Sentences with phrase «for seed companies»

Wealthy governments should facilitate the effort by funding research for crop improvements in crops that «are not sufficiently profitable» for seed companies and the private sector, he said.

Now that the genome sequence of one variety of tomato is known, it will also be easier and much less expensive for seed companies and plant breeders to sequence other varieties for research and development, he added.

This is crucial for seed companies who sell packets of seeds with a picture of a known variety on the front.

Not exact matches

Among the investors that contributed to Wiivv's $ 3.5 million seed round in December was MAS Holdings, a Sri Lankan company that is one of the largest manufacturers of apparel and footwear for brands like Nike, Victoria Secret and Lululemon.

• Billie, a New York - based razor subscription company for women, raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding.

• Elsen, a Boston - based platform - as - a-service company for large financial institutions, raised $ 2.4 million in a seed extension round led by Hyperplane Venture Capital and was joined by investors including Accomplice and Launch Capital.

A Canadian company called IC Potash changed its name last year to Belgravia Capital International, and intends to produce specialized fertilizers for cannabis firms and form partnerships with growers in Canada and the U.S. Belgravia also proposes to use «blockchain technology software» to track seed sales and quality.

• Myonexus Therapeutics, a New Albany, Oh. - based clinical - stage biotechnology company developing transformative gene therapies for limb - girdle muscular dystrophies, raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding.

While the seed - heavy, whole - grain products get the most credit for the company's rise, an open - minded hiring policy toward former convicts also contributes to its success.

Musk seeded the company last year with $ 10 million and an idea to do for solar energy what Dell did for computers.

Social responsibility is central to the operations of these companies — they know it's smart business to consider global issues and the broader community, whether it is through offering discounted loans for electric cars (Vancity) or helping to set up organic cotton seed banks in India (Zara).

Since that time, Dunn has gone on to create a $ 3 million pot empire, operating a business that sells seeds for marijuana growers, a hemp clothing company, and a brick - and - mortar store that sells pot - related accessories.

Some, of course, may be understated, others, like a video game your kids play, have to have certain stages attained before they can be accomplished, but the seeds for your company's goals all lie in the structure that you build long before the doors ever opened.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

While still working for Honest, Yeom raised $ 5.5 million in seed funding from early Honest Company and Snapchat investor, Jeremy Liew.

For more than a year, the AngelList founder and CEO has been trying to persuade institutional money managers to participate on his popular crowdfunding platform, which so far has helped facilitate $ 205 million in investment for 650 seed - stage companiFor more than a year, the AngelList founder and CEO has been trying to persuade institutional money managers to participate on his popular crowdfunding platform, which so far has helped facilitate $ 205 million in investment for 650 seed - stage companifor 650 seed - stage companies.

For Mars, which is the sixth - largest privately held company in the United States, the deal offers a toehold into a world that touts the use of almonds, chia seeds, amaranth and buckwheat as selling points.

From 1997 through 2001, the median growth rate for companies that had less than $ 1,000 in seed capital was 846 %, compared with 953 % for companies that were started with more than $ 100,000.

For example, the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are seed funds created by Congress to help transform government - funded research into businesses; these invest about $ 2.5 billion in grants, annually, in more than 6,000 companies.

Defy Ventures uses a pool of talent drawn from big companies to give inmates job skills, and even seed capital for a business.

• Excision BioTherapeutics, a Philadelphia - based life science company focused on the development and commercialization of advanced gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life - threatening disease caused by neurotropic viruses, raised $ 10 million in seed funding.

Green's firm, which is known for helping to launch wildly successful e-commerce companies like Warby Parker and Birchbox, provided seed funding for Into the Gloss.

Investment groups such as Golden Seeds and BELLE Capital USA, which bankroll women - led companies, have worked toward shrinking this financing gap for years.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

The St. Louis - based biotech agricultural company makes genetically modified seed and crop protection chemicals for farming and has 404 facilities in 66 countries.

The company's recruitment platform costs $ 995 per month per position or more, which is too pricey for a seed - stage startup.

The company, which has raised $ 1.25 million in seed capital, sells its platform as a software - as - a-service and will also charge for disputes resolved through its panels of mediators and arbitrators.

The seeds were innocently sewn a few years earlier when one of their sons became a finalist in a modeling contest for a national brand clothing company.

Bayer also said it had filed a request for approval of its planned $ 66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto with EU regulators, according to a Reuters report.

Last year, U.S. federal prosecutors investigated Allergan's promotional practices and accused the company of «vigorously» marketing the potion for non-approved (or «off - label») uses, effectively seeding the market for future approvals.

The company serves customers in three distinct markets: wholesale forage and turf; professional turf and reclamation; and seed and crop inputs for both Canadian and U.S. farmers.

Speaking at the Post.Seed Conference on Tuesday, the PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund principal offered what amounted to a critique of the generally accepted model for funding startups, wherein seed and venture investors make lots of small investments in early - stage companies in the hopes that a few will yield big payoffs.

Tushy, a company that makes bidet attachments for toilet bowls, announced on Thursday that it secured $ 500,000 in seed funding.

«Content can build a brand for you and can also help you scale that brand,» says Shaikh, who launched the company in June 2014 after receiving $ 1 million in seed funding from the E.W. Scripps Ccompany in June 2014 after receiving $ 1 million in seed funding from the E.W. Scripps CompanyCompany.

Interested researchers should consider the awards as seed funding for long projects, and Microsoft said research teams should not expect the company to continue funding the projects as they mature.

I have helped many companies develop systems for identifying and tracking this information, which provides innovation seeds capable of developing into product enhancements that strengthen the company's position in the market.

It's a science - driven company focused on solving problems like world hunger and global warming with, for instance, drought - resistance seeds, which have been gaining market share from competitors but had to be developed over years.

www.siftit.com RigUp Inc., an Austin, Texas - based tech platform for oilfield operators and service companies, has raised $ 3 million in seed funding, according to VentureWire.

• Amino Payments, a Philadelphia - based transparency and payments company for digital advertising, raised $ 4.5 million in seed funding.

In 2003, with $ 80,000 of her settlement as seed money, Schuback launched the company Independent Empowerment to sell the bib and other products customized for the disabled.

Glueck had been making the rounds for less than a year, seeding the market with all kinds of predictions based on his company's data — how many new iPhones Apple would sell, or how well McDonald's all - day breakfast launch was going.

When Helman was raising money for Realty Mogul's seed round in March, it was illegal to advertise that it was seeking funding on the company Twitter feed or Facebook page.

Toward the end of last year, I started planning for my company's reincorporation and raising of seed capital.

Therefore, because you have four times the number of startup companies finding and accepting early - seed funding, you also have four times the number of startup companies competing for series A funding later.

The 14 - person company has raised a total of $ 3.4 million in seed and Series A financing, as well as received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Energy's SunShot Incubator Program, which funds up to $ 12 million in grant money to small businesses and entrepreneurs working on both hardware and software technology that makes solar more accessible for Americans.

This is probably the best time for a startup to be raising and or seed capital since 1999, if not the best time ever when one factors in the amounts needed to build a viable company nowadays versus in a decade ago.

One of Rossiello's former associates from her consulting days provided some seed funding for BitPesa, and the company really took off after a series - A round of funding in which billionaire investor Tim Draper threw his hat in the ring.

The Seed Program emphasizes digital marketing, customer acquisition, lean startup practices, and fundraising for pre-Seed companies.

At Triangle Startup Factory, accepted companies get an initial investment of $ 50,000 in seed money with the potential for additional funding at the end of the 12 - week session.

The form of investment is dependent on the company's relative maturity with seed stage investments typically structured as convertible notes while early stage companies issue preferred equity in exchange for investor funds.