Sentences with phrase «as lead funder»

Revive & Restore is a hub for these efforts and the requisite work to develop them — sometimes directly, sometimes as convener or networker, sometimes as lead funder, and sometimes simply as champion.

As the leading funder of animal welfare, we're proud to fund programs that transform the lives of homeless pets as well as organizations that support the healing power of pets.

PetSmart Charities of Canada will use the study's findings to help improve its adoption program in PetSmart ® stores and make smart decisions as a leading funder of animal welfare in Canada.

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April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

NEW YORK, April 25 - Venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, as part of a settlement freeing the billionaire from possible lawsuits for having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

Founders Fund led the round and was joined by investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Pantera Capital, as well as existing investors Craft Ventures, Vy Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

He's taken a stake in TYT Network, one of the top online - video political news networks, as part of $ 20 million in funding led by growth equity firm 3L Capital with participation from Greycroft and e.ventures.

• Pilotworks, New York City - based a community of food entrepreneurs formerly known as FoodWorks, raised $ 13 million in Series A funding led by Techstars Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.

It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund over the course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.

CouponCabin's round was led by Baltimore investment fund JMI Equity, which has also invested in online firms such as DoubleClick, Adknowledge, Business.com and DoubleVerify.

Macquarie Telecom, a leading Australian provider of web hosting services, supports charity funds for youth cancer across Australia as a way of giving back to their community.

The report singles out a $ 65 million September funding round led by Disney (DIS) in VR camera maker Jaunt as one of the year's top investments.

Mehta has words of advice for the new AI entrants, he states that following the below mentioned approaches, startup owners could gain confidence while dealing with leading venture capitalists as far as raising post-Series A funding is concerned:

This has led to a competitive fee market, where, at peak trading hours, traders must offer a much higher percentage of funds as fees in order for their transaction to be processed.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

«With more states implementing tuition limits, even as state funding remains constrained, the recent credit strengthening of the financially leading publics will moderate,» the report said.

* An earlier version of this entry mistakenly identified the paper's publisher as the Center for American Progress, a think - tank affiliated to the Action Fund and led by top Democrats, though it is officially non-partisan.

Until now, however, it has done so only as an institutional investor at later stages in the life cycle of companies, and has never led a funding round, Isenman told Entrepreneur.

The target cuts, in turn, can lead to increased contributions from employees and their employers to fund the pension systems as their reliance on investment returns decreases.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

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.

But without specific numbers as to what percentage of his investment went to women and / or minority - led startups (as opposed to funds), we have no way of knowing how effective these efforts are.

The leading reward - based crowdfunding site, Kickstarter, has a 35.85 percent success rate as of July 2016, and Indiegogo's is even lower, at 9.8 percent overall and 17.1 percent for fixed funding.

This is apparently the same gear that Magic Leap execs showed investors, such as Alibaba (baba) and Google (goog), in the lead - up to its $ 793 million Series C round of funding earlier this year.

«My role was to take the software I had built, addressing problems such as Lehman's had on the capital market side, and showing it to large banks and hedge funds and trading desks, and explaining to them how this technology could lead to more well - informed decisions,» Poirier says.

Ashton Kutcher and Michael Arrington, for instance, led Zaarly's seed round of funding in March, and LeVar Burton and actress Demi Moore, serve as advisors.

HopSkipDrive closed a $ 10.2 million Series A funding with venture capital firms UpFront Ventures and FirstMark Capital as lead investors.

With 80 per cent of Nova Scotia's publicly funded research, and as one of Canada's leading universities for industry collaboration, we're helping generate the talent, discoveries and innovations that will shape Atlantic Canada's future.

The company is debuting with $ 6.25 million in new funding from Benchmark Capital, led by Uber and early OpenTable investor Bill Gurley, as revealed first to Fortune.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

A good example is the operation of U.S. money markets — as noted in the recent Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) report, we still have some of the vulnerabilities in the wholesale funding markets that led to the Fed's intervention: triparty repo, and the risk of money market mutual funds breaking the buck.

Investors include leading university endowments, financial institutions, funds of funds and family offices, as well as a substantial capital investment from Shore's partners.

But it is Wintour's role in promoting fashion and luxury goods manufacturing as an important US export business, coupled with her growing political fundraising acumen (according to the Obama campaign, she is a «top bundler», raising more than $ 500,000 for the Obama Victory Fund) that led to speculation she is eyeing a political position.

John Ruffalo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System, and one of Canada's leading pension funds, recently stated: «I believe that the technology community knows how good Canada is as a hotbed of technology.

Cairngorm Capital's investment, from its first fund Cairngorm Capital Partners I LP, is representative of its ethos of actively partnering with management teams to provide operational expertise as well as financial support to accelerate growth in industry leading companies.

Leading that pack is Magic Leap, which has gotten $ 592 million from investors like Google, as well as Lensar, with $ 131 million in funding, Nantmobile, with $ 110 million in funding, and Jaunt VR, with $ 100 million.

** A Hong Kong - based activist investment fund said Toshiba Corp's chip unit was worth as much as $ 40 billion, double the sale price agreed with a Bain - led consortium, as it escalated its opposition to the deal.

The investment website is the primary way you are soliciting funds, and as such needs to clearly lead potential investors through the offering process.

In addition, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its Global Financial Stability Report, warned that a «wholesale dilution or backtracking» of existing regulations in the U.S., coupled with deep tax cuts, could lead to dangerously high financial risk - taking such as we saw pre-2008.

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As a privately held company with an estimated $ 125 million in annual revenue, Birchbox secured a $ 60 million round of Series B funding led by Viking Global Investors, and is now valued at $ 485 million pre-money valuation.

The support on the part of Chinese investors to help fund tech companies comes as some of China's leading technology players are seeing brisk business.

New Orleans has earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading startup hubs, and in 2014, the New Orleans Startup Fund created PowerMoves.NOLA to be intentional about growing an inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem in the city.

The Institute expects funding ratios to improve as interest rates increase, leading more and more plan sponsors to consider buy - outs in the next few years.»

According to the Boston - based trading platform Quantodian, funding female - led businesses makes economic sense as those companies often perform better than others.