Sentences with phrase «about raising funds»

Sharp's Response - ability ™ Program is all about raising funds for Charities.

PBS NewsHour talks to Justice Edwin Cameron about raising funds to conserve and maintain South Africa's Constitutional Court art collection, which was first assembled 20 years ago with the arrival of democracy and the founding of the court.

But now that the housing market and the broader economy are healing, Fed officials are talking about raising the funds rate.

Hugh, How about raising funds for a cause.

Many parents have mixed feelings about raising funds door - to - door.

«They feel passionate about raising funds for their chosen charity and really support each other to do well.

Blume Ventures managing partner Sanjay Nath said that, while the quality of entrepreneurs had improved, many founders were obsessed more about raising funds and not about their products.

Yesterday, I wrote about the Securities and Exchange Commission's vote to lift the ban on general solicitation, an 80 - year - old rule that prevented entrepreneurs from speaking publicly about raising funds for their businesses.

VC John Frankel of ff Venture Capital wants to answer your big startup questions about raising funds, meeting investors and pitching.

If you are thinking about raising funding through the new 506 (c) general - solicitation rule, make sure you first consult with a securities attorney.

Not exact matches

Navigator Resources» struggle to raise funds has ended for the worse with administrators called in and about 200 workers being laid off.

Find other entrepreneurs who have raised funds for their mobile app in the initial phase and speak to them about their experience.

While investors asked about it, it didn't hurt the fund - raising effort.

It was seen valuing Aramco at $ 1 trillion to $ 2 trillion and raising about $ 100 billion to underwrite an expansion of the kingdom's public investment fund.

• B2X, a Germany - based provider of customer care services for smart mobile and consumer IoT devices, raised 6.25 million euros (about $ 7.7 million) in funding.

Alternative ways of raising money are increasingly available, and crowd - funding has for instance raised more than # 1 billion for UK small and medium - sized enterprises last year.Of course, don't forget to inquire about the regulation in place in your country, and get professional advice to mitigate risk.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

• Noodle Partners, a New York firm that helps colleges decrease the cost of online higher education, raised about $ 14 million in Series A funding led by Owl Ventures.

• Nexar, a San Francisco - based technology company building a mobile application that offers insights and alerts about surrounding cars, raised $ 30 million in funding.

Lytro had raised about $ 215.8 million in venture funding from investors including Blue Pool Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Qualcomm Ventures, and NEA.

Funding: Reserve hasn't disclosed how much money the startup has raised, but a spokesperson told TechCrunch that Reserve is «pre-Series A» and has about 30 employees.

So, if you're thinking about raising capital, you need to be aware of the current traction milestones for each series to avoid accidentally stack ranking yourself right out of your chances for funding,» says Goldner.

The new funding of about $ 3.5 million brings Sunflower's total capital raised to $ 6 million.

GoPigeon had raised about $ 1.5 million in venture funding from investors including Nexus Venture Partners.

Sunflower Labs has raised about $ 6 million in venture funding from General Catalyst and Stanley Ventures for self - flying security systems.

Before seeking venture funding, the company should raise about $ 1 million and bring in some helpful angels.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Ljung confirmed on July 12 that he's in the process of trying to raise more money for the company after he was asked about a rumoured $ 250 million (# 193 million) funding round.

Specialist materials technology company Alexium International Group has raised about $ 8.45 million in a placement to a US private investor to fund development of its fire - retardant chemicals project.

Nedlands - based pharmaceutical company PharmAust has raised about $ 3.1 million in an oversubscribed placement to fund clinical trials for its cancer drug.

Programs such as the U.S. Small Business Administration's Patriot Express helped veterans fund their businesses, and also raised awareness about entrepreneurship among veterans who didn't necessarily seek funding.

New research from Female Founders Fund confirms a trend that first popped up about six months ago: Relative to women entrepreneurs raising money in other parts of the country, women in New York are killing it.

Female Founders Fund estimates that even before the very recent venture capital slowdown, an entrepreneur's chances of raising an A round to follow a seed funding were only about 30 percent.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

More often than you would expect, a manager of a private equity fund looking to raise capital tells us a story about a business that, in the words of the fund manager, does no marketing.

Cineworld said it expected to fund the deal through a rights issue to raise about 1.7 billion pounds ($ 2.3 billion), with the rest provided by committed debt facilities and existing cash.

Failure to meet targets and pressures on funding prompted the downgrade last week by Moody's, which said Tesla was likely to raise more than $ 2 billion in new capital, partly to cover about $ 1.2 billion in convertible bonds due by March 2019.

MADRID / LONDON, April 20 (Reuters)- The private equity funds of Blackstone and Apollo are the only two bidders left in the sale of Spanish gaming hall operator Cirsa, raising doubts about whether the sale will go ahead, sources familiar with the matter said.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

This crock has pretty much imploded over the last few years, although I sense a creeping rebirth when I hear the President talk about how the JOBS legislation is such a triumph of democracy since pretty soon every Tom, Dick and Harry will be able to buy and own cheap stocks, and raise money through new and virtually unregulated crowd - funding vehicles.

MADRID / LONDON, April 20 - The private equity funds of Blackstone and Apollo are the only two bidders left in the sale of Spanish gaming hall operator Cirsa, raising doubts about whether the sale will go ahead, sources familiar with the matter said.

While consumers may have also benefitted from the stock market's Trump rally via their holdings in mutual funds and 401 (k) s, it didn't quite translate to their paychecks: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS), U.S. workers earned a median wage of about $ 43,380.48 in 2016 — a 2.8 % raise, or $ 1,214.65.

But while the nonprofit, nonpartisan lobby group says it represents the interests of small business owners, some Democrats are raising questions about both its funding sources and its tax status.

First of all, it started raising money for the first time and wound up with about $ 163 million in funding.

Whether you're looking to raise some funds or invest in a project, here are some things to know about platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

We asked her about the process of raising startup funds from complete strangers online.

The startup launched in January and has since raised about $ 9 million in funding.

She has become a staunch advocate for raising awareness about brain aneurysms and increasing funding for research, establishing «The Sharon Epperson Chair of Research» through the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to provide grants for research on early detection.

While Cambrian Genomics just raised $ 10 million in seed funding, it was on the verge of securing an even large amount — until the company's name started appearing in articles about misogyny in the tech industry.

Only about 700 of Kickstarter's over 45,000 successfully funded projects have raised more than $ 100,000