Sentences with phrase «biggest funding round»

The biggest funding round to date was raised by a startup called Circle, which raised $ 9m last month to develop services that will accelerate adoption of bitcoin by merchants and their customers.

Thalmic Labs raised the second biggest funding round in domestic startup history.

The Santa Clara, California, company landed a very big funding round earlier this year, raising a total of $ 130 million.

Chicago Ventures doesn't disclose its investments, but Larkins says he's seeing more Midwest startups receive minimal funding in the early stages, as opposed to raising big funding rounds.

And most VCs — especially those with the big funding rounds startups need to go from scrappy newcomer to world domination — are white men.

Blockstream, a bitcoin - based blockchain startup, has secured what's believed to be one of the biggest funding rounds of its type in the...

Snowflake, the cloud - primarily based information warehouse carrier, introduced a big funding round today, pulling in a whopping...

Snowflake, the cloud - primarily based statistics warehouse service, introduced a big funding round today, pulling in a whopping...

At Re / Code, Peter Kafka and Kara Swisher report that Reddit is in the process of raising «a big funding round» based on selling «less than 10 percent of the company for more than $ 50 million.»

As big players like Allaire enter the space, big funding rounds are happening too.

Not exact matches

Lacavera's fund will focus on Series A investments, the term given to the capital raise that follows an initial seed round, and will help bridge the funding gap in Canada by being faster, more flexible and willing to take on bigger risks.

In addition to catapulting EverFi into the ed tech big leagues, the fundraising round marks the debut deal for lead investor Rise, a newly established social impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, a private equity firm that has also backed Internet hotshots like Uber and Airbnb.

We discussed JP Morgan's would - be deal, the challenges of Uber's new board, CEO angst, the latest round of sexual harassment accusations in Silicon Valley and how the industry can respond, and a big new round of funding for meditation app Headspace.

With its existing funding and proof of concept, Baptiste says Onswipe was positioned from the start to be considered that program round's biggest success.

The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based venture capital firm that mainly invests in early stage software and technology companies.

The investment from DiCaprio in the Los Angeles - based startup follows recent big funding news in the meat - alternative sector with Memphis Meats closing a $ 17 million Series A fundraising round in August.

The startup's last big round of funding came in March 2014 when Intel (intc) led a $ 740 million investment, according to the investment - tracking site CrunchBase.

Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of death, because it's the biggest test for early - stage companies.

But even if a big round of funding comes through — and Reynolds remains confident that it will — the path ahead still hides IEDs of all sorts.

Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial aims to raise $ 9 b in a private funding round, which would value the company at $ 150b, making it the world's biggest start - up, ahead of Uber.

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.

We have also just completed our seed round of funding of US$ 1.1 million, which has definitely been my biggest achievement to date.

When you close that big round of funding, and it gets announced in a major publication, it's an amazing experience.

Uber's biggest U.S. competitor, Lyft, for example, was valued at $ 7.5 billion in its latest funding round in April — just one - tenth of Uber's reported valuation.

AppNexus, a cloud - based software company, is one of the biggest tech startups in New York City, following the $ 62.7 million round of series E funding it raised in April.

Many investors that put in money in later rounds aren't the typical Sand Hill Road venture capitalists, but are large hedge funds and private equity investors who have a bigger appetite for risk.

GigaOm reported Snapchat is in the middle of closing a big round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, and our sources indicate it's raising over $ 10 million at a $ 70 million valuation.

TechCrunch has learned that Patreon has closed a big Series C round of funding, three sources confirm.

«As a big fund, they did not want any angels investing alongside them or people who had already committed to invest in BHIVE Workspace in the fresh round,» he said.

In what could be one of the biggest investments in this space in India, Noida - based Attero Recycling Pvt. Ltd, which is into e-waste disposal and management, raised $ 16.5 million in its Series C round led by private equity fund Forum Synergies (India) in August 2014.

Listed on Crowdcube as a «first» combined debt and equity capital raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the «World's Biggest [funding] Round.

This week, we saw big investments coming into the Bitcoin ecosystem, notably a funding round from Kraken.

Cleaning services company Homejoy is shutting down on July 31 after struggling to raise a big enough round of funding.

The biggest number of deals in H1 was in angel and A rounds, but companies in other rounds of investments, including strategic investments and IPOs, have raised the same amounts of funds.

Start - up founders typically want to make a big PR splash when they're launching their product or closing a funding round.

A round this summer valued the company at more than $ 50 billion, a bit more than Facebook was valued at after its last big round of private capital fund - raising in 2011.

The bigger challenge appears to be finding enough money to reach scale, with our fintech roundtable reporting that it is more difficult to find second - round funding than it is first.

Industrious recently closed a $ 51M funding round, so no doubt we can expect big things from them in the upcoming months.

Airbnb's latest financing round is being led by private equity firm General Atlantic, and includes Hillhouse Capital Group, a Chinese fund manager, and Tiger Global Management, which just led a big $ 80 million financing for Postmates.

Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese fintech giant, is planning a funding round that could fetch a valuation similar to the world's biggest and oldest banks: The digital payment company is raising as much as $ 5 billion in equity that may value it at more than $ 100 billion, according to Reuters.

Silicon Valley - based big data startup Innovaccer Inc has raised $ 15.6 million in a Series A round of funding led by Westbridge Capital Partners, with participation by other angel investors.

Once again, outside groups are big players, with the Paul Ryan - affiliated Congressional Leadership Fund using digital spots to tie Ossoff to Nancy Pelosi right after he won the first round in April.

Central New York was one of the big winners in the first competitive round of funding for the councils, taking home $ 103.7 million.

Agencies receiving Year - Round funding in 2014 include: Access of WNY, Inc. ($ 10,000), African Cultural Center of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 8,500), Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brothers Big Sisters)($ 7,500), Blossom Garden Friends School ($ 3,000), Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 7,500), Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys & Girls Club of Northtowns of WNY, Inc. ($ 12,500), Boys & Girls Club of Orchard Park, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys and Girls Club East Aurora, Inc. ($ 15,000), Buffalo Urban League, Inc. ($ 12,500), Canisius College ($ 5,000), Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Inc. ($ 5,500), Child and Family Services of Erie County (Haven House)($ 10,000), Compeer West, Inc. ($ 10,000), Computers for Children, Inc. ($ 7,500), Cradle Beach Camp, Inc. ($ 12,500), Daemen College ($ 10,000), Elim Community Corporation ($ 5,000), Erie Regional Housing Dev.

Over the next few weeks the three parties will be getting round the table following on from an initiative by Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, to discuss how we can change the way party funding works to try and get the big money out of politics.

His campaign invited big donors to a new round of fund - raisers.

People Group plans to raise a big round of PE funding later this year.

In January WattPad led a $ 50 million dollar funding round and one of the big investors was Tencent, the owner of WeChat and a big investor in Snapchat and generally a huge player in digital media in China.

For some tips on how to make the most of that first big paycheck or venture funding round whenever it does come, check out the CreditDonkey guide to credit cards for business.

In terms of the private market, Prosper, one of the biggest online lending startups, will soon be closing a funding round that would decrease its evaluation by 70 percent.