Sentences with phrase «big investors include»

Big investors including State Street and BlackRock, which together hold about 9 percent of Exxon shares, recently have made clear they are now giving more attention to climate issues.

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Investors include Edenred Capital Partners, Partech Ventures, Advisors.Fund, Camp One Ventures, NFX, Tekton Ventures, Big Sur Ventures and Mark Goines.

Price's dedication to making inclusive products with new and interesting ingredients has attracted big name investors including Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jay - Z and partnerships with celebrities including Mary J. Blige.

The other thing to note is that because BJK holds big positions in companies including Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts, investors might dismiss this as the «Las Vegas ETF.»

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

To nurture very early - stage companies along, Acceleprise invests $ 50,000 initially and provides a 4 - month program that includes mentorship from seasoned tech entrepreneurs, sales coaching, and introductions to big potential customers and investors.

Bitcoin.com - not to be confused with the non-revenue making bitcoin.org - was founded in 2015 by bitcoin investor Roger Ver, and provides a range of services related to bitcoins, including a bitcoin casino, news services and its so called bitcoin «mining pool» - the site's biggest single source of revenue - where it forges new units of the cryptocurrency to be released for trading.

Of course, it includes a lot of assets that an average investor can't easily buy — including big stakes in privately held companies and infrastructure facilities like toll roads and airports, to name just a couple.

That index includes 500 of the biggest companies in the U.S.; the index fund pools your money with other investors to buy shares of those stocks.

The network, which launched at the beginning of this year, has big - name investors including Derek Jeter, the retiring New York Yankee baseball player.

The duo's broader, pragmatic vision attracted big investors — including Goldman Sachs, Chinese Internet giant Baidu, and venture capitalist Jim Breyer, one of the earliest backers of Facebook.

The company, started in 2010 by former Microsoft executive Hardeep Walia, has attracted $ 126 million from some big - name investors, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Chinese social networking company Renren.

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are embracing the digital currency, including Fundstrat's Tom Lee and value investor Bill Miller, who is running a fund with nearly a third of its assets in bitcoin.

Bain Capital plans to be the biggest investor in Toshiba's chip unit, as part of a consortium that also includes Japan government investors.

NEW YORK, April 5 - Thirteen big mutual fund firms, including BlackRock, T Rowe Price and Vanguard, will soon give retail investors a new tool to assess whether they are getting their money's worth for the higher fees often charged by actively managed stock funds.

The company does not disclose the amount of funding it has raised from investors, including CoachCEO and Chairman Lew Frankfort and Jillian Michaels, a fitness trainer best known for her role on NBC's The Biggest Loser.

And funding has gotten easier: To date, Mixpanel has raised $ 77 million from investors that include big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

Bain Capital plans to be the biggest investor in Toshiba's chip unit, providing 850 billion yen ($ 7.7 billion) in equity as part of a consortium that also includes Japan government investors, three sources briefed on the matter said.

What's more, he said Coke's board is regularly in touch with investors both big and small and open to feedback on all issues, including compensation.

The possibilities include spinning off a division to investors or combining a division with a smaller public company in a way that avoids a big tax bill.

Those included a court challenge over how much of Wind Mobile was foreign - owned; struggles to negotiate tower - sharing agreements with Rogers, Bell and Telus (Rogers owns Canadian Business); and doubt about Wind's future when its biggest investor, Dutch carrier VimpelCom, revealed it was exploring «strategic alternatives» for its stake.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

Investors listed on its website include some big names in Chinese business today, such as Wei Dai, founder of bike sharing company ofo.

Not so much any more as some big institutional investors including Fidelity Investments and have taken to revaluing startups, including Dropbox, on their own rosters.

Now a group of both new and prior investors, including Himalaya Capital Management, Highland Capital Partners and FirstMark Capital, are placing a big bet that Aereo will continue to survive and thrive.

SecureWorks joins several firms looking to tap the capital markets as investor interest in them grows after a spate of cyber attacks on big companies including banks and retailers.

Meanwhile, investors, including many hedge funds, see a potential for big returns.

For instance, battery startup Stem raised $ 45 million from investors last year, including from the energy trading arm of big German power company RWE Group.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

Investors include Shark Tank Mark Cuban, who gave Carbone $ 2 million for a 20 percent stake in the company — the biggest deal in the TV show's history.

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.

If you, the investor or concerned citizen, really want to send a message to the big players in gun sales, including companies like Wal - Mart, you're more likely to have an impact organizing a campaign to not buy stuff there, rather than abstaining from stock ownership.

The Financial Times reported (paywall) that the round includes $ 60 million from some of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capital firms, including Google backer Kleiner Perkins and Uber investor Benchmark.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

So «Apollo is preparing to meet with big debt investors including mutual fund managers in several cities over the next few months to ease concerns that the firm protects its investments in troubled companies at the expense of creditors.»

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

The investment syndicate includes complementary parties such as international investors specialized in orphan drugs and corporate investors from big pharma as well as specialty pharma,» said Marc Martinell, CEO and co-founder of Minoryx Therapeutics.

AdelaideBank, a division of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, will today (Wed) announce stricter controls on apartment lending that include bigger sizes, better design, identifiable cash flows for investor / lands and more stringent calculations of a borrowers» capacity to repay.

The end of this free - flowing financial bounty, however, could have consequences down the road for investors too — including regular people who never got to ride the valuation rocket known as Airbnb to $ 10 billon and beyond, but who still have their personal assets or retirement plans tethered to big institutional investors.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

The investors included one of Uber's biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber's board.

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On the upside, Whitbread PLC shares WTB, -0.73 % jumped 7.2 % after Elliott Management said in a statement over the weekend that it has amassed a stake of more than 6 % in Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator and believes it's currently the largest investor in the company, whose businesses include the Premier Inn chain.

Its network includes global prodigy mentors and investors with specialization in the fields of IoT, Sensor Technology, big data, robotics, med - tech, education, mobile and payments and are working in collaboration with the Indo - US corridor.

The company is announcing today that it has raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding to date from numerous big names in payments and beyond, including Square and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square exec Jacqueline Reses, serial - founder - turned investor David Sacks, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, BitGo CTO Ben Davenport and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, along with The Hive, Digital Currency Group and others.

The biggest player in the segment is BigBasket, which said in March it raised $ 150 million (Rs 1,000 crore) from investors including the UAE - based private equity investor Abraaj Group and International Finance Corporation.

The million dollar list: New Crowd - sourced list provides details of Israeli Angels Photo Credit: Eden Shochat's Angel list A new list now available online includes the names of more than 100 Israeli investors, and their areas of investment interest The biggest obstacle facing an entrepreneur who's looking to raise money is getting to the right investor.

In just over three years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major international force in the equity crowdfunding industry, investing over US$ 320 million from its «crowd» of 16,000 accredited investors in its portfolio of 100 companies and five funds, which span major investment sectors including Mobility and Transportation, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Agtech, Big Data, and Robotics.

Photo Credit: Eden Shochat's Angel list A new list now available online includes the names of more than 100 Israeli investors, and their areas of investment interest The biggest obstacle facing an entrepreneur who's looking to raise money is getting to the right investor.