Sentences with phrase «as venture capital investors»

Bruce is a managing director at Blumberg Capital with more than 25 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney.

Learn how Academy Member Jorge M. Torres used his scientific background to help launch a career as a venture capital investor.

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After going through a successful acquisition, and now as a startup co-founder, I can tell you there's a lot to be learned about working with angel investors and venture capital (VC) firms.

• Elsen, a Boston - based platform - as - a-service company for large financial institutions, raised $ 2.4 million in a seed extension round led by Hyperplane Venture Capital and was joined by investors including Accomplice and Launch Capital.

The number of venture capital deals declined sharply in the last quarter of 2015 as investors pulled back and got more cautious

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• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model, raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

The company has raised more than $ 230 million in venture capital since its founding, from investors such as Sigma West and Ignition Partners, and is using that money to rapidly expand its business outside the U.S.. It's well on its way: DocuSign is available in 43 languages.

This gives the new normal investor the same returns as the old normal institutional venture investor but on a much lower capital outlay.

Mittal's FundersClub, founded in 2012, isn't to be confused with AngelList or other equity crowdfunding platforms, instead functioning as an online venture capital firm where high - quality deals are sourced for over 17,000 accredited investors.

Global investor confidence grew in the U.S. in the past year but cooled in some previously hot emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India, according to a report released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Deloitte's Emerging Growth Company Practice.

Venture capital investors almost always insist on investing through a «preferred» equity instrument, typically referred to as preferred stock.

In nine years since its founding, the company has raised $ 4.4 billion in venture capital from such investors as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, pushing its market valuation to $ 31 billion.

Its investors include media company Condé Nast, which once owned Reddit and later spun it off, as well as venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia...

He was frustrated by the fact that the venture capital model, as it exists today, favors companies that can promise investors a quick exit.

Bradford even spent nine months at Sequoia Capital, the high - flying Silicon Valley venture capital firm, as an inCapital, the high - flying Silicon Valley venture capital firm, as an incapital firm, as an investor.

Since 2014 James has served as president of the Hawaiian Venture Capital Association, a professional organization designed to bring together members from the local entrepreneurial, investor and business communities to interact through educational and networking events.

With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools.

Giphy, which was created in 2013 as part of the New York - based venture fund / incubator Betaworks, got this valuation by raising a Series D funding round of $ 75 million from a series of venture capital investors.

In fact, Harvard Business Review suggests that crowdfunding and angel investors are starting to supplant venture capital as the primary source of funding for startups.

The new venture is known internally as a «long - term private capital» vehicle and it's seeking capital from sovereign - wealth funds, pensions and other big investors, the report said.

The investor's comments come amid a slowdown in venture capital investment and as the public markets have seen hardly any activity in terms of private technology companies listing.

Though many individual investors find blockchain an inscrutable technical conundrum, as vexing to understand as bitcoin, potential applications in many fields are attracting a brisk flow of venture capital and corporate development.

In fact, many venture capital investors evaluate potential partners on how they reacted to a failed business, seeing it as a test of character rather than a mark against them.

BECO Capital is a VC investor, and as such, the firm needs to generate venture returns.

It's called Costanoa Venture Capital, and Sands describes it as «an early - stage investor in cloud - based services.»

Instead, structure the investment as convertible debt: a loan that gets swapped for equity in the next big round of financing, says David Cohen, a venture capital investor and CEO of TechStars, a Boulder, Colorado - based angel fund.

Prep to make initial conversations as productive as possible by talking to entrepreneurs who have received venture capital in the past and determining what questions you should be asking investors.

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant SalesforceCapital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforcecapital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

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.

The same kind of calculation should be made if the company undergoes expansion as a result of attracting new investors or venture capital.

The fund comes during a tumultuous year for the venture capital and tech industries as they deal with sexism scandals that have resulted in the ouster of notable investors and executives at firms like Ignition Partners and startups like Uber and SoFi.

Seiff went on to found a venture capital firm, Beanstalk Ventures, which launched on the same day in 2013 as Brickwork, and became Brickwork's initial investor.

Silicon Valley venture capital firm IVP on Tuesday announced the close of a $ 1.5 billion fund, the latest in a string of massive new venture funds that are appearing as global investors scramble for a piece of the tech boom.

The new investors included VCs — such as Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz — as well as corporate venture capital and strategic investors, including Mayo Clinic and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Paventure capital and strategic investors, including Mayo Clinic and BlueCross BlueShield Venture PaVenture Partners.

Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners leads the investor group, and is joined by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, as well as Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.

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

Existing Harbor investors Craft Ventures, Vy Capital and Valor Equity Partners, as well as Future Perfect Ventures, 1confirmation, Abstract Holdings and Signia Venture Partners also took part in the round.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

The Series A funding, which allowed the company to gain $ 10.2 million, saw a number of noteworthy participants: existing investors such as 1776 and BBG Ventures, as well as new investors that include Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Greycroft Partners.

HopSkipDrive announced a newly - secured investment deal with venture capital firms UpFront Ventures and FirstMark Capital as lead invcapital firms UpFront Ventures and FirstMark Capital as lead invCapital as lead investors.

Firms such as Grofers and Peppertap, among others, have raised venture capital funding as investors have lapped on to the business opportunity.

«This will greatly benefit start - ups looking for raising venture funding not just for the money but for the other value addition that raising money from a venture capital firm brings such as direction and mentorship from seasoned investors and being able to package the start - up as an entity that has raised funding from a prestigious venture capital fund to boost investor confidence,» said Dhruva.

It includes participation from existing backers Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greenoaks Capital, while Hero Enterprise, an ambitious fund attached to motorbike and scooter maker Hero MotoCorp, joined as a new investor.

However, as I dig deeper into the names of the venture capital investors listed, it was hard to refute the quality of the people and their work, for these are not just a bunch of one - hit wonders.

If venture investors across the spectrum could pull back just a little — resist investing in that marginal deal, maybe not stretch quite as much on valuation or perhaps provide a little less capital to a financing (giving the entrepreneur a chance to build a business with more capital efficiency); it certainly would be of significant help.

While additional terms are found in a typical preferred equity financing, the few listed above serve as the primary reasoning behind venture capital investors pursuing a preferred stock structure when making an equity investment.

The founding partners of the new Seattle - based venture firm Flying Fish met as angel investors deploying capital in the talent - heavy, cash - light region around Amazon and Microsoft's corporate headquarters.

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.