Sentences with phrase «backed tech founders»

Morin — who's one of only 16 percent of venture - backed tech founders who are female — said she organized the event because she was «pissed off» to see that many women were missing out on a new kind of investment.

Not exact matches

Of course I fund people outside of that age range but statistically startup founders of VC - backed tech companies are more likely in that range.

Backed by a host of investors and advisors including Techstars CTO Jud Valeski and Modern Farmer founder Ann Marie Gardner, the project has plans to incubate 10 new food businesses in its first year, tackling everything from food tech to policy solutions.

It's not totally unheard of, of course: Founders of some of the biggest and most successful tech and Internet companies survived their positions through IPO — Apple back in 1980, Amazon and Facebook, for example.

In a mix of franchising and entrepreneurship, Hsieh's Downtown Project has 300 projects going on simultaneously, from new restaurants to tech startups to social science experiments — his small business founders make a salary and then 50 percent of the profit after paying their loans back to him.

It is backed by a range of well - known tech names including Google, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Kristy Catsouphes, the company's founder and CEO, was working in the tech industry and had just gone back to work after having her daughter when it became clear that balancing her need to travel for work with her decision to breastfeed was going to be much more difficult that she anticipated.

The work isn't easy; I'm sure there were many days that founder John Danner wished he were back at a tech startup.

They back unashamedly ambitious founders, building tech companies that give people greater freedom.

Back when the founders were just setting up their own companies the market for legal AI was anaemic and probably having $ 10m extra in the company bank account may not have made much difference, especially if the client base was not ready to adopt this tech.

Seedcamp is a first round fund that backs founders of tech - driven companies across several sectors, including legal.

The SEC announced on Monday that it was charging the founders of Centra Tech with fraud based on claims the company made about their suite of cryptocurrency related products such as e-wallets and major credit card backed prepaid debit cards.

The agency has charged the founders of Centra Tech with selling unregistered securities, accusing Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas of falsely claiming that proceeds from the ICO would go towards developing new technology backed by Visa and Mastercard.

Gareth Grobler, the founder of ICE3X is confident about the relevance of ether currency to traders, he says, «The two - year old system has picked up backing from both tech geeks and big corporate names like JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft, which are excited about Ethereum's goal of providing not only a digital currency but also a new type of global computing network, which generally requires Ether to use.»

Founded in 2015, Symbiont has raised a total of about $ 7 million to build out private blockchain solutions, including most recently an undisclosed amount from Hundsun, a tech firm backed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma.

At the same time, the SEC has taken legal action against the founders of Centra Tech — a scam ICO backed by celebrity endorsements from DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather.