Sentences with phrase «high tech investors»

He is also the general managing partner of G2T3V and Chicago High Tech Investors, both early - stage venture funds; a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT Innovation Council; and Governor Bruce Rauner's Innovate Illinois Advisory Council.

Not exact matches

In light of the stock market's recent decline, investors seem increasingly to be giving the tech sector the cold shoulder, with stunning drops in value of once high - flying stocks, among them the micro-blogging site Twitter, whose stock is down more than 50 percent compared to September of 2014.

Price blazed a trail among the khaki - and - fleece - clad Valley tech titans and investor types with his «high - low» style — your finest Oxford shirt and jacket and sleekest shoes, finished off with some good old - fashioned blue jeans.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Bayern Kapital and High - Tech Gruenderfonds.

While investors have been focused on large - cap tech and the surge in commodities, small - cap stocks have quietly come within a stone's throw of the recent all - time highs.

Big investors are losing patience with IBM chief Ginni Rometty, who remains one of the highest - paid CEOs in not just the tech industry, but among all S&P 500 companies, despite IBM's relatively poor performance under her lead.

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

Stocks fell on Monday as tech shares declined, while investors fretted over higher interest rates.

Markets may have soared higher, but were dragged down by losses in the tech sector — an industry that has come under criticism by Trump during his campaign — as investors worried the president - elect's policies may lower profits for Silicon Valley.

While that's a modest return for a high - flying tech stock, at a certain point, Twitter would hit a wall trying to satisfy investors and contain its costs.

Rigontec had raised approximately $ 34 million in venture funding from investors including Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Forbion Capital Partners, High - Tech Gründerfonds, MP Healthcare Venture Management, NRW.BANK, Sunstone Capital and Wellington Partners Life Sciences.

That's right, one of the world's most successful investors wants nothing to do with tech startups in the area with the highest density of high - tech startups in America.

Undeterred, Open Innovations aims to put all the right pieces — big traditional industry, high tech startups, government ministers, foreign and domestic investors, global media — all in the same room in an effort to alter these larger realities.

It's hardly even a surprise anymore when a company advertises women as one of its office «perks,» or a high - profile tech conference kicks off with a joke about a a new app for staring at breasts, or a male tech investor declares he wants to change the way women smell through biohacking.

In other words, investors know what they're getting from this company, which can't be said for a high - flying tech stock like Facebook.

It's not lost on him that potential investors would also have an interest in a Web site that attracts teenage boys, particularly those with a high - tech or entrepreneurial bent.

Both companies are operating at a loss, and it's likely that investors are losing patience with promising tech companies that don't turn a profit, according to Mark McComsey, chief investment officer of Beverly Hills Wealth Management, a financial advisory firm catering to high net worth people and entrepreneurs, based in Los Angeles.

While some high - profile CEOs like Amazon's Jeff Bezos have eschewed investor calls, many tech CEOs, including Zuckerberg, carry the mantle of explaining their business to the world.

High - tech manufacturing continues to enjoy the advantages it always had: easy access to a large share of the world's best and brightest, deep - pocketed and risk - friendly investors, and state of the art research and development institutions.

uBeam, a high - profile startup backed by some of Silicon Valley's most prominent investors, has become a tech - industry sensation because of the wireless charging technology it claims to have in its labs.

«Some pump and dumps use false news reports, typically about a famous high - tech business leader or investor who plans to pour millions of dollars into a small, lesser known virtual currency or coin.

Neither the high - tech start - ups nor their Chinese investors have been accused of wrongdoing, and experts said much of the activity could be innocent.

Despite loud opposition from tech firms to many of Trump's policies, investors have hoisted many tech stocks to all - time highs since the election.

Rigontec is supported by a consortium of experienced life science investors including Wellington Partners, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, NRW.BANK, High - Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Forbion Capital Partners, Sunstone Capital and MP Healthcare Venture Management.

Companies like Facebook and Zynga — and Pandora — have seen ballooning valuations as investors have rushed to snatch up as many shares as possible ahead of what could be some of the most high - profile tech IPOs to date.

Founded in 2014 by 25 leading Israeli investors and high - tech entrepreneurs, our global network currently comprises 150 multinational corporations and investors, together with over 8,500 startups.

Allegations of sexual harassment multiplied, sweeping through Silicon Valley like a powerful storm that in a few short weeks has cost multiple high - level tech investors and CEOs their jobs, and shaken the industry to its core.

The least successful of investors will usually arrive late to a party and then overstay their welcome - akin to those that chased tech / Internet stocks at their highs in the late 90s and failed to understand the looming devastation at their doorstep.

Top investors include LocalGlobe in the UK, High - Tech Grunderfonds in Germany, and SEED Capital in Denmark.

This tech play debuted with a healthy pop — here's how to play the stock Shares in German health - care technology juggernaut Siemens Healthineers may be driven by one key product's performanceWhile shares in Siemens Healthineers have danced higher so far since debuting last month, investors might not want to bet that big gains will continue for the medical - technology stock.

The latter initiative is perhaps the most important, as technological innovation is so central to the country's goal to transition from low - end, labour - intensive manufacturing to a high - tech, productivity - led, consumption - based economy — and such a rich source of opportunities for investors.

People who closely follow corporate governance, high - tech IPOs, or Google and its parent, Alphabet, are likely familiar with that company's unusual voting setup: Investors have little to no voice.

One pitfall some tech investors fall into is focusing on stocks that they can buy low and sell high for a big return.

With strong Disclaimers and with an obviously biased view, I am doing my best to help create investor wealth for client companies we now consult for, e.g. International High Tech Industries [IHITF]

Michael Mark § Michael Mark is a private investor and member of Walnut Venture Associates, an investment group seeking opportunities in early - stage and emerging high - tech companies in New England.

That doesn't mean that high - yielders can't be found among the tech giants, and investors may be doing themselves a disservice by bypassing the potential for significant growth while they receive their regular dividend payments.

In this privately printed income blueprint, I show you why high - tech income pools like these are giving investors a real alternative to the low - yield bonds and sputtering REITs that many people have looked to in the past.

He has driven to completion complex M&A, IP licensing and joint venture transactions on both sides of the Atlantic, and helped non-US high - tech start - up clients move their center of gravity to Silicon Valley, helping to negotiate with and understand investors and other strategic American partners.

Presented by HIMSS, the Venture + Forum half - day program and semi-final pitch competition provides a high - energy, 360 - degree view on health tech investing and features exciting 3 - minute pitch presentations from early and growth - stage companies, investor panels and a networking reception.Casper de Clercq will be a judge.

CCI's submission to the Department of Finance was prepared with the feedback from over 90 high - growth tech CEOs as well as Canadian venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors.

Increasingly, as investors become more international, the phrase «the market» could mean stock market activity anywhere from the high - tech heavy NASDAQ index in the United States to the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan.

Founded by angel and venture investor Russ Shaw, Tech London Advocates (TLA) is an advocacy group that aims to support technology start - ups in finding new investment, new talent and achieving high growth.

Regardless of how revolutionary blockchain technology is, tech people and investor's highest priority is to actually make profits from the distributed ledger, either by building businesses on top of the platform like ICOs or investing in various coins and making profits from trading and exchanges.

As the club prepares for its season opener against AFC Cleveland at 7:30 p.m. May 15 at Cass Tech High School, ownership remains in talks with investors, said team co-owner Sean Mann.

The entrepreneurs, peddling everything from high - tech breast pumps to «smart» diapers, were hoping to score perhaps something more valuable than an investor check: a coveted spot on the website and store shelf of the country's second - largest discount retailer.

Ghana currently has a prototype nuclear power plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool project.

«NexGen is led by a management team and investors with a proven record and decades of combined experience building and operating high - tech businesses,» Empire State Development President, CEO and Commissioner Howard Zemsky said in a statement.

«NexGen is led by a management team and investors with a proven record and decades of combined experience building and operating high - tech businesses,» Zemsky said.

When asked, years ago, why he held a large stake in a boring company such as Gillette, at a time when high - tech companies such as Amazon and AOL were all the rage, legendary investor Warren Buffett replied, in essence, that when you control one - third of the market for a product that half of the world's population uses every day, you're in pretty good shape, businesswise.

So whereas gaining money is important, gaining an investor with specific expertise, for example the marketing of high - tech products, is equally valuable, notes Smith.