Sentences with phrase «leapfrog investments»

• WorldRemit, a London - based digital money transfer service, raised $ 40 million in Series C funding led by LeapFrog Investments and was joined by investors including Accel and Technology Crossover Ventures.

Axiata Digital led the round, and was joined by Kinnevik, Milicom, LeapFrog Investments, and Digicel.

LeapFrog Investments led the round, and was joined by investors including Aspada Investment Co and Quona Capital.

Not exact matches

LeapFrog's investment helped Express Life expand its reach from 7,000 policyholders in 2012 to more than 400,000.

LeapFrog's first fund of $ 135 million made equity investments of between $ 5 million and $ 15 million in eight companies in Africa and Asia offering insurance and other financial products to individuals living on less than $ 10 per day.

In October, LeapFrog announced its second exit, with the sale of its minority stake in Apollo Investments Limited, a leading East African insurance group.

In March 2014, Leapfrog's second fund made its first investment: A $ 29 million equity investment into IFMR Capital, which provides financial services for financial institutions catering to the under - served in India.

Done carefully, licensing allows brands to leapfrog into new products and markets with little investment.

Concerns over trade imbalances, alleged trade - rule violations, subsidization and state - owned enterprises, metastasizing industrial policies, discriminatory treatment of non-Chinese companies, and other forms of trade and investment protectionism have preoccupied Washington for a decade — ever since the United States limped out of a debilitating recession to find that China had supplanted it as the world's largest manufacturer and had set its sights on leapfrogging the United States, at all costs, to the technological fore.

In June, this year, Black Star Holdings Limited (BSI - IL), a wholly owned subsidiary of LeapFrog Strategic African Investments (LSAI), acquired stakes in three subsidiary companies, namely Enterprise Life, Enterprise Insurance and Enterprise Trustees.

With income over $ 85,000, capital gains income leapfrogs Canadian dividends for the least taxed source of investment income.

Leapfrogging is a bad investment strategy because it raises your risk of investing in, say a mutual fund or ETF that owes its performance to having gambled and won.

Future investment in state - of - the - art technologies in countries without embedded infrastructure may be possible by «leapfrogging» rather than following a similar historic course of development to that of OECD nations.