Sentences with phrase «first raised last»

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In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Last summer the company raised $ 4 million in an early funding round led by First Round Capital and RRE Ventures.

The company last raised $ 40 million a year ago, news Fortune covered first.

Highlighting the difficult state of Norwegian's finances, the airline last month raised $ 168 million in a share sale after warning of a larger than expected first - quarter loss.

«I have no doubt that you recognize the significance of your new role, but your stated opposition to strong net neutrality rules raises serious concerns about your commitment to honoring the First Amendment,» Franken said in a statement last month.

The Fed raised interest rates last December for the first time in nearly a decade, and at that time projected four more hikes in 2016.

Last fall, the B.C. government also became the first foreign government to issue bonds into the Chinese RMB market, issuing a one - year - term bond that raised about $ 428 million Canadian.

Founded in 2009 by three MIT students frustrated by the prototyping options they found outside their space in the MIT Media Lab, the company raised $ 2.94 million last October in a Kickstarter campaign for its first product, the Form 1 Printer.

Its first Kickstarter campaign raised half that last year.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

Some campaigns experience immediate and wild success — like the one for OUYA, a gaming console, that raised more than $ 2 million on its first day on Kickstarter — while others develop over time, reaching their goal only in the last few hours.

Sterling tumbled further, hitting a low of $ 1.3715, as the dollar gained and investors further trimmed expectations that the Bank of England would raise rates next month following weak first - quarter GDP data published last week.

The company has raised $ 11 million and posted its first revenue last year.

Last quarter was the best quarter for blockchain and bitcoin VC funding on record, more than doubling the amount raised in the first quarter and up 89 % year over year, according to CBInsights.

Founders Fund, investors in Facebook and Space X, last week announced it had raised $ 625 million for its fourth fund, larger than the first three funds combined.

The Securities and Exchange Commission late last month issued its first warning for the many entrepreneurs who have been raising money by creating and selling their own virtual currencies in what are called initial coin offerings.

Last week, ed - tech startup Byju's raised $ 50 million (Rs 332 crore) in a round co-led by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, marking the first investment of the philanthropic foundation of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan in Asia.

The Fed began gradually raising rates in December 2015, making the first of six increases through last month's meeting.

The largest offer ever on the Seedrs platform, this may be the first publicly traded company leveraging the new form of capital raising but in Seedrs opinion it will not be the last.

Seth has raised $ 100m over the last twenty years, has sold two companies, co-founded Turntable.fm and was Fred Wilson's first EIR.

Over the last few month, Virgin Hyperloop One managed to raise a lot of money both through their new partnership with Virgin and a series C investment round to bring their first full system to market.

Last year, $ 6.5 billion was raised through ICOs, according to Token Report, and it looks as if that amount will be exceeded in just the first few months of 2018.

First, I outlined how oil companies had finally retreated from full - speed - ahead capex increases, looking to raise production into an oil environment that hadn't been able to support it for the last two years.

The company raised $ 500 million in their last round in November, which was on top of the first $ 500 million Wish raised two years prior.

Also, the Bank of Canada last week raised rates for the first time since 2010 and markets expect an October rate hike.

On average, US companies raised some $ 12 billion a month in the second half of last year, compared with more than $ 30 billion in the first half, according to HighYieldBond.com (see chart on page 41).

(The Fed raised rates for first time since forever last month.)

The value of equity raisings over the first nine months of this year was around 60 per cent higher than for the same period last year.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen last week signaled the U.S. central bank is on track to raise rates this year, despite a weak first quarter that some analysts believe could force the Fed to wait longer before starting its first tightening cycle since 2004 - 2006.

CaixaBI raised $ 2 billion in 12 bond deals in 2013, and, in Portugal's first IPO in five years, the Lisbon - based bank was a global bookrunner for the IPO of Portugal's postal service, CTT - Correios de Portugal, last December.

The two development firms, helmed by Stephen Ross and Allen Gross, respectively, issued draft prospectuses last month seeking to raise a sum estimated to be more than $ 200 million on the Tel Aviv stock exchange, Israel Real Estate News first reported.

The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, raised rates for the first time in nearly a decade last month and has said it will remain «data dependent» when determining future rate hikes.

Last summer Extell and Brookland raised a combined $ 305.5 million through on bond offering on the Tel Aviv exchange, the first time U.S. - based developers went to the Israeli market seeking funding for domestic projects, as The Real Deal reported.

The company has raised its dividend each of the last 15 years — most recently a 10 % hike from $ 1.82 per quarter to $ 2, which was announced last September and first paid in December.

The ASX query came after analysts also raised concerns following last week's earnings downgrade because just a month earlier QBE provided upbeat commentary, simply noting that «our internal review of the first - quarter performance continues to indicate our ability to execute against these targets for 2017.»

The IPO will be the largest in the space since MedReleaf Corp. went public last summer, raising $ 100 million in a disastrous IPO that saw prices fall 22 per cent on the first day of trading.

Last month, the Fed modestly raised its benchmark short - term rate for the first time since December 2015, when it had raised it after keeping the rate at a record low near zero for seven years.

StartEngine is one of the first applicants to begin the process to become a registered Funding Portal with the SEC and, when available in February, will apply to become a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) under the historic rules which were approved last October and will go into effect on May 16, 2016, allowing entrepreneurs to raise up to $ 1M per year via equity crowdfunding from all investors.

Last night Yale's campus pro-life group — after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization — became the first group in living memory to be denied membership in the Social Justice Network of Dwight Hall.

That's doesn't include Obama's first year deficit budget, which was a carry over deficit from W's last year in office and was over by $ 1.3 Trillion and the debt ceiling was raised.

Joseph Knippenberg raised a serious concern at First Thoughts last week about the way University of Central Florida professor Charles Negy reacted to students arguing for the validity of Christianity.

Speaking to Premier last month she said an important part of her role was raising the profile of faith in society: «One of the first speeches that I gave in government was that this government would do God.

This cartoon raised quite a flurry when I first published it just after leaving the ministry last year.

Following its unique «Equity for Punks» programme last year, which raised # 750,000 of capital and made BrewDog the first company in Europe to have an online only public share offering, the innovative company is now -LSB-...]

Last year, the event raised more than $ 2.5 million, and since the first National Pancake Day, the program has raised nearly $ 8 million.

If he can raise his blocks per game from last year's number of 3.7 into the 4.0 + range, he will definitely get some first place votes.

Campbell was impressive at last summer's World Cup in Brazil and that raised hope that finally, he would be able to break into the first - team picture ahead of the 2014/15 campaign.

There were the New York Jets last week — undefeated, alone in first place in the AFC East, rolling behind a flashy quarterback from Alabama by the name of Richard Todd and favored to whip the winless Seattle Seahawks and raise their record to 3 - 0.

Much like all the footballers that took last season by storm, the bar will be raised, like your Leicester's who spend their first season being praised for staying up if they struggle in the same way next season, people will condemn them for their lack of progress.

Granite Xhaka saved us last night, i'm not a great fan of Xhaka but i thought the game changed as soon as he come on, on Wilshere i have been his biggest supporter but last night he let me down badly, he made no space for himself he was just out for the fresh air, i thought Sead had a lousy game to even do he scored, it was a sad night for Arsenal supporters and football to watch that, there were plenty of alarms raised when we played Ostersunds FK in the first leg in the second half, AW should of known better to prepare his team and should get off his ass and shout a bit from the side line like all passionate managers do when they send a message to their players