Sentences with phrase «early backers include»

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Other investors in the current round include Archina Capital, Adidas, General Electric and JSR Corp. along with Carbon's earlier backers, Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Kraftwerk and Reinet Investments.

The duo's broader, pragmatic vision attracted big investors — including Goldman Sachs, Chinese Internet giant Baidu, and venture capitalist Jim Breyer, one of the earliest backers of Facebook.

The financial platform — which nabbed $ 17.5 million in funding earlier this year, with backers that include former Citigroup, PayPal and JPMorgan Chase execs — boasts a 98 percent customer - retention rate, Shinar says.

On Monday, Fiance is officially launching the House Fund, having raised $ 6 million from only backers with ties to Cal including early Uber investor Shervin Pishevar and Redpoint Ventures founder Jeff Brody.

Other investors in the deal include GV, Polaris Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Spectrum 28, Asset Management Ventures, Charles River Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Allen and Company and earlier backers Data Collective and Founders Fund.

Last week, Instagram, which has just a handful of employees, closed a financing round worth more than $ 50 million with several prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, an early backer of Google, Thrive Capital, the firm run by Joshua Kushner, and Greylock Capital, an early investor of LinkedIn.

Naspers Ventures led the round, joined by the company's earlier backers Drive Capital, Huron River Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, SV Angel and individual investors including Y Combinator president Sam Altman.

General Assembly was worth $ 440 million after its last, $ 70 million investment round, according to a report in Axios, which means that early stage investors will see a nice return on their investment while many later stage backers — including Wellington Management and Fresco Capital are looking at some pretty flat returns.

The proposal approved has a «one share, one vote» provision that would strip Uber's earliest backers of some of their voting power, including Kalanick, Uber's founder, and its largest investor, Benchmark.

Yesterday, three members of Congress from New York City — including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, an early backer of Barack Obama in 2008, and a prospective mayoral challenger to de Blasio in 2017 — added their names to the list of Clinton endorsements.

Many of those developers, including the principals on the Hotel Syracuse project, were among Walsh's earliest financial backers when he decided to run — a point that has caused some grief from critics and opponents.

Backers recently received Steam Early Access keys that includes a prologue (with a round of an optional tutorial) and a short campaign.

Plus DIGITAL SOUNDTRACK + early access to private BACKER community forum (including exclusive production updates).

ALPHA INSANITY: Get access to the even earlier ALPHA, plus everything from the $ 70 tier: the beta, the released game on PC or Mac, digital download of the soundtrack, the digital art book including concept art and production art, access to the private discussion community, your name in the credits level, the limited edition poster, plus access to the special backer - only vehicle.

DOUBLE ALL DIGITAL: Both copies get access to the even earlier ALPHA, plus everything from the $ 50 tier: the digital download of the soundtrack, the digital art book including concept art and production art, the beta, the released game on Windows, Mac, or Linux, access to the private discussion community, 2 names in the credits level, plus access to the special backer - only vehicle.

THE MECHANIC: Early access to the «Mechanically Challenged» mini-games + Early access to the beta version of Blackspace + Developer diary updates and videos showcasing progress in Blackspace only for our Kickstarter backers + Included in Blackspace credits under «Mechanics» + All previous rewards unless marked as «exclusive reward»

To launch the device, Toronto - based Better Current has turned to crowdfunding with an Indiegogo campaign, where early - bird backers can reserve the first of the Jenni units with a $ 229 pledge (MSRP $ 349), which will include a Hub, a Solar + window panel, and a charging dock insert.

The list of investors and advisors is a strong one and says a lot about the company's ambitions: in addition to lead investor Lerer, backers include SV Angel, Index Ventures, Betaworks, Seedcamp and angel investors Taavet Hinrikus (early Skype employee; founder of TransferWise) and GroupMe co-founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.

Google has been a backer since the platform's early days in 2012 and Ripple's development team include many who worked on Bitcoin, as well as OpenCoin bigwigs Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb.

Angel investors from venture capital firms, Qualcomm Ventures and Techstars, as well as industry leaders in the technology security space, including Cockroach Labs, Ionic Security, and Pindrop Security, are among the early backers.