Sentences with phrase «for most venture capitalists»

Cleantech hasn't delivered the returns expected on the timeline expected for most venture capitalists.

Not exact matches

The firm will back companies developing technologies for industrial use, rather than the consumer and business software pursued by most venture capitalists.

Rethink Impact is the largest venture capital firm in the U.S. focused on woman founders, according to Forbes, which is incredibly impactful for female founders who aren't being recognized by most venture capitalists.

DALLAS, TX — In February 2018, more than fifty pre-eminent blockchain developers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists are coming together to provide insight on where, they believe, the most lucrative opportunities for this industry lie and to show private investors how to get in before it is too late.

Venture capitalists (and other investors in startups) are neither greedy nor shortsighted, as some disappointed entrepreneurs believe; they are simply inappropriate for most start - ups.

Note the use of plurals: a venture capitalist will invest in tens if not hundreds of companies over their career, while most founders will only ever start one company; that means that for the venture capitalist investing is an iterated game.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

Indeed swap out the word «rent boys» in your last sentence for most any profession the Tories would heap praise upon i.e bankers, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists and the sentence is far more applicable.

With the exception of Tri Alpha, which secured $ 40 million in private funding (some of it from Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen) three years ago, fusion has proved too risky for even the most daring venture capitalists.

Judges for this live event are Hannah Telfer, group director of consumer and digital development at Penguin Random House UK; Dan Kieran, founder and chief executive of Unbound; and Eileen Burbidge, partner at Passion Capital and one of the UK's most influential tech venture capitalists.

Bringing new clean energy technologies to commercial scale for the first time can require hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars, and private investors are either unable to fund projects that require this much capital, as is the case with many venture capitalists, or are unwilling to lend money to projects that use first - of - a-kind technology not fully proven at commercial scale, as is the case with most banks.

A little over a year after Henrik Fisker did design work for Musk's company, Tesla sued Fisker (Jalopnik called it the world's most expensive girl fight) for breach of contract and allegedly using the design work to raise funds from venture capitalists and launch a company.

The aim of the Midas List ranking is to identify the venture capitalists who are providing the best returns for their investors, while helping create the most valuable and impactful technology and life science companies.

And for the most part, bots still depend on platforms they don't control (iOS, SMS, Slack)-- which some venture capitalists believe limits their growth potential.

One of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley is leaving the sector for political reasons.

In February 2018, more than forty pre-eminent blockchain developers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists are coming together to provide insight on where, they believe, the most lucrative opportunities for this industry lie and to show small - cap investors how to get in before it is too late.