Sentences with phrase «member of the venture fund»

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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.

«There are at least 50 active funds in Turkey looking at investments,» says A. Mete Cakmakci, a member of the Istanbul Venture Capital Initiative, a Turkish investment fund, at a panel discussion at the Dell women's event earlier this month.

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

Launched in 2007 with millions of members, New York - based Ideeli has raised $ 107 million in venture capital funding since its founding, so being sold for less than half of that appears to be a loss for investors.

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

Mr. Roosen is a founding member and supervisory board member of EurAsia Resource Holdings A.G., a European based venture capital fund.

When I went to the board members, one of the guys who knew my background said he would introduce me to three portfolio companies and also three venture funds.

NewSci is the first startup company to receive funding from members of the Tallahassee chapter of the Florida Angel Nexus, a statewide network of angel investors seeking to invest in high - growth ventures.

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A member of SpaceX's board of directors will reportedly leave the Silicon Valley venture capital firm he co-founded to start an investment firm focused, at least initially, on raising funds for SpaceX.

We offer members access to the Draper Venture Network of funds, world - class speakers and the best entrepreneur education events in Silicon Valley.

William is the General Partner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer - to - peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq, and founder of Startup Management.

Further, in the event of a bankruptcy of a Company, EF Advisor will act in the interests of the venture fund or venture partnership only and without regard to any Members that may have invested in the Company through the Site in another Offering.

Venture capital funds and smart angel investors will not base their funding decisions on the caliber of advisory board members.

The recommendation is part of a comment letter signed by 58 people who are, in the words of the petition, «business persons; members of angel groups, trade associations and advocacy groups; partners and associates of venture capital funds; startup founders; individual angel investors; and other persons interested in the health and vibrancy of America's startup ecosystem.»

If I am trying to sell the idea of funding my tech start - up, I won't give a venture capitalist the same pitch that I give to a member of a NASA grant - awarding committee.

Ted Mitchell, president of the NewSchools Venture Fund and a Khan Academy board member, told me that Khan developers «were blown away by how important» the games and badges seem to be in giving kids a sense of accomplishment and progress.

Sackler is also a member of the board of directors of the NewSchools Venture Fund, a national hedge fund industry - funded organization that is promoting the corporate education reform industry's activitFund, a national hedge fund industry - funded organization that is promoting the corporate education reform industry's activitfund industry - funded organization that is promoting the corporate education reform industry's activities.

In partnership with Charter Board Partners, FOCUS, and NewSchools Venture Fund, CityBridge Education offers the First Fridays school tours to teach members of the D.C. community about the city's charter schools.

AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation is proud to announce its selection as a member of the Fall 2017 Ignite cohort at NewSchools Venture Fund.

Mitchell, the CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, spent most of his career at colleges as a faculty member, department chairman and dean at schools of education and later went on to serve as president of Occidental College.

He is also a steering committee member of the Community of Innovative Practice, a group of education leaders that were supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Christensen Institute, and NewSchools Venture Fund to collaborate on educational technology, blended learning, and personalized learning.

Another donor of record to SFER is The New Schools Venture Fund which is not surprising since Jonathan Sackler served on both organizations» boards and Adam Cioth and Brian Olsen are members of the New Schools Venture Fund Leadership Council.

Until recently the SFER Board also included acclaimed education reform financier Jonathan Sackler (Whose activities include funding the Achievement First Inc. charter school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER.)

The other CCA board members include screenwriter and film producer Bill Conway, filmmaker Dyanna Taylor, art dealers William Siegal and Sandy Zane, John Gordon, who had been President of Santa Fe University of Art and Design; Eliot Fisher, Gordon Groff, Carla Lopez, Theodora de Portago and Albert S. Waxman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist who funded the Munoz - Waxman Gallery at the center.

SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism gifts grants of up to $ 3,500 to both members and non-members to help underwrite environmental reporting projects and entrepreneurial ventures.

Dr. Bazilian is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council, and serves as an advisor to the Novus Modus Fund, a $ 200M clean - tech venture capital vehicle.

He is a board member of the Mayo Innovation Advisory Council and the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a not - for - profit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the pFund, a not - for - profit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the pfund focused on improving the lives of the poor.

As a member of the Corporate & Securities Group and the Global Business Team, Patrick represents corporate clients, private equity groups and venture capital funds on various complex and cross-border business transactions, including:

She is the first East Coast member of the UCLA Venture Capital Fund, was a 2015 NYC Venture Fellow and was a diversity scholar to the Stanford / 500 Startups VC Unlocked program.

Member, New York State Bar Association Member, New York City Bar Association Member, FINRA Corporate Financing Rules, Hedge Funds, Investment Companies and Investment Advisers, and Trading and Markets Subcommittees, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, and Member, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee, Business Law Section, American Bar Association (ABA)

In another noteworthy development, the National Association of REALTORS ®» (NAR) venture capital fund, Second Century Ventures (SCV), recently announced an investment in 2017 class member Notarize, a remote notary platform.