Sentences with phrase «large seed companies»

Large seed companies have their own internal process which mirrors the one used by crop improvement associations.

The large seed companies have missed all of this.

The world's largest seed company signaled low corn and soybean prices are likely to persist beyond 2015 as it prepares for potentially reduced revenue by cutting expenses.

That year, US - based TNC Monsanto Company, the largest seed company in the world, acquired Delta and Pine Land, along with the intellectual property rights to Terminator.

Not exact matches

Among the investors that contributed to Wiivv's $ 3.5 million seed round in December was MAS Holdings, a Sri Lankan company that is one of the largest manufacturers of apparel and footwear for brands like Nike, Victoria Secret and Lululemon.

• Elsen, a Boston - based platform - as - a-service company for large financial institutions, raised $ 2.4 million in a seed extension round led by Hyperplane Venture Capital and was joined by investors including Accomplice and Launch Capital.

The proposed acquisition, valued above $ 60 billion, would make Bayer and Monsanto the world's largest integrated pesticides and seeds company.

For Mars, which is the sixth - largest privately held company in the United States, the deal offers a toehold into a world that touts the use of almonds, chia seeds, amaranth and buckwheat as selling points.

While Cambrian Genomics just raised $ 10 million in seed funding, it was on the verge of securing an even large amount — until the company's name started appearing in articles about misogyny in the tech industry.

With any luck (and maybe recruitment fees), some of those clients will turn into 500 - to 1,000 - person companies and some of its new seed - stage clients will turn into large, venture - backed, paying clients.

The European Commission opened a full investigation into the case in August, concerned that the deal to create the world's largest integrated crop protection and seeds company may reduce competition in these sectors as well as certain petrochemicals.

By self - funding, Cavale could force INFLCR to build its own track record with its product, clients and revenues, and ultimately raise a seed round at what he believes to be a fair valuation as opposed to giving up a large piece of his new company at a discount, which is often an issue with raising money pre-revenue.

By selling altcoins and tokens for the purpose of financing or utilizing projects, companies that would be recognized as too risky or too small by traditional investment entities have a means to raise large amounts of seed capital.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The merger will make the Bayer - Monsanto conglomerate the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, giving it enormous power to control farm practices, putting private profits over the public interest.

BGV III is now one of the largest funds focused on seed investments in European biotechnology companies.

Prior to MyLumper, he served as the Director of Logistics for the largest seed and garden company in the nation, followed by his next role as Founder and CEO of Track Logistics Group, which he held for 10 years before developing the electronic payment based company that offers the solution to an age - old stressor in the trucking industry.

A Convertible Loan is commonly used as part of the first financing of a company when valuation can't be agreed on, or as a bridge ahead of a larger Seed or Series A round.

Panache's strategy is to develop a large - scale portfolio of seed stage companies from across the country.

The company raised the largest seed round of the quarter, having secured financing from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Brand Foundry Ventures, Sterling.VC, Novel TMT Ventures, and TACK Ventures.

The Fund will draw from a strong portfolio of MaRS client companies that target the large and growing global cleantech market, and will co-invest with angels and other institutional funds, including the Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), Ontario's seed stage investment fund.

We anticipate that this number will increase in 2016 as we believe companies will raise larger seed rounds and spend more time in the seed stage for the foreseeable future.

Many large - scale milling companies use steel mills to extract the endosperm from the rest of the seed head.

Other sources include local biotechnology centers (many larger cities and / or universities have a biotech center for tech transfer or for starting «seed» companies) and larger biotech or pharmaceutical companies in the local area (try the Human Resources department!).

WSU's tests involved wheat varieties developed at the university, at sister universities and by two of the three largest commercial wheat seed companies in the Pacific Northwest.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Garden seed companies are now primarily owned by large conglomerates.

Six companies now control 98 percent of the world's seed sales; the largest of these is Monsanto.

Every large fund company is starting new funds left and right, and seeding them, and then by luck some of them will do well, and they'll have a nice track record, and then they'll sell them.

But they're sowing the seeds for large future gains in precious - metal royalty companies.

IFC is working with Bangladesh's four largest private seed companies to enhance production, distribution and adoption of high yielding and stress tolerant seed varieties in poverty - stricken and climate vulnerable areas.

Simplot, one of the nation's largest privately held companies with annual sales of about $ 4.5 billion, wields considerable clout in its home state, where its products range from turf grass seed to frozen French fries for fast - food chains like McDonald's.

Over the course of a single decade, Monsanto devoured dozens of seed companies (and their patents) to become the largest seed corporation in the world and the only soybean seed superpower.

The proposed merger between Dow and DuPont, both of the US, would create the world's largest integrated crop protection and seeds company.

Just as last year closed out, another AI company, Premonition — which says it is applying AI to the largest legal database in the world — announced a seed round at a $ 100 million valuation.

Farmers increasingly rely on large agricultural companies to supply the seed and materials they need to feed the world.

Advising BASF, a German chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world on its $ 5.9 bn acquisition of significant components of Bayer's seed and non-selective herbicide businesses.

If nothing else wouldn't the fact that the largest pesticide company & the largest seed maker would be owned by the same corporation peek your interest?

Chalkup itself was not a large company — one founder had left, and it had only raised a small seed round, according to Crunchbase.

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.

If Slack can plant the seed of a new productivity platform inside of a dizzyingly expanding set of customer companies small and large, it's attacking incumbents twice: If it can supplant other large - scale tools at big firms, Slack undercuts enterprise - facing revenues currently collected, and if smaller companies pick Slack and its nascent platform over traditional productivity stacks, it could further undermine future income streams from these large companies.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

This new program for early - stage Blockchain companies introduces the selected startups to the Cofound.it Priority Pass community earlier in the process for a round of seed funding before the larger crowdsale.

The new program, which was introduced earlier this month is for early - stage blockchain companies with the selected startups getting access to the Cofound.it Priority Pass community earlier in the seed funding process before the larger crowdsale.

Actually revealed in the beginning of the month, the new program for early - stage blockchain companies introduces the selected startups to the Cofound.it Priority Pass community earlier in the process for a round of seed funding before the larger crowdsale.

While a senior engineer can expect around $ 135,000 at a larger company, seed companies typically offer around $ 115,000.

Looking at software engineer salary offers at companies of different sizes, Hired found that smaller bootstrapped and seed stage companies have a gender wage gap half that of larger corporations.

The skills of driving semis, grain trucks, skid - loaders, backhoes, trucks with cattle trailers, tractors with plows, tractors with planters, combines, dump trucks, mowers, tractors with grain wagons, and tractors with seed tenders will be an asset to your company, because I come with some knowledge and experience of what it takes to operate large / heavy equipment.