Sentences with phrase «u.s. venture capital company»

This U.S. venture capital company invests in numerous business segments, including its foray into RegTech thanks to Managing Partner Wayne Kimmel's decision to put money into KIND Financial, a regulatory and compliance platform for the cannabis industry and for the government to monitor those businesses.

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Boeing's venture capital arm invested outside the U.S. (again), putting funds behind a space company (again).

Boeing's venture capital arm invests both outside the U.S. and in a space company for the second time in less than a month.

The company has raised more than $ 230 million in venture capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.

Global investor confidence grew in the U.S. in the past year but cooled in some previously hot emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India, according to a report released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Deloitte's Emerging Growth Company Practice.

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 company's biggest shareholders include venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, U.S. Venture Partners and Coatue Manaventure capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, U.S. Venture Partners and Coatue ManaVenture Partners and Coatue Management.

Venture - capital funding for U.S. companies fell sharply year - over-year in the second quarter, marking the lowest level of venture investment in threeVenture - capital funding for U.S. companies fell sharply year - over-year in the second quarter, marking the lowest level of venture investment in threeventure investment in three years.

Founded in 2004, Palantir is a venture capital - funded company that provides data analysis software, and whose clients include U.S. government agencies.

Affectiva went on to raise more than $ 30 million from investors including the Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins, and grew to 20 - some employees in the U.S. and another 20 in Cairo, who manually code facial expressions to feed into the company's machine - vision algorithms.

Entrepreneurs listened, at least to the second part: U.S. - based companies raised more venture capital in the fourth quarter of 2014 than they did in any other quarter over the prior 13 years, according to the National Venture Capital Assocventure capital in the fourth quarter of 2014 than they did in any other quarter over the prior 13 years, according to the National Venture Capital Assoccapital in the fourth quarter of 2014 than they did in any other quarter over the prior 13 years, according to the National Venture Capital AssocVenture Capital AssocCapital Association.

• CIT Group (NYSE: CIT) and TPG Capital have launched a $ 500 million joint venture called Strategic Credit Partners, which will provide senior secured financing to U.S. companies.

Singtel Innov8, the venture capital arm of Singtel, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, and company founders Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz also participated in theventure capital arm of Singtel, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, and company founders Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz also participated in theVenture Partners, Aspect Ventures, and company founders Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz also participated in the round.

Of the U.S. - based companies that received a round of venture capital financing in 2010, only 6 percent had a female CEO, 7 percent had a female founder, and 10 percent had a female founder or CEO at some point, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

The Toronto - based company's backers include Canadian venture capital firm BDC Venture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel invventure capital firm BDC Venture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel invcapital firm BDC Venture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel invVenture Capital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel invCapital, U.S. - based FundersClub and Y Combinator, and a dozen angel investors.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

Of the $ 48.3 billion spent in the U.S. on venture capital in 2014, 80 percent of those dollars went to companies in just five states, with California receiving a whopping 56 percent.

To put this number in perspective, it's more than the 12 million people the venture capital community claims works for U.S. venture backed companies (which includes firms like Fed Ex, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, etc.).

A study conducted in 2012 by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Booz & Company found that the region, where most Silicon Valley companies are headquartered, attracted between 35 and 40 percent of all U.S. venture capital investment.

According to Dow Jones, of the over 6,600 U.S. - based companies initially funded by venture capital from 2006 and 2011, 84 % are currently independently operated, 11 % were acquired or had an IPO, and 4 % went out of business.

If the San Francisco - based company completes its offering, it would be only the second venture capital - backed technology or communications company to go public in the U.S. this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Ms. Crouse provides business - focused advice and solutions for U.S. federal, state, and international tax considerations pertinent to mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, internal reorganizations, cross-border transactions, private equity and venture capital fund creation and investments, and organization, operation, and sale of start - up companies.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Brewer Stone has extensive experience advising technology companies on cross-border capital raising and strategic acquisitions and working with the Venture Capital community in both the U.S. ancapital raising and strategic acquisitions and working with the Venture Capital community in both the U.S. anCapital community in both the U.S. and Asia.

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

He represents U.S. - based and international public and private companies, as well as investors, in connection with corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, joint ventures, and international business transactions.

In less than a year of existence, one U.S. - focused company, BlueGoGo, and a number of China - based companies have filed for bankruptcy, merged with other companies, or ceased operations.4 The extreme degree of venture capital funding, coupled with generally low ridership, brings questions as to the overall sustainability and volatility of the dockless bike share market.

Not all news was good — early stage venture capital and U.S. biotech company Tengion have had better weeks — but mostly... victory.

The company's other venture capital backers include U.S. Venture Partners and Grotech Veventure capital backers include U.S. Venture Partners and Grotech VeVenture Partners and Grotech Ventures.

We serve thousands of institutions via our GDAX product, the leading digital currency exchange in the U.S.. We've raised $ 216M from venture capital firms and financial institutions like the NYSE / ICE, USAA, BBVA, Westpac, and MUFG,» wrote the company.

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