Sentences with phrase «from venture firms»

Vida recently raised $ 5 million in startup funding from venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Aspect Ventures and Signia Venture Partners, as well as individuals like Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Slack has in the past raised money from venture firms GGV Capital, Spark Capital and Thrive Capital, among others.

So far, the company has raised $ 129.5 million from venture firms Index Ventures, Greylock and Ribbit Capital.

Pishevar said in a statement on Tuesday that he would take a leave of absence from venture firm Sherpa Capital and transportation startup Hyperloop One.

The lawsuit, which asks a judge to remove Uber founder Travis Kalanick from the company's board, reflects an aggressive posture from a venture firm that thinks Kalanick is hurting the company's bottom line.

But rather than having to raise tens of millions of dollars from a venture firm or have a massive production system in place, SiFive's goal is to help get that piece of silicon in the hands of the developer quickly so they can see if it actually works based off a set of basic hardware and IP offered, and then figure out when and how to move it into full - scale production.

The company, which launched in November with $ 1 million from the venture firm, has been CEO-less until now.

Not exact matches

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

The youngest successful founders were those who had received funding from New York City - based venture capital firms, although even then their average age was 38.7 — old enough to have been Mark Zuckerberg's parent when he started Facebook from his dorm room at 19.

Nevertheless, Dropbox has raised $ 600 million from venture capital firms BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, and others.

He previously worked at China Renaissance, a China - based investment bank, helping startups raise capital from venture capital and private equity firms.

The next year, Aronson scored a US$ 40 - million investment from two venture capital firms — a figure he later claimed was inaccurate, but never corrected.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

In March of 2017, Ripcord announced that it had raised a Series A round of $ 9.5 million, led by legendary venture firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Wozniak himself.

One example from my past that helped shape my workplace beliefs comes from my time spent as head of EMEA operations at a firm where I was building experience before starting my own venture.

The investors at New York City - based venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, for example, receive more than 1,000 inquiries from entrepreneurs each year.

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

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

Lyft, the San Francisco - based ride - sharing start - up known for its pink mustache hood ornaments, announced today it has raised $ 60 million from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total capital raise to $ 83 million.

• Three partners from Black Coral Capital, a Boston - based venture firm, are raising up to $ 400 million for an inaugural fund as partners of a new firm, Spring Lane Capital, according to an SEC filing.

In April, the San Francisco startup raised US$ 22 million in funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

FORTUNE — In September 2009, Silver Lake Partners and venture firm Andreessen - Horowitz bought Skype from eBay, where it had become the Kurt Cobain of technology companies (wildly popular, deeply troubled).

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.

«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.

A traditional venture - capital firm raises money primarily from institutional investors and high - net - worth individuals, while corporate venture capital uses cash reserves from a parent company to fund new endeavors.

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.

That should give a clearer picture of how Google's core Internet business is performing, separate from other ventures, said analyst Colin Gillis of the investment firm BGC Partners.

Prior to going public, GrubHub had raised about $ 84 million from venture and private equity firms including Warburg Pincus Private Equity, GS Capital Partners, and Benchmark Capital Partners.

It's the dream of many entrepreneurs to get into an incubator program where they could hone their business model, get advice from mentors, and get connected to angel investors or venture - capital firms.

The company recently raised US$ 42 million from venture capital firms Atomico Ventures and Accel Partners, and its CEO is now contemplating taking the company public within the next few years.

You will use the deck when formally raising money from venture - capital firms.

In August 2015, Jenkins decided to turn it into a for - profit venture and raised $ 14 million from venture capital firms Social Capital, Lux Capital, and Capricorn Investment Group.

Saildrone started as a nonprofit endeavor with the Schmidts» philanthropic foundation, but in August 2015, Jenkins decided to turn it into a for - profit venture and raised $ 14 million from venture capital firms Social Capital, Lux Capital, and Capricorn Investment Group.

Slack's $ 2.8 billion valuation, attained when it raised $ 160 million from Social Capital and other top - shelf venture capital firms last May, puts it on the list of Silicon Valley unicorns.

Canadian startups aren't immune to a crunch coming from the south, warns Janet Bannister, general partner at Real Ventures, the most active early - stage venture capital firm in Canada last year.

Vocus Communications boss Geoff Horth has survived a proposal to remove him from the helm of the firm by Perth venture capitalist Anthony Grist and Vocus founder James Spenceley.

Each week in tech brings us momentous news (a major product release, a lawsuit development), inconsequential news (a startup that will never make it receiving funding from a venture capital firm that doesn't care if does), and even sad news (like last week's passing of former Intel (intc) CEO Paul Otellini).

«At our venture firm, we continue to see an escalating stream of fascinating new bitcoin uses, cases and applications from entrepreneurs,» says legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

As Meeker, now a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, puts it, «Don't underestimate the leadership talent that develops from crisis management.»

Investment dollars from venture capital firms jumped nearly 40 percent in the second quarter to $ 13.8 billion, and the number of deals increased 11 percent compared to the first quarter.

While the San Francisco Bay Area, home of Stanford University and Google, may see the lion's share of venture capital, startups there don't receive the same support from large firms that early - stage companies in Cincinnati do, Mitchell says.

In 2012, Spectra7 Microsystems (TSXV: SEV), an analog semiconductor company based in California, received $ 11 million in funding from three Canadian venture capital and private equity firms, Celtic House Venture Partners, Ventures West Capital Ltd. and EdgeStone Capital Paventure capital and private equity firms, Celtic House Venture Partners, Ventures West Capital Ltd. and EdgeStone Capital PaVenture Partners, Ventures West Capital Ltd. and EdgeStone Capital Partners.

The company has high hopes and, since late February, $ 2.5 million in venture capital, some of that coming from prominent investment firm Index Ventures.

Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar, known for his early bet on Uber, said on Tuesday he was taking a leave of absence from his venture capital firm and the startup he co-founded to fight allegations of sexual harassment.

The startup went on to raise a total of $ 13.6 million from venture capital firms in two rounds of funding to support it growth.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

The eccentric general partner of the incubator and venture capital firm apologized and resigned from his role.

Lars Dalgaard, who sold SuccessFactors to SAP for $ 3.4 billion in 2011 before going into venture capital, is stepping down from his general partner role at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz to found his own investment firm.

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaunventure capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and ShaunVenture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.