Sentences with phrase «tech fund money»

The Mill, founded last year with Vegas Tech Fund money as an idea accelerator, gave $ 5,000 to a new entrepreneur ever week, along with access to mentors and a co-working space.

Not exact matches

Insiders believe a slew of big - money exits will strengthen the scene by funding new tech entrepreneurship

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

On multiple occasions, exchange - traded fund data has supported the idea that money pulled from tech has simply been reallocated elsewhere in the stock market, keeping indexes afloat.

As one might expect from chart 1, consumer goods, utilities, and energy funds are receiving inflows while tech, health care, and financials funds are losing investor money.

A brief swoon in publicly traded tech stock prices last April — particularly in the enterprise sector — was seen industrywide as a warning shot that startups should control their «burn rates» and raise as much new money as possible to protect against a future funding drought.

Incredibly, SoftBank is also discussing raising money for another huge tech fund.

The dream of a Malaysian version of Shenzhen — largely funded by Chinese developers and buyers — with hotels, offices, golf courses, tech parks and thousands of ritzy new apartments, is having to adapt after China's government clamped down on an exodus of money for investment in overseas property.

The technology behind Bitcoin, called blockchain, is fueling tech startups to raise money through initial coin offerings (ICOs) to fund their projects.

The money and advice from the Vegas Tech Fund are a powerful lure, even for people who would rather be surfing every day, like Elyse Petersen.

This funding will help early stage tech companies access the money and resources they need to stay and grow here.

While the tech industry whips itself into a frenzy over funding rounds, ICOs and whatever the latest hot trend is, we'll be raising money the old - fashioned way - through a community of women (and their partners) who truly understand what it means to do the work.

That grant came from a $ 207 million SUNY Poly fund that was included in last year's state budget, and this year's budget proposal includes a $ 300 million high - tech innovation fund that could be used in part to fund SUNY Poly research programs, although state officials have not indicated exactly how the money would be allocated.

Pursuant to the agreement of this financial relationship, the money provided was then repaid into a trust fund, and the Al Tech Trust Fund was creafund, and the Al Tech Trust Fund was creaFund was created.

The money comes at a time when the governor appears to shutting off direct funding for Luther Forest, which has received roughly $ 100 million in state support over the past 10 years to prepare its 1,414 acres for high - tech manufacturing tenants.

Five years ago, Britain's venture capital funds invested around 21 per cent of their money in hi - tech ventures.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

Florida Commissioner of Education Tom Gallagher and gte Communications Corp. recently announced a statewide, high - tech school fund - raiser that allows participants to contribute money to their local schools by racking up long - distance charges.

A decision by China's central bank to rein in reserve funds held by payment firms could cost the industry upwards of $ 689 million a year, spur consolidation and alter the way Asia's biggest tech firms move money.

He worked at two billion dollar VC funds, Sierra Ventures and Battery Ventures, as a direct investor — putting $ 86M of LP money into high tech startups and serving on their Board of Directors.

Instead, five of the team members — Andreas, the former CEO, Adrian our CFO, Jean - Marc our Creative Director, Johan our Tech Director, and Eric our Tech Art Director, pool together enough money from family & friends, talk a couple of the existing investors to stick around, and put together a plan to fund a new recreate the company with the existing team.

$ 27 million in funding is a nice start, and it may sound like a lot — but if we truly want to produce «moon shot» caliber results (ie, cheap, plentiful clean energy tech in under a decade), Obama's going to have to put his money where his mouth is.

Financial Times titled «Private equity retreats from renewables fad,» of Feb. 21, 2014 quoted Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of Calpers, of the world's sixth - largest pension fund, as describing clean - tech investment as a «noble way to lose money.»

Heartbleed drew attention to just how underfunded this critical piece of software was, so big tech companies committed to chipping in money every year to fund the development of OpenSSL and other important projects as part of the «Core Infrastructure Initiative ``.

Truth about Tech is being funded with $ 7 million from Common Sense and money raised from the Center for Humane Technology.

In the Bitcoin news — Georgian Minister of Justice and other government agencies are already planning on inserting real estate documents to its Blockchain network; India - based Axis Bank will soon begin leveraging distributed ledger tech; Indonesian authorities say they have evidence that Islamic State (IS) militants are using online money services such as PayPal and bitcoin to send money to domestic operatives; Kickstarter - backed Board Game Bitcoin Empire Ships; After announcing its move away from Bitcoin to focus on international fiat transfers, Circle received harsh criticism from cryptocurrency users, who accused the company of doing a U-turn on its USP; Interest in «Bitcoin» according to Google search data shows that the the world's hedge fund capital tops all other places in the Tri-State area.

However, the money invested has already funded many startups and new tech ICOs.

If you end up spending literally all of your money on lunches, outings, and cool tech gadgets, you'll miss out on the benefits of opening up a savings account, investing in your retirement fund, and more.