Sentences with phrase «from leading investors»

Document workflow platform Athennian has closed a $ 550,000 funding round from leading investors and has secured PwC Law — the Canadian tax and immigration law arm of PwC — as its first global customer.

The VC firm closed its third fund of $ 74 million in November 2015 with the backing from leading investors such as Rockefeller Brothers Fund, JP Morgan Chase and Omidyar Network.

As the Director of Business Operations and Customer Relations, she was responsible for growing a stealth company into an industry - defining brand, driving new global business opportunities with strategic partnerships, and playing a critical role in securing Skybox's venture capital financing from leading investors and eventual acquisition by Google in 2014 for $ 500M.

In May, Sea Machines Robotics announced that it had raised $ 1.5 million in seed financing from lead investor Launch Capital, along with Accomplice VC, LDV Capital, the Geekdom Fund and Techstars.

While the financial and other support from a lead investor can materially assist the micro VC fund manager for initial fund - raising and capital deployment, the anchor investor may negotiate for and receive preferred economics for the current and future funds and may insist on additional rights and restrictions with respect to the fund and its investments.

But then I got a call from my lead investor (coincidentally it was GRP Partners where I now am a partner) and they told me not to lose confidence.

Announced today, Republic Protocol has officially completed an initial coin offering (ICO) for its REN token, raising 35,000 ether (roughly $ 30.5 million at current prices) from lead investors Polychain Capital and FBG, as well as funds like Huobi Capital, Hyperchain Capital and Signal Ventures.

Not exact matches

The many ETFs, which are by nature more tradeable than traditional index funds, can lead investors to unnecessarily deviate from simple buy - and - hold behavior.

ATHENS, April 19 - Greece has accepted a 535 million euro offer from a consortium led by Italy's Snam for a majority stake in gas grid operator DESFA, naming it the «preferred investor,» its privatization agency said on Thursday.

Former agribusiness heavyweight Great Southern was losing hundreds of millions of dollars in the months leading up to its collapse as it continued to raise money from investors.

But Dase wasn't being banished from Goldman's power centers; on the contrary, he was being entrusted to lead the charge on a new initiative that Goldman has been telling investors will help generate $ 500 million in new investment - banking revenue.

Huntsman abandoned its $ 20 billion merger with Clariant under pressure from activist investors led by Keith Meister's Corvex (through a vehicle called «White Tale»).

The market panic led ETF investors to pull close to $ 20 billion from S&P 500 funds in March, but they aren't giving up.

TA said it is buying equity from existing investors and is working with lead investor Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan to continue to grow the company.

The production studio had received an offer in March from an investor group led by Maria Contreras - Sweet for $ 500 million, but the deal fell through after raising questions about the company's financials.

With one - on - one interviews and panel discussions led by top journalists from CNBC and Institutional Investor, the 2017 Delivering Alpha conference featured Steven Mnuchin, the 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury; Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Raymond Dalio, Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates; Julian H. Robertson Jr., Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tiger Management; Mary Callahan Erdoes, Chief Executive Officer, J.P. Morgan Asset Management; and Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group.

These days, leading investors are as likely to hail from inside China as overseas.

• VirtualHealth, New York City - based provider of population health and care management technologies, raised $ 7 million from investors led by Edison Partners.

Lux Capital and Seven Seas Partners led the round, with participation from angel investors and the National Science Foundation.

The necessity of learning from past failures and adjusting your investor pitch to avoid the mistakes that have led many other startups down the road to failure has never been more important.

And given the $ 10.5 trillion invested in funds benchmarked to MSCI, such a move could also lead to more individual investors having ownership of stocks from mainland China.

It's worth noting that it faced skepticism from potential investors and the broader public leading to Thursday's debut.

A local seafoods business led by Peter Hutchinson and David Lock has had a positive debut on the ASX, after raising over $ 18 million from investors and completing a major corporate restructure.

«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one - time hurricane effects and the focus on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.

In October, the top two stock ETFs for new flows from investors were S&P 500 funds, which is a change from recent months during which overseas stock ETFs had led over US stock portfolios in flows.

Strong demand from overseas investors has led companies including Lloyds Banking Group Plc and KPMG to sell and lease back their London headquarters in the past year.

Didi's latest cash infusion, received from investors including Japan's SoftBank Group and Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi state fund, follows a $ 5.5 billion fund - raising round in April, also led by Softbank.

IQVIA led the round with participation from other investors that included EW Healthcare Partners.

The airline has raised nearly $ 300 million from investors, led by Branson's Virgin Group, which controls the British - based Virgin Atlantic airline.

Both price rises helped recoup some of their losses from Thursday, when investors worried that the storm would force refineries to temporarily stop processing crude oil, leading to excess supply.

The round was led by Ford Motor Co. (f) with participation from Microsoft (msft) and earlier investors like General Electric (ge).

To put that plan into action, Green needed to raise capital from a strategic investor, and on March 9, Indochino announced it had secured a US$ 30 million investment led by Dayang Group, a clothing manufacturer based in Dalian, China, and one of Indochino's existing production partners.

In the lead - up to Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before Congress next week, investors will be looking for rate clues from three regional Fed presidents Friday.

In the latest example of Toronto's burgeoning start - up community, last week video - based social networking platform Keek received $ 5.5 million in financing from a consortium of investors led by AlphaNorth Asset Management and Plazacorp Ventures.

With $ 180 million in fresh capital, led by existing investors Insight Venture Partners and Accel with participation from Sequoia Capital, Qualtrics is poised to go on an acquisition spree instead.

Not from China, Japan, or Germany, but from within, led by impatient investors eager to gain immediate boosts in stock prices.

ATHENS, April 19 (Reuters)- Greece has accepted a 535 million euro ($ 662 million) offer from a consortium led by Italy's Snam for a majority stake in gas grid operator DESFA, naming it the «preferred investor,» its privatization agency said on Thursday.

Organizations must have leaders courageous enough to lead change, from the board and investors down to team leaders.

And Ring's hot streak continues: On Wednesday, Ring announced it raised $ 61.2 million in funding from a group of investors led by the venture - capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, bringing in one of the most successful Silicon Valley VC firms as an investor.

Northzone led the round, and was joined by investors including from Mangrove and Sabadell Venture Capital.

An offer for the studio from a group of investors led by former Obama administration official Maria Contreras - Sweet failed to produce a deal earlier this year, after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil lawsuit against the company and demanded more compensation for Harvey Weinstein's victims.

Wonder Workshop, which has already raised $ 15.9 million from investors including Madrona Venture Group, Maven Ventures, WI Harper Group and others, said the latest round of financing was led by WI Harper and Idea Bulb Ventures, along with Learn Capital and TCL.

The event drew an enthusiastic crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, and several hundred others interested in hearing the gospel straight from one of venture capital's leading apostles.

Floreani's company has raised nearly $ 30 million in funding thus far, including $ 21.2 million in Series B venture capital funding last year that came from a group led by DCM Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, along with other investors including Discovery Communications and World Wrestling Entertainment.

But these days, leading investors are as likely to hail from inside China as overseas.

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The company is debuting with $ 6.25 million in new funding from Benchmark Capital, led by Uber and early OpenTable investor Bill Gurley, as revealed first to Fortune.

The new funding, led by Goldman Sachs and Princeville Global (with participation from existing investors, including Venrock, Shasta Ventures and Tenaya Capital), will be used to continue the company's rapid expansion in the U.S. and abroad — and brings the company's total financing to $ 160 million.

EQT strengthens position as a leading investor and owner - strong investor demand from both existing and new investors for EQT VIII

This Series B round was led by previous investor Caffeinated Capital, with participation also from new investor Felicis Ventures, along with other previous investors Alsop Louie Partners, SoftTech VC, Morado Ventures, AME Cloud, and Bloomberg Beta.