Sentences with phrase «innovations venture investment»

Not exact matches

Opportunities for companies like Lunar have been increased by a fertile investment niche opened by a mismatch between the high degree of entrepreneurial innovation in today's economy and the changed demands of venture capital.

Two other advances in hardware are set to open up innovations in enterprise and scientific computing in ways that venture capitalists are currently eyeing as a potential investment opportunity.

To account for external innovation, too, a company's portfolio of startup acquisitions is assessed for similarity with best - performing venture capital funds and share of tech areas with the strongest investment growth.

Private companies now have an unprecedented ability to raise late - stage venture and other private capital to finance their innovation and investment, often on equal or better terms than in the public markets and with less hassle.

Prior to joining Techstars, Jenny headed up corporate venture and digital innovation at BBC Worldwide where she made strategic investments and led business development deals.

The fund will leverage the investment pipeline and expertise at MaRS, Canada's largest innovation hub, to find promising ventures and help them grow.

As the voice of the venture capital community, the NVCA advocates policies that encourage innovation, spur job creation and reward long - term investment in startup companies.

Paul Bloom, who was an executive at IBM for 16 years, including chief technology officer for telecom research before leaving in 2013, is among the optimists who argue that venture capital and other alternative channels of R&D investment will take up some of the slack, supporting innovation and economic growth.

Through its investment in top tier venture firms that are active in Michigan, as well as its own co-investments in emerging Michigan companies, the Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is helping to drive forward both innovation and growth of emerging companies in the venture firms that are active in Michigan, as well as its own co-investments in emerging Michigan companies, the Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is helping to drive forward both innovation and growth of emerging companies in the Venture Capital Fund is helping to drive forward both innovation and growth of emerging companies in the region.

Engage is changing corporate innovation and venture capital by introducing an independent, and pooled venture investment model for corporations.

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According to the report: «Much of the AI innovation [is] happening at the university level, and the graduating students joining cloud AI providers such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft (with lofty salaries) or launching their own startups to take advantage of the feeding frenzy of investments from the venture capital community.»

She covers fields including venture investments, entrepreneurship and innovations in China and dedicates to delivering the Chinese message to the West.

Focused on directing private capital into projects and ventures whose aims are to deliver measurable social outcomes, impact investment (or social finance) has the potential to foster innovation in the social sector.

Said Williams, «I am honoured to be appointed to my new position at Alberta Enterprise by the Board and look forward to continuing to foster the growth of a local venture capital community and their investments into innovation and technology in the province of Alberta, creating jobs and contributing to diversifying Alberta's economy.»

Before joining the UC system, Bachher was an executive vice president of venture and innovation for one of Canada's largest and most diversified investment fund managers.

«Just as the formation of the venture capital industry ushered a new approach and mindset toward funding innovation within the private sector, impact investment has started to bring opportunities to harness entrepreneurship and capital markets to drive social improvement.»

California is home to the transformative innovation of Silicon Valley, home to more than 100 universities and colleges, more than a quarter of U.S. venture capital investment and six of the top 10 patent - producing U.S. cities.

In May 2017 it was announced Parkes would be stepping into the role of chief innovation officer at Fashion Tech Lab, Miroslava Duma's new hybrid venture that is part investment fund, accelerator and laboratory.

He made the point that taxpayer money is needed to stimulate work in what others call the «valley of death» along the path from idea to innovation to revolution — the areas where private investment and venture capital will not venture:

[In 2011, Will] made the point that taxpayer money is needed to stimulate work in what others call the «valley of death» along the path from idea to innovation to revolution — the areas where private investment and venture capital will not venture:

Bill Gate's best investment of his innovation fund would be to set up benchmark prizes which would in practice act like matching grants for inventors to raise venture capital with the prize as the investor pitch for the early return on their investment.

With a new investment from Khosla Impact, SunFunder is not only joining the fray, it's planting a flag for perhaps the most important financial innovation to date: venture debt.

Over the past few years, venture capital investment in agriculture and food businesses (collectively referred to as «Agtech») has soared (see chart below), startup incubators dedicated to Agtech launched, and even the USDA has gotten into the Agtech game by creating a fund to support Agtech innovation.

As Murray explains, the future success of Canada's cleantech industry requires further incentives to increase the amount of private investment capital being ventured into cleantech innovations, as well as an ability for innovators to access patent filing options and funding supports associated with acquiring their IP rights.

It is frequently at the forefront of deal innovation in Africa, helping pioneer an energy platform investment structure for its private equity clients (it advised Actis, for instance, on a $ 1.9 bn pan-African renewable energy generation platform joint venture).

Dentons» innovation arm Nextlaw Labs has invested in legal transaction management software platform Doxly, in a $ 2.25 m Series Seed funding round that includes investment from Hyde Park Venture Partners and startup studio High Alpha Capital.

The model for creating new growth that we see in successful innovation hubs everywhere involves two sides: the entrepreneurial side, responsible for managing the discovery, validation and development of new businesses, and the venture side, responsible for managing a portfolio of these businesses with the use of investment theses and funding decisions in order to shape and ultimately capture new value.

Pecunio's products and services cover the whole lifecycle of blockchain innovation, from angel & venture capital (AC & VC) investments and initial coin offerings (ICO), to exchange - traded cryptocurrencies and asset - backed tokens.

Covers innovation, entrepreneurship, acquisitions, angel investment, venture capital and more.

EisnerAmper is excited to present PIVOTAL, an unprecedented event that will bring together technology leaders and corporate venture capitalists to discuss trends, innovations and investment criteria that will shape the landscape for decades to come.