Sentences with phrase «fund companies use»

It's also the standard that mutual fund and exchange - traded fund companies use when reporting performance figures.

In recent days, the federal agency has launched an investigation into the methods mutual fund companies use to place values on such high - flying companies.

Reviewing these fees in the prospectus may not always be straightforward depending on what wording the mutual fund company uses.

Although litigation finance is a fast - growing new asset class, few funding companies use data - driven practices to make investments.

Not exact matches

The latest batch of recommendations also includes a fund of about $ 100 million to help promising smaller companies expand, and a suggestion that the federal government use its $ 18 - billion procurement budget to favour young companies that need an anchor client.

We do have one investment in a company called Abra, which is a peer - to - peer money transfer network using the blockchain to transfer funds.

• Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco - based company that uses 3D printing to create human tissue and organs, raised $ 1.8 million in seed funding.

In his current role as President and Chief Strategist of Optimize Advisors, Mike uses pioneering and proprietary artificial intelligence technology to advise hedge funds, banks, pensions, mutual funds, insurance companies, and family offices in the effective use of listed options for enhancing returns and managing risk.

But factors» bottom line use remains the same: providing ready funds for companies in cash - flow - challenged industries.

Hedge funds, manufacturers and e-commerce companies all use Spire's data, as do nonprofits, Earth scientists and government offices.

• Nuritas, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and use of bioactive peptides through artificial intelligence and genomics, raised $ 20 million in Series A funding.

The startup provides a cloud - based records management system for incident logging, and it currently works with 13 public safety agencies across the U.S. CEO Scott Crouch said the company will use the funding for international expansion.

They also recently announced that the company has raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding, resources that will be used to further develop user growth, as they test out models that would bring in revenue going forward.

The company will use the funding, and tap into Logan's network, to hire more engineers, and add more retailers and intelligence to the Drop app, Fung said.

Any funding should be used to work toward the goal of making the company and the owner a better credit risk in the future.

Other companies, like Michigan - based Green Spirit Farms and California - based Urban Produce, also sell to consumers using vertical farming methods, though The New Yorker reported in January that AeroFarms had twice the funding of any other indoor farming company — even before its recent $ 34 million round.

The company is set to use the funds raised from the ICO - which is kind of like a crypto - twist on the initial public offering process - to build a protocol to rival the Ethereum platform.

The fund is reportedly being raised to help Sequoia compete with Japanese tech giant SoftBank, which announced a huge new $ 100 billion (# 75 billion) fund last year that is now being used to back promising tech companies worldwide with tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

Many land at Haxlr8r, an accelerator that has graduated more than 50 companies using a now - familiar model: Learn the basics of manufacturing and develop a prototype; raise funds (and build buzz) in the United States through Kickstarter; manufacture the product; and drop - ship it anywhere in the world through the Pearl River Delta's unparalleled logistics networks.

• INSIGHTEC, an Israeli medical device company specializing in non-invasive treatment of brain conditions using MR - guided focused ultrasound, raised $ 150 million in Series E funding.

But the company will benefit from the fund's decision to use XRP, in part because it controls large reserves of the currency (which may get a price boost from Arrington's announcement) and because the move may burnish Ripple's reputation as a money transfer platform.

Sold direct - to - consumer and funded by Kickstarter, the company is able to use premium materials and invest in research without having to add in the cost of middlemen.

Looking ahead: Moveline recently raised a $ 1.5 million seed round of funding, which it will use to expand the company to other major cities, add more staff and enhance the product.

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.

Founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta said the company planned to use the new funding for continued geographic growth, technology enhancements, and category expansion.

The RNC is using campaign funds to pay Trump's company more than $ 37,000 a month in rent, and to pay thousands of dollars in monthly salary to Vice President Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, party officials confirmed this week.

Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.

On the calls, which took place Monday, Amazon didn't offer many clues into its longer - term strategy for the Whole Foods acquisition, which Brill said is a bit unusual given that the company is using debt to fund it.

Company name: Twilio Headquarters: San Francisco Funding to date: $ 233.7 million in 6 rounds Who uses it: Home Depot, Nordstrom, Democratic National Committee

For a private equity fund, that repeat customer allows it to use debt in its purchase of the company.

Company name: Xamarin Headquarters: San Francisco Funding so far: $ 82 million in three rounds Who uses them: JetBlue, Draw A Stickman, Berkshire Hathaway

Company name: Stripe Headquarters: San Francisco Funding to date: $ 280 million in seven rounds Who uses it: Reddit, Kickstarter, Slack, Lyft, IndieGoGo

According to a spokesperson for the company, Gust has facilitated over $ 1.8 billion with more than 200,000 startups having used the funding platform to connect and collaborate with over 45,000 investors.

With new SEC rules allowing for crowdfunded companies to repay contributions with equity (as opposed to just goods and services), seeking funds through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or any of the many other crowdfunding sites is an even more appealing option than it used to be.

Company name: CloudFlare Headquarters: San Francisco Funding to date: $ 182.05 million in 4 rounds Who uses it: League of Legends, Bain Capital, NASDAQ, Metallica

Company name: DigitalOcean Headquarters: New York Funding to date: $ 123 million in 3 rounds Who uses them: Beyonce, lots and lots of smaller sites

They are so used to the idea that losing $ 150,000 in burn rate is «fine» because they have a funded company.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 - A venture capital firm aiming to bring more U.S. startups to Russia has raised a $ 200 million fund, hoping to use the fresh pool of money to help Silicon Valley companies deliver their services to Russia's biggest corporations and its millions of internet - connected consumers.

Company name: Mixpanel Headquarters: San Francisco Funding to date: $ 77.02 million in 5 rounds Who's using it: Uber, Airbnb, Match.com, Amazon's Twitch

Company name: Docker Headquarters: San Francisco Funding to date: $ 180 million in 5 rounds Who's using it: Uber, eBay, Spotify, Business Insider

«We have an agreement with them where we own the drug, but anything that's funded by the U.S. government, it reserves the right to use that under certain circumstances,» says Mark Murray, president and CEO of the Burnaby, B.C., company.

Mixpanel, a data analytics company founded in 2009 and funded by the likes of Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, tells developers how exactly you're using their websites and apps.

Shares in Geopacific Resources were up 9.3 per cent today as the company announced a $ 3 million rights issue, with plans to use the funds to step up exploration activity at its Cambodian Kou Sa project.

Privately placed funding rounds ahead of IPOs are a commonly used tactic by sought - after Chinese companies to establish high valuations.

WASHINGTON, March 26 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday said he was proposing new rules to bar the use of funds from a government program to purchase equipment or services from companies that pose a security threat to U.S. communications networks.

The law makes it cheaper for multinational companies to repatriate foreign cash, and they could use that money to fund deals.

She prefers the company instead to use any funds to buy back its own shares.

The company will use the fresh funding to scale domestically and internationally across markets including Canada, the U.K., and New Zealand.

The company currently employs about 15 staffers and «hundreds» of independent researchers, but will use some of its new funding to hire more people.

He also uses his billions for other things, like funding Blue Origin, his space flight company, and to support projects like the 10,000 year clock being built inside a mountain on his property in Texas.