Sentences with phrase «from portfolio company»

Anyone versed in the industry will be able to tell that increased litigation threats arising from portfolio company bankruptcies, dissatisfied investors, regulatory investigations and employment practices suits are now forming new levels of risk for venture Capitalists and venture capital firms, as well as the personal assets of their managers and employees.

However, due to some claw - back provisions in the bankruptcy code, these special dividends paid from portfolio company to the PE firm can become an issue.

But my specific point is that while everybody is busy telling you that «kids don't use email» or «email is dead» I have actual data from portfolio company's CEO showing the efficacy of email as a communication and marketing channel.

The capitalists also obtained constructive feedback from portfolio companies of Chargebee.

On the heels of major exit announcements from our portfolio companies ServiceMax (pending acquisition by GE Digital) and TubeMogul (pending acquisition by Adobe), we have more big news from Trinity Family member and Real Estate tech company VTS as they announce their merger with former competitor Hightower.

On the heels of major exit announcements from our portfolio companies Se...

«Unlike a private equity fund, we constantly have to pay out a current yield to investors while also receiving fees and interest from portfolio companies.

Tracked interest receipts from portfolio companies and booked them into the loan administration and accounting systems

There were three panels held yesterday at their office, each covering a category Fifth Wall has made big bets on (the majority of panelists were from portfolio companies): Future of Cities Real Estate - as - a-Service Fintech and The Built World Economy I'll start with a few thoughts on 3rd panel, FinTech and The Built World Economy (the other two will come next week): A look at how fintech has disrupted almost every sector of the real estate... Read More»

Not exact matches

The billionaire financier — whose holdings include a portfolio of energy companies and the NHL's Calgary Flames — left his longtime Calgary home last year to run his empire from the U.K..

Chen has vowed to bring in cash from BlackBerry's large patent portfolio, and he said today the company scored two substantial deals — one with Cisco, and another with a firm he couldn't name.

• Pandion Energy, a portfolio company of Kerogen Capital, agreed to buy a 10 % stake in two North Sea fields from Norwegian oil firm Aker BP, Reuters reports.

Direxion's iBillionaire Index ETF is barely five weeks old and holds only $ 35 million in assets, but it's generated buzz by investing in 30 companies chosen from the portfolios of asset managers with personal net worth of $ 1 billion or more.

Those buildings now house 12,000 employees from across Gilbert's Rock Ventures business portfolio of roughly 110 affiliated companies, including Rock Gaming, the developer and owner of urban casinos in the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore markets.

I hired an investment adviser, and together we agreed on an investment strategy and what we'd put into this portfolio: growth - oriented mutual funds from respected institutions and shares of stable, well - managed companies.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

If the advisor is from a venture - capital firm, does it have portfolio companies in your niche which could be tapped?

Lightspeed, where Caldbeck worked before starting Binary, must have known, according to The Information's report: The firm reportedly agreed to remove Caldbeck from the board of a portfolio company after its female CEO complained that he had made her uncomfortable.

On Thursday, Constellation Brands (stz - b) reported a massive 17 % increase in net sales from the company's beer business, which is benefiting from gains in volume and pricing for the Mexican beer portfolio that also includes Modelo and Pacifico.

Executives from Fortune 500 companies including General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Royal Dutch Shell, and BASF have attended Breakout Labs» annual showcases and done «portfolio reviews» of its companies.

Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.

Bain Capital is in talks to buy Australian fruit juice bar operator Boost Juice from Retail Zoo, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company, for approximately $ 185 million, according to the Australian Financial Review. www.boostjuicompany of The Riverside Company, for approximately $ 185 million, according to the Australian Financial Review. www.boostjuiCompany, for approximately $ 185 million, according to the Australian Financial Review. www.boostjuice.com.

«At a time when we are moving forward as a company, a charge of this magnitude from a legacy insurance portfolio in run - off for more than a decade is deeply disappointing,» GE CEO John Flannery said in a release Tuesday.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

Margie Patel, a senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Funds, said that she expects to see little to no effect from trade tariffs and has been adding to companies such as PNC Financial Services that have sold off in the market downturn.

«We are working with clients who want to exclude from their portfolios weapons manufacturers or other companies that don't align with their values,» BlackRock spokesman Ed Sweeney told CNBC.

Lamar Villere, a portfolio manager at New Orleans - based Villere & Co., said that he has been reducing his exposure of small and mid-cap companies with international revenues and is focusing more on those that dominate their domestic niche in order to offer protection from the effects of tariffs.

A person familiar with Nest's thinking said the company decided to remove its current set of older products from Amazon because it wanted to be able to offer its full portfolio of devices, or nothing at all.

The company has already been inching in this direction: Last year, it announced plans to remove artificial colors from its food portfolio, which besides candy includes products like Uncle Ben's Rice.

Dixson suggests that the most basic thing is to have a website that serves as a mashup of a consulting site, a portfolio with proof - of - performance content, and blogs from company leaders packed with relevant key words.

In every scenario they back - tested, various portfolios of CHAA — winning companies substantially outperformed the returns of the S&P from 2001 to 2014 — often by 200 percentage points or more.

With those portfolio companies facing the pincer of top - line pressures from a push for private label options combined with the gross - margin pressures from input cost increases, we could easily see increasing distress in food companies in the coming months.

Glenview's Larry Robbins also lost more than $ 23 million in his hedge fund, as his pro-Obamacare bets on healthcare companies turned sour: Hospital Corporation of America (hca) stock dropped 11 %, losing him $ 127 million; and Tenet Healthcare (thc) stock plummeted 25 %, taking another $ 90 million from Glenview's portfolio.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

And it's not even «pay» in the loose sense of «money given by an employer,» since there's no indication here what portion of that investment income comes from shares in a CEO's own company, say, versus a diversified portfolio.

The company recently reported updated long - term debt of about $ 4.8 billion, most of which has been generated from its burgeoning portfolio of original content, according to the most recent quarterly earnings call in July.

«We are working with clients who want to exclude from their portfolios weapons manufacturers or other companies that don't align with their values,» he said.

Sequoia Capital has been investing in technology since 1972, and their portfolio includes companies from Apple (APPL) and Cisco (CSCO) to DoorDash and Evernote.

His appointment coincided with a string of announcements from the car company, including plans to organize its business into six divisions, while creating a separate portfolio for China, in a bid to decentralize responsibility.

The students are high potential middle managers from 15 companies in CDR's portfolio.

These top one percentile firms receive the best deal flow which comes down to having a team of partners who hail from entrepreneurial backgrounds, being ex-founder's matched by functional experts, who work tirelessly to grow their ecosystem and specifically their portfolio companies.

We do this by sending out regular business updates, newsletters, detailed semiannual and annual reports, audited financial statements, and we organize an annual general meeting where we present the past, present and future with detailed updates from the BECO team, portfolio companies and the professional service providers that we work with to produce accurate and high quality reporting.

While Yervoy brought in $ 960 million in sales in 2013 (an enormous figure for a two - year - old drug with a small patient population), the company currently has more than 35 ongoing clinical trials investigating another drug that disengages the immune system's brakes: the much - awaited nivolumab, which was also from the Medarex portfolio.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

What she heard from VCs: «We're working 7 a.m. till 11 p.m. just trying to keep our portfolio companies going that are on life support.

Other portfolio companies will be created from scratch by the CAVU team itself.

The departure of Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft is another sign that the PC market is dying and the software company isn't needed in a computing market dominated by smartphones and tablets, said Dan Niles, senior portfolio manager at AlphaOne Capital Partners.

Also, you should stop the unconscionable practice of requiring employees and portfolio companies to sign agreements that prevent them from saying anything (or anything bad) about your companies.

Matthew Strauss, vice-president of portfolio management with Toronto's Signature Global Advisors, adds that, since the recession, the focus has changed from buying export - focused companies to businesses that sell to the domestic consumer.

SoftBank Group said it would buy two firms that build walking robots from Google's parent company, Alphabet (googl), adding to the Japanese company's growing artificial intelligence portfolio.