Sentences with phrase «by first venture»

A new edition in Paris will be followed by the first venture into the German - speaking part of Europe.

All contributions to the VNN token will be insured by First Venture Insurance and, in case of failure, will be fully compensated.

Not exact matches

That's a classic Musk tactic: predicting future success by referring back to a previous successful venture and stating that the odds were slim when it first began.

Perth - based Volta Mining, headed by former DMC Mining founder and managing director David Sumich, is venturing into central West Africa with the acquisition of its first iron ore project.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

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Pre-IPO, Blue Apron is backed 23.8 % by Bessemer Venture Partners, 10.5 % by First Round Capital, and 6.5 % by Stripes Group.

Musk said recently he'll reveal the first details of SpaceX's Mars - colonization plan by early 2016 — a venture that he maintains is necessary for the sake of mankind.

For Merkel, 63, it was the first venture into the cyberspace populated by twenty - somethings as she seeks a fourth term in elections next month.

Koch is particularly upset that the Justice Department allowed Big Beer to bulk up, first by approving the merger of Anheuser Busch and InBev and then by allowing Molson Coors to take full control of the MillerCoors joint venture when SABMiller got acquired by AB InBev.

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

The venture will reportedly be backed by Job One, with Knockout Times, a media platform for female athletes, serving as its first advertiser.

O'Leary made his initial fortune by selling The Learning Company, a venture first called Softkey that he started in his basement, to Mattel for $ 4 billion.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

By the end of September, grocery store - goers will be able to purchase four different soups and sides, the first products to come out of the new venture, according to CNN.

Although his first venture — American Medicorp — was the victim of a hostile takeover by Humana in 1978, Miller wasted no time in founding Universal Health Services (unh) the year after.

Both of those homegrown companies built a formidable strategic advantage by being first in the Latin American market, says Alan Colmenares, who worked for Intel's venture capital arm in Mexico and Brazil and now serves as a facilitator in his native Colombia for the Founder Institute, an incubator focused on tech start - ups across the globe.

The state's first early stage venture capital limited partnership is one of three funds announced by Western Australian money managers this year, and one of two in a joint project by Cottesloe - based View Street Partners and Nedlands - based Mac Equity.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Lest we forget, James» first job upon returning home was as program manager for Blue Startups, a venture accelerator bankrolled by Henk Rogers, the man who developed the video game Tetris.

Innoventures, a $ 200 million fintech, or financial technology, venture capital fund set up by Santander, was one of a number of investors to participate in Ripple's first round of funding in 2015.

Accounting for population, Copenhagen - Malmö comes in first in the European venture capital rankings, followed by Geneva and Edinburgh.

He sold his first venture to AT&T; his second was purchased by Nokia for $ 225 million.

Doriot died in 1987, but his ideas about venture funding can be seen to this day; Intel, Apple, and Cisco (to name a few) are some of the first companies to be funded by venture capitalists.

The venture capital spigot continued to dribble rather than gush through the first half of 2009, according to data compiled by VentureDeal in Menlo Park, Calif..

GV is co-leading a $ 56 million round in SambaNova — the first bet by Alphabet's venture arm on a start - up building hardware for artificial intelligence.

Formation 8 Hardware Fund led the round, and was joined by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and return backers First Round Capital and Lerer Hippeau Ventures.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

First Round Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including You & Mr. Jones Brandtech Ventures, NYCA Investment Fund, Tessera Venture Partners, Auren Hoffman and Tod Sacerdoti.

As first noted by CNBC, the Massachusetts - based startup is also getting some healthy monetary support, adding $ 115 million of venture funds to its coffers this week.

Overall, seed is a leading indicator for venture, and it has been growing year over year in absolute dollar terms and by percent since 2009 when we first started measuring these trends.

On Deck Capital is financed by some of the nation's leading venture capital firms, including SAP Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures and Village Veventure capital firms, including SAP Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures and Village VeVenture Partners, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures and Village Ventures.

TORONTO, September 14, 2015 — North meets south at the two - day Venture North conference, kicking off tomorrow with the first - ever C100 Startup Competition emceed by Amber Mac and Bruce Croxon.

For all of 2017 and the first two months of 2018 at the time of writing, Crunchbase data has captured a total of 527 venture capital rounds and ICOs raised by companies in its bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain, cryptocurrency and virtual currency categories.

In December, Uber raised another $ 1.2 billion in a round of funding participated in by venture firms such as Benchmark, First Round Capital, and Google Ventures as well as mutual funds BlackRock and Fidelity Investments.

This new entrant is one of the first two cards from their 2013 partnership with American Express that aims to increase Wells Fargo's presence in an already crowded travel rewards field dominated by the likes of the Capital One ® Venture ® Rewards Credit Card and the Chase Sapphire Preferred.

He has also financially supported several start - ups and businesses that have been backed by notable venture capital entities including Google Ventures, NEA, Spark Capital, and First Round Capital, among others..

In the first quarter of 2016, blockchain investments had outnumbered investments in Bitcoin startups by more than five to one — a major shift from 2015 when Bitcoin startups receiving venture investment outnumbered blockchain startups by more than twenty to one.

Simple Inc., which focused on web and mobile banking and didn't charge for overdrafts or monthly maintenance, was acquired by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, or BBVA, for $ 117 million in February 2014 after raising $ 18.1 million from investors including Village Ventures, IA Ventures, First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Neu Venture Capital and Shasta Ventures.

Agari, a recipient of the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation Award and recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Security, is backed by Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Scale Venture Partners.

For the first time, founders leveraging the Side - by - Side offering have the ability to benefit both from the crowd and traditional venture investors.

This is the company's first institutional round of funding; it was led by Osage Venture Partners with participation from Greycroft Partners, MissionOG, and a handful of angels.

North meets south at the two - day Venture North conference, kicking off tomorrow with the first - ever C100 Startup Competition emceed by Amber Mac and Bruce Croxon.

Hortonworks, backed by venture capitalists including Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton, completed its own IPO on Dec. 12 and is a week away from reporting its first quarterly results as a public company.

Après, a digital - first company based in San Francisco offering a plant - based protein beverage developed specifically for premium whole - body replenishment, announced Tuesday the closing of a $ 1.1 million seed series fundraising round led by Rocana Venture Partners.

The conversation about angel money is one I have all the time with entrepreneurs so I thought it would make for a good post on understanding angel investing — how they think, how you should think and how the first round venture capital firm will think by the time the deal gets to them.

Trend line: In terms of digital health companies targeting the part of the market that is subject to regulation, our analysis found 8.5 percent of venture investment in the digital health sector by value in the first half of the year went to companies developing products or services that would likely be subject to regulation.

TRUMP TO BUILD OFFICE TOWERS IN REDEVELOPED RIO PORT By Antonio Guerrero New York billionaire investor Donald Trump will launch Trump Towers Rio, his first Brazilian venture, with an estimated $ 4 billion investment.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

Gilmartin, whose new venture was first reported by The Bridge on Saturday, confirmed her move in an interview on Sunday with The Real Deal: «I've had a great run, but it's time.