Sentences with phrase «from seed companies»

In many cases, the hybrid seeds had to be repurchased from seed companies each year, helping to turn a handful of American and European seed breeders into corporate giants.

People don't, you know, work off some instructions from some seed company about how to do it, they go to YouTube and, you know, figure out how to compost, how to double dig, and how to do bio-intensive gardening, and how to do all these kind of things.

If a scientist wanted to compare brands of seeds, for instance, or their environmental impact, he or she had to seek permission from each seed company or gene patent holder.

Not exact matches

The company was founded in Menlo Park, California, in 2011 by Imri Goldberg and Nadav Gur, and has raised nearly $ 2 million in seed funding from Horizons Ventures.

• Darkstore, a San Francisco - based third - party logistics company, raised $ 1.4 million in seed funding from PivotNorth Capital.

Prior to that investment, Getaway raised $ 1.4 million in two rounds of seed financing from a number of investors, including Rough Draft Ventures and Fueled, according to the company.

• NumberAI, an Oakland, Calif. - based «smart landline» company, raised $ 1.6 million in seed funding from DFJ Venture Capital.

• Pireta, a U.K. - based smart textiles company, raised seed funding of an undisclosed amount from Rainbow Seed Fseed funding of an undisclosed amount from Rainbow Seed FSeed Fund.

What kickstarted in 2009 with just $ 200,000 in seed funding is now a multi-billion dollar company that provides commuters from all across the globe an alternative to the usual taxi transportation.

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.

In November 2012, the company raised a $ 1 million seed round of funding from Expansion Venture Capital, based in New York City.

In total, the company has raised $ 14.7 million following a seed round from last year.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

Traction: The Los Angeles - based company has no investors but has garnered $ 13,000 from various competitions such as $ 5,000 from the University of Southern California's 2014 New Venture Seed competition.

It recently received seed funding from J. Hunt Holdings, but the company's model is based on taking a percentage of the money players pay their coaches.

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.

April 9 - German conglomerate Bayer AG's $ 62.5 billion bid to acquire U.S. seeds company Monsanto Co has won approval from the U.S. Justice Department, after the companies said they would sell off additional assets, the Wall Street Journal reported https://on.wsj.com/2GKhEGh on Monday.

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

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - An Arkansas judge on Friday dismissed a Monsanto Co lawsuit aiming to stop Arkansas from blocking the use of a controversial farm chemical the company makes, dealing a blow to its attempts to increase sales of genetically engineered seeds.

Diaspora, a tech company that wants to build a social network to rival Facebook got more than $ 200,000 in seed money from a Kickstarter campaign

The software connects to the cannabis company's point - of - sale system as well as the state's seed - to - sale system, which follows marijuana plants from the grow house until they're sold to a customer, to monitor the business and ensure compliance.

Moreover, research from the Farmers Business Network shows a positive correlation between a company's market share and its seed price.

She's seen startups at all stages - from seed stage to public, and knows a thing or two about what great companies have in common.

«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.

She should know, as she has overseen investments in more than 175 StartX companies across more than 250 rounds, from seed through Series D, in industries including enterprise, consumer, hardware and medical.

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.

The big, tantalizing exits in hardware from companies such as Beats, Nest and Oculus have kept venture investors, especially with seed - stage funds, interested in hardware.

You see, we take money from investors and reallocate it to 10 to 14 companies per year as a seed investment.

The company had been largely bootstrapped, aside from a $ 1.5 million in a seed round in October 2011.

The money, hopefully, would come from Roberts — he was a venture capitalist, after all, one who had long specialized in seed - stage companies.

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.

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 round included investments from Spring cofounder David Tisch's seed fund, BoxGroup, as well as Yuri Milner, Groupe Arnault, Google Ventures, and Thrive Capital, bringing the company's total amount of capital raised to over $ 30 million.

Offering both Regulation D 506 and Regulation Crowdfunding investment opportunities, which in the past have ranged from seed stage to later stage companies.

Over the course of my career, I have sat on boards of Fortune 100 companies, advised Presidents, and negotiated deals from seed investments through those involving millions of dollars.

The seed companies think providing more data to farmers could increase America's maize yield from 160 bushels an acre (10 tonnes a hectare) to 200 bushels — giving a terrific boost to growers» meagre margins.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Healofy, a pregnancy - parenting social network, has raised $ 1 million (Rs 6.4 crore) in seed funding from impact investor Omidyar Network, a company statement said.

Bengaluru - based relocation service provider Pikkol has received seed funding from a group of angel investors, including Ajay Nanavati, former chairman of 3M India, the Indian arm of US multinational conglomerate 3M Co. and Afsal Salu, co-founder of hyperlocal delivery company Delyver, which was acquired by BigBasket.

This is the 14th cohort of startups to launch out of ERA, and each company has received $ 100,000 in seed funding from the accelerator.

Clint is a Managing Director and co-founder of Ulu Ventures, a $ 50m seed stage venture firm investing in enterprise IT companies from Stanford and Silicon Valley.

Toronto, July 27, 2011 — Eight Ontario companies have received more than $ 6 million in seed and later stage financing from the Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), a program that invests in eligible companies as they develop their technologies and bring their products or services to market.

And from that seat, in theory, they can keep track of how well it is going and preemptively finance the «best» companies that they've seed funded.

Eight Ontario companies have received more than $ 6 million in seed and later stage financing from the Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), a program that invests in eligible companies as they develop their technologies and bring their products or services to market.

IDEABOOST provides up to $ 35,000 in seed funding to each company in the accelerator, as well as a host of benefits from partners and the Global Accelerator Network (GAN), which IDEABOOST joined in 2015.

Aspect's companies are held through the entire process, from seed or series A to IPO, receiving a virtual sounding board of long - term partners at their beck and call who have the best interests of the company in mind, not themselves.

They were named one of Canada's «hottest innovative companies» at CIX 2010, and also received an initial round of $ 500,000 in seed money from the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF), which helps grow new technology companies in Ontario and positions them for further investment by angels and VCs.

The company raised $ 9.8 million in funding in November from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Venrock, on top of $ 1 million in seed funding.

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on innovative technology - based Canadian companies that have high growth potential, offer unique products or services and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets.