Sentences with phrase «by leading firms»

Recent financial crises demonstrated that certain financial models used by leading firms turned out to be very wrong.

Designed by leading firm Studio Munge, Citizens also offers a vast selection of beers as well a full - service bar to complement the decadent fare.

The villas, designed by leading firm KNA Design, blend various architectural styles with an eclectic mix of furniture and décor, resulting in the appearance of a worldly collection of styles worthy of a well ‐ travelled aristocrat.

advising a UK bank in relation to negligent advice provided by a leading firm of accountants who had advised regarding compliance with FCA and other regulatory requirements

Not exact matches

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

In March, the company announced a $ 35 million Series B round led by VC firm Playground Global, which brings the company's total funding to $ 45 million.

The new round of fundraising, led by venture capital firm Traingle Peak Partners, is worth $ 26 million.

Paired with some of the lowest interest rates on record, one might have thought these firms would have rewarded Ottawa's kindness by leading an economic turnaround.

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

That's a function praised by Jeff Jordan, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who led the venture firm's early investment in Tilt.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

In March of 2017, Ripcord announced that it had raised a Series A round of $ 9.5 million, led by legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Wozniak himself.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model, raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

He's taken a stake in TYT Network, one of the top online - video political news networks, as part of $ 20 million in funding led by growth equity firm 3L Capital with participation from Greycroft and e.ventures.

Shares of pioneering CRISPR gene - editing firm Editas fell 7 % in early Tuesday trading after the company announced that it would delay an initial FDA filing for clinical trials of one of its lead drugs, LCA10, to the middle of next year (Editas had originally planned to file by the end of 2017).

From there he accepted a lead engineering position at another early - stage tech firm — PayPal co-founder Max Levchin's social media company Slide, acquired by Google in 2010 for $ 228 million.

Leading RegTech specialist Harry Toukalas will be revealing how his firm's AI tool can predict misconduct in financial services.This ground - breaking technology developed in conjunction with MIT analyses email communication patterns and psycholinguistic analysis of email content to flag up issues such as mis - selling, cyber security and fraud.The Blackhall & Pearl tool already being used around the world by more than 40 organisations is eight times faster than other methods.

Led by the strategist Bram Kaplan, the firm's equity derivatives team has five trade recommendations — one that applies to the whole US market and four addressing single stocks.

• Noodle Partners, a New York firm that helps colleges decrease the cost of online higher education, raised about $ 14 million in Series A funding led by Owl Ventures.

• Twin Brook Capital Partners was sole lead arranger of $ 131 million of financing to back an add - on acquisition by and recapitalization of The Wicks Group - backed Gladson, a Lisle, Ill. - based digital content firm.

This is the third time the government services firm led by veteran Alex Hernandez (second from left) has landed on the Inc. 5000.

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.

Doug Mackenzie, a fan of Edmark's products and a partner at the prestigious venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, obliged by leading a round of equity investment that put $ 5.5 million into Edmark's coffers, paying the market price of $ 10 a share.

He debuted it before 36 VC firms over the summer and scored $ 60 million from four new sources — led by Mesirow Financial in Chicago — and five repeaters.

According to research done by one of Pychyl's grad students Matthew Shanahan having a less firm sense of the one leads to more of the other.

These are just the ones I could find that are produced by and feature VC firms and their partners — people whose full - time job is to invest in startups and thought lead.

Arrington suggests that one of the investors involved could be the newly - formed Andreesen Horowitz, a venture firm led by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape.

Raider managed to raise $ 4 million in seed funding led by New York venture firm Thrive Capital.

At the Pool is closing a $ 1 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Clearstone Venture Partners and has overhauled its platform with many new features.

• An investor group led by Stone Point Capital and KKR (NYSE: KKR) agreed to acquire a majority stake in Focus Financial Partners, a New York - based wealth management firm, for around $ 2 billion.

At Denver - based Inspirato, a critical part of its latest $ 20 million funding round, led by tech - savvy firms W Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Millennium Technology Value Partners, was its plan to open five «experience centers» in upscale U.S. malls.

Startups to watch: Led by a crop of firms such as Long Island City - based Aereo, which provides over-the-air television for mobile devices, startups are capitalizing on the myriad industries headquartered in Queens.

Adapting services to include new digital platforms is a key focus for the major players in Perth's communications sector led by Cannings Purple, which has maintained its top spot on the Business News ranking of the state's largest public and investor relations firms.

In - store dining and prepared foods from grocery stores led to 2.4 billion food - service visits and $ 10 billion of consumer spending in 2015, according to a recent report by industry research firm NPD Group.

Investors in these start - ups run the gamut, but leading the pack are Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, DST Global (the VC firm led by Yuri Milner, the Moscow - based tech entrepreneur) and Andreessen Horowitz.

CouponCabin's round was led by Baltimore investment fund JMI Equity, which has also invested in online firms such as DoubleClick, Adknowledge, Business.com and DoubleVerify.

A former gold mining company led by Peter Gunzburg has announced plans for a reverse takeover and backdoor listing of a Swiss biotech firm.

«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one - time hurricane effects and the focus on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.

And they're especially successful when founders lead the way: Studies show that founder - run firms tend to outperform others by a considerable margin over the long term.

Companies led by a family member were particularly good bets, producing better returns than both widely held firms and those that were family controlled but managed by someone outside the clan.

They're led by Mattress Firm, based in Houston, which made $ 2.5 billion in 2015 revenue.

Friedman notes that leading investors such as Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater, called Bitcoin a «bubble,» while Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has criticized non-flat cryptocurrency, which is currency not backed by a government.

Georgia's eight black - owned Inc. 5000 businesses — led by BasiQa, a marketing technology firm at No. 960 — posted $ 44.4 million in 2014.

The investor group, led by American private - equity firm Silver Lake, now has to figure out how to convince more Skype users to actually pay for the communications service, all the while fending off Google, which is becoming a major competitor.

-- based leadership training firm Lead by Design knows a woman in her 50s with a master's degree in IT sciences who recently interviewed for a tech position.

A new report about virtual reality released on Monday by market analyst firm PitchBook explained that advancements in the technology underpinning today's smartphones have led to a huge push to develop new virtual reality products.

The capital was raised through a Series B round, the second stage of financing for a company, and was led by European venture capital firm Draper Esprit.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Trapped by mortgages for apartments built on barren steppe under communism, residents of Sayanogorsk, one of a string of towns dominated by Rusal, have few options if a loss of customers for its aluminium leads the firm to cut jobs.