Sentences with phrase «valley venture firms»

Fisker's investors include private equity firm Advanced Equities, as well as Valley venture firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and NEA.

Stitch Fix's success is fairly remarkable, given the relatively small amount of money it has raised from equity capital: just $ 42.5 million from Silicon Valley venture firms including Lightspeed and Benchmark.

Like many Silicon Valley venture firms, Benchmark watched investments — including in the online grocer Webvan and the online furniture retailer Living.com — tank.

Led by new CEO Jeff Maggioncalda, the company is reportedly valued at around $ 800 million and backers have included top Silicon Valley venture firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and NEA.

Founder Jed Smith's concept for an on - line drugstore went straight to the top at Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins because Smith knew an assistant to partner John Doerr.

Last fall, in an unusual investment configuration, Silicon Valley venture firm Benchmark took an equity stake in Tinder in exchange for Cohler joining the board to add his experience.

Announced today, the round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a Silicon Valley venture firm that counts some of the biggest tech and digital startups, including Dropbox, GitHub and Netflix, among its portfolio.

Results driven Senior Scientific Staff Member with 8 + years experience at world - class biotechnology company backed by leading Silicon Valley venture firm (Kleiner Perkins), offering a unique combination of lab skills and leadership experience.

Not exact matches

Sandy Miller, IVP General Partner, weighs in on the Silicon Valley venture capital firm announcing a $ 1.5 billion dollar fund this morning.

Yet another Silicon Valley venture capital firm raising yet another fund isn't usually big news — it happens all the time.

None of this behavior is ever supposed to happen in the Valley, because who would want to do business with such a litigious venture firm?

Details about its follow - up are tightly under wraps, but the firm's potential was enough for Silicon Valley veterans to lead what was then the second - largest venture capital round in Canadian tech history.

Lin later became Zappos» first COO, CFO, and chairman, and left in 2010 to join the prestigious Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Sequoia Capital.

One of a handful of women to be a general partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Barr uses her influence to bolster emerging Canadian tech firms.

It's backed by a roster of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, and boasts returns of more than 500 %.

He approaches business in the same brash manner, cajoling the likes of Rupert Murdoch and one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms to invest heavily in Vice's expansion.

Virtually all of Silicon Valley's venture - capital firms are male dominated.

It's been enough to attract the attention of famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which today led a $ 10 million Series A round of investment in Gigster.

At the Pool is closing a $ 1 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Clearstone Venture Partners and has overhauled its platform with many new feventure - capital firm Clearstone Venture Partners and has overhauled its platform with many new feVenture Partners and has overhauled its platform with many new features.

Acting as a sort of Silicon Valley emissary to the Wall Street crowd, Bill Gurley, general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, also took the stage later in the afternoon.

That seed round also included Steve Case's Rise of the Rest fund, perhaps the best - known venture capital firm focused on startups outside of Silicon Valley.

Slack's $ 2.8 billion valuation, attained when it raised $ 160 million from Social Capital and other top - shelf venture capital firms last May, puts it on the list of Silicon Valley unicorns.

In the meantime, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capital firms could start with a resounding acknowledgement that contract wokers are essential to the businesses they run.

And it also illustrates the disconnect between the protected bubble of Silicon Valley, the elite venture capital firms that grease its machinery, and a new class of workers.

Sequoia Capital, among Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms, has hired its first female investing partner in the U.S.

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.

But while the attendees might opt to keep their fortunes out of the press, they are putting those funds to work; everyone at the gathering was a limited partner, tasked with allocating large amounts of private, family - owned capital into various investments, including many of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms.

Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar, known for his early bet on Uber, said on Tuesday he was taking a leave of absence from his venture capital firm and the startup he co-founded to fight allegations of sexual harassment.

Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

«I'm very excited about Ethereum,» says Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley that got into the Bitcoin game early on.

So says Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms.

Bradford even spent nine months at Sequoia Capital, the high - flying Silicon Valley venture capital firm, as an investor.

Silicon Valley is a unique environment where venture capital firms line the streets, share expertise and are unafraid of investing in the dreams of imaginative entrepreneurs.

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

Today, Discord has raised more than $ 150 million in venture capital, counting money Citron had raised for the previous startup, from Silicon Valley's top firms, including Benchmark and Greylock.

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.

A number of venture capital firms, such as Revolution Growth and Binary Capital, have launched or plan to launch funds dedicating to dolling out tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars to startups outside of Silicon Valley.

Kleiner is known as one of the most successful venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.

Coinbase and Earn.com are both backed by Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm where Srinivasan continues to serve as a board partner.

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

Brian O'Malley, a general partner at Battery Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, agrees.

There's another endearing element to the Greycroft story: The firm's networks primarily are in New York and Los Angeles, perennial second fiddles to the only venture - capital market that truly matters, Silicon Valley.

The woman behind a high - profile gender bias lawsuit against a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified Monday that a male colleague was «relentless» in his pursuit of her and cut her out of email chains and meetings when she broke off their affair.

And Ring's hot streak continues: On Wednesday, Ring announced it raised $ 61.2 million in funding from a group of investors led by the venture - capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, bringing in one of the most successful Silicon Valley VC firms as an investor.

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

Silicon Valley venture capital firm IVP on Tuesday announced the close of a $ 1.5 billion fund, the latest in a string of massive new venture funds that are appearing as global investors scramble for a piece of the tech boom.

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.

Tokenized securities startup Harbor has secured $ 28 million in funding from major Silicon Valley venture capital firms.