Sentences with phrase «as venture partners»

• Irfhan Rawji has joined Relay Ventures as a venture partner, where he will lead the firm's market development in Western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest

• Stephen Morana has joined Octopus Ventures as a venture partner.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

Soundpays co-founder Peter Misek first learned of sound - wave technology when he served as a venture partner and board adviser at London's DN Capital.

Then, in addition to running his own company, Cerilli joined New York City venture capital firm First Round Capital in 2014 as a venture partner.

• Nathan Benaich joined Point Nine Capital as a venture partner.

Rich has served as a venture partner at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm, since February 2005.

Erik has served as a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures since March 2011.

Oskoui is listed on LinkedIn as a venture partner at Founders Fund.

Chris also served as a venture partner at Industry Ventures where he was actively involved in the acquisition and management of secondary venture investment portfolios.

Investor Josh Elman will join Robinhood as its VP of product while remaining at Greylock, though in a reduced capacity as a venture partner instead of as a general partner like before.

«I am going to continue my role at Greylock as a venture partner, and will continue to represent Greylock on the boards in my portfolio.

I joined True Ventures in 2008 as a venture partner.

Not exact matches

That's partly because 94 percent of investing partners at venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs say, less likely to understand the potential of a business that specifically targets women as customers.

The problem, according to the plan's critics, is that financial entities such as private - equity, venture capital and hedge funds are all partnerships whose wealthy partners would see substantial tax savings on large portions of their income unless congressional tax writers find a way to exclude them.

It's within this context that I present today's newsletter: a Q&A with Myrna Soto, who has just been hired as the first female partner at Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a San Mateo, Calif. - based venture capital firm focused exclusively on digital security.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

• 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.

• 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.

Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has handled investments in a number of other healthcare companies (they are not investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.

What exact shape this venture will take, and which entertainment or technology companies might be along for the ride as partners, is unknown.

It was there that Zilis and her colleagues saw an opportunity for a traditional venture capital fund with business information giant Bloomberg LP as the limited partner.

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.

The former White House senior policy adviser for infrastructure has joined real estate - focused venture capital firm Camber Creek as a partner.

In the decade since Skype launched in Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partners.

• Three partners from Black Coral Capital, a Boston - based venture firm, are raising up to $ 400 million for an inaugural fund as partners of a new firm, Spring Lane Capital, according to an SEC filing.

Joint - venture partner Cummins, a leading engine manufacturer, and big - name clients such as GM, Volvo and Caterpillar give credibility to Westport's technology, notes Mike Newton, senior vice-president and portfolio manager at Macquarie Private Wealth.

Tesla sold its first 100 Roadsters sight unseen in just three weeks, and in July raised an additional $ 40 million from investors including Silicon Valley VCs VantagePoint Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as well as JP Morgan.

Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with women CEOs.

By the 1970s, the state got involved, doling out loans to would - be business owners, and socially oriented private venture groups, such as Northern Vermont Lending Partners and the Vermont Food Venture Center, soon followeventure groups, such as Northern Vermont Lending Partners and the Vermont Food Venture Center, soon followeVenture Center, soon followed suit.

The Firm has been a diversity pioneer in its industry and was one of the first venture capital firms to hire women as partners.

«Get comfortable with being uncomfortable,» advises Mike Abbott, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who knows as an entrepreneur and as someone whose career zigged to Microsoft, Palm, and Twitter before it zagged to venture capital.

Acting as a sort of Silicon Valley emissary to the Wall Street crowd, Bill Gurley, general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, also took the stage later in the afternoon.

Since its 2012 launch, the Toronto - based «virtual garage sale» site had raised more than US$ 34 million, including from heavyweight American funds such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Phoenix Gold will wrap up mining at its Kintore West project this month and suspend upcoming small mining projects to save money, as it shifts focus to developing its Castle Hill project near Kalgoorlie with joint venture partner Norton Gold Fields.

Local explorer Cassini Resources has attracted OZ Minerals as a joint venture partner for its West Musgrave nickel - copper project.

As Meeker, now a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, puts it, «Don't underestimate the leadership talent that develops from crisis management.»

So far, the company has raised $ 20 million from investors, such as Lightspeed Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.

In a joint venture with Enterprise Product Partners LP, the company will acquire and reverse an old ConocoPhillips pipeline from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Cushing, Okla., to go into service as soon as next summer.

As for his venture capital fund, Lowercase partner Matt Mazzeo will manage the existing portfolios and sit on several related boards.

So says Bill Gurley, partner at VC firm Benchmark of Menlo Park, California, who on Thursday posted a lengthy blog post on the new world of venture capital investing for startups as he sees it.

As a partner at High Peaks Venture Partnersand a former associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures, Davis serves as a mentor for start - up accelerator TechStarAs a partner at High Peaks Venture Partnersand a former associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures, Davis serves as a mentor for start - up accelerator TechStaras a mentor for start - up accelerator TechStars.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

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Finally, a stage - four deal is the easiest to attract funding partners, as the venture can look to either expand internal infrastructure, acquire additional capabilities, create a formal alliance with another firm, or approach potential buyers about purchasing the firm.

Most of the power lies in the hands of executives like CEO Matthew Salzberg or investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners.

Unitech Ltd, Telenor's Indian partner, has agreed to sell its share of their mobile phone joint venture in what it termed as an amicable settlement after months of dispute.

«I think we are so strong because we have strong joint venture partners, and China's very specific so I don't think alone we'd be as strong as we are.»

Coinbase and Earn.com are both backed by Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm where Srinivasan continues to serve as a board partner.

D.B.S. has also formed three separate joint - venture merchant banks with such prominent foreign partners as Sumitomo Bank and Morgan Guaranty.