 - million arena complex: $ 100 million
from the Katz Group, $ 125 million
from a ticket levy, and $ 125 million
from the
city.
Infrastructure spending could come, just as it did by the efforts of Van Rysselberge in Oklahoma
City,
from passing local sales taxes to
fund those programs.
The plan will span 10 years and cost $ 81 million, which the
city hopes to
fund through a combination of public
funds and donations
from private entities.
In many mid-sized
cities the «not for profit» NPR affiliate is the glitziest radio / TV studio in town, with the highest salaries — all subsidized with government
funds expropriated
from the people.
The Trump administration has invoked the shooting in its effort, unsuccessful so far, to strip federal
funds from cities and states that refuse to take part in immigration enforcement.
Tight bank secrecy laws have helped draw $ 1.1 trillion in foreign
funds to the
city, according to an estimate
from Boston Consulting Group, a consulting firm.
Funds for the $ 200,000 program will come
from the
city's Finance Department budget, Dunn said.
Techrockies ran a brief article on Infrascale's
funding from Carrick Capital partners and acquisition «Salt Lake
City - based Eversync, which developed cloud - based...
New York
City saw a total of 25 seed deals completed in Q1 - just shy of last quarter's 26 - and a total of $ 39.2 million in
funding, which was down 26 %
from Q4.
The
funds have come
from a variety of sources including FEMA, state,
city and insurance.
We love that you're looking for
cities that have robust public transit infrastructure — but we know that an influx of 50,000 new people will strain our existing service, and building new transit to serve Amazon could divert
funds from the rest of us.
1) Diversify into heartland / flyover states and away
from coastal
city real estate 2) Conviction is HIGHER now that the new tax plan has passed with the $ 10K SALT cap and $ 750K mortgage cap 3) Invest in the
fund with 12 — 16 deals, b / c they are picking the best deals on their platform and have a high incentive not to mess things up if they want to raise new
funds 4) Learn
from the investments of the
fund and eventually invest in specific deals w / real capital (1 - 2 years away)
Venture
funding for tech companies in New York
City increased by 240 %
from 2003 to 2013, and more than 85 % of the sector's current companies and 86 % of its current jobs were created during this time.
While the LRT is a
City of Edmonton project, it will be
funded by all three levels of government so they need to hear
from us.
The Trump administration has invoked Garcia Zarate and the slaying in its effort, unsuccessful so far, to strip federal
funds from cities and states that refuse to take part in immigration enforcement.
The financial whizzes cocooned in the serene offices of the Sequoia
Fund atop one of New York's iconic office buildings seem far removed
from the noise of the
city far below.
The news comes just weeks after the country's Hangzhou government backed the launch of the Xiong «An Global Blockchain Innovation
Fund, which has $ 1.6 billion to invest in innovative startups - 30 percent of which will come
from the
city.
London was high on Caisse's priority
cities for investment, but the
fund turned cautious after Prime Minister May lost her parliamentary majority in her snap election gamble in June, weakening her ability to negotiate the U.K.'s exit
from the EU.
According to a report
from Sohu, while the
fund has been launched by Hangzhou - based venture capital firm Tunlan Investment, it will see over $ 400 million coming
from the Hangzhou
city government as a guided
fund that will be used to invest in promising blockchain projects.
A broad range of investors,
from George Soros and Chinese property group Dalian Wanda to
fund managers TIAA Henderson are targeting the
city.
If against all odds you really are the next Warren Buffett, you'd be better off making millions managing a
fund in New York, in The
City of London, or
from an office in Omaha than merely making a few extra thousand by trading your retirement portfolio.
Big - name public pension
funds from California to New York
City have said they are bailing out completely.
The company has partnered with WedMeGood, a wedding planning portal that raised Rs 2.7 crore in seed
funding from Indian Angel Network (IAN) last year, to introduce the service in
cities such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Ludhiana, New Delhi, Pune, Udaipur and Lucknow.
Katz also saw a stagnant downtown and promised the Arena District as a carrot to both
fund his new rink and get the Edmonton
City Council drooling over pictures of shiny new buildings mere metres away
from their offices in
City Hall.