Sentences with phrase «venture team in»

Marcus joined the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture team in Ingelheim at the beginning of 2014 and is a Director of the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Venture Fund.

Not exact matches

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Only two years later, in 2013, companies with a woman on the executive team were attracting 18 percent of venture investments.

The school is also set to play host to the Stu Clark Investment Competition in March 2017, with teams of graduate students competing for cash prizes and a spot at the 2016 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Texas at Austin.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

But as a company grows in revenue, customer base, venture capital and therefore executive teams members, things need to change.

Technology, the team and timing are key factors in early - stage funding, says Shalini Prakash, venture partner at 500 Startups.

Women - led teams received just $ 1.9 billion of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.

It was then, in 2006, that Laberge persuaded Richardson, his team leader and partner on a number of projects at Creo, to join the venture.

• AT&T (NYSE: T) and Coral Group, a Minneapolis - based venture capital firm, have teamed up to launch a venture fund that will invest in startups focused on connected services and platform technologies.

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

Agnieszka believes that finding the right team, sharing common goals — more than dreams of venture capital - results in the best chance of creating a successful company.

Among 71 of the top venture capital firms, women represent only 8 percent of senior investment teams, according to data compiled in 2015 by Social Capital and The Information.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

«The skill set of starting my presidential campaigns — and building the kinds of teams that we did and marketing ideas — I think would be the same kinds of skills that I would enjoy exercising in the private sector... The conversations I have with Silicon Valley and with venture capital pull together my interests in science and organization in a way I find really satisfying.»

In the always complicated courtship between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Stanford finance professor Ilya A. Strebulaev may have uncovered the closest thing possible to a reliable seduction line: «I'm passionate, I'm capable, I'm experienced, and I'm part of a strong team.»

Tesla filed a lawsuit in January against Sterling Anderson, its former director of Autopilot, as well as Chris Urmson, the previous director of the Google self - driving project, and their startup Aurora Innovation — a new venture the men launched with Drew Bagnell, the former head of the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh.

Intuitive has teamed up with China's Fosun Pharma, for instance, in a joint venture to detect lung cancers in their earliest stages, developing a flexible robotic catheter that can navigate into the cavernous regions of the lungs.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

«We've had the pleasure of consulting with both the SAIL Capital Partners team and the investment banking team at Stifel Nicolaus in the U.S. on various deals,» says Rob Peterman, Head of Business Development for the technology sector for TSX and TSX Venture.

Coca - Cola, for example, launched a «venturing and emerging brands» team in 2007 to locate the company's next billion - dollar brand.

Five months later, the Pebble team went on to raise $ 15 million in venture capital from Charles River Ventures, a traditional VC house with more than two decades of traction.

The workplace collaboration company is teaming with several venture capital firms — including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth, and Social + Capital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will invest in software projects that complement its technology.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

In her current role as head of new ventures at Sultan Ventures, a startup catalyst and boutique venture firm, James leads a team tasked with identifying and recruiting potential portfolio companies; provides mentoring and support to make portfolio companies investor - ready; and works with local companies to provide business - development and deal - structuring strategies.

To that end, in January, Dimon announced he's teaming up with Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway to form an independent nonprofit venture to lower healthcare costs and improve the healthcare outcomes for their employees.

Finally, have your attorney and accountant provide letters and documents about the venture, such as: articles of incorporation, investment letters, opening balance sheet and income statements (when applicable), documentation on patents pending and other intellectual property and trademarks / copyrights in place or in process, and an initial capitalization sheet outlining the founding team's stakes in the venture.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

Still, Hampton Creek has raised more than $ 200 million in venture capital and has a team of 60 working on R&D, including top cell biologists from academia and industry.

Microsoft announced today that it's ditching many of its massive giveaways of cloud credits in exchange for helping startups sell their products through the company's sales team, in partnership with accelerators and venture capitalists around the globe.

Its team brings a rich and diverse experience in venture capital, technology, entrepreneurship and finance, triggering value creation across all the business and operational functions of portfolio companies.

Investor Dany Farha addresses the business model of venture capital, and what it takes to for VCs to take calculated risks investing in startups: a strong entrepreneurial team that is mission - driven.

«This means that strong teams and strong concepts can be brought to market and receive exposure to a number of venture capital firms and other investors seeking to invest in their business,» Miller adds.

Alongside team composition and a great product, venture capitalists typically consider market opportunity when deciding whether or not to invest in a startup.

It was especially refreshing to be able to steer away from the clichés and get into some very practical tips about what he and his team look for in considering a deal and how that differs from many other venture firms, which are constrained by the requirements of their limited partnership agreements and other considerations like IRR (as opposed to ultimate return on capital) as well.

Strong BDCs include a venture capital team that supports cutting - edge companies positioned in a promising market.

According to PitchBook, women founders won only 2 percent of venture capital dollars invested in 2017, while all - male teams walked away with 79 percent of the pot.

This could be an early indicator of standardization happening in the bands of compensation for CVC team positions,» said Tracy Isacke, Managing Director, Corporate Venture Capital at CVI2 charter member Silicon Valley Bank.

Our team is experienced and well respected in venture capital circles; we have successful startup investing experience and several exits.

However, in line with what we saw when looking at 2017's dollar volume breakdown between teams with and without women, the interim quarters showed a higher deal count at 15 and 16 percent of all venture deals.

NextAI is a global innovation program for artificial intelligence - related ventures, and talented teams from around the world are invited to Canada to leverage the nation's leadership in AI and are provided with capital, mentorship, education and networking opportunities.

Debby Meredith joined Icon Ventures as a Venture Partner in 2003 bringing over twenty years of start - up experience managing engineering teams with state - of - the - art practices.

Our team addresses inefficiencies in venture capital with flexible solutions for entrepreneurs, venture funds, and limited partners.

He is veteran of the venture capital industry and in 2003 was instrumental in launching Icon with its current team.

When a venture firm invests in a high - growth company, the investor expects to either be a member of the company's management team or sit on its board of directors, thereby taking an active role in the operations of the business.

In the MaRS C Suite, financial technology services teams from several institutions are collaborating with each other and with ventures across our sectors to develop new technologies,» says Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District.

With Verizon's headquarters in New York, this unique space will provide the venture development team the opportunity to collaborate more closely with our portfolio companies on a regular basis.

With Riverstone, we have often pursued investments in buyout, growth capital and strategic joint ventures with management teams seeking to build companies in the energy and renewable resources sector.

Previously, he was also a member of Makena's Private Equity team which was responsible for investments in venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts.