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The EFCC had last week Tuesday allegedly frozen Fayose's account numbers 1003126654 and 9013074033 in Zenith bank for alleged money laundering running into N1.2 billion being money allegedly taken from the $ 2.1 billion arms fund in the office of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Bello Dasuki.

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Culture Trip, an online travel magazine, raised $ 88 million in a series B round of funding led by the venture arm of PPF Group, a Netherlands - based conglomerate.

• BBH Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., raised $ 250 million in funding.

• Viela Bio, which spun off from MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, raised $ 250 million in funding.

Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

• Ofo, a Beijing - based bike - sharing company, raised an undisclosed amount in funding, from Alibaba's financial arm, Ant Financial, according to TechCrunch.

• Purely Elizabeth, a Boulder, Colo. company that sells natural foods, including granola, oatmeal, muesli and cereal, raised $ 3 million in funding from 301 INC, General Mills» (NYSE: GIS) VC arm.

• 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.

Matrix, meanwhile, was labouring under a working capital shortfall, which in 2013 forced it to sell off its institutional and mutual fund arms.

Tyson New Ventures already made an investment in plant - based food startup Beyond Meat, which also scored funding from General Mills» VC arm 301 Inc. «The reason Beyond Meat made sense to us is because we are focused not only on animal protein, but protein overall,» Hayes said.

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

The girl statue was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, the fund management arm of Boston - based State Street, to call attention to the role of women in corporate America and its «gender diversity index» fund.

Caspersen, a 39 - year - old former managing director at PJT Partners» private - equity arm, Park Hill Group, was arrested in March and accused of defrauding a hedge - fund - affiliated charity and an employee of the same hedge fund.

The fund used to handle marketing for all Yum brands in Canada, but turned over the duties last year as costs mounted and Yum strengthened its international marketing arm.

3D printing startup Carbon3D has raised $ 100 million in a funding round led by Google's venture capital arm.

The new fund comes after Samsung (ssnlf) changed the name of its startup investment arm from the Samsung Global Innovation Center, and opened a Tel Aviv office in September.

The startup has raised a little under $ 40 million in funding with backing from Alphabet's venture capital arm GV, among others.

SAIL Venture Partners, the early - stage venture arm of SAIL Capital Partners, and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., have set up a $ 100 - million fund to invest in companies that have developed innovative products ready for market.

In late March, HP Enterprise's investment arm led a $ 73.5 million funding round for the data center software startup Mesosphere.

SEOUL, April 4 - Elliott Advisors Limited, an arm of the activist hedge fund, said on Wednesday that it holds more than $ 1 billion of shares in South Korea's Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.

Ride - hailing service Lyft just raised $ 1 billion in a funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet's investment arm.

The custom clothing is based on 3 - D models and recently landed $ 3 million in seed funding from Stockholm - based Moor Capital, the investment arm of Kaj Hed, and Silicon Valley - based Founder.org.

• Ping An's venture capital arm (SEHK: 2318), is planning to raise up to $ 1.3 billion in two healthcare - focused funds, according to Reuters.

Among the company's investors for the latest funding round are New Enterprise Associates, Alphabet's (goog) venture capital arm GV (formerly Google Ventures), GE Ventures (ge), Future Fund, and Techtronic Industries, an investment holding company specializing in manufacturing, power tools, and related equipment.

Vox had previously raised $ 100 million in funding, including from the venture arm of NBC Universal's parent company, Comcast (CMCSA).

Koch Equity Development, the private equity arm of Koch Industries, agreed to offer Meredith $ 650 million in preferred equity to fund the acquisition.

Just five months later, the company raised another $ 16 million in a Series A funding round, which included Highland Capital Partners, Fontinalis Partners — the VC firm co-founded by Bill Ford — Signal Ventures, EDBI, the dedicated corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, and Samsung Ventures.

Over the years, he's raised more than $ 30 million in funding, most recently an undisclosed amount from Hearst Interactive Media, the media company's venture capital arm, in 2006.

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension funds with nearly $ 61 billion in net assets.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.

Highland Funds is the retail arm of Highland Capital Management, L.P. a multibillion - dollar global alternative investment manager founded in 1993 by Jim Dondero and Mark Okada.

Earlier this month, iDreamCareer.com, a career planning services portal, raised an undisclosed amount in pre-Series A funding from media company Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd's ad - for - equity investment arm Brand Capital.

In September, it raised an undisclosed amount of funding from PremjiInvest, the private investment arm of Wipro Ltd chairman Azim Premji.

Participants in the experiment included Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the fund management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Legg Mason Inc's (LM.N) Western Asset and other investors in the certificate of deposit.

Latest case in point comes from a NY Times report that de Blasio is trying to strong - arm trustees of NYC employee pension funds — who are supposed to be fiduciaries of their beneficiaries, not mayoral rubber stamps — into divesting from oil stocks:

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fFund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fundfund.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fFund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fundfund.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricaneIn addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanein grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanein need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

The two Abu Dhabi funds are similar in size and both arms of the state but are distinct entities.

A review of campaign finance records for the NRA Political Victory Fund, the gun - rights group's political arm in Florida, shows it donated regularly...

The two asset managers had discussed several options, including one in which Invesco would add Guggenheim's entire retail - investment - funds arm, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.

The council would be a national arm's - length funding agency for federal business innovation programming that is demand - driven and collaborative in nature.

Dominic is a director of the Aberforth Geared Income Trust Plc a # 200m closed end fund investing in UK smaller companies and chairs the investment committee of the # 250m Armed Forces Common Investment Ffund investing in UK smaller companies and chairs the investment committee of the # 250m Armed Forces Common Investment FundFund.

F50 and Peakview Capital, the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds (FOF) in China, hosted the F50 Global Capital Summit on Tuesday, March 29 at Sandhill Road in Menlo Park.

«It reflects the direction of travel for Standard Life,» given the company's move in recent years to build up its asset management arm and move away from insurance, said Liontrust fund manager Jamie Clark, which holds shares in the firm.

Sesame Workshop teamed up with the early startup investor Collaborative Fund to launch a new $ 10 million venture capital arm that will invest in tech startups aimed at children's education.

Prior to Kota, in 2006, Matthew launched Anvil Global Partners, a fund of private equity and venture capital funds focusing on China, India, and the Middle East - North Africa, along with the marketing arm of the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum in that region.

In a departure from its existing strategy, the real estate arm of the Canadian life insurer is looking to deploy capital via pan-Asia core funds.

Amid signs of stronger economic growth and a pick - up in inflation, as well as easier financial conditions, the Federal Open Market Committee, the policy arm of the U.S. central bank, is expected to raise its key federal funds rate in March by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 0.75 % to 1.00 %, says Ellen Zentner, Morgan Stanley's Chief U.S. Economist.