Sentences with phrase «u.s. startup funded»

Now a U.S. startup funded by the Obama administration energy department with a $ 3.3 million ARPA - E grant has -LSB-...]

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Stats tell how rare those companies are: Of U.S. startups that landed an initial funding round between 2009 and 2014, only 15.5 percent had a female founder, according to CrunchBase.

Equity crowd funding is worth trying as just one tool to help foster startups, at the very least to keep pace with the U.S. and give Canadian entrepreneurs more reason to stay here.

But the startup community points to the already tough climate for funding, and argues the need to find a workable model for equity crowd funding is urgent in Canada, as the U.S. is already moving ahead.

The startup provides a cloud - based records management system for incident logging, and it currently works with 13 public safety agencies across the U.S. CEO Scott Crouch said the company will use the funding for international expansion.

The U.S. is home to six of the top 10 startup ecosystems in the world, but some surprising cities are upping their game with notable strides in funding, talent, trendsetting and more.

Sovereign wealth funds made 12 investments in U.S. startups last year to the tune of $ 12.4 billion.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

«A lot of Canadian startups, particularly when they get to Series A and onward, are funded by U.S. venture capital,» says Bannister.

As Silicon Valley grapples with an uncertain political climate, Canadian startups are getting more attention than ever (tech execs even launched a fund to help foreign - born U.S. employees move north).

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.

Fewer private U.S. venture - capital funds are raising money to invest in startups, the National Venture Capital Association says.

While typical U.S. incubators and accelerators offer cash - strapped startups funds in exchange for equity, Start - Up Chile is ponying up $ 40,000 equity - free to each startup.

U.S. Department of Commerce Commits $ 250,000 to Propeller and the New Orleans Startup Fund to Launch Equity Investment Fund for Social Entrepreneurs

WASHINGTON IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, a startup led by former U.S. National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander, has raised $ 78 million in additional funding, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned announcement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, a startup led by former U.S. National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander, has raised $ 78 million in additional funding, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned announcement.

That about sums up the state of U.S. token sales in the wake of new dialogue on whether the mechanism, by which startups are issuing custom cryptocurrencies to raise funds, is compliant with the law.

On the surface, the deal makes some sense for eBay because it is likely the leading online seller in the U.S. of second - hand clothing already, but has lost some mindshare in the tech community in the last two years to well - funded startups that focus exclusively on this category.

From 2009 to 2014, CrunchBase recorded 14,341 U.S. - based startups that received funding.

During Q1 2016, venture capital funding for U.S. startups fell nearly 25 % to $ 13.9 billion.

In March, Thomson Reuters «Venture Capital Journal named the company the third - most - promising startup funded by U.S. investors.

This work was supported in part by the University of California Carbon Neutrality Initiative, UC San Diego startup funds, the Hellman Foundation, the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (award no.

Since launching in early 2011, the accelerator said its 39 startups have raised more than $ 30 million in funding and it claims that its products are used by more than 10 percent of U.S. teachers.

Chinese investors and the Chinese government are starting to aggressively fund U.S. - based cleantech startups.

Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.

American Express has introduced instant blockchain - based payments using Ripple, a fintech startup, for U.S. corporate customers sending funds to U.K. - based businesses that bank with Santander U.K., the companies said on Thursday.

In addition, startups from more than 50 countries outside of the U.S. have recently applied for the Alexa Accelerator program, and Amazon believes now is the right time to expand the Alexa Fund on a global level.

Alex Mashinsky's Governing Dynamics, a U.S. - Israeli venture fund investing into Israeli biotech startups, AI, cybersecurity and energy to scale up in the U.S., has taken MicroMoney in as a strategic partner, instrumental

In Thailand, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Thai SEC) recently expressed their view on ICOs indicating they realize the potential of ICOs to satisfy startup funding needs; however, without governmental regulation, the Thai SEC also expressed concerns about ICO scams which is similar to the Investor Alert issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the U.S. SEC) in July of 2017.