Sentences with phrase «big name investors»

It seems like all the other big name investors want is in your back pocket to show you something, but not you, your for real.

It has big name investors, including Accel Partners, Kleiner Perkins, TCV and Founders Fund.

Developers need to keep us up to date and treat us like big name investors; we've given them our money and now they need to deliver.

The bubbles, drawdowns, and mediocre, returns relative to what the big name investors like Soros and Buffet get made me question the strategy.

The ASU+GSV Education Innovation Summit is a see - and - be-seen of the edtech world, where entrepreneurs, heads of school systems, and big name investors come to learn about education product development and broker deals.

Big name investors like Dan Loeb and David Einhorn helped raise $ 6 million to fight poverty at a charity event in New York City.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports the annual Allen & Company Conference is underway in Sun Valley, Idaho, drawing media moguls, tech titans and big name investors.

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.

Not exact matches

That's the sort of potential that drew early, big - name investors, who helped urge Beshara and his co-founder, chief technology officer Khaled Hussein, toward the «fun» social rather than the «do - good» social.

· Marque players (The big name brands in your marketplace who are your customers, investors, advisors, suppliers, etc. and from whom you can get a «halo effect»)

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.

Investors are looking for bigger tech names to list on Hong Kong's stock exchange under the new rules, says Irene Chu of KPMG China.

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

They are angel investors in 52 different companies through Winklevoss Capital, but almost none are big names.

There were a few dozen of them we wanted to connect with — a big enough number to partner with and convince our investors, but also small enough so I could put a list of names on a wall.

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.

Wariness about Lucent, Rite Aid, Raytheon, Tyco, and a host of other big names has left investors not only rattled but also questioning the very integrity of the financial reporting system.

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

That digital currency has gained more than 28 percent since January 1, which one analyst says is thanks to big - name partnerships and a unique structure that incentivizes investors not to sell.

Shares dropped to $ 90.25 in the middle of May, which caused big - name investors like George Soros and David Einhorn to sell off some or all of their holdings.

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

The number of big - name investors calling a bond bear market added hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones on Thursday, following similar calls from Bill Gross, Bill Miller and Jeff Gundlach.

The startup boasts big - name investors and a 22 - year - old CEO at the helm, but its much - hyped mobile wallet app still has yet to launch publicly.

Instead, the epicenter will shift to Aspen, Colo., where Fortune will be hosting Brainstorm Tech, our annual technology conference filled with big - name executives, big thinkers, and big investors.

The company said Thursday it sold a majority stake to an affiliate of Roark Capital Group, an investor in such big - name fast - food chains such as Carl's Jr., Hardee's and Arby's.

The founder of the Binance exchange is facing a lawsuit in Hong Kong over allegations he breached an exclusivity agreement with a big - name investor.

The idea — far grander than the money itself, which is only $ 150 million to start, pocket money for most of the investors — was to assemble a dream team and create a network effect for entrepreneurs in the middle of the country to align with the biggest names in business.

To top things off, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Lightbank and Chicago Ventures are just a few of the big - name investors backing the company.

Brelion's goal is to bring together investors and developers of all sizes — through debt, mezzanine, and equity financing — and facilitate opportunities that would otherwise solely be available to corporate investors and big - name developers.

A growing exodus from hedge funds extended to two of the biggest names in the industry Tuesday, Tudor Investment Corp. and Brevan Howard, as disenchanted investors increasingly shun what was once the hottest place to put money.

Two big tech names reported this week — should investors be worried about Facebook's friendlier new stance and Apple's iPhone unit sales declines?

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.

Cai's disclosure makes him one of the few big - name investors in China to have openly disclosed their bitcoin holdings.

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 discussions may become tests of whether high - profile private companies can continue to raise new capital, even as some big names — like Snapchat and Dropbox — have seen their valuations marked down by mutual fund investors.

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.

This is true, but the big - name investors generally paid C$ 0.90 / share or less for their stakes.

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.

The bulls on the stock also point out that some big - name investors have taken significant BitGold positions.

Big - name investor Louis Navellier recommended Packaging Corp. of America (PKG), a major producer of containerboard for Amazon, during an interview with CNBC.

Many investors buy big stocks with instant name recognition.

Overseas investors, such as US and Canadian pension funds, have been buying in and big - name investors, such as Gina Rinehart (a major NAB client), continue to buy rural properties for farm expansion.

However, this report seems to suggest that it's the convincing of United's owners and investors over the commercial viability of making these big - name signings that will see more game - changing signings be made next year.

The third, VitaCoco, counts Madonna among its big - name investors.

That means those big name markets are predicted to cost investors more, but may offer less in returns.

In this exclusive report, I name 5 of these stocks that are poised to move up quickly and reward investors with big gains.

One problem for investors is that the big name indexes like the S&P 500 only track large cap stocks.

Money market funds that are offered by the big - name mutual fund companies hold billions of dollars of cash for investors.

Homebuilding ETFs are making it much too easy for new investors to make the biggest mistake of them all: taking an ETF's name at face value.