Sentences with phrase «valley venture capital companies»

Elie Wurtman, managing partner at early stage VC fund Pico, highlighted that a number of Silicon Valley venture capital companies have shut down their Israel funds or folded them into their larger US funds in recent years.

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«Despite the headlines from Silicon Valley, the truth is the vast majority of early - stage companies are not securing venture capital,» Rep. Patrick McHenry said on the House floor while introducing the bills.

Data from the National Venture Capital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theVenture Capital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theCapital Association — the industry's trade group — show that 23 percent of venture - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theventure - capital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of thecapital deals and 28 percent of venture - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of theventure - capital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of thecapital dollars went to Silicon Valley companies in the second half of the 1980s.

Out of that pool, 132 companies chose to stay in Chile and have already brought in around $ 26 million in venture capital — helping South America's Silicon Valley land atop Inc.'s list of the top «Global Cities of the Future.»

«Chinese companies and investors see an opportunity [in Silicon Valley],» says David Zilberman, a partner at Comcast Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corp., in San Francisco.

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.

Most large Silicon Valley firms run venture capital arms as a way of keeping in touch with emerging tech companies.

Synack, the Menlo Park, Calif. - based company started by former NSA agents Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr, announced this morning that it secured Series A funding from the storied Silicon Valley venture fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, along with Google Ventures, Allegis Capital, and Derek Smith (the CEO of another KPCB - backed company, Shape Security).

At the height of the dotcom boom, although I had grown my company, Palo Alto Software, to more than $ 5 million in annual sales without outside investors, I partnered with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to build it faster.

He says that part of the reason why Silicon Valley startups are gobbling up so much venture capital money is because many companies (especially unicorns) are choosing to stay private longer.

Software startup Slack Technologies is raising $ 250 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, boosting the company's valuation as Silicon Valley companies enjoy a surge in venture capital investments.

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

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.

The lawsuit has spotlighted gender imbalance in Silicon Valley venture capital and technology companies, where women are grossly underrepresented.

It is also a list of companies included in the portfolio of the elite Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Tokenized securities startup Harbor has secured $ 28 million in funding from major Silicon Valley venture capital firms, the company announced on Tuesday.

In addition, Odyssey has invested in and provided guidance to a number of Silicon Valley startups through relationships the company has with top venture capital firms in the area.

The company has raised $ 27 million in early stage financing from two leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, and launched its service to the public in September 2011.

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX, a Silicon Valley - based venture capital fund, market development training school and corporate advisory firm helping companies bring new products to market and reduce the innovation failure rate through capital, talent and know how.

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.

Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO / COO of venture - backed enterprise SaaS companies.

From 2000 - 2005 Sheetal was the first Director of VC Relations at Microsoft where she worked with the Venture Capital community in EMEA and Silicon Valley to help their portfolio companies leverage the.

Along with partner, MPWM Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, her company, Aspect Ventures, is one of the few women - led venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.

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.

The company raised $ 9.8 million in funding in November from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Venrock, on top of $ 1 million in seed funding.

Companies like Uber and Lyft are based in Silicon Valley and backed with significant amounts of venture capital, and for the most part there is little indication that they will go public anytime soon.

Prior to joining Peakview Capital, he invested in early and growth stage technology companies based in Silicon Valley with VC firms Mayfield Fund, Charter Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners.

Eldridge, a Democrat who is running against incumbent Chris Gibson for a seat in the 19th Congressional District, runs the venture capital firm Hudson River Ventures, which invests in companies throughout the Hudson Valley district and elsewhere in the region.

He could have had his pick of plum biotech or venture capital jobs; instead he followed another common Silicon Valley script: He started three companies in quick succession.

I'm not a coder, but I am surrounded by women who can talk all day about enterprise cloud adoption trends, DDoS attacks and network security, the rise of the app economy, and serve as a go - to resource for some of the top Silicon Valley venture capital firms and technology companies.

The company is backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

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Mobile dating app company Tinder said Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Benchmark has taken an equity stake in it and general partner Matt Cohler will join its board.

After years of angel investing and working with venture capitalists I also helped fund the first web based venture capital company, which today is experiencing outstanding growth and it's predicted return rate (IRR) is ranked amongst the highest rated venture capital firms in silicon valley.

Venture capital in Silicon Valley seeks companies that will grow and quickly be sold to larger companies; the «exit» is the new goal.

Take their barometric reading: Fenwick & West's Venture Capital Barometer — the measurement of change in share price of Silicon Valley companies funded during the quarter compared with their previous financing round — was up 64 percent.

The Berkeley, Calif., based e-discovery company Everlaw today announced that it has closed an $ 8.1 million Series A funding round led by the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The fundraising rounds by both Logikcull and Everlaw (the last being led by the well - known venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz) to me represent the realization in law of Marc Andreessen's statement in his Wall Street Journal editorial that «software is eating the world» and his expectation that «many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.»

NDLS alum Jason Boehmig started his legal career as a corporate attorney in the Startups and Venture Capital group at Silicon Valley firm Fenwick & West LLP, where he worked on early stage venture financings as well as complex corporate transactions for several well - known technology comVenture Capital group at Silicon Valley firm Fenwick & West LLP, where he worked on early stage venture financings as well as complex corporate transactions for several well - known technology comventure financings as well as complex corporate transactions for several well - known technology companies.

Haley Altman has worked as an attorney in transactional law for a decade, representing emerging growth companies and venture capital firms in both Indianapolis and Silicon Valley through sales, acquisitions and funding rounds.

In May 2013, the company received its second investment round of $ 5 million, with money from the Silicon Valley venture capital fund Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital, SV Angel and Fundercapital fund Union Square Ventures, Ribbit Capital, SV Angel and FunderCapital, SV Angel and Funders Club.

Root Insurance, an Ohio - based car insurtech company, announced last week it secured $ 51 million in funding through its Series C round, which was led by Redpoint Ventures, with Scale Venture Partners and existing partners Ribbit Capital and Silicon Valley Bank Capital Partners.

OPEN, the first blockchain payments infrastructure for applications announced the addition of Tim Draper's Draper Dragon Digital Asset Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early - stage, high growth companies in Silicon Valley and Asia.