Sentences with phrase «from venture backers»
Britain offers temporary visas to those who procure # 50,000 from a venture backer.
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«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.
In total, it has raised $ 589 million from prominent venture backers including Fidelity Investments, which led the last round, as well as Andreessen Horowitz and Venrock.
He raised $ 5 million from the venture capitalists Charles River Ventures and a number of high - profile angels, including O'Reilly, Google backer Ron Conway, and Lotus founder Mitch Kapor.
The issue is that venture capitalists may balk at investing in companies that have hundreds of small and unsophisticated backers amassed from the «crowd round,» so you may want to consider this consequence before deciding to post on an equity portal.
A look at some of the more hopeful signals from the world of commercial lending, community banks, credit unions and venture backers
• Docady, an Israel - based maker of a mobile app for critical document access and management, has raised $ 1.5 million in seed funding from backers like Pitango Venture Capital, Disrupt - ive and Eilon Tirosh.
The Financial Times reported (paywall) that the round includes $ 60 million from some of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capital firms, including Google backer Kleiner Perkins and Uber investor Benchmark.
Its Silicon Valley venture capital backers saw it as a game - changer for real estate, and envisioned themselves picking off $ 250 million a year out of a potential $ 25 billion market: insurance policies that would protect the nation's homeowners from one of their deepest fears — further losses in their equity.
It includes participation from existing backers Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greenoaks Capital, while Hero Enterprise, an ambitious fund attached to motorbike and scooter maker Hero MotoCorp, joined as a new investor.
If the project is successful, then the backers will make a profit from the venture as the initial coin tokens will be worth more than the money that they put in to find the project.
REUTERS - Aug 23 - Two of eHarmony's main backers stand to gain extra leverage over the company when redemption rights from its last financing round kick in — an unusual development in the venture capital business.
It would have been a lot simpler to just do the kickstarter, get the funding he needed from it and the venture capitalist backers he had lined up, stick to the original scope and go quiet after funding to build the game.
Discourse has raised funding from a group of venture backers including Greylock and SV Angel, although Atwood wouldn't say how much (another hosted commenting solution, Livefyre, also just closed a round of financing).
Coinbase, whose backers include venture - capital firms Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, could seek a license from the SEC as an exchange, but registering as a broker - dealer is viewed as a less cumbersome step that would allow the company to move into markets the SEC regulates.
Twitter just confirmed on its corporate blog that it raised a third round of funding from new backers Insight Venture Partners and T. Rowe Price, along with existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital.
Angel investors from venture capital firms, Qualcomm Ventures and Techstars, as well as industry leaders in the technology security space, including Cockroach Labs, Ionic Security, and Pindrop Security, are among the early backers.
He's raised money from investors — separate from the company's venture - capital backers — to fund the equity products.