Sentences with phrase «first big fund»

Investible, a fund that has relied on a group of «super angels» to back early stage start - ups is halfway through closing its first big fund, claiming it is outperforming other local VCs.

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ure out a way to say this,» starts entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who was Facebook's first big investor, thanks largely to Parker, and who later brought on Parker at his VC firm, Founders Fund.

Canadian startups are enjoying more and bigger venture capital deals (in the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investments reached $ 838 million, nearly double what they were for the same period the year before), but the VC community, lacking size and versatility, is not keeping pace with their funding needs.

The former Dropbox executive raised $ 140 million for her first fund and says that while bigger funds have a clear advantage when it comes to leading the largest deals, her dual focus — A.I. and diversity — gives her a leg up.

(Reuters)- Blackstone Group LP has secured $ 17 billion from investors for its latest global private equity fund in just seven months, the biggest so - called first close of a buyout fund ever, according to people familiar with the matter.

First introduced in 1996, it's the biggest mutual fund offering investors index exposure to equity markets around the globe.

Investors pulled $ 15.1 billion out of hedge funds in the first quarter, the industry's biggest withdrawal since the recession in 2009, according to Hedge Fund Research.

Fortune spoke with Brad Loncar, an independent biotech investor who launched the first - ever cancer immunotherapy index fund last year, about the biggest winners out of ASCO and which cancer drug hopefuls you should keep an eye on going forward.

It will help fund expansions into European markets like Germany, where they hope to secure first - mover advantage, and a big push in the coming weeks and months to better establish the Kobo brand on its own, rather than as a component of Indigo or struggling Borders Group.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

The CCPA today released my report: â $ œThe Big Banks Big Secretâ $ which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks. The report bases its estimates on publicly available data from CMHC, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, as well as quarterly -LSB-...]

Listed on Crowdcube as a «first» combined debt and equity capital raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the «World's Biggest [funding] Round.

Some 15 years after the country carried out the biggest sovereign default ever, and 13 years after the hedge - fund billionaire first sued for repayment, the two sides reached a settlement late Sunday.

Some big names took stakes in Snap during the first quarter, including billionaire George Soros» hedge fund, activist hedge fund Jana Partners, Daniel Loeb's Third Point and Daniel Och's Och - Ziff Capital Management.

CFO Michelle Jablko said short term funding costs had picked up in recent weeks, but didn't have a big impact in the first half.

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Interestingly, it is the first time a big global buyout fund has teamed up with an Australian private equity firm to buy an asset.

The world's biggest wealth fund is for now sticking to an overweight position in the shorter bond maturities as the U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield has broken through the 3 percent threshold for the first time since 2014.

«There's been a lot of focus on U.S. interest rates, but in the other main markets, it's been pretty stable, you haven't had the big rate changes,» he said in an interview in Oslo following the presentation of the fund's first - quarter report on Friday.

Legendary investor Jim Rodgers made his first big score in the 1970's, when he co-founded the Quantum Fund with then - partner George Soros.

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The bigger challenge appears to be finding enough money to reach scale, with our fintech roundtable reporting that it is more difficult to find second - round funding than it is first.

In the first three trading days of the year, investors yanked $ 1.2 billion from the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, VFEM.LN +0.07 % the biggest emerging - markets exchange - traded fund listed in the U.S., according to data provider IndexUniverse.

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In this fund administration special, we bring together five top tech experts to answer the big technology questions facing private equity firms; look at the administrative strain GPs are under; consider the implications of Brexit for UK fund managers; explain how the outsourcing model is changing; consider the challenges faced by CFOs; explore the issues involved in raising a first credit vehicle; plus much more.

The first, and most ideal, is to just pass a big bipartisan spending bill — called the «omnibus» — that funds the government.

The first is that in the fallout from the doping era, there are fewer sponsors willing to fund big races.

Still 3 players short of being serious tittle contenders another cb, dm and striker all needed not convinced wenger will buy 3 players maybe 2 max but believe 1 of them will be a big signing only thing prob holding up deal is champions league qualification first hope its reus we have chance as dortmund appear to have changed there stance in whether they can keep him would be a fantastic signing and still leave funds to cover other 2 positions we really need to make these signings if we are to have any chance of challenging in all competitions!

Jose Mourinho has ran out of patience with a number of his first team squad and has received the backing of Blues owner Roman Abramovich to make big money moves in both of the next two transfer windows, though moves for high profile additions will be in part funded by player sales.

Wenger is ready to offload a number of his first team squad and will look to bring in significant additions to resolve «problem area's he has identified and has the funds to mount big money offers to help land his primary target.

Agencies that can raise the funds are spending more money for food, building shelves in their pantries, moving to bigger buildings, taking on summer food drives for the first time - and praying.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Professor Paul Boyle, Chief Executive of the ESRC said; «We are delighted that the next phase of funding for this Big Data initiative has been announced, which builds on the success of the first phase.

Once again, outside groups are big players, with the Paul Ryan - affiliated Congressional Leadership Fund using digital spots to tie Ossoff to Nancy Pelosi right after he won the first round in April.

One of Rep. Chris Collins» first major legislative efforts took a big step forward, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved his bill establishing a grant program that aims to fund innovations being created at the nation's universities, research institutes and laboratories.

«Labour has the policies to build a fairer Scotland for the many not the few, with a # 10 - an - hour minimum wage, a ban on zero hour contracts, a jobs first Brexit deal, and taxing big corporations and highest paid five per cent a bit more to fund our schools, hospitals, emergency services and social care.»

Central New York was one of the big winners in the first competitive round of funding for the councils, taking home $ 103.7 million.

Like most incumbents, Mr. Rivera enjoys a bigger campaign fund — he has more than $ 53,000 compared with Mr. Sepulveda's $ 15,500 — but Mr. Sepulveda, in his first run for public office, raised more money from January to July, according to the latest campaign filings.

Geron was bigger and better funded than ACT, and it was the first company to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test a therapy in humans based on embryonic stem (ES) cells.

The biggest scientific breakthroughs developed at JCVI — including sequencing of the first genome, the first microbiome sequencing, and creating new synthetic life were funded outside the traditional grant system.

The pulsar — first spotted using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope at Green Bank, West Virginia, by high - school students participating in a workshop funded by the National Science Foundation — has an orbit twice as big as that of any previously known double - neutron star system.

I started horseback riding my sophomore year of high school (way too late to do anything cool as a junior rider like go to Maclay finals or show in Florida... ignoring the fact that I never had the funds to do the big shows in the first place).

A gang of gun - toting goons have staged a daring, big - money rip - off at a high - society fund - raiser for the state's first black candidate for governor!

The Time's Up initiative, unveiled on New Year's Day and signed on by 300 prominent Hollywood women, is designed to address gender inequity in the workplace and provide a legal defense fund for women who have suffered sexual harassment or assault, but its first big impact was seen at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, where virtually every woman attending wore black..

The National Funding Formula (NFF), the biggest improvement to the school funding system for decades, will ensure that for the first time funding is based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the cFunding Formula (NFF), the biggest improvement to the school funding system for decades, will ensure that for the first time funding is based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the cfunding system for decades, will ensure that for the first time funding is based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the cfunding is based on the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country.

Individual schools will lose or gain hundreds of thousands of pounds in the first year of the biggest shake - up of school funding in England for decades.

Considering the increase in funding for charter schools and the probable outcome of Malloy's «Commissioner's Network» program, Achievement First may very well be the entity that is the single biggest winner from Malloy's bill.

First, the CTU and its backers are sure that the $ 665 million hole in the budget, that the school board intends to cover by draining its cash reserves, is easily plugged and in fact may be manufactured by CPS: «my biggest worry», said one commenter, «is that you use all of these reserve funds and you hit zero next year so that you use that rationale to say «we don't have any more money»».

Nor do I understand why our House Speaker and Senate President don't see the hypocrisy in speaking against big money buying votes (NEA) while both of them are personally funded by big business money (Education First).

First, it dished out cash to researchers with interesting ideas, becoming, on its creation, by far the biggest funder of schools research in the country.