Sentences with phrase «floodgate fund»
Floodgate Fund founder Mike Maples recently discussed five elements his VC fund seeks out when determining which startups to back.
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Weebly had raised approximately $ 35.7 million in venture funding from investors including Sequoia Capital, Tencent Holdings, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate, and SV Angel.
• Floodgate, a Palo Alto, Calif. - based early - stage venture capital firm, raised $ 131 for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing.
Upthere had previously raised $ 77 million in venture funding from investors including KPCB, Western Digital Ventures, Floodgate, Elevation Partners, GV, NTT Docomo Ventures and Square 1 Bank.
Floodgate partner Mike Maples says Miura - Ko has made at least one investment in each of Floodgate's funds that could potentially return the entire fund.
According to Crunchbase, the company raised $ 35.7 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Tencent Holdings, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate, Felicis, Ron Conway and Y Combinator.
On a conference call Thursday hosted by AdvisorShares, he said he doesn't expect a «huge switch» right after the ETF lists in March, but if it tracks PIMCO Total Return Fund well at the end of the year, «then the floodgates will open.»
There was no problem with separation of church and state when GWB opened the floodgate for federal funding of faith based NPs.
Last year, Governor Ambode devoted his birthday to raising funds towards the fight against cancer, a move the CECP said, went a long way to opening the floodgates of support to the cause.
The company has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE and GSV Capital and is based in Santa Clara, California.
andrew adams: As to funding, my point is that after climatologists started ringing alarm bells about global warming, the money floodgates opened and climatology went from being a slimly funded backwater of science to the most lavishly funded field in science.
Financial terms of the deal are unknown, but TaskRabbit has previously raised $ 38 million from investors like Founders Fund, First Round, Floodgate and others.
The company is backed by an undisclosed amount («larger than seed,» says Breslow), from a number of investors including founders of PayPal, Intuit, Splunk, StubHub, and Oculus, along with Stanford's StartX fund, their Stanford computer science professor Jay Borenstein, Streamlined Ventures, Floodgate (Mike Maples), Great Oaks VC, Trevor Traina, Brainchild Holdings, and others.
One of the biggest challenges still to be met on the investment front is gaining the government's approval for a bitcoin exchange - traded fund (ETF), which many observers believe will unleash a floodgate of investment capital.