Sentences with phrase «fund smaller opportunities»

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When the only people giving and receiving venture funding belong to a small, homogenous group, society misses out on all kinds of breakthrough ideas and financial opportunities.

It filed a counterclaim alleging Alnylam was pursuing a frivolous lawsuit that improperly interfered with its funding sources and partnership opportunities in order to crush its smaller competitor.

An initiative by Starbucks and Opportunity Finance Network is pouring small - business funding into private lending institutions

For Toccarra Thomas, a small - business owner and graduate student in Knoxville, Tennessee, putting together that kind of generous emergency fund wasn't just about avoiding catastrophe, it was also about freeing herself up to seize a high - risk, high - reward opportunity.

Understand how small - cap value equities offer opportunities for capital appreciation, and discover the best small - cap value mutual funds to consider for 2016.

Additionally, many firms who are raising second - time funds, 27 % of the opportunity set in 2017, entered the institutional market for the first time following first funds often structured as smaller, «proof - of - concept» vehicles.

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These programs have helped larger institutional investors efficiently access the opportunity set, which, in addition to being overlooked, tends to feature smaller funds that are more challenging for these larger institutions to deploy capital into.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

Additionally, given the recent global financial turmoil, there is a unique opportunity to acquire unfunded secondary interests in these smaller fund managers which further improves the return opportunity by lowering the cost basis and shortening the J - curve.

In view of the immense opportunities opening up in India and China, the Israelis have created an «Indo - China Fund» that gives grants to small and medium - sized companies that want to establish a marketing presence in these countries.

The Chiesi fund will consider a wide range of opportunities, from traditional small molecules and biologics, to gene therapies and cell therapies, to diagnostic and disease management technologies.

He believes public venture capital is a great opportunity for small business to get access to funds at lower cost and with fewer regulations than their U.S. counterparts.

Opportunity Fund is the largest nonprofit lender to small businesses in California and a national leader for the microfinance movement.

We feel strongly that small business owners deserve the right to receive affordable funding that will allow them the best opportunities to grow and create jobs.

The panel will feature Accion CEO Gina Harman, Fundera co-founder and CEO Jared Hecht, Funding Circle co-founder and U.S. managing director Sam Hodges, Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche, MultiFunding founder and CEO Ami Kassar, Opportunity Fund founder and CEO Eric Weaver, Small Business Majority founder and CEO John Arensmeyer.

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Action needs to be taken now to address the risks of any non-competitive market stifling regulations and a much more active approach should be taken by all stakeholders to increase the awareness and financial literacy of the funding opportunities that exist for small to medium - sized businesses and participation opportunities that exist for investors.

However, Smallknot only approves established businesses that are out of the idea stage, and do not require more than a small monetary boost to get going, in certain way Smallnot's funding opportunity is very similar to angel rounds in the startup world.

With value and deal - making opportunities in abundance, it is easy to notice an increase in new, smaller, nimbler funds.

This is a missed financial opportunity since the data shows that newer funds, smaller funds, and investments in women - led companies (in which gender diverse GPs tend to invest), all outperform.

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«Moreover, with Hong Kong home to about 330,000 SMEs, Xero sees an abundance of opportunity arising from increased government funded initiatives to nurture the small business economy and the promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Greater Bay Area development.

Chances are that by the time you've heard of a successful mutual fund, it already has many hundreds of millions or billions under management and can no longer take advantage of some of these smaller investment opportunities.

Financing solutions from BFS Capital provide Texas small businesses with the funding needed to meet today's challenges and opportunities.

An investment in this fund offers you a combination of large blue chip companies and smaller, deep - value opportunities with the potential for higher returns.

Do new funds have the latitude to concentrate in the best opportunities while they remain small?

Crowdfunding is an emerging funding opportunity for SMEs to raise small amounts of capital from the general public using the internet and social media

Crowdfunding represents an emerging financing alternative for SMEs to raise funds through the collection of small contributions from the general public (known as «the crowd») using the internet and social media to leverage the power of online communities to extend a project's promotion and financing opportunities.

«This campaign is an opportunity for Devotion Vodka to do our small part to support a worthy cause that impacts everyone, everywhere,» said Drew Adelman, CEO, Devotion Spirits, Inc. «It's inspiring to see Alecia's passion to always do more, and I am excited to roll up my sleeves to help raise funds for the Pink & Bloom Foundation and cancer research.»

To date, New York has received only a small fraction of federal money for high speed rail, but we want to make it a success now, and my Administration will aggressively pursue all funding opportunities to make high speed rail a reality.

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.

Weathers said besides the $ 1 million job retention escrow account, the remaining funds the ECIDA receives from the Gemcor sale will be allocated for small business loan programs and future venture capital opportunities.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

«As a Senator and small business owner who employs union workers, he has taken steps to protect workers; cutting taxes, securing economic development funding to put people to work and giving them greater opportunity to earn a good living and support their families.

These small, growing companies have a high probability of creating new employment opportunities and can develop rapidly after receiving funding.

These schools are limited in the opportunities that they can offer students due to lack of funding, but partially make up for this with personalized attention to students in small supportive school environments and with tightly knit communities.

The funding, said Cuomo, will allow the facilities to do exactly that while also generating opportunities to increase off - season revenue and bolster small businesses in the surrounding region.

But in its final post-trial submission filed this year, New York argued the formula does not represent the funding needed to give all students, including those in the small - city districts, the opportunity for a «sound basic education» under the New York Constitution, according to the alliance.

Later in the day, she teamed up with fellow Democrat Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney in Orange County, at the Hudson Valley Technology Development Center in Newburgh, where she discussed how her legislation would create a competitive program that awards states and regions with funding to support local manufacturers through low - interest loans to build new facilities and upgrade equipment, and give access to capital and technical assistance to develop exporting opportunities and to connect small suppliers with larger companies.

«They've been predominantly large projects,» said Colleen DiPirro, the president of the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, who hopes the second phase will include more funding aimed at helping small businesses expand and take advantage of opportunities created by the first wave of Buffalo Billion projects.

If an agreement can not be reached — and» [t] he window of opportunity in which to reach an association agreement is small and closing fast (we are talking about days, not weeks),» a European Commission official tells ScienceInsider in an email — Swiss scientists may not be eligible for funding from, among other programs, the European Research Council, which saw it's research budget increase dramatically in the Horizon 2020 program.

A theme in both lawsuits is the claim that a small, highly placed group — including Verma — holds sway over key funding opportunities.

And it will offer an opportunity to a small number of privately funded fusion efforts that are proposing alternatives to traditional tokamaks and laser fusion approaches.

«The Budget creates new opportunities for collaboration with industry on space station operations, supports public - private partnerships for deep - space habitation and exploration systems, funds data buys from companies operating small satellite constellations, and supports work with industry to develop and commercialize new space technologies,» OMB officials wrote.

We are pleased to announce that our subsidiary, SMR, LLC, has submitted a proposal to DOE's Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) which seeks to award a total of $ 452 million in matching grant funds to two U.S. companies.

The proposal for the second round federal funding opportunity from the U.S. DOE for small modular reactor (SMR) development is due on July 1, 2013, with the DOE anticipating making award (s) by January 16, 2014.

For instance, a student at a small high school that does not have enough students to justify offering an Advanced Placement course in physics can now take a course through an online provider if her school permits and funds such opportunities.

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

The funding for the Opportunity Scholarship program, meanwhile, is frequently in political peril and delivers a much smaller level of funding, which is restricted to low - income students.