Sentences with phrase «first ventured in»

Rakuten first ventured in the crypto space by acquiring a Bitcoin wallet startup named Bitnet, and since then, the company has been experimenting and working on different potential applications of the blockchain technology.

Following up on more sold - out shows in Paris, GAMEHOTEL first ventured in the German - speaking part of Europe during SEASON FOUR (2006), as it premiered to enthusiastic crowds in one of the continent's most thriving club environments, located on the shores of beautiful lake of Zurich.

The Tekken World Tour is Qanba USA's first venture in supporting a tournament series of this magnitude, and we couldn't be more honored to have our logo next to Bandai Namco's as partners.

It is Smith's first venture in scriptwriting, although White Teeth was developed into a TV show for Channel 4.

Shubert's display either has a 3.2 or a 3.7 - inch screen, where the latter would make sense in an HTC flagship handset and as a first venture in a new platform.

Stuart Johnson, Novella's predecessor, is to take up the position of general manager of the Rocco Forte Hotel in Shanghai which will open in 2018 as Rocco Forte's first venture in the Far East.

Spain's Iberostar Hotels & Resorts has set a June 15 opening for a 205 - room, four - star boutique Iberostar hotel in New York City, its first venture in the U.S. Located at 70 Park Avenue (at 38th Street), it's a short walk from Grand Central Station.

The Tekken World Tour is Qanba USA's first venture in supporting a tournament series of this magnitude, and we couldn't be more honored to have our logo next to Bandai Namco's as partners.

Skadden has plans for a Sao Paulo office too, marking its first venture in South America.

The phone is the company's first venture in dual camera technology, and is being positioned as a midrange phone in direct competition with Huawei's Honor 8.

Not exact matches

Robert Herjavec remembered Rebecca's tenacity from her first appearance, her strong business sense and was not going to be happy until he knew he could jump on board with Rebecca in her next business venture.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

Meanwhile, the first half of 2016 saw the number of precision ag venture capital deals climb 7 % from the same period in 2015, with the number of new investors in the space up 52 %.

Kimberly Trautmann, director of DRW Venture Capital, was first introduced to bitcoin during an investor meeting in 2013.

Fast - forward to today, and the Aquilini Investment Group stands shoulder to shoulder with the Gaglardis» Northland Properties in the joint venture to construct the $ 5.2 - billion Garibaldi at Squamish resort, which would be the first greenfield ski hill built in Canada since 1980.

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

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.

It will be one of the first finished offerings from Sporting Ranch Capital, the budding investment venture that Ellis started in 2012.

Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particventure capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particVenture Partners also participated.

Lin later became Zappos» first COO, CFO, and chairman, and left in 2010 to join the prestigious Silicon Valley venture - capital firm Sequoia Capital.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

A personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.

The Gawker founder has reportedly had talks in the past with billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban as well as eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, who already funds his own independent media entity, First Look Media.

This is surely thanks to BRP's rollout strategy: It ventured into the smallest market segments first, so competitors didn't see the value in developing a competing product.

What started as a personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.

With revenues from the band's winery, golf course, luxury hotel and other ventures as collateral, it can now issue bonds just like municipal, provincial or federal governments — a first in Canada for a native band.

I'd venture to say that anything is possible and we'd explore any and all opportunities that make sense for our business, but right now it's really important we get it right in our own backyard first.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

For example, Palo Alto, California - based Cape Analytics, which raised $ 14 million in its first round of venture funding in November, applies computer vision and machine learning to automate property underwriting for insurance companies.

One of the venture funds I work with specializes in seed investments: early - stage deals that are often made with young, bright, first - time entrepreneurs who've been working hard to get the chance to build their dream company.

Tesla sold its first 100 Roadsters sight unseen in just three weeks, and in July raised an additional $ 40 million from investors including Silicon Valley VCs VantagePoint Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as well as JP Morgan.

In the first nine months of the year, venture capitalists poured $ 24 billion into tech startups around the country.

That's the recommendation of Diane Vincent, a senior editor at Exam Master Corp., a publisher of medical - study tools in Middletown, Del. «Although our products were still in the development stage, we attended two fairs this past year: first a small one in Wilmington, and then the larger Mid-Atlantic Venture Fair, in Philadelphia,» she explains.

When he first made his venture public in 2002, it was still just an idea, and he insisted it was contingent upon the construction of a bridge to replace the island airport's existing ferry service — a project with many detractors, including then city councillor Olivia Chow, now the area's NDP member of Parliament.

Ryan Bethencourt, program director and venture partner at San Francisco's Indie.Bio, the nation's first synthetic - biology accelerator, says that when one applies cost reductions to Moore's Law (the concept that digital technology will increase in power at an exponential rate), the landscape of business opportunities is limitless.

For Merkel, 63, it was the first venture into the cyberspace populated by twenty - somethings as she seeks a fourth term in elections next month.

This year saw First Round, a top performing early stage venture partnership, releasing the results of ten years of investing in 600 early stage founders.

The Firm has been a diversity pioneer in its industry and was one of the first venture capital firms to hire women as partners.

Ten venture - backed companies in the first quarter came from the IT sector, while 24 were life sciences companies including biotech and health concerns, NVCA reports.

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.

A joint venture between Viento Group and indigenous - owned Kimberley Pipelines has been awarded a $ 9.8 million pipeline construction works contract for the first stage of Fortescue Metals Group's North Star magnetite project in the Pilbara..

Rainmaker was recently demoted from the TSX big board to the Venture exchange and reported $ 1.2 million in losses for the first half of 2013.

The company also hired its first chief financial officer Will Gaybrick, a venture capital investor in the company, formerly of Thrive Capital, and a software engineer.

That same year, Murphy and Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel inked their first deal with outside investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners invested $ 485,000 in a seed round, then participated in follow on funding rounds.

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.

Carlo Ferro is Executive Vice President, Finance, Legal, Infrastructure and Services, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of STMicroelectronics and has held the CFO position since May 2003, with temporary suspension during his tenure at ST - Ericsson, where he first served as Chief Operating Officer (February 2012 — March 2013) and then was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2013 to lead the re-organization to split up the joint - venture business and resources to the two shareholders and wind down the JV.

Meanwhile, in May 2012 venture - capital fund Rho Canada announced the first closing of a $ 100 - million fund for early - stage investments in mobile apps, new media, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and software.

Then, in addition to running his own company, Cerilli joined New York City venture capital firm First Round Capital in 2014 as a venture partner.

Investment dollars from venture capital firms jumped nearly 40 percent in the second quarter to $ 13.8 billion, and the number of deals increased 11 percent compared to the first quarter.

Run through the venture capital firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund has teams of college entrepreneurs in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston that scout for other promising student - founded startups.