Sentences with phrase «in a venture funding round»

December 2010: In a venture funding round, Zipcar raises $ 21 million from Meritech Capital Partners and Pinnacle Ventures.

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Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the company at $ 115 million, including the new funds raised, according to data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.

Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particventure capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particVenture Partners also participated.

They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just received close to $ 1 million in a round of financing led by Toronto - based venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

It has raised $ 4.4 billion in venture funding, including a round in March that valued the company at $ 31 billion.

The potential global market helped Vollmar, CEO, and Koch, CTO, raise $ 15 million in venture capital, including a $ 10 million Series B round funded last winter.

In August, Casper raised $ 13.1 million in a Series A round of funding from Kevin Colleran, Slow Ventures, Vaizra Investments, Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cendana Capital, Silas Capital, Consigliere Brand Capital, SV Angel, A-Grade Investments, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and New Enterprise AssociateIn August, Casper raised $ 13.1 million in a Series A round of funding from Kevin Colleran, Slow Ventures, Vaizra Investments, Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cendana Capital, Silas Capital, Consigliere Brand Capital, SV Angel, A-Grade Investments, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and New Enterprise Associatein a Series A round of funding from Kevin Colleran, Slow Ventures, Vaizra Investments, Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Cendana Capital, Silas Capital, Consigliere Brand Capital, SV Angel, A-Grade Investments, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates.

For example, Palo Alto, California - based Cape Analytics, which raised $ 14 million in its first round of venture funding in November, applies computer vision and machine learning to automate property underwriting for insurance companies.

At Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

The venture - backed startup has raised a bit less than $ 3 million in two funding rounds.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

Contently raised $ 9 million this week in its second round of venture capital funding.

That same year, Murphy and Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel inked their first deal with outside investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners invested $ 485,000 in a seed round, then participated in follow on funding rounds.

DST Global, a company that was early investors in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other high profile venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.

In November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York CitIn November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York Citin New York City.

Additionally, JetBlue Technology Ventures is investing alongside GGV and other venture firms in a $ 36 million series C round of funding for Gladly, bringing the company's total capital raised to $ 63 million.

3D printing startup Carbon3D has raised $ 100 million in a funding round led by Google's venture capital arm.

Ka - shing invested in Hampton Creek, along with other investors, for the company's latest round of venture funding, which totaled $ 23 million.

Joining Google Ventures in the new funding round are Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner along with Reinet Investments S.C.A. Previous investors Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Kraftwerk, and Northgate Capital also participated in the investment.

In April, VideoSurf raised $ 16 million in a round of funding led by Israel's Pitango Venture CapitaIn April, VideoSurf raised $ 16 million in a round of funding led by Israel's Pitango Venture Capitain a round of funding led by Israel's Pitango Venture Capital.

The startup went on to raise a total of $ 13.6 million from venture capital firms in two rounds of funding to support it growth.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

Venture firm G Squared and Asian financial technology company Capital Nine also participated in the funding round.

Farmer's Business Network has raised $ 110 million in a new venture funding round led by T. Rowe Price and Temasek.

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaunventure capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and ShaunVenture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

Flay joins other A-listers who have already put their dollars behind Daily Harvest: Oscar winning - actress Gwyneth Paltrow and 23 time Grand Slam champion star Serena Williams participated in the firm's Series A round of financing alongside WME Venture, Collaborative Fund, 14W, and Rubicon Venture Global announced June.

The seed round of a few million dollars — in which venture fund Polaris also participated — will go toward getting the technology prepped for human trials, which 30 - year - old CEO Carl Schoellhammer anticipates will happen within the next 12 months.

Co-founder and executive chairman Hoffman, who is also a partner at Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that led a $ 10 million funding round in LinkedIn in 2004, started the company in 2002 in his living room.

Online building supply marketplace BuildDirect has pulled off the venture capital equivalent of Irish twins, staging two large funding rounds in the same calendar year.

It's raised a total of $ 238.4 million in venture capital, and its last funding round was in December 2016.

Innoventures, a $ 200 million fintech, or financial technology, venture capital fund set up by Santander, was one of a number of investors to participate in Ripple's first round of funding in 2015.

Software startup Slack Technologies is raising $ 250 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, boosting the company's valuation as Silicon Valley companies enjoy a surge in venture capital investments.

Part of Locationary's $ 2.5 million in funding was acquired in 2011 during a venture capital round.

But they came to the U.S. in 2008 to raise their first round of venture funding.

Giphy, which was created in 2013 as part of the New York - based venture fund / incubator Betaworks, got this valuation by raising a Series D funding round of $ 75 million from a series of venture capital investors.

In recent times, several investors have warned of impending unicorn deaths, and a tracker for down rounds — when a company's valuation falls when it raises new funding — has appeared online, courtesy of venture capital data company CB Insights.

Among the company's investors for the latest funding round are New Enterprise Associates, Alphabet's (goog) venture capital arm GV (formerly Google Ventures), GE Ventures (ge), Future Fund, and Techtronic Industries, an investment holding company specializing in manufacturing, power tools, and related equipment.

She also says funding isn't a problem, at least in the near term; the company raised $ 13.4 million in a round of financing in 2007 — the Australian government chipped in, along with three venture capital firms.

Since its first round of financing in January 2009, the company has raised $ 142 million in venture funding, completing its most recent round for $ 85 million, in February.

New Matter had raised approximately $ 6.5 million in venture funding from investors including Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, and Alsop Louie Partners.

Instead, structure the investment as convertible debt: a loan that gets swapped for equity in the next big round of financing, says David Cohen, a venture capital investor and CEO of TechStars, a Boulder, Colorado - based angel fund.

With a biotech startup, it may seem the potential is all in the science, but investor Amy Schulman, a venture capital partner at Polaris Partners, which led SQZ's $ 5 million funding round, says the main reason she decided to put money in SQZ is because of Sharei, even though he's young and had never started a company before.

Didi recently closed a $ 3 billion round of venture capital funding, and it's valued at $ 15 billion, so it's well - equipped financially — in total, Didi Kuaidi has amassed a $ 4 billion war chest of venture capital funding.

Haven was born in 2014 after receiving venture capital funds from the likes of Spark, AITV, DataCollective, First Round and OATV.

Zephrin Lasker is CEO of lead - generation marketplace Pontiflex, which raised a $ 6.25 million venture capital funding round in April.

HeyLets is venture - capital backed, based in San Francisco, and is currently raising its next round of funding.

The platform is currently self - funded with three partners, but it is in the middle of its seed round, gaining some private investors and talking to some venture capital firms, Edery revealed.