Sentences with phrase «other big investors include»

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The other thing to note is that because BJK holds big positions in companies including Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts, investors might dismiss this as the «Las Vegas ETF.»

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

That index includes 500 of the biggest companies in the U.S.; the index fund pools your money with other investors to buy shares of those stocks.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

The company is announcing today that it has raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding to date from numerous big names in payments and beyond, including Square and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square exec Jacqueline Reses, serial - founder - turned investor David Sacks, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, BitGo CTO Ben Davenport and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, along with The Hive, Digital Currency Group and others.

In addition, mergers and acquisitions within the financial services sector, relaxation of regulations to permit a wide range of «specialized» exchanges (including some which are set up to allow computers to trade with each other), and systems allowing big institutional investors like banks, mutual funds, pension funds and money managers to exchange shares directly have pretty much eliminated the differences between the exchanges.

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On the Alphabetization of Google from a venture capitalist: «The way I see it, Google is the cash cow that finances all the big bets Larry and Sergey are making inside Alphabet... For $ 445bn, you get $ 70bn of cash, Google, which does $ 70bn of revenue and produces $ 20bn of operating cash flow (probably more now that is it not going to burdened by all of these other investments), and all of these big bets, including Google Ventures and Google Capital, which are about the biggest investors in the VC sector right now.»

According the The Guardian, news that German engineering giant Bosch is buying solar panel manufacturers Ersol, a company that has recently invested heavily in thin - film manufacture, for â «¬ 1.1 bn (US$ 1.7 bn) has sent stocks in other renewable energy companies soaring as investors expect further big buyouts: «Shares in leading German solar companies rose substantially on expectations that other big players, including oil groups, are on the prowl in a market that grew to â «¬ 6.6 bn last year and is forecast to top â «¬ 18bn by 2020.

The syndicate entered the top 10 in February, and also includes other big - name investors in the bitcoin space such as SilkRoad Equity co-founder Matthew Roszak and 500 Startups partner Sean Percival.

Other investors in CryptoKitties include such big names as AngelList founder Naval Ravikant, former Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, BitFury Head Of Strategy Committee Bill Tai, and Zynga founder Mark Pincus.

The company's portfolio drew attention from large investors, sources say, including other big private equity firms such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and The Blackstone Group.

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