Sentences with phrase «raise big funds»

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Chicago Ventures doesn't disclose its investments, but Larkins says he's seeing more Midwest startups receive minimal funding in the early stages, as opposed to raising big funding rounds.

You're highly incentivized to raise a bigger fund, even if it means drifting from your expertise.

This recent kickstarter may not be raising big funds, but its garnered it's fair share of attention (and for good reason!)

Not exact matches

Thalmic Labs raised the second biggest funding round in domestic startup history.

Lacavera's fund will focus on Series A investments, the term given to the capital raise that follows an initial seed round, and will help bridge the funding gap in Canada by being faster, more flexible and willing to take on bigger risks.

Yet another Silicon Valley venture capital firm raising yet another fund isn't usually big news — it happens all the time.

• Virtualitics, a Pasadena, Calif. - based platform that merges AI, big data, and virtual / augmented reality, raised $ 7 million in Series B funding.

Mobli raised $ 86 million in venture funds in six years, some from some big names.

Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.

VCs are raising larger funds, writing bigger checks, and inflating already - inflated startup valuations.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 - A venture capital firm aiming to bring more U.S. startups to Russia has raised a $ 200 million fund, hoping to use the fresh pool of money to help Silicon Valley companies deliver their services to Russia's biggest corporations and its millions of internet - connected consumers.

The Santa Clara, California, company landed a very big funding round earlier this year, raising a total of $ 130 million.

The former Dropbox executive raised $ 140 million for her first fund and says that while bigger funds have a clear advantage when it comes to leading the largest deals, her dual focus — A.I. and diversity — gives her a leg up.

The company does not disclose the amount of funding it has raised from investors, including CoachCEO and Chairman Lew Frankfort and Jillian Michaels, a fitness trainer best known for her role on NBC's The Biggest Loser.

Even with the brawn of Gates and Cisco behind it, Aspect's $ 181 million fund isn't all that menacing to the status quo when compared with the Valley's biggest names, many of whom raise single funds worth more than $ 1 billion.

And funding has gotten easier: To date, Mixpanel has raised $ 77 million from investors that include big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

VC John Frankel of ff Venture Capital wants to answer your big startup questions about raising funds, meeting investors and pitching.

Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial aims to raise $ 9 b in a private funding round, which would value the company at $ 150b, making it the world's biggest start - up, ahead of Uber.

Until now it has raised most of its funds from big banks and corporate investors such as Google.

Big - data startup Databricks has raised another $ 140 million in venture funding, it announced on Tuesday, bringing the total raised for the four - year - old company to $ 247 million.

BIG AI DEAL: Element AI, a Montreal - based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $ 102 million ($ 137.5 M Canadian) in Series A funding led by DCVC with participation from BDC, Fidelity Investments, Hanwha, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, National Bank of Canada, Nvidia, Real Ventures, Tencent, and multiple sovereign wealth funds.

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

Today, the company has a bigger announcement — it raised $ 32 million in Series B funding from WeWork and New Enterprise Associates.

It would have been much easier to raise a significantly larger fund, because then you know exactly who to go to and you can get much bigger checks.

AppNexus, a cloud - based software company, is one of the biggest tech startups in New York City, following the $ 62.7 million round of series E funding it raised in April.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

The $ 10 billion fund - raising target, if achieved, will make it the biggest IPO since Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) raised a total of $ 25 billion through a New York listing in 2014.

GigaOm reported Snapchat is in the middle of closing a big round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, and our sources indicate it's raising over $ 10 million at a $ 70 million valuation.

I think these banks / funds are the next big thing as a hybrid between venture capital firms and venture debt... actually looking to raise money that way myself.

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

About a tenth of the funds raised via initial coin offering (ICO) have been lost or stolen, according to a new report published by big - five consulting...

Seasoned investor Ben Rosen helped Canion raise $ 20 million in start - up capital — funds that allowed the new business to behave like a big company from the start.

Theodore J. Forstmann, the financier who has said that he will not raise a new last investment fund, made what was likely to be his last big bet yesterday by acquiring a private fitness company for $ 1.6 billion.

In what could be one of the biggest investments in this space in India, Noida - based Attero Recycling Pvt. Ltd, which is into e-waste disposal and management, raised $ 16.5 million in its Series C round led by private equity fund Forum Synergies (India) in August 2014.

Listed on Crowdcube as a «first» combined debt and equity capital raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the «World's Biggest [funding] Round.

Its initial $ 1.8 billion fund — that was met with great fanfare when it was raised by rockstar investor Roger McNamee, rockstar gaming executive John Riccitiello and actual rockstar Bono — is about 70 % invested and the two biggest deals are duds.

The CEO demonstrated willingness to bite the hand that feeds by ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks, some of which have helped the company raise billions of dollars to fund his other - worldly ambitions.

The technology has already gained momentum, raising funds from blockchain investment companies including Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital and Fenbushi Capital and the release on the 28th is already tipped as one of the biggest Altcoin releases of the year.

Did we want to raise a billion dollar fund and jump on the «ever bigger» band wagon?

Homejoy was able to raise funding, but not enough to grow the company as big as its founders and backers had hoped.

Cleaning services company Homejoy is shutting down on July 31 after struggling to raise a big enough round of funding.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

The biggest number of deals in H1 was in angel and A rounds, but companies in other rounds of investments, including strategic investments and IPOs, have raised the same amounts of funds.

Kimbal Musk is giving away his personal, fully - loaded Tesla Model 3 to help raise funds for Big Green, a nonprofit organization aimed...

The key thing to take away from this is that if indeed Frankel is right, there will be a big sell off, of Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies very soon, with people frantically trying to raise the funds to cover their looming tax bill.

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWFund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

«Over the years, funds raised through The Greater Interest GIC campaign have created or sustained more than 4,500 positive mentoring relationships,» said Peter Coleridge, National President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada.

«But this windfall was unevenly spread, as many juniors continued to struggle to raise financing and more than one - quarter of the total funds went to just four companies»: Cobalt 27 Capital TSXV: KBLT, Leagold Mining (since graduated to the big board as TSX: LMC), Trek Mining TSXV: TREK (expected to merge with NewCastle Gold TSX: NCA and Anfield Gold TSXV: ANF to form an anticipated new company called Equinox Gold TSXV: EQX) and Bluestone Resources TSXV: BSR.

A round this summer valued the company at more than $ 50 billion, a bit more than Facebook was valued at after its last big round of private capital fund - raising in 2011.