Sentences with phrase «ventures general partner»

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Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners general partner, discusses why venture capitalists like her are cringing at the performance of tech IPOs this year.

Moreso than either government - funded labs or venture - capital - backed rivals, General Fusion has reached out to create a community of partners.

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.

He is also the general managing partner of G2T3V and Chicago High Tech Investors, both early - stage venture funds; a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ChicagoNEXT Innovation Council; and Governor Bruce Rauner's Innovate Illinois Advisory Council.

One of The Flatiron School's investors, Antonio Rodriguez, a general partner at the venture - capital firm Matrix Partners, said «a lot of hammers looking for nails in this space.»

«The bicycle industry is largely driven by enthusiasts,» says investor Brian Jacobs, a general partner at St. Paul Venture Capital, based in Bloomington, Minn. «There's not a lot of management depth.»

• D's Naturals, a Cincinnati - based healthy snacking startup, raised an undisclosed amount in funding from 2x Consumer Products Growth Partners and 301 Inc, General Mills» (NYSE: GIS) venture arm.

«Startups are ultimately a collection of great people,» says Jon Sakoda, a general partner at Menlo Park venture capital firm NEA.

The most active venture capital firms in North America during 2015 were New Enterprise Associates, General Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greycroft Partners, and Khosla Ventures.

«You've got to have a sense of purpose, authenticity, self - awareness, intellectual honesty, and the ability to navigate ambiguity,» says Hemant Taneja, managing director at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm.

Mamoon Hamid, co-founder and general partner at venture capital firm Social Capital, of Palo Alto, California, says broker - led health insurance sales to smaller businesses are probably worth up to $ 150 billion.

«Get comfortable with being uncomfortable,» advises Mike Abbott, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who knows as an entrepreneur and as someone whose career zigged to Microsoft, Palm, and Twitter before it zagged to venture capital.

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.

Perth miner Galaxy Resources has announced plans to merge with joint venture partner General Mining Corporation to create a larger lithium - focused company, in a deal worth $ 216 million.

Canadian startups aren't immune to a crunch coming from the south, warns Janet Bannister, general partner at Real Ventures, the most active early - stage venture capital firm in Canada last year.

Now you can't exit a building without tripping over one,» said M.G. Siegler, a general partner at GV, the venture arm of Google's parent company, in a tweet earlier this month, echoing the sentiments of many.

According to Sona Wang, quoted in a Crain's Chicago Business article and general partner of Inroads Capital Partners, an Evanston venture capital firm that specializes in backing women and minorities, the venture capital business «clearly relies heavily on the old - boy network.»

-- Gordon Ritter, founder and general partner of Emergence Capital, an enterprise cloud venture firm which was recently named Venture Capital Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Assoventure firm which was recently named Venture Capital Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital AssoVenture Capital Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital AssoVenture Capital Association

The eccentric general partner of the incubator and venture capital firm apologized and resigned from his role.

Lars Dalgaard, who sold SuccessFactors to SAP for $ 3.4 billion in 2011 before going into venture capital, is stepping down from his general partner role at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz to found his own investment firm.

«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.

Jessica Alba's startup The Honest Company, a subscription ecommerce service focused on providing parents non-toxic, eco-friendly family and baby products, has closed a $ 25 million funding round let by Institutional Venture Partners with participation from Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners.

Before running Earn, which lets users send and receive digital currency for replying to emails and completing tasks, Srinivasan was a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

JoyRun investor Josh Goldman, a general partner at Norwest Venture Partners, said in a statement, «Food delivery has seen only minor incremental changes to the challenging operational issues, and no previous startup had really changed the unit economics in a sustainable way.

Peter Wagner, a general partner at Palo Alto venture - capital giant Accel Partners, has seen the future ofInternet hookups for small businesses.

The 39 - year - old actor posted a series of questions on LinkedIn a few days ago with the intention of starting a «live open dialog about gender equality in the work place [sic] and in tech in general» with his partner from venture capital firm Sound Ventures, Effie Epstein.

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

Henry McNamara, a general partner at Great Oaks venture firm, liked Allbirds enough to invest, as well.

«Private valuations have become disconnected from public reality,» says Jules Maltz, a general partner at Institutional Venture Partners.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

«Let me tell you a story about a breakfast meeting I had recently,» begins Gill Cogan, a managing general partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners.

Kim is the general partner of Forerunner Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early - stage investments in companies that want to take the world of retail and ecommerce by storm.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Former Twitter M&A executive Jess Verrilli is headed to the Google - backed venture capital firm GV to become the firm's newest general partner.

In 2011, NBA star Ervin «Magic» Johnson invested an undisclosed amount in venture capital firm Detroit Venture Partners, which has invested in more than a dozen early - stage tech companies, and signed on as a general pventure capital firm Detroit Venture Partners, which has invested in more than a dozen early - stage tech companies, and signed on as a general pVenture Partners, which has invested in more than a dozen early - stage tech companies, and signed on as a general partner.

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On a recent Ventured podcast, I spoke with KPCB general partner Randy Komisar about whether or not there's a tech bubble and the consequences of raising too much capital.

Dennis Phelps, general partner of Institutional Venture Partners, led the financing.

The startup is valued at about $ 400 million, and raised $ 40 million in January in a series B round of funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Thrive Capital, bringing its total amount of venture capital raised to $ 54 million since its launch in 2013.

Marc is now co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where he's quickly become one of the most influential and dominant tech investors in the world.

Ayah Bdeir, Founder / CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder / CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder / CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown - Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co - Founder / CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder / CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder / CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder / CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder / Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder / CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder / CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder / CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder / CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder / Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder / CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co - Founder / Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co - Founder / CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder / CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman / CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder / CEO, Sama & Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder / CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President / CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co - Founder / President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder / Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co - Founder / CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc..

The Los Angeles - based company has already raised more than $ 100 million of financing from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark, Institutional Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners and SV Angel.

Joe Horowitz is the managing general partner of Icon Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.

Joe Horowitz is the managing general partner of Icon Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, Calif he helped launch in 2003.

He also co-founded General Catalyst Partners, a multi-billion-dollar venture capital firm where Michael helped develop successful startups including Upromise, SmartBargains, m - Qube and CoreMetrics.

She also talked about constructive solutions to the problem, and one of these should alarm more traditional venture firms whose general partners remain all or nearly exclusively male.

he served with KPMG from 1977 to 2002 and held a number of senior positions, including the general manager of KPMG's joint venture accounting firm in Beijing, the managing partner in KPMG's Shanghai office and a partner in KPMG's Hong Kong Office.

Fushman, who most recently was a general partner at Index Ventures, brings deep operating and investing experience to the venture team at Kleiner Perkins.

You can also qualify for special treatment if you are an executive officer, direct, or general partner of the business in which you want to make a venture capital investment.

Potential «The reality is Twitter's got all sorts of business models available to it,» said Todd Chaffee, general partner at Institutional Venture Partners and a Twitter investor.