Sentences with phrase «family of venture funds»

We are a family of venture funds and accelerators that invest in technology and life sciences companies.

Not exact matches

Quantopian, which has members around the world building their own automated trading platforms, was first promised some $ 250 million in funding by the the venture capital arm of Cohen's family office, Point72 Ventures, back in July.

But while the attendees might opt to keep their fortunes out of the press, they are putting those funds to work; everyone at the gathering was a limited partner, tasked with allocating large amounts of private, family - owned capital into various investments, including many of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms.

With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools.

During initial conversations with the director of alternative asset investments, it became clear that the family office was burdened with tax needs that created a unique value proposition for selling a number if its limited partnership interests in venture capital funds.

In our own fund, True Wealth Ventures, we're seeing a significant amount of new women LPs investing in our venture fund: 80 % are women — being the woman from a couple, family office or foundation who drove the investment decision.

Aside from the difficulty of finding family offices that are allocating into venture funds (most do not publish investing strategies publicly), the bar for meaningful allocations ($ 2MM +) has dramatically moved upward in recent quarters.

Through his family office LDJ Capital, has acted as GP & LP investors with his partners in fund - of - funds, realty funds, venture capital funds & hedge funds.

We provide a platform for high net worth individuals, family offices, and Venture Funds to make direct investments in a curated selection of high - growth, early - stage investment opportunities.

Ms. Meredith currently serves on the Board of Directors of the California Family Health Council, awarding grants of $ 20 million annually for reproductive health; the George Lucas Education Foundation - Edutopia, the leading voice illuminating and showcasing what works in education; and the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), where she serves as board liaison to grantee Asylum Access working on global refugee rights.

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Recent and past clients include national foundations, state departments of education, school districts, charter management organizations and entrepreneurial education non-profits — including NewSchools Venture Fund, StartUp Education, the Rainwater Foundation, the Kern Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Broad Center, Rhode Island Department of Education, Massachusetts Department of Education, Achievement First, Denver School of Science and Technology, the Ed Entrepreneur Center, Teach for America, New Leaders and Tennessee SCORE.

S.D. Bechtel Jr., Foundation The California Endowment The Chamberlin Family Foundation First5 Alameda County The Walter and Elise Haas Fund Thomas J. Long Foundation NewSchools Venture Fund Kenneth Rainin Foundation The Rogers Family Foundation Irene S. Scully Foundation The Y&H Soda Foundation The United Way of the Bay Area The Walton Family Foundation

Achievement First Inc.'s Board of Directors also includes James Peyser, a senior official at the NewSchools Venture Fund; Jonathan Sackler whose family owns PurduePharma (the maker of Oxycontin); Elisa Villanueva Co-CEO for Teach For America; and Ariela Rozman the CEO of TNTP (The New Teacher Project.)

Bluum's CEO Terry Ryan said, «this support from the highly - respected NewSchools Venture Fund is further evidence that Idaho's new school efforts are moving in a direction that will benefit our state's children and families, especially some of our currently most underserved students.»

Like the Bill & Melinda Gates and Walton Family Foundations, funding tends to focus on particular issues, and funded activities tend more toward innovation and disruption of the status quo — an approach termed «venture philanthropy» in a nod to the notion of the business sector's venture capitalism and the application of related business principles to philanthropy.

The investor type remained diverse and we observed investments from financial investors with the involvement of development banks, venture capital firms, investment holdings, family investments, angel investors and private equity funds in various transaction.

David Drake, through his family office, LDJ Capital, has acted as GP & LP investors with his partners in fund - of - funds, realty funds, venture capital funds & hedge funds.

Venture Capitalists and Business Founders invest in Business Startups, however, methods of Raising funds are changing opening up to the wider public — Venture Capitalists and Banks Vs Crowdfunding Family Offices — there has...

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It isn't easy to find white space in the world of venture capital, where every venture firm must have a specific vision to sell to the universities, pension funds and family offices that tend to fund them.