Sentences with phrase «now as a venture capitalist»

Now as a venture capitalist, John Durant makes it his primary mission to find and fund the best health - focused companies through his company, Wild Ventures.

Not exact matches

Draper Associates, the brand from which the venture capitalist now actively picks his investments, also holds other cryptocurrency - linked companies, such as exchange Coinbase.

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research.

You've said before that venture capitalists now have to compete for startups as much as startups compete for VC money.

As new deals emerge, there is now time for venture capitalists to be thoughtful, to do real due diligence, and to form true relationships with entrepreneurs.

Now that we have defined a founder as someone who has or is starting a scalable company around solving a problem — let's talk about the venture capitalist.

As corporate Japan has started to take advantage of recovering risk appetite, low yields and yen strength to invest abroad, opinions on valuation of Japanese overseas acquisitions among listed firms have now begun to diverge substantially between foreign investors in listed Japanese stock and private equity / venture capitalists.

«Starting as a person who really had never been in any other corporation except Affymetrix, he grew into a real business leader,» says Siegel, who is now a prominent venture capitalist.

Being a startup valued at more than a billion dollars — an anomaly that venture capitalists dub a unicorn — comes with scrutiny, and many wonder whether Moderna's pipeline, consisting mostly of vaccines for now, will expand to match the company's original vision of mRNA as a broad treatment platform.

Little wonder that Busque, whose company sold to Ikea last year and who today works as a venture capitalist, now wants to help women across a broad range of industries more easily come together to learn, to laugh, and to amplify each other's power.

To combat the poor user experience associated with Bitcoin, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists now view Bitcoin as the plumbing that can power higher - level applications.

Leo Polovets is a software engineer turned venture capitalist, now investing in early stage technology startups as an angel investor and partner at Susa Ventures.

As a Certified JCTC, I remain aware of what recruiters, venture capitalists and hiring managers require and can make sure that your resume contains the information that they are looking for now and in the future.