Sentences with phrase «first investor»

Roger Ver became the world's first investor in Bitcoin startups in 2011, seeding many of the most recognizable brands in cryptocurrency today.

The president of First Investors Life Insurance Company is Carol Springsteen, the treasurer is, and the secretary is.

It was the company's first investor day under Flannery, who succeeded Jeff Immelt in August.

Brainard agreed, becoming the fund's very first investor.

The suit, filed last month, claims that Steinberg was one of Eaze's first investors back in 2014, but that he sought to shop shares in the privately held company last year.

First investors lost billions on Theranos Inc..

First Investors Life Insurance Company is a Life insurance company and has assets of $ 1,011,132,298, capital of $ 2,538,162, and net surplus of $ 117,125,847.

Ahead of the public offering date, Spotify executives including CEO Daniel Ek appeared at the company's first investor day to present the company's future growth plans.

We have just launched our pre-sale round with several cyber-security professionals and CISOs already becoming some of our very first investors.

Although «First Investors Financial Services» knew they were reporting inaccurate information to the credit reporting agencies they refused to correct the errors.

From flying drones around her farm to collecting old computers to being one of the first investors in Google, the iconic domestic goddess has a penchant for technology.

Blum became one of the company's first investors and also contributed to the most recent round of funding.

Moehn said that Ameren Missouri was the first investor owned utility in the state — and one of the first in the country — to «announce a carbon emissions goal of this magnitude.»

Once that happens, I think the floodgates will open and I will be one of the first investors when it gets a federal mandate.»

One of the co-founders of Delrina was the first investor in Wattpad.»

The Idealz co-founders have been supported by Dr. Tan, founder and Chairman of Singapore - based Vickers Venture Partners, who is best known for being the first investor in Baidu, often referred to as China's Google, back in 2000.

And he suggests that even that could have lucrative perks: «It is very well known in our organization that if anyone stepped out to start their own company, I'd be their first investor and advisor.»

Dr. Tan is best known for being the first investor in Baidu, often referred to as China's Google, back in 2000.

This boldness and clarity of vision may have turned a few investors off, but it attracted the attention of Cheetah Mobile, one of the world's largest mobile platforms, and its CEO, Fu Sheng, who went on to become one of the first investors in the platform.

In fact when we were trying to do our first investor deck we had to create a total addressable market.

Hague credits much of her early success to her first investor, Ladies Learning Code founder and HackerYou CEO Heather Payne.

«Entrepreneurs who do business in the black will never be able to sell their companies,» says Carlos Adamo, one of Santiago Bilinkis's first investors and a founder of Aconcagua Ventures, a seed investment fund in Buenos Aires.

Debbie Cook, the former mayor of Huntington Beach, California, was one of the first investors: «I thought, How can I invest in something that will actually be an asset for as long as humans exist and grow their own food?»

Accel Partners was Cloudera's first investor and owns 16.3 % of the company, followed by Greylock Partners, which owns 12.5 % of Cloudera's shares prior to the IPO, the filing shows.

But go by its recent boom — and a forecast by Snapchat's first investor, Jeremy Liew, that it will hit $ 500,000 by 2030 — and nabbing even a fraction of a bitcoin starts to look a lot more enticing.

He became our first investor,» says Battaglia.

[As for FeeX], Blumberg was the first investor, and Horizons came a little bit later.

While their experience in Haiti gave the co-founders the germ of their idea and their first investor, they didn't dive right into creating the Triomi EKG.

The valuation isn't a concern for Albert Wenger, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the first investors in Foursquare.

The university was also instrumental in helping the fledgling company find its first investor, Robert Barnes of Alchemy Partners.

He talks with his wife about what shoes to wear to his first investor pitch

was one of the first investors who placed an emphasis on a company's research and development capabilities.

With the foresight to recognize that the Web was going to change the world, Chris became the first investor in Internet Capital Group, one of the early Web - based B2B businesses.

And if I weren't simplifying the math, I'd show you that the first investors get even more shares since they have a discount to the next round.

We meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers.

The most straightforward way to do the deal and what most people do is to issue the first investor 4 times more shares than the ultimate equity investor to adjust for the 4x discount in price (ie if I give you 4x the shares it's the same as though you paid 25 % of the price for the shares).

Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist who was one of Facebook's first investors and is close to President Donald Trump, has reportedly invested millions of dollars in Bitcoin through his Founders Fund venture capital firm.

While there might be other e-commerce players in the market, all indications show that Flipkart and Amazon together could be monopolistic,» said the first investor cited above.

«The instant we partnered with Theresia as one of our first investors, I knew I had a collaborator I wanted on my team long term.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire, NEC was one of the first investors to focus on clean energy and infrastructure assets.

He is a consumer Web superstar (among other things, he was the first investor in Skype and played a major role in the emergence of Skype as a powerhouse).

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EVP were our first investors and supported our vision as we built the company through the twists and turns.

«Most founder — CEOs have this belief that their vision of the universe will prevail and everyone else's vision will lose,» says George Zachary, a partner with Charles River Ventures and Thrun's first investor.

The following year, the company opened its first Investor Center to make its services more readily available to the everyday customer.