Sentences with phrase «co-founder of venture fund»

Actor Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of venture fund A-Grade Investments, who have invested in BitPay, the payment processor that allows merchants to accept bitcoin payments.

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In the rare instances in which venture capitalists used to invest in women, they'd promptly replace them with men, says Amy Millman, co-founder and president of Springboard Enterprises, which mentors and coaches women to raise venture funding.

«With a lot of the ways banks have traditionally embraced the relationship - management side of business, they just can't reach these younger kids,» says David Unsworth, co-founder at Information Venture Partners, a Toronto fund specializing in fintech.

In the decade since Skype launched in Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partners.

The belief that venture capital performance has been poor, and a desire to diversify internationally, have prompted many institutional investors to move their money out of the asset class, leaving «fewer and fewer venture funds with less and less to invest,» says Steve Hurwitz, a Boston - based lawyer and co-founder of an annual venture capital conference in Quebec City.

Mehta was joined by Caroline Ghosn, co-founder Levo League, a networking site for young career women, Maxine Bedat, founder Zady.com, an online retailer of sustainable fashion, and Lara Galinsky, author and senior vice president of Echoing Green, which provides startup funding to socially conscious ventures.

The U.S. lawsuits said funds misappropriated from 1MDB were transferred to the co-founder of Petrosaudi, a company that had a joint venture with 1MDB, and thereafter to a high - ranking official in the Malaysian government it identified only as «Malaysian Official One.»

«In Russia, it's important to see government officials behind something,» says Dmitry Chikhachev, co-founder and managing partner of Russian venture capital fund Runa Capital.

Indeed, The Funded is just one of dozens of insider blogs on venture capital that have sprung up recently, most prominently Pmarca, a site written by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose «The Truth About Venture Capitalists,» a 4,400 - word essay posted on the site, has become a must - read for any CEO raising cventure capital that have sprung up recently, most prominently Pmarca, a site written by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose «The Truth About Venture Capitalists,» a 4,400 - word essay posted on the site, has become a must - read for any CEO raising cVenture Capitalists,» a 4,400 - word essay posted on the site, has become a must - read for any CEO raising capital.

Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems who is today a prominent venture capitalist, has publically spoken about his preference for funding young entrepreneurs on multiple occasions, the post points out.

«There are the people who just want to keep doing what they are doing, and their concern is that the new regulations will make what has always worked suddenly become legally ambiguous,» says Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Funders Club, an online venture capital firm that has been invited to comment on the changes by the White House, the Treasury and several D.C. think tanks.

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

He is co-founder of FireStarter Fund, an early stage venture fund focused on web / social / mobile investmeFund, an early stage venture fund focused on web / social / mobile investmefund focused on web / social / mobile investments.

Bart Stephens is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in the blockchain technology sector and the first to raise a venture fund through an ICO.

Brad Stephens is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the premier venture capital fund investing in the blockchain technology sector and the first to raise a venture fund through an ICO.

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.

According to a report in Reuters citing Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, the capital it raised led by Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, will help it reach its $ 250 million funding target for its crypto fund by the end of June.

Kristian is an active angel investor and co-founder of Gravity Ventures, a seed - stage venture fund that invests in tech - focused startups.

US - based Pantera Capital, a bitcoin investment firm, has shown interest in taking part in the funding round that will be led by an Indian venture capital firm, Saurabh Agrawal, chief executive and co-founder of Zebpay, told TechCircle.

Forty percent of the angel investments made by Sonja Hoel Perkins, a founder of Broadway Angels (not related to Tom Perkins, the co-founder of Kleiner Perkins), have been in companies started by women, a far greater proportion than are made by typical venture funds.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News At a funding pitch to a venture capitalist, Ben Rubenstein, co-founder of Yodle sketched out a business plan on a napkin.

He is also the co-founder of an early stage venture capital fund at the University of Oxford that seeds young companies run by Oxford alumni.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

The Irish - American co-founder of Polaris Partners, a $ 3.5 billion ($ 2.6 billion) healthcare and technology venture capital fund, has said the firm ho -LRB-...)

The company received their first round of funding in September 2012 for 600,000 dollars from LightBank Venture Capital and the co-founder of Match.com, Peng T. Ong.

Dr. Moss Lee served on the board of the Grace Lutheran School, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities.

is co-founder and former CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm based in San Francisco, CaliVenture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm based in San Francisco, Caliventure philanthropy firm based in San Francisco, California.

Previously, Carolan was the managing director and co-founder of the Seed Fund at the NewSchools Venture Fund.

The Teaching Channel's Board of Directors is made up of Steve Arnold (Co-Founder and Venture Partner, Polaris Venture Partners), Louise Henry Bryson (former chair of the J. Paul Getty Trust), Lisa Gersh (former President and Chief Executive Officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.), Ted Mitchell (President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund) and Vicki Phillips (Director of Education, College Ready, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).

He's also co-founder of Alltop.com, the «online magazine rack» of popular topics on the web, and he's the founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital fund for tech entrepreneurs.

Stromberg has held positions at a start - up called Hunch that was acquired by eBay and as an adviser at venture capital fund Founder Collective; Andrew Brown, another of the co-founders, has held positions at Google and Microsoft; and the third, Willem Van Lancker, has spent time at Google and Apple.

The latest round was led by OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of a large Canadian pension - fund manager, and included August Capital as well as previous backers Khosla Ventures, Union Square and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

«I think the gains in ethereum are part of the market's reaction to the increasingly fractured bitcoin community,» said Benjamin Roberts, co-founder and CEO of Citizen Hex, an ethereum - focused start - up backed by three Canadian venture funds.