Sentences with phrase «by seed companies»

The problems with this include the fact that farmers have to buy new seeds every year, and that variations in landscape are not accounted for by the seed companies.

Seed produced by seed companies is generally more reliable than home grown seed because the companies try to safeguard the genetic purity of the cultivar.

Kurt's answer includes an example where the name «Pioneer» is used by a seed company and an electronics company.

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The company was founded in Menlo Park, California, in 2011 by Imri Goldberg and Nadav Gur, and has raised nearly $ 2 million in seed funding from Horizons Ventures.

• Elsen, a Boston - based platform - as - a-service company for large financial institutions, raised $ 2.4 million in a seed extension round led by Hyperplane Venture Capital and was joined by investors including Accomplice and Launch Capital.

Monsanto (mon) put on hold the launch of a chemical designed to be applied to crop seeds on Wednesday following reports it causes rashes on people, in the latest instance of complaints about a company product that was approved by U.S. environmental regulators.

On Wednesday, agricultural and chemicals company Monsanto (MON) is reports second - quarter figures that were likely hurt by the strong U.S. dollar as well as industry - wide price cutting on seeds.

Major players: L.A. - based Seed Beauty has incubated two wildly popular and trendy cosmetic companies that primarily sell online: Colourpop and Kylie Cosmetics, launched by the youngest member of the Kardashian - Jenner family.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

«I was sort of surprised that they weren't being swamped by more investors when I got in touch with them,» said Fritz Lanman, who sold his mobile recommendations company Livestar to Pinterest in 2013 and led the ClassPass» most recent financing and invested in their seed round.

For example, the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are seed funds created by Congress to help transform government - funded research into businesses; these invest about $ 2.5 billion in grants, annually, in more than 6,000 companies.

• Excision BioTherapeutics, a Philadelphia - based life science company focused on the development and commercialization of advanced gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life - threatening disease caused by neurotropic viruses, raised $ 10 million in seed funding.

This Thursday, the company announced an $ 8.5 million Series A round led by Floodgate, following an earlier $ 1.3 million seed round led by Norwest Venture Partners.

Allbirds is becoming a ubiquitous brand throughout Silicon Valley, as evidenced by the company's ability to raise a $ 2.2 million seed round of funding.

Cypher is the CEO and co-founder of Oak Labs Interactive, the company behind the interactive mirrors, which just announced it has raised $ 4.1 million in a seed round led by Wing Venture Capital to bring refine the technology and bring it to more retailers.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

By self - funding, Cavale could force INFLCR to build its own track record with its product, clients and revenues, and ultimately raise a seed round at what he believes to be a fair valuation as opposed to giving up a large piece of his new company at a discount, which is often an issue with raising money pre-revenue.

Noida - based digital healthcare company Sidqam Technologies has secured $ 1.2 million seed funding led by SQue Capital, a Mumbai - based...

Depending on a variety of metrics that measure a company's growth and development — for example, how it is acquiring and retaining customers, its revenue streams, and the amount of money it spends each month — the seed round may be followed by others.

He started an online textbook retail company while in college, served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors, and worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by Eric Schmidt.

The world's largest seed company signaled low corn and soybean prices are likely to persist beyond 2015 as it prepares for potentially reduced revenue by cutting expenses.

By selling altcoins and tokens for the purpose of financing or utilizing projects, companies that would be recognized as too risky or too small by traditional investment entities have a means to raise large amounts of seed capitaBy selling altcoins and tokens for the purpose of financing or utilizing projects, companies that would be recognized as too risky or too small by traditional investment entities have a means to raise large amounts of seed capitaby traditional investment entities have a means to raise large amounts of seed capital.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Therefore, employees receive significantly more equity by joining companies at the seed stage.

Having led Routehappy's seed round in 2012, we are excited about this individual deal, but we're also thrilled about the continued trend of aggressive, future - thinking acquisitions by old - line companies.

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

About the New Orleans Startup Fund The New Orleans Startup Fund («The Startup Fund» or «NOSF») is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) evergreen seed fund established by business and financial leaders in the Greater New Orleans area, and originally incubated by Greater New Orleans, Inc., to accelerate the growth of early - stage, innovative businesses into venture - ready companies.

Jerusalem - based biotechnology lab - grown meat company Future Meat Technologies has announced a $ 2.2 million seed investment round co-led by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods.

Wesley Clover acts as a serial Super Angel, starting companies by providing seed, early stage and follow - on financing.

Ritz dismisses worries about the monopolistic control the technology would transfer to transnational seed companies by saying anti-competitive behaviour could be dealt with by Canada's Competition Bureau.

The New Orleans Startup Fund (The Startup Fund) is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) evergreen seed fund established by Greater New Orleans area business and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early - stage, innovative businesses into venture - ready companies.

By putting a little bit of money into a company's seed round, they get a seat at the table.

Stasis Labs, a cloud - powered health monitoring company, has raised $ 5 million in its seed investment round led by RTP - Healthcare...

Now let's suppose a company raised its seed round by issuing a convertible note that had no valuation cap but did have a 20 % discount to the Series A round.

Instead, they expect an early look at any Series A financing, despite the fact that they haven't earned the right by actually being helpful to the companies they have seeded.

Expense management company Fyle Technologies has raised $ 400,000 (Rs. 2.67 crore) in its seed round led by early stage venture firm Pravega Ventures, the startup's founder Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan told Techcircle.

They were named one of Canada's «hottest innovative companies» at CIX 2010, and also received an initial round of $ 500,000 in seed money from the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), which helps grow new technology companies in Ontario and positions them for further investment by angels and VCs.

Chennai - based fintech company Kaleidofin has raised $ 2.8 million (Rs 18 crore) in a seed round led by Omidyar Network, the company...

The company was incorporated in 2014 and is backed by SEED Capital Denmark, SEB Venture Capital and Accelerace. Coinify.com platform offers blockchain currency trading and payment processing services: individuals can buy and sell blockchain currencies; and merchants can accept blockchain payments in 15 currencies and receive payouts in fiat.

Agolo has raised a number of smaller seed rounds of funding before now, but with its latest cash injection the company said it now plans to «transform the way financial service analysts do their jobs» by expanding its platform to cater to asset managers and investment banks.

The British artificial intelligence company Deep Mind Technologies, which Founders Fund seeded with a $ 15 million investment, was bought by Google in January for # 240 million.

Agolo, a New York - based startup that's setting out to help companies fight information overload through AI - powered summarizations, has closed a $ 3.5 million seed round of funding co-led by Microsoft's corporate investment fund, Microsoft Ventures, and CRV, with participation from Point72 Ventures and Franklin Templeton.

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.

After raising their round of seed capital, BitPay has chosen to establish their roots in Atlanta and build their company culture in a city known for innovation, but often overlooked by the Silicon Valley insiders.

Sundaresan is CTO and co-founder of Trusted Key, which on May 2 also announced it raised $ 3 million as part of a seed funding round led by Founders Co-Op, an early - stage venture fund, with participation from Pithia, Inc., the venture capital company of The RChain Cooperative.

Prior to MyLumper, he served as the Director of Logistics for the largest seed and garden company in the nation, followed by his next role as Founder and CEO of Track Logistics Group, which he held for 10 years before developing the electronic payment based company that offers the solution to an age - old stressor in the trucking industry.

There were startups at the summit applying the crowdfunding model to fund companies by connecting seed - stage startups with unaccredited investors (SeedUps.com) all the way to pairing private - equity ready businesses with high - value accredited investors (InvestX.com).

The capital will be used to back breakaway companies coming out of its incubators, as well as to co-invest in deals that were not seeded by Science, and it comes on the heels of a few other vehicles that Science has raised over its relatively short history.

MAA typically invests in companies in the Kansas City region and provides early - stage commercialization funding in the «seed round» investment range not typically served by venture capitalists ($ 250,000 — $ 1.5 M).

Sysomos investors include the Investment Accelerator Fund (a seed fund that assists emerging Ontario technology companies, funded by the Province of Ontario) and the GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund.