Sentences with phrase «by angel investors»

As for the smaller companies, likely backed by angel investors or trying to make it on a paper - thin budget, these companies are having a hard time getting into the core markets, and they end up in suburban locations.

It's privately funded by angel investors including Simon Crosby and Nigel Stokes.

Goat Ventures was founded by angel investors and exited technology entrepreneurs in New Zealand.

The company was previously funded by angel investors and family offices.

Accelerate Fund I provided a great entry platform for early - stage companies to leverage investments made by angel investors.

Mumbai - based daily consumables startup Supr Daily has raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by angel investors from Venture Catalysts such as Dr Apoorv Ranjan Sharma and Anil Jain.

Mumbai - based daily consumables startup Supr Daily has raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by angel investors from Venture...

In addition, your team must be open to and comfortable with receiving input provided by angel investors.

Allos Ventures invests in early - stage companies, augmenting the capital provided by angel investors who have helped the companies reach a stage at which they are ready for their first institutional financing round.

Ideaspring was started in April by angel investors Naganand Doraswamy and Prashant Deshpande along with Arihant and Amit Patni.

Companies that have been helped by angel investors include Google, Yahoo, and Costco.

DWNLD was founded by angel investor Fritz Lanman and Alexandra Keating.

The round was led by angel investor and -LSB-...]

Many of these familiar themes arose during the day's Startup Stage, judged by angel investor Brock Pierce, SilkRoad Equity's Matthew Roszak, Pantera Capital's Steve Waterhouse and bitcoin developer Peter Todd.

Apart from the signature topic of digital currencies, this book penned down by an angel investor in collaboration with the founder of a cryptocurrency asset firm also focuses on related commodities and tokens.

Some notes out of a «Breakfast with Ballmer» (in Boston no less, for you lovers of all things alliterative) showed an interesting exchange between the Microsoft CEO and a former Lotus executive.As recounted by correspondent Scott Kirsner on Boston.com: The one sparky interchange — no surprise — seems to have been initiated by angel investor (and former Lotus exec) John Landry, who...

These questions will be explored today as the conference, hosted by angel investor William Mougayar, in San Francisco — the sequel to the first Token Summit held in New York City in May — kicks off in earnest.

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Accion Venture Lab led the round and was joined by investors including Omidyar Network, Mulago Foundation, Choiseul Africa Capital, Mercy Corps» Social Venture Fund, and several angel investors.

Moving forward, seed rounds will be increasingly challenging as many angel and seed investors close up shop and capital becomes a little bit harder to come by.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.

Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Levy Family Partners led the round, and were joined by investors including Chicago Ventures, Greycroft, BoxGroup and Irish Angels.

RRE Ventures led the round, and was joined by Greycroft, Tribeca Venture Partners, and angel investors.

Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

The investment was in part fueled by a recent investment round by a small group of angel investors.

Hyde Park Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by Hyde Park Angels, InvestHER Ventures, WaveMaker Partners, Jump Investors, and Halogen Ventures.

Created with funds put up by Sohn and his CEO, serial entrepreneur John Valiton, the system garnered a design and engineering award honorarium at last winter's Consumer Electronics Show, on the heels of securing $ 400,000 from angel investors.

A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, self - made millionaire by the age of 24 and millennial himself, he is most popularly known as the co-founder of Elite Daily.

The CEO and angel investor provides sensible thoughts about customer service in a world that's being flipped upside - down by social technologies.

According to a 2013 study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire, minority entrepreneurs accounted for just 7 percent of pitches made to angel investors (13 percent resulted in an investment).

Trilogy Equity Partners led the round and was joined by investors including Two Sigma Ventures, Founders Co-Op, Fathom Capital, Techstars Ventures, and angel investors.

Start by attending as many events as possible, business clubs, angel investor meet - ups, chamber of commerce events, and any event someone might be interested in your business.

Research from the Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and the Nesta Angel Investing study, compiled by Robert Wiltbank, have demonstrated that the average angel investor produced a gross multiple of 2.5 times their investment, in a mean time of about four years.

Hyperplane Venture Capital led the round, and was joined by investors including Draper, Qualcomm Ventures, and the Hub Angels Investment Group.

Foxtrot, which was founded by two brothers from MIT and Tufts University, is currently halfway through its seed round of $ 500,000, with angel investors such as the founder of Google Shopping Express.

Those restrictions, which are the subject of an op - ed in today's Journal and a blog post last month by Fred Wilson, would raise the net worth requirements for becoming an «accredited investor,» which could make it harder for start - ups to find willing angel investors.

Some angel groups are moving the process online by partnering with Internet platforms and creating private «deal rooms,» where investors can review curated opportunities without face - to - face meetings or geographic restrictions.

VCs and angel investors get a lot of attention, but personal loans and credit, followed by investments from friends and family, are the top funding sources for startups.

Before taking questions from the audience at Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Chris Sacca, the billionaire angel investor, was asked one last question by Inc. editor James Ledbetter: What does he think of presidential candidate Donald Trump?

Backed by $ 50,000 from Spaly, $ 30,000 from Dunn and $ 750,000 from angel investors, Bonobos grew 23 percent month over month during its first year in business and generated revenue of $ 1.8 million in 2008 and almost $ 5 million the following year.

SQZ raised $ 1 million in seed funding from angel investors in 2014, followed the next year by $ 5 million in venture money from Polaris Partners, 20/20 HealthCare Partners, and two private offices.

Still, some entrepreneurs have adapted accordingly, raising funds through angel investors or by bootstrapping.

For now, technology companies like ours — who lack the crucial support of venture capitalists — are forced to rely on angel investors and the generosity of companies like Google, which just partnered with Beit Issie Shapiro to grant $ 1 million in order to donate the Sesame Enable technology to every individual in Israel whose life could be improved by such a phone.

She had acquired the capital to build the company by selling equity to a group of angel investors, who owned just over 50 percent of the stock and thus controlled the board.

By then Krissie had attracted funding from Penticton, B.C. - based angel investor Ron Francisco, who became Planet Organic's CEO and chair.

Ripple Ventures and Golden Triangle Angel Network co-led the round, and was joined by investors including MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, BDC Capital, Garage Capital, Angel One, Maple Leaf Angels, and Innovation Grade Ventures.

Our deal flow is sourced by our team and presented to our client base of new and experienced angel investors, high net - worth individuals, institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, and Registered Investment Advisors.

Because angel investors assume a great deal of risk by investing in early stage companies, applicants should be able to make a compelling case for a 10x or better return on investment within 5 years.

Also participating in the round are an illustrious mix of angel investors including Cowboy Ventures, Crunchfund (which, for disclosure's sake, was founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington,) Yahoo chairman Maynard Webb, Facebook exec Mike Schroepfer, former Apple and J.C. Penney exec Ron Johnson, actors Jonah Hill, Lawrence Bender, and Jamie Kennedy, and rapper and investor Snoop Dogg.

The IAN investment was led by Revathy Ashok, chief executive and managing trustee Bangalore Political Action Committee (BPAC) and angel investor Raj Rathi.