Sentences with phrase «as portfolio companies»

Though it has largely focused on investment in Nigeria for a number of reasons, Yembra said GreenHouse is open to other African countries, especially as its portfolio companies scale to other regions.

Three startups featuring on the Legal Geek Startup Map joined Nextlaw Labs as portfolio companies: Apperio, Clause and Libryo.

Insofar as portfolio companies own income - producing real estate (as many TAM portfolio companies do), the real estate accounted for under IFRS is carried at an appraised value based on appraisals by independent appraisal firms; under GAAP income producing real estate is carried at depreciated historic cost less impairments.

We have extensive experience advising on sales to strategics and private equity firms as well as portfolio companies of private equity firms.

She is an observer or serves on the board for various non-profits as well as portfolio companies.

Capital is advanced as portfolio companies present compelling opportunities and successfully execute their plans.

Not exact matches

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Or it could be as widespread and unexciting as a tired coffee - buying experience, which Blue Bottle Coffee, a Google Ventures portfolio company, is helping to address.

Perhaps the search giant is actually tempted to follow the example of older companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm which, as their capacity for product innovation fades, have turned to their patent portfolios as a new revenue stream.

«As a leading brand offering safe, responsibly - made, premium essentials for families and homes, The Honest Company is and always will be committed to progress and innovation across our expanding product portfolio.

Investors should be aware that SOCL uses a committee - based approach to select its portfolio companies, as opposed to the rules - based methodologies that dominate most of the ETF industry.»

He's also the firm's lead on such promising portfolio companies as Clearpath Robotics, and video analytics and hosting firm Vidyard.

Mathers previously served as CEO of CoLucid Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CLCD), a Pappas Capital portfolio company that was acquired in early 2017 by Eli Lilly & Company for nearly $ 1 bcompany that was acquired in early 2017 by Eli Lilly & Company for nearly $ 1 bCompany for nearly $ 1 billion.

The portfolio includes companies such as Thesis Couture, Mars Reel, and Tinsel.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

At least one portfolio company has reacted: Havenly, a startup backed by Binary, reportedly asked Caldbeck to step down as a board observer.

If companies trading in that market were to be listed on MSCI's index, that would attract more foreign investment to the Chinese firms as fund managers rebalance their portfolios.

He wrote that both Combs and Weschler, who Buffett has indicated are likely to take over managing the bulk of Berkshire's massive stock market portfolio when he leaves the company, had «handily» beaten the market, as well as Buffett's own performance, for the second year in a row.

• The Riverside Company acquired Kii Naturals, a Canada - based maker of all - natural artisan crackers as an add - on for portfolio company NuStef Company acquired Kii Naturals, a Canada - based maker of all - natural artisan crackers as an add - on for portfolio company NuStef company NuStef Baking.

To be fair, Buffett himself isn't responsible for picking all the stocks that Berkshire owns, as his two deputies, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, are now managing large portfolios of their own at the company.

While BlackBerry's earnings fall and its market share evaporates, the company's portfolio of patents could be what's most valuable to a potential buyer as litigation among smartphone makers heats up.

Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.

It's his personal experience, though, that such interactions between startups are more likely to occur within small, trusted networks such as that of Techstars or between a venture capital firm's portfolio companies.

You won't get the same quarterly disclosure of the underlying assets» performance as with pure - play public companies, says Richard Nield, a portfolio manager with Invesco.

«At a time when we are moving forward as a company, a charge of this magnitude from a legacy insurance portfolio in run - off for more than a decade is deeply disappointing,» GE CEO John Flannery said in a release Tuesday.

The bad news keeps piling up for General Electric shareholders as the company announced worse - than - expected insurance portfolio results.

Just as the company's BlackBerry became ubiquitous, so, too, did the stock proliferate inside Canadian investors» portfolios.

Margie Patel, a senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Funds, said that she expects to see little to no effect from trade tariffs and has been adding to companies such as PNC Financial Services that have sold off in the market downturn.

«I think at the end of the day that virtually all of the «trade war» effects will be negotiated away and the true economic impact on industries as well as specific companies will be very small, so I haven't factored the impact of any trade war considerations into my portfolio,» she said.

As an example, Crowder points to Catalyst Fund portfolio company Quad Learning, which works with community colleges to offer affordable education for students earning a bachelor's degree.

(However, TIAA — which offered its first SRI product in 1991 and described itself as «a pioneer» in the field — launched its TIAA Personal Portfolio account last June «with the Gen Y audience in mind,» according to a company spokesperson.

Arena's portfolio includes companies such as ClassPass, Plated, Reserve, and Laurel & Wolf.

He sold the privately - owned business to Liz Claiborne Inc. in 2001 as the U.S. fashion company was looking to diversify its portfolio.

As for Uber — likely the most valuable company in Benchmark's portfolio — Gurley is still waiting for it to go public.

An ESG investment is an investment in a portfolio of companies that have been screened for certain criteria, such as a fossil free portfolio, or an index of companies that seek to improve their environmental and social performance year after year by embracing ESG as a business strategy.

Or so bets Venrock's Bryan Roberts, whose 20 - year record as a healthcare venture capitalist has involved hearing some 25,000 pitches and shepherding nine portfolio companies with billion - plus dollar valuations.

(DST CEO Yuri Milner is a scientist by training and it seems he views Facebook as a catalyst he'd like his portfolio companies to touch.)

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The worst performer in Buffett's portfolio was DaVita (dva), the health care dialysis company that treats patients with diabetes and whose stock has been punished by uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Dixson suggests that the most basic thing is to have a website that serves as a mashup of a consulting site, a portfolio with proof - of - performance content, and blogs from company leaders packed with relevant key words.

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

Glenview's Larry Robbins also lost more than $ 23 million in his hedge fund, as his pro-Obamacare bets on healthcare companies turned sour: Hospital Corporation of America (hca) stock dropped 11 %, losing him $ 127 million; and Tenet Healthcare (thc) stock plummeted 25 %, taking another $ 90 million from Glenview's portfolio.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

The company sees its enterprise portfolio, and particularly its cloud - computing efforts, as the connective tissue that will link the rest of the company's products and services.

As Hock Tan, Broadcom's CEO, said in a statement: «This complementary transaction will position the combined company as a global communications leader with an impressive portfolio of technologies and products.&raquAs Hock Tan, Broadcom's CEO, said in a statement: «This complementary transaction will position the combined company as a global communications leader with an impressive portfolio of technologies and products.&raquas a global communications leader with an impressive portfolio of technologies and products.»

But they will also be given the opportunity to enter less tapped markets such as litigation finance and real estate, artificial intelligence, customizable portfolios driven by themes like health, and companies founded by Tesla's Elon Musk.

Bank of America, whose CEO infamously referred to its SBA portfolio as a «damn disaster,» lent $ 136.1 million in 2008; in the first quarter of 2009, the company only doled out $ 3.3 million.

VMware, long seen as the crown jewel in majority - owner EMC's (emc) portfolio (the data storage maker acquired the virtualization company in 2004 and then spun it out in an IPO in 2007), is facing uncertainty.

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.