Sentences with phrase «by high profile investors»

Coinbase is one the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world and its backing by high profile investors like Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz has given it a certain amount of respectability.

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Meanwhile, the company is still waiting for approval on its deal to buy Plus500, after warning investors in the middle of last month that it was being delayed by «the high profile nature of Playtech's acquisition of Plus500.»

For Theranos, these kinds of endorsements were made by a number of high - profile investors, such as software giant, Larry Ellison, and a prestigious board, which included high - profile lawyer, David Boies, and former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger.

Following demands from high - profile, activist investor Carl Icahn, fast - growing payments business PayPal will be a standalone company by mid next year.

The company is backed by a number of high - profile investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Foxconn, GV, Greylock, and Qualcomm Ventures.

uBeam, a high - profile startup backed by some of Silicon Valley's most prominent investors, has become a tech - industry sensation because of the wireless charging technology it claims to have in its labs.

Using a personality profiling methodology, the company — formed by high - powered right - wing investors for just this purpose — began offering its profiling system to dozens of political campaigns.

Various investment schemes perpetrated on investors in Canada and the US, the most infamous being the high profile fraud committed by Bernie Madoff, make us all ask the question, are my investments safe?

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

The remainder of the financing was completed by high profile angel investors.

Take away: The firm had to price its IPO at the bottom of expectations because investors are not very attracted by some fast - rising firms after big losses in recent high - profile IPOs.

A resolution submitted by an investor who lives in New York and London would require Apple to put more «people of color» in such high - profile roles to increase diversity.

Weiss Ratings has warned investors about the dangers of Tether, the high - profile cryptrocurrency startup that has been summoned by U.S. regulators to appear in court.

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 adviser is able to generate a significant marketing benefit by presenting high - profile and capable operators as part of its team, but it is the investors who are unknowingly footing the bill.»

The negative yield environment created by the ECB's QE program pushed investors to find higher yields in countries with higher risk profiles.

As a result, there is a pack of private companies, fueled by high - profile investors, looking to make commercially - viable fusion into a reality.

According to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Founders Fund — co-founded by the high - profile investor Peter Thiel and based in San Francisco — is now backing a startup named Tagomi Systems Inc., which boasts a mission to serve as a broker - dealer to optimize bulk bitcoin trading orders for high - value clients.

The negative yield environment created by the ECB's QE program pushed investors to find higher yields in countries with higher risk profiles.

The excess returns earned by stocks that fit value criteria (low multiples of earnings and book value, high dividends) and the success of some high - profile value investors (such as Warren Buffett) draws investors into the active value investing fold.

Meanwhile, well documented flurries of investor activity around emerging platforms like VR — and a handful of high - profile acquisitions by non-gaming companies — reasonably give the layperson a sense that making games means having money thrown at you.

However, once again engagement with the best practices proposed by the TCFD and backed by many high profile investors remains limited.

There are some observable shifts in finance that might facilitate incremental steps towards sustainable development, such as a growth in green bonds, large - scale investments in renewable energy and transport systems, high profile campaigns by large institutional investors to divest from fossil fuels, as well as commitments in the G20 to remove fossil fuel subsidies.

Apperio is backed by leading investors Notion Capital, IQ Capital, Seedcamp as well as a number of other high profile investors and industry players including Nextlaw Labs.

The round was led by a group consisting of high - profile investors, including Japanese - based HR and information services company, Recruit Holdings, the owner of Indeed.com.

Having worked together for a number of years, our team has now been supplemented by dedicated high profile PE and leveraged finance lawyers in our Frankfurt office, enabling us to provide high quality services across jurisdictions and disciplines to international as well as domestic financial investors and financing parties.

Fisker already has raised over $ 1 billion in loans, grants and equity by April this year and is backed by high - profile venture capital investors such as Advanced Equities, Kleiner Perkins, NEA and A123.

Weiss Ratings has warned investors about the dangers of Tether, the high - profile cryptrocurrency startup that has been summoned by U.S. regulators to appear in court.

Last year, the SEC failed to approve a high - profile bitcoin ETF backed by billionaire investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

High - profile Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) investor Jeremy Liew and Blockchain CEO Peter Smith estimated Bitcoin had a real chance of trading at $ 500,000 / BTC by 2030.

It is backed by high - profile investors including Lachlan Murdoch, Peter Gammell, Margaret Jackson and Catch of the Day founders Hezi and Gabby Leibovich.

Ether prices experienced only modest movements on 9th May despite the high - profile launch of trading support for the digital asset on Gemini, the digital currency exchange owned by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

Considerable press has been given lately to high - profile real estate acquisitions made by foreign investors, particularly those from China.