Sentences with phrase «founded by investors»

Most recently, Gemini, the New York - based digital asset exchange founded by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss added ether to their platform, making it the only digital asset offered alongside bitcoin.

The city was founded by investors across a number of industries, including cotton plantation owners, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs, and still have a diverse economy.

The city was founded by investors across a number of industries, including cotton plantation owners, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs, and still have a diverse economy.

The New York State Department of Financial Services has approved the application of Gemini Trust Company, founded by investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, to trade digital currency ether on its bitcoin exchange, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday.

The New York State Department of Financial Services has approved the application of Gemini Trust Company, founded by investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, to trade digital currency ether on its bitcoin exchange.

VAI is controlled by hedge fund Cyrus Capital Partners, founded by investor Stephen Freidheim.

Not exact matches

Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

There are a lot of reasons to create thought leadership, but let's be honest: the dream is that readers and potential investors will be so impressed by your insights and expertise they click the link in your bio to find out exactly what you're selling.

What you will find is that when an investor learns about that, they will discount their offer price for your business by the amount it would take them to make that same investment at the very least.

Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

DWNLD was founded by angel investor Fritz Lanman and Alexandra Keating.

The U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders, yet 75 percent of ultra-high net worth investors predict it will hit recession by 2020, a J.P. Morgan survey found.

Bitcoin.com - not to be confused with the non-revenue making bitcoin.org - was founded in 2015 by bitcoin investor Roger Ver, and provides a range of services related to bitcoins, including a bitcoin casino, news services and its so called bitcoin «mining pool» - the site's biggest single source of revenue - where it forges new units of the cryptocurrency to be released for trading.

It might sound like I'm talking about marriage rather than business but how you know when you've found the right investor might be answered in part by the questions asked.

«There is an immediate expectation that as interest rates go up, investors can find greater return on capital by investing it in lower - risk portfolios.»

Oops: The $ 400 juicer which raised $ 118 million in funding from the likes of Kleiner Perkins and GV might not be so impressive, Bloomberg reports: Investors just found out they can make juice by squeezing the company's produce packs with their hands, no $ 400 machine (already a drop from the original $ 700 price tag) required.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

Backed by institutional investors and often friends and family capital, search fund principals conduct a one - time search to find, acquire and then run a privately held business.

It is hard to find a winner in the coal - mining industry these days but some investors were quick to spot a Perth - based winner yesterday in the form of Wesfarmers, which saw the value of its coal assets boosted by a deal in the Hunter Valley of NSW.

Recent attempts at mega-mergers, like BHP and Potash or Xtrata and Anglo, have been found wanting by investors who viewed them as unwieldy and destructive to per - share value, and by governments and regulators who found them detrimental to competition (or politically unpopular).

Wekerle is trying to build out an innovation hub in Waterloo, purchased the El Mocambo club in Toronto earlier this year, and is an investor in Wahlburgers, the burger chain founded by the Wahlberg brothers.

If you don't have mentors or other founders who are willing to help, use LinkedIn and Conspire to find a path to each investor one by one.

Foxtrot, which was founded by two brothers from MIT and Tufts University, is currently halfway through its seed round of $ 500,000, with angel investors such as the founder of Google Shopping Express.

Founded by CEO Amol Deshpande, a former venture investor with Kleiner Perkins, FBN started as a kind of professional social network for farmers.

Those restrictions, which are the subject of an op - ed in today's Journal and a blog post last month by Fred Wilson, would raise the net worth requirements for becoming an «accredited investor,» which could make it harder for start - ups to find willing angel investors.

Actress - turned - entrepreneur Jessica Alba, founder of The Honest Company, found that out the hard way when she tried engaging with investors by using a 50 - page pitch deck.

Founded by Georgetown University classmates Nathaniel Ru, Jonathan Neman, and Nicolas Jammet, Sweetgreen has raised $ 95 million from investors like restaurateur Danny Meyer.

If you want to raise money for your business from impact investors, then help them find you by putting your company information right in front of them.

Because female - led startups are found to receive less investor funding and female CEOs are often outnumbered by their male counterparts, female entrepreneurs experience something of an underdog culture.

Since it was founded in 1977, Elliott has made gains of 13.3 percent annually after tax, only ever ending a year down in 1998 and 2008, according to an investor letter seen by Reuters.

For example, «Besides being an early investor in Netflix, Jay Hoag's Silicon - Valley - based Technology Crossover Ventures provided early - stage funding to Zillow and Expedia, two companies founded by [fellow director Richard] Barton.

Founded in May 2011 by two USC graduates, Snapchat and its founders have raised a staggering $ 73 million from investors to push its free photo - deleting text messaging service.

After all, despite being led by respected corporate lawyer Purdy Crawford, the market restructuring committee in question was put together to find a solution acceptable to institutional investors and the financial community, including the power brokers who built the ABCP house of cards in the first place.

Asian property plays are exciting, but it's commercial real estate in Europe and North America that are the most attractive to investors, a study by consultancy JLL found.

The online lender, founded by Renaud Laplanche in 2006, has decided to package its loans and sell them to investors as bonds, The Wall Street Journal reports.

This is a market hated by investors, but traders find it attractive with two 14 % moves from bottom to top every year.

Hostess, founded in 1919, was picked up from bankruptcy in 2013 by private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC and consumer industry investor C. Dean Metropoulos for $ 410 million.

The most popular metrics used by many investors are incapable of executing the most important task of any investor: finding companies with solid profit growth.

In another report, The Times showed how an employee at Palantir Technologies — an intelligence contractor founded by the Trump backer and tech investor Peter Thiel — helped Cambridge harvest Facebook data.

18 of the 20 companies in Hauser's portfolio are founded by women, highlighting her broader commitment to increasing the representation of female founders and investors.

Founded as recently as March 2016 by former executives from Tesla, Apple and Google, Future Mobility (which will now operate its EV business under the name Byton) has already garnered a huge amount of interest from investors, securing $ 200m to achieve its promise of launching autonomous vehicles on the market by 2020.

MicroVentures can help by finding qualified investors to buy your shares and by facilitating an efficient, secure, and secondary transaction on our platform.

Founded eight years ago by a Chilean entrepreneur, Sebastian Valin, ComparaOnline raised two previous rounds of funding from the regional investment firm Kaszek Ventures, and financial technology investors Ribbit Capital and Rise Capital, all of whom committed money to the latest round.

Long - term investors will also find the pot sweetened by a low expense ratio and a securities lending program that claws back some of those expenses.

Also participating in the round are an illustrious mix of angel investors including Cowboy Ventures, Crunchfund (which, for disclosure's sake, was founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington,) Yahoo chairman Maynard Webb, Facebook exec Mike Schroepfer, former Apple and J.C. Penney exec Ron Johnson, actors Jonah Hill, Lawrence Bender, and Jamie Kennedy, and rapper and investor Snoop Dogg.

Although the leaders of both countries are all too ready to pontificate upon the perils of carbon taxes, investors shouldn't find themselves getting distracted by any stump speeches.

Among 7,410 portfolio managers of U.S. open - end mutual funds, only 9 percent were women, the study released this month by researchers from Morningstar Inc of Chicago, and widely discussed at the research firm's investor conference this week, found.

It found that «the average equity mutual fund investor underperformed the S&P 500 by a wide margin of 8.19 %.

But a vacancy fee would be a concrete step towards decommodifying housing, by making it clear that the right of people to find affordable shelter is more important than the right of investors to make money by speculating on residential real estate.

To make mega-millions, I've got to scale up the business by spending more and perhaps finding investors.