Sentences with phrase «seed company which»

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Other early seeds include the hot diabetes - drug company Intarcia Therapeutics (which I wrote about in November) and the Jonathan Bush - helmed athenahealth (now worth nearly $ 5 billion), which has become a prominent force in the age of the cloud - based doctor's office and hospital.

Looking ahead: Moveline recently raised a $ 1.5 million seed round of funding, which it will use to expand the company to other major cities, add more staff and enhance the product.

In addition to Eatsa, Friedberg is pushing quinoa through a company he acquired called Northern Quinoa Production Corp., which contracts with local farmers in Canada to grow the crop with its proprietary seed.

For more than a year, the AngelList founder and CEO has been trying to persuade institutional money managers to participate on his popular crowdfunding platform, which so far has helped facilitate $ 205 million in investment for 650 seed - stage companies.

For Mars, which is the sixth - largest privately held company in the United States, the deal offers a toehold into a world that touts the use of almonds, chia seeds, amaranth and buckwheat as selling points.

Ahern breaks down the challenge of scaling into three stages based on funding levels — Early (during which a company raises, seed, Series A and B funding), Growth (Series C and D), and Later (Series E to IPO).

Green's firm, which is known for helping to launch wildly successful e-commerce companies like Warby Parker and Birchbox, provided seed funding for Into the Gloss.

The software connects to the cannabis company's point - of - sale system as well as the state's seed - to - sale system, which follows marijuana plants from the grow house until they're sold to a customer, to monitor the business and ensure compliance.

Investment groups such as Golden Seeds and BELLE Capital USA, which bankroll women - led companies, have worked toward shrinking this financing gap for years.

«The bankruptcy is not a surprise,» says Jacob Cohen, a partner at Detroit Venture Partners, which backs seed and early - stage technology companies.

The company's recruitment platform costs $ 995 per month per position or more, which is too pricey for a seed - stage startup.

The company, which has raised $ 1.25 million in seed capital, sells its platform as a software - as - a-service and will also charge for disputes resolved through its panels of mediators and arbitrators.

I have helped many companies develop systems for identifying and tracking this information, which provides innovation seeds capable of developing into product enhancements that strengthen the company's position in the market.

It's a science - driven company focused on solving problems like world hunger and global warming with, for instance, drought - resistance seeds, which have been gaining market share from competitors but had to be developed over years.

Cypher is the CEO and co-founder of Oak Labs Interactive, the company behind the interactive mirrors, which just announced it has raised $ 4.1 million in a seed round led by Wing Venture Capital to bring refine the technology and bring it to more retailers.

Amidi, who is also a co-founding partner of seed investment firm Amidzad Partners and founder of 14 other companies, says Plug and Play started the accelerator to help make Bitcoin more widespread and easier to use, and to add strong Bitcoin - related companies to its investment portfolio, which includes PayPal and Zoosk.

Hardy is combining the Vancouver company, in which he was a seed investor, with Seattle - based OnlineShoes.com, one of the first brands to enter the Internet shoe marketplace.

The 14 - person company has raised a total of $ 3.4 million in seed and Series A financing, as well as received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Energy's SunShot Incubator Program, which funds up to $ 12 million in grant money to small businesses and entrepreneurs working on both hardware and software technology that makes solar more accessible for Americans.

I invested in Uber, which is still a private company, during their seed round.

One of Rossiello's former associates from her consulting days provided some seed funding for BitPesa, and the company really took off after a series - A round of funding in which billionaire investor Tim Draper threw his hat in the ring.

39:28 — Jason asks about the closest competition, which is a company using aerial drones to fire seeds into the ground.

By self - funding, Cavale could force INFLCR to build its own track record with its product, clients and revenues, and ultimately raise a seed round at what he believes to be a fair valuation as opposed to giving up a large piece of his new company at a discount, which is often an issue with raising money pre-revenue.

Offering both Regulation D 506 and Regulation Crowdfunding investment opportunities, which in the past have ranged from seed stage to later stage companies.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

Another clause in the contract between GSR and SCL specifies that Kogan's company will «seek out informed consent of the seed user engaging with GS Technology» — which would presumably refer to the ~ 270,000 people who agreed to take the personality quiz in the app deployed via Facebook's platform.

IDEABOOST provides up to $ 35,000 in seed funding to each company in the accelerator, as well as a host of benefits from partners and the Global Accelerator Network (GAN), which IDEABOOST joined in 2015.

They were named one of Canada's «hottest innovative companies» at CIX 2010, and also received an initial round of $ 500,000 in seed money from the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), which helps grow new technology companies in Ontario and positions them for further investment by angels and VCs.

In 2015, Fran Dunaway experienced this firsthand while trying to get seed funding for her company, TomboyX, which makes men's - style briefs for women.

Jennifer Carolan, former Managing of the NewSchools Seed Fund, is now General Partner at Reach Capital, which will operate under the management company, NewSchools Capital.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

The British artificial intelligence company Deep Mind Technologies, which Founders Fund seeded with a $ 15 million investment, was bought by Google in January for # 240 million.

Sundaresan is CTO and co-founder of Trusted Key, which on May 2 also announced it raised $ 3 million as part of a seed funding round led by Founders Co-Op, an early - stage venture fund, with participation from Pithia, Inc., the venture capital company of The RChain Cooperative.

Prior to MyLumper, he served as the Director of Logistics for the largest seed and garden company in the nation, followed by his next role as Founder and CEO of Track Logistics Group, which he held for 10 years before developing the electronic payment based company that offers the solution to an age - old stressor in the trucking industry.

Lonsdale clearly attributes both successes to getting to know the companies» founders before many other investors, which is why 8VC opted to managed a seed - stage program, even at its size.

Delhi - based Golflan Technologies Pvt Ltd, which runs a subscription - based service for golfers to book tee times through GolfLAN without club membership, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from early - stage investor YourNest Angel Fund, a company executive told Techcircle.in.

Then, it was a simple matter of segmenting the data by the year in which the company raised its Seed round, tracing the trajectories of the startups in each «batch,» and converting everything to percentages for easier comparison.

better yet — he's the type of guy to extort money from a congregation that doesn't understand global economics, fiat currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil reserves or how foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.

As a Christian, as a stockholder, and as one who believes in the American system, I also think it is a duty to raise serious questions about the ethical practices of some American companies which seem to be exploiting the natural resources of some of the small and powerless countries of the world, again sowing there the seeds of a deep enmity which we will someday have to reap.

This recent act of Monsanto is paving a way for ensuring unrestriced access to the country's seed market, which in turn will churn more profit for the company, the group said.

I'm very excited to introduce my first collaboration on this blog, which happens to be with this bomb Canadian company called Mumm's Sprouting Seeds.

-LSB-...] During that same weekend I invited friends over for a hemp - themed BBQ to enjoy the nice spring weather and check out some of the hemp products that I had accumulated by then, which included Dr. Bronner's soaps, Hempz lotions, Merry Hempsters lip balm, hemp protein powder; hearts; and seed oil from Nutiva and Manitoba Harvest, a journal made of hemp paper from Green Field Paper Company, various shirts and other examples of hemp fiber, and of course my very own hempcrete blocks.

The event features Stuart Andrews from Natural Sequence Farming, Dr David Murray, a botanist, historian, expert in peas and beans and a foundation member of the Seed Savers Network, Martin DeLauney from a native food business, Rowena Petrie from commercial seed company Royston Petrie Seeds, which supplies Eden Seeds and The Diggers Club, herbalist Pat Collins and Colleen Oldman, who is an expert in propagating flowSeed Savers Network, Martin DeLauney from a native food business, Rowena Petrie from commercial seed company Royston Petrie Seeds, which supplies Eden Seeds and The Diggers Club, herbalist Pat Collins and Colleen Oldman, who is an expert in propagating flowseed company Royston Petrie Seeds, which supplies Eden Seeds and The Diggers Club, herbalist Pat Collins and Colleen Oldman, who is an expert in propagating flowers.

US - based company Hungry Marketplace has secured $ 2.7 m in seed funding, which will be invested to expand its...

A South African Competition Tribunal has approved two mergers in seed and wheat milling in which holding company K2014202010 intends to purchase Progress Milling and Noordfed.

These natural benefits are one factor in the success of Roy and his company, Rowland Seeds, which operates a vast farm in this golden corner of the Canadian plains.

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Large seed companies have their own internal process which mirrors the one used by crop improvement associations.

The conference, which is supported in part by Clif Bar & Company, Full Belly Farm, and Veritable Vegetable, hosts artisan cheese, beer, and wine tastings; live entertainment; an Exhibitor Marketplace showcasing over fifty organic and ecologically - based businesses and organizations; a mixer linking current and future farmers; a seed swap; and new this year, a series of Farmer Discussion Groups.

This season, Gregg Marshall and company believed their 28 - 4 record would earn them a No. 4 or No. 5 seed, which would put them in position to both fly under the radar and make a run back to the tournament's second weekend.